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Preface
Manufacturer SupportThe hotline of Hewlett-Packard in Europe (Amsterdam) works very obliging in providing information about the hardware used in the HP OmniBook 800. Though it was only possible to get exact information about the graphic chip. Therefore I give the specifications I found in other sources below. The HP-(Linux)-HOWTO v0.91 (in French) currently contains only minor information about laptops. From the access statistics I found out that 8% of the visitors are from HP now :) though the support of HP in providing infos or other kinds of sponsorship wasn't much :( I wrote to HP twice but didn't get any answer yet. Call for HelpI am looking desperately for more information about the PCI - IrDA(TM) controller VL82C147 manufactured by VLSI, to get the infrared port working. Also I still couldn't get the MIDI port to work. If you can help please send me a mail. - Werner Heuser <wehe@snafu.de> You may also read the German issue (deutsche Fassung), but it's not up to date anymore. InstallationOn my HP Omnibook 800 CT I have installed the Deutsche Linux-Distribution DLD-5.2 with update to kernel 2.0.35-7. The installation from CD was quite easy. Exception: PCMCIA service was not detected automatically. I used an external SCSI CD drive (SCSI controller is Symbios-Logic ncr53c8xx). I didn't use the original HP CD drive (to expensive, to slow). Unfortunately the SCSI port has a proprietary plug. You have to buy a special HP SCSI cable (approx. 50 US$). This is available in two sorts, the cheaper one (Product-Nr. F1182A) is good enough. According to your SCSI device you need a gender changer (SCSI-2: <HP-OmniBook> MiniDS50Female to DR50Male <Your SCSI device>) , too. Probably it is also possible to install with PCMCIA via network, if you change the PCMCIA parameters as mentioned below during the installation process. I use Linux and Window$95 together, using the boot manager LILO without any problems. Recently I changed to Debian/GNU Linux 2.2 aka Potato, which I like very much, though I couldn't get the SCSI controller to work yet (hadn't much time to fiddle this out). Hence I use a custom 2.2.7 kernel anyway, this is no problem. HardwaresurveyGeneral Hardware Data586CPU/100MHz/16MB/810MB, HP Omnibook 800CT (TFT), 39.42 BogoMIPS (2.0.35) I suppose these data are also valid in appropriate form for the HP OmniBook 2000, 5500 and 5700. I use the machine nearly two years now and I'm quite satisfied by the quality of the laptop. Though I encountered three exceptions:
HarddiskGeneral Information
It is very easy to change the harddisk (up to 2GB are possible). The five according screws at the backside have to be openend with a TORX-6 screwdriver, than turn the machine, open the lid and lift the keyboard at the side of the display. Also this process is explained in the manual very clearly. I tried to connect the 2.5" hard disk to a desktop, using an 2.5" to 3.5" IDE adapter but didn't get this to work yet. Speed Tuning
32 Bit
-------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input----Random
-Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block-----Seeks-
K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU /sec %CPU
1311 43.3 1260 12.1 616 15.3 1256 43.6 1425 13.6 25.8 2.3
16 Bit
-------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input----Random
-Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block-----Seeks-
K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU /sec %CPU
1295 43.2 1268 14.2 596 20.1 1182 49.3 1433 24.7 25.8 4.0
For details about making your harddisk faster see c't 22/98, S. 216: EIDE-Festplatten voll ausnutzen (German) Installing a Bigger Hard DiskBy Tom Kennedy : "Although it's not officially supported, I've been using a 4GB drive with my HP OmniBook 800 for over a year now without problems (using the newest BIOS off the HP web page)." hda: IBM-DTCA-24090, 3909MB w/468kB Cache, CHS=993/128/63 ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 "Note that I don't speak for HP, and I don't work on any OmniBook products :) But I do use a HP OmniBook 800 with Debian :)" Cedric Adjih reported to me: The/my Omnibook 800CT (810) can use actually some hard-drive of 3 GB. I mention it, because the hot-line was a bit frightening "ATTENTION, it is not supported, we cannot at all guarantee that bigger hard-drive will work at all". Here more information, I've been using it for 6 months, with no problems:
[...]
Model=FUJITSU MHD2032AT, FwRev=1812
Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs RotSpdTol>.5% }
RawCHS=6304/16/63, rkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4
[...]
