Fedora 64Bit Linux on L2000 and V2000z Working!

Hi Guys,

Looks like there are some success stories installing 64Bit Fedora Linux on HP L2000 ( same as Compaq V2000z).

Here is the link

http://www.cs.umd.edu/~fonseca/l2000/

Let us know if someone has more tips/tricks!

Thanks
Chinna

 

Mine is running SuSE 10 64bit, ndiswrapper works with 64bit version.

Things needed to be figured out:
- Suspend to RAM
- 3D Graphics driver (neither ATI nor Compaq has driver for linux yet)
- Undervolting the CPU (something similar to RMClock)

advice please?

 

ATI does have driver for Linux. I am running my x700 accelerated under (K)Ubuntu, and there are generic Linux Catalyst drivers on ATI's website here:

https://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&folderID=300

I haven't heard of a possible way to undervolt the Turion yet, Centrinos are able to be undervolted however.
I can't use suspend to RAM or Hibernate on my Aspire 5024 either. The kernel level ACPI support is still pretty weak I believe.

 

Sorry about the ATI driver, the chipset supported list from fglrx driver ( https://support.ati.com/ics/support/KBAnswer.asp?questionID=1177) didn't include X200 (so the cardname and chip type is unknown from ATI Control Panel), but installing that driver enabled 3D on my notebook. I am able to play 3D games smoothly althought glxgears report 650-700 fps, I don't know if I'm expecting too much from a notebook IGP?

Another annoying thing is when I choose shut down, it shuts everything down except the power, so I have to hold the power button several seconds to turn it off completely.

About suspend to RAM, I'm still trying. When I try: echo mem > /sys/power/state, it does go to suspend with the Power led blinking, but pressing lid switch or power button will wake it up with a blank screen and freeze the computer. I set acpi_sleep=s3_bios, it does wake up again with a screen say "Linux! RS480M Test BIOS" and freeze.

I was thinking about vbetool but there is no 64 bit version yet :-(

I've been using KDE on SuSE all the time before, but this time I want to try Gnome just to find out that comparing to KDE, it responses faster (launching applications, drawing screen) and haven't freeze or crash once (KDE on my notebook freeze about 4 times in a week). Probably the difference lies in Gnome simplicity, it has less features than KDE. I don't know what I did wrong to KDE, or if other people are having the same experience.

Another thing needs to improve: the font smoothing effect. On Windows XP the fonts look sharp and clear, even in bold or small size, but under both KDE/GNOME, the fonts look blur. I tried installing MS True Type fonts and disable smoothing (with BYTECODE_BW_MAX_PIXEL) but it doesn't help much.

 

I want to thank people here on the forum who replied to my earlier question a couple of weeks ago about the L2000, I ended up buying one. I got it about a week ago, and now have it dual booting with 64 bit Fedora Core 4 as well as windows. The only thing that I haven't got working yet in fedora is suspending (actually coming back to life is the problem, it goes to sleep just fine but won't come back properly).

As was previously indicated, the wireless works just fine with ndiswrapper, and I've even managed to get it to work with WPA security enabled. Hardware accelerated 3D works fine as well using the ati fglrx drivers, but note that I didn't have success installing the drivers downloaded from ati's website, these didn't install because of a missing dependency (that the install app didn't tell me about!). What did work was to go to http://rpm.livna.org and install their rpm packaged version of the ati drivers which automatically ensured that all dependencies were satisfied. I get just over 700 fps in glxgears just as sillyxone reported.

So far I'm quite happy with the computer, the screen is nice, it's fast enough for what I need, and it's a reasonable size/weight. I also like the fact that the power brick isn't huge, it's half the size and weight of my old Dell brick.