See also the page by Michael Ashley, which discusses his experiences, when he installed a large (12GB) hard disk in his HP800CT, also including some hints for configuring Linux (and Windows 98). BIOSSystem Soft BIOS for Eagle II Version 1.01 (Software Version 2.00.00). The latest version is 2.01.00 and works without problems. The available BIOS settings you may find a the HP support page. A survey about the IRQs, DMAs, and I/O addresses you my find at another HP support page. Y2K Hype aka Millenium Bug Hype I checked the BIOS with the following dates and it seems to work alright:
**) beyond 32 Bit border, see http://www.th-phys.rug.nl/~schut/gnulist.html for more information Source: Linux-Magazin 11/98 p. 72 Memory (RAM)I checked memory and cache with PROZESSOR- und CACHE-INF c't 5/98/ Andreas Stiller V1.6n
Prozessor Timing : Pentium,Pentium-MMX
Prozessor CPUID : GenuineIntel Typ=00 Fam=05 Mod=07 Rev=00 Feat=000001BF
Prozessor Name : PentiumVRT mA4-Step
Aktueller Takt : 98.788 MHz, gemäss Pentium Timer:98.820 MHz
Primär-Cache(L1) : 8 KByte,2fach assoziativ
Sekundär-Cache(L2): 256 KByte,direct mapped
Code Cache (L1) : 8 KByte,2fach assoziativ
Hauptspeicher : 16 MByte,keine Memory holes gefunden
Cacheable Area L1 : 16MByte, keine noncacheable Areas gefunden
Cacheable Area L2 : 16MByte, keine noncacheable Areas gefunden
Write Strategie L1: Write Back, no Write Allocation, linear Fill
Write Strategie L2: Write Back, no L2 Flush (wbinvd)
Dirty Tag L2 : ok
Datenfluss- und Bus Performance (Hauptspeicher: 00111000h) :
Beste Zeit für 8K MOVSD Cache/Page Hit : 20.8 æs => 393.1 MByte/s
mittlere " für 8K MOVSD (Miss + Hit) : 158.5 æs => 51.7 MByte/s
mittlere " für 8K MOVSD (L2 clean) : 205.5 æs => 39.9 MByte/s
mittlere " für 8K MOVSD (L2 dirty) : 287.3 æs => 28.5 MByte/s
schlechteste " 8K MOVSD (misses) : 389.5 æs => 21.0 MByte/s
via FPU 8K (misses) : 389.4 æs => 21.0 MByte/s
im Mittel bei 256 KB L2-Cache /DOS(640K): 173.3 æs => 47.3 MByte/s
im Mittel bei 256 KB L2-Cache /Win(4M ): 215.9 æs => 37.9 MByte/s
It is very easy to upgrade the memory (up to 48MB). The access to the memory slot is quite simple. The process is explained in the manual very clearly. Norman Peterson -ncphd@bellatlantic.net- reported a working memory module from PNY technologies and Peter Sprenger uses a 64MB module from Kingston. AFAIK the main memory module is not removable. SCSIThe HP OmniBook 800 is one of the few laptops with an built-in SCSI port (the only other ones I know are the TI Travelmate 5000 series). It works alright with the Symbios-Logic ncr53c8xx PCI-SCSI-Bridge. To play music CD's it is necessary to connect the sound output of the CD player to the sound input of the laptop with a separate cable, but I didn't try this yet. Unfortunately the SCSI port has a proprietary plug. You have to buy a special HP-SCSI cable (approx. 50 US$). This is available in two sorts, the cheaper one (Product-Nr. F1182A) is good enough. If you buy the HP OmniBook 800 CD drive a SCSI cable is included. PCMCIAThe PCI-PCMCIA controller TI113x is compatible with i82365sl, it is
detected by PCMCIA=yes PCIC=i82365 PCIC_OPTS="cmd_time=12" CORE_OPTS="cis_speed=500" CARDMGR_OPTS= A test with a PCMCIA networkcard (RPTI-EP401 Ethernet Card) was successful. Excursion: The Window$95 driver for this networkcard seems to be one of the most wanted drivers searched for in the WWW. Many people look at this site because the RPTI-EP401 is mentioned. The Window$95 driver you may find at RPTI or better at OLIDATA. Both sites seem down sometimes. Though I couldn't get this driver working yet. Instead I use another driver (NE2000) which I installed as follows:
Graphic-ChipNeoMagic NM2070, 896KB, is not detected by XFree86 3.3.6The NeoMagic chipset now has support in XFree86 (since 3.3.5). It is included in the SVGA driver. This works well up to 800x600 (x65536). A detailed list of parameters is in the according README in the /usr/doc section. X-ServerThis server by Jeff Shorey doesn't work alright, but it should work with HP Omnibook 800 166 MMX (MagicGraph 128ZV aka NeoMagic 2093). VBEThe VBE driver by Ian Collier isn't working, because it is designed for VBE 2.0. The BIOS supports only VBE 1.3. FramebufferThe kernel 2.2.14 recognizes a VGA frame buffer device (vga16fb,
80x30). Text mode works with 640x480 (a quick check with AcceleratedXThe commercial X-Server LX31 by X-Inside for NeoMagic 2070 was installed as a testversion. It works fine "StaticColor" mode. Also the new version LX41 works with 800x600 and 1024x768. RedHat (XBF)At RedHat since july 1998 there is a X-Server (binary version) for NeoMagic chips available. This is designed by PrecisionInsight. The version 1.0.0 didn't work with my HP OmniBook 800 but the version 1.1.0-1 (XBF-neomagic-libc5-1.1.0-1) works well with 640x480 and 800x600 (virtual resolution 800x600). I couldn't get 1024x768 to work yet, but I didn't try much. Please note, the server is now named XFCom instead of XBF. I realised that, when updating the machine to glibc. SciTechThe commercial SciTech Display Doctor 1.0 for Linux includes support for NeoMagic NM2070/90/93/97, NM2160 LCD. I didn't try the demo version yet, but I suppose it's worth to check it. External Display
Attention: Please use the right settings for your monitor, it could be damaged easily. Tested with SONY 200sf monitor. The external display was tested with
the I did a quick check with a XGA Hitachi CP-X960 beamer, worked in text and graphic mode. But with slightly distorted colours in graphic mode (this can probably be fixed). Note: I had to switch to the beamer display by using the <Fn><Print> function key combination (toggle). The beamer needs a few seconds to adjust to the new signals. Text Mode 100x37Cedric Adjih reported: An apparently little known fact about Neomagic chipset is that you can run a text mode in 100x37 (i.e. 800x600). This text mode is very nice (as opposed to the 80x25 which is ugly). The following that I wrote was much longer than I expected so I wrote it as a kind of mini-howto :-) : +++ 100x37 Text on Omnibook 800 (any Neomagic laptop?) mini-howto +++ The main problem is that is a bit difficult to set up, and if you're going wrong with SVGATextMode/restoretextmode some results on the LCD might be frightening. Although I didn't manage to break my LCD with many many attempts going wrong, DISCLAMER: THIS MIGHT DAMAGE YOUR HARDWARE. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. FOLLOW THE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS AT YOUR OWN RISKS. I'M NOT RESPONSIBLE IF SOMETHING BAD HAPPENS. To do so you need to:
More details: All the files I have modified are available for now at http://starship.python.net/crew/adjih/data/cda-omni-trick.tar.gz 1) Enabling linux to boot in 800x600: Recent kernels (2.2.x) need to be compiled with; CONFIG_VIDEO_GFX_HACKdefined. Default is off. (look in /usr/src/linux-2.2.x/arch/i386/boot/video.S) This is done by passing the parameter vga=770 to older kernels or vga=7 to 2.2.x kernels. Example with lilo.conf: image=/boot/bzImage-modif label=22 append="svgatextmode=100x37x8_SVGA" #explained later vga=7 read-only 2) Running restoretextmode and SVGATextMode at boot time: You must arrange to run restoretextmode <name of some textreg.dat file> SVGATextMode 100x37x8_SVGA at boot time. An example 'textreg.dat' for restoretextmode (obtained using savetextmode) is in my tar archive in 'tmp/', and an example /etc/TextConfig. Since I'm lazy, I've simply put SVGATextMode and restoretextmode in the /etc/rc.boot/kbd file from my debian which get executed at boot time (also available in the tar archive). 3) Now the key point: annoying things will be displayed if you don't use the right SVGATextMode in the right video text mode: this is why I also pass the environmental variable "svgatextmode=100x37x8_SVGA" (arbitrary name) to the kernel (using append=xxx in lilo.conf) when I also set 'vga=7': the script /etc/rc.boot/kbd test this variable and calls restoretextmode+SVGATextMode IF AND ONLY IF 4) road map:
SoundSoundblaster and SoundblasterPro16-Bit compatible, ESS1888. HP specification recommends to disable the PnP support in the BIOS to get the soundcard working. I changed to PnP and back with no effect to sound in Window$95. Quote from the support page of ESS: Summary Parameters of AudioDrive Audio Controllers
Kernel Sound DriverFrom the page Linux on the HP
Omnibook 800 by Nathan Meyers I got the following configuration
details and modified them slightly. You have to check the parameters
against your current BIOS setting. I tried them without MIDI in a
non-modularized 2.0.35 kernel. They work fine with the packages
Please note - the size of the DMA buffer is a crucial point, when I
choosed the default value 65536 the soundcard didn't work! I got a hint
from Xavier Redon, who uses a size of 32768. I suppose you can increase
this value with newer models. Probably you have to use CONFIG_SOUND=y CONFIG_AUDIO=y CONFIG_MIDI=y CONFIG_YM3812=y CONFIG_SB=y CONFIG_ADLIB=y SBC_BASE=220 SBC_IRQ=5 SBC_DMA=1 SB_DMA2=5 SB_MPU_BASE=330 SB_MPU_IRQ=11 DSP_BUFFSIZE=32768 For my 2.2.7 kernel I couldn't find the DSB_BUFFSIZE option in
... /* * Use always 64k buffer size. There is no reason to use shorter. * changed (64*1024) to(32*1024) -wh- */ ... Tony Chesser-Evans wrote: "I get a horrific amount of feedback through
the built-in microphone in the case, because of the speaker in the bottom
of the case. The only way I've found around it is to fire up a mixer
program (e.g. OpenSoundSystemI tried a demo version of the commercial OSS-Linux sound driver by 4Front Technologies too, but with no success yet. But I am still working. The ESS1688 soundcard is detected but doesn't work tough. I suppose you have to change the DMA buffer size as mentioned above . Advanced Linux Sound Architecture - ALSAAdvanced Linux Sound Architecture Couldn't check this system yet. Infrared Port - IrDA(TM)Standard IrDA - SIRThe infrared port uses COM2 aka /dev/ttyS1 IRQ 10, PORT 0x3000 (known from the device manager in Window$95, the specs mention IRQ 10 and IRQ 15). I couldn't get it to work yet. The PCI - IrDA controller should work up to 115.200 bps like an UART 16550A . Unfortunately it is not detected when serial.o is loaded. This is probably caused by a non standard emulation of the UART. I asked VLSI, the vendor of the IrDA controller (VL82C147) and Hewlett-Packard , for technological informations and hope this will be available soon. What we have got so far is a patch by Ralf Zabka <ralfz@ibm.net>,
he wrote: { 0, BASE_BAUD, 0x000, 0, 0 }
to { 0, BASE_BAUD, 0x3000, 10, STD_COM_FLAGS}
When I boot the new kernel with these changes, I get the following: Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A tty14 at 0x3000 (irq = 10) is a 8250 Obviously the serial driver thinks, the VL82C147 is a 8250 ...". I
tried out his patch, but it seems that we still miss some informations. I
changed the uart type to 16550A with Maybe it is possible to fake the detection routine "quick and dirty" by feeding the necessary parameters directly into the initialisation of /dev/ttyS14. I tried the following in /usr/src/linux/drivers/char/serial.c (Version 4.13). But this doesn't work either: /*
* If the AUTO_IRQ flag is set, try to do the automatic IRQ
* detection.
*/
if (info->flags & ASYNC_AUTO_IRQ) info->irq = do_auto_irq(info);
scratch2 = serial_in(info, UART_LCR);
serial_outp(info, UART_LCR, scratch2 | UART_LCR_DLAB);
serial_outp(info, UART_EFR, 0); /* EFR is the same as FCR */
serial_outp(info, UART_LCR, scratch2);
serial_outp(info, UART_FCR, UART_FCR_ENABLE_FIFO);
scratch = serial_in(info, UART_IIR) >> 6;
info->xmit_fifo_size = 1;
switch (scratch) {
/* 1. modification: comment out case 0:
* case 0:
* info->type = PORT_16450;
* break;
*/
case 1:
info->type = PORT_UNKNOWN;
break;
case 2:
info->type = PORT_16550;
break;
/* 2. modification: put case 0: in here
*/
case 3: case 0:
serial_outp(info, UART_LCR, scratch2 | UART_LCR_DLAB);
if (serial_in(info, UART_EFR) == 0) {
/* 3. modification: comment out setting of PORT_16650
* info->type = PORT_16650;
* info->xmit_fifo_size = 32;
*/
/* 4. modification: set PORT_16550A instead
*/
info->type = PORT_16550A;
info->xmit_fifo_size = 16;
} else {
info->type = PORT_16550A;
info->xmit_fifo_size = 16;
}
serial_outp(info, UART_LCR, scratch2);
break;
}
And I just checked 2.2.3 , the parameters for ttyS14 have to be configured in ../src/linux/include/asm-i386/serial.h now. And CONFIG_SERIAL_MANY_PORTS has to be set. Unfortunately the results are the same :(( Fast IrDA - FIRThe PCI - IrDA(TM) controller VL82C147 manufactured by VLSI is FIR capable. Unfortunately there is no Linux driver available. If you are interested to write this driver please contact me for further information. You may read more about Linux and Infrared in my Linux IR-HOWTO . MouseThe unique and funny Pop-Up-Mouse (two buttons) uses the PS/2 protocol
(/dev/psmouse). It is located at the right side of the laptop, maybe a
problem for the lefthanded. The gpm works well together with XFree86or the
XBF server. 3ButtonEmulationworks in X11, but it seems hairy to me to get
the right trigger point. Three button functionality shows up in
CDI use an external SCSI-CD-Rom. But not the original one by HP, this seems to expensive and to slow. Peter Sprenger reported to me: I got the genuine CD-ROM and so far I was not able to run it ... the device keeps on resetting until it starts to rattle so loud that it scares you, I guess it is a missing kernel parameter. Michael Wiedmann reported the genuine CD drive working in the docking station without any problems. FloppydriveReliabilityThe floppy drive broke after 18 months, I got always CRC errors, when booting from a floppy. And writing a normal floppy became unreliable. But the drive was changed by HP with no problems. superformatI couldn't get the floppydrive to #superformat /dev/fd0 sect=21 cyl=83 floppy0: sector not found: track 0, head 0, sector 1, size 2 floppy0: sector not found: track 0, head 0, sector 1, size 2 end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0 floppy0: sector not found: track 0, head 0, sector 3, size 2 floppy0: sector not found: track 0, head 0, sector 3, size 2 end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 2 The floppydrive used with the Toshiba Portege seems to be the same model. I tried to get further info but didn't succeed yet, because most of the Toshiba sites and newsgroups are in Japanese. Maybe someone can help out with this information? Brandon Davis <brdavis9@pacbell.net> wrote: "I do know that the external floppy for the OB600/800 is the same floppy (pretty much, anyway: the eject button is different) that is used in the IBM ThinkPad 560 ...I hooked up my HP floppy to my wife's TP560 and it worked just fine." When building a rescue floppy with muLinux
by Michele Andreoli I found a hint about WinImage . This Window$95
shareware is made by Gilles Vollant. I tried his demo version and was able
to format 1722MB bootable floppies, without any error. Writing this
floppies with Linux Finally I found a Linux solution, too. I have set up this
drive0: deviation=656500 I found out that It worked for me but there are no guarantees. You should read the according information of the fdutils package carefully. CRC ErrorsSometimes but not always I get CRC errors when booting from
floppy-images, which I prepared with Peter Sprenger recommends to use the kernel parameter 'floppy=omnibook', he never noticed the crc error; without he had it once. Instead of 'omnibook' you may also use 'floppy=nodma' which has the same effect. But for me this doesn't help. From a DOS tool I know the floppy controller is a PNP0700, which is the generic (standard) one. The proprietary HP OmniBook floppy controller is PNP0605. Also I have got reports about disabling the cache might help, I will try this later. ID = 0x0007D041 = 'PNP0700' -- Std. FDC (765 type) Types: Base = 0x01, Sub = 0x02, Interface = 0x00 Mass Storage, FDC (765 type), Generic Floppy KeyboardAfter half a year of usage the keyboard controller broke. When typing a letter another letter appeared at random on the screen, especially lower and upper case were mixed unpredictebaly. Can you imagine to type in the correct password :) HP repaired it in a short time (3 weeks) without complaint. But the error seems to return sometimes, but to seldom to complain about. Besides this the keyboard works fine. There is only one LED to show the
power status. The status of NUM, CAPS and SCRL may be displayed in a small
auxiliary display in one of the four display corners, by toggling
<Fn><ESC>. With XFree86 this status display doesn't work, but
with the XBF server it works fine. Also in text mode Advanced Power Management (APM)The BIOS supports APM version 1.2 .The kernel function
Power-Off-On-Shutdown (CONFIG_APM_POWER_OFF) works alright. The other
functions I couldn't test yet. The APM of the BIOS works with Linux too
and goes into power save mode when the choosen time is elapsed. I haven't
installed the 'apm' package anymore, but I guess Peter Sprenger reported: APM does work fine -- no problems at all! One minor problem: When removing the power plug at the far side from the machine I get this error and usually can't recover my work: hda: lost interrupt
hda: read_intr: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete }
If I pull the power plug at the machine side everthing goes well. BatteryBattery (Lithium Ion) works 2 hours for each charge cycle, charge time 1 hour. Real Time Clock (RTC)RTC is detected by the kernel and shows up in /proc/rtc. Survey PCI Devices
*) aka Symbios Logic 8100S (info from the device manager in Window$95) Sources:
Docking StationI don't use a docking station.They seem really expensive and I can't see any usefulness. I would like to buy a PC instead and connect it via network to the laptop. Or use an external display, which works well as described above, and an external keyboard and mouse. From Martin J. Evans martin@mjedev.demon.co.uk "The main problem with docking stations is getting the operating system to detect you are docked. Fortunately, if you configure your kernel with the /proc file system (does anyone not do this?) you can examine the devices available and thus detect a docked state. With this in mind a few simple scripts is all you need to get your machine configured correctly in a docked state. You may want to build support for you docking station hardware as modules instead of putting it directly into the kernel. This will save space in your kernel but your choice probably largely depends on how often you are docked." Peter Sprenger reported to me: I got a docking station and I was able to make a kernel virtually out of the box, the only problem you have is the un-docking for the following reason: the BIOS is programmed that, if your detach a SCSI-device, automatically reboots the computer. It is not a disaster, but it then takes some time to re-sync the hard disk. The question is whether we could convince HP to produce a BIOS patch, for us 'LINUXER', that allows detaching without a reboot. I got a docking station lent recently. Its features are:
Output from 00:00.0 Host bridge: VLSI Technology Inc 82C535 (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VLSI Technology Inc 82C534 (rev 03) 00:02.0 Unknown class [ff00]: VLSI Technology Inc 82C532 (rev 02) 00:03.0 VGA [..]: Neomagic Corporation NM2070 [MagicGraph NM2070] [..] 00:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1130 (rev 04) 00:04.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1130 (rev 04) 00:06.0 Unknown class [0d00]: VLSI Technology Inc 82C147 (rev 02) 01:00.0 SCSI [..] : Symbios Logic Inc. (formerly NCR) 53c810 [..] 01:05.0 ISA bridge: VLSI Technology Inc 82C538 01:06.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557 (rev 01) AFAIK the docking station can only be released from the notebook, if the power is on, by pressing the release button. Models of the HP OmniBook 800
HP OmniBook Survey (All Models)
Linux with the HP OmniBook Series (Links)Support des machines HP sous LinuxA report by Bruno Cornec (in French) HP OmniBook 600 (Out-of-production)
HP OmniBook 800
HP OmniBook 900
HP OmniBook 2000
HP OmniBook 2100
HP OmniBook 3000HP OmniBook 3100
HP OmniBook 4000 (Out-of-production)
HP OmniBook 4100
HP OmniBook 4150
HP OmniBook 5000 (Out-of-production)
HP OmniBook 5500 (Out-of-production)
HP OmniBook 5700
HP OmniBook 6000HP OmniBook 7100
HP OmniBook XEHP OmniBook Sojourn
Linux/Unix/BSD on other Mini-Notebooks (Links)
ToDo
DisclaimerThis document has nothing to do with Hewlett-Packard, they don't even know it exists. There is no guarantee that the information on this page is accurate, please don't hold me responsible if your experience is different from the information here. Credits
LiLAC - Linux with Laptop ComputersFor further information about other laptops (HP OmniBook 800, HP OmniBook 3100, Olivetti Echos 133DM, Commodore C286-LT, COMPAQ Armada 1592DT) look at my page LiLAC - Linux with Laptop Computers. You may also find the latest Linux/IR-HOWTO, my Linux-Laptop-HOWTO and a survey about Linux and Infrared Devices. Please feel free to mail me if you have recommendations or criticisms. I'm very receptive to additions, suggestions and changes from the readers of this document. Please note: If you don't object I will include your name and e-mail adress above. |
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