HP Pavillion Notebook n5250 Linux notes

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These pages have my experiences with installing Linux onto this particular laptop...
Purchase Info: Fry's on 22 jan 2001, m$ winME installed; upgraded RAM with another 128M and bought pcCard lan.
Technical Info: Intel Pentium 3, 700 Mhz (when using outlet power); 256 M RAM; S3 Savage/IX w/MV video card (4 M AGP-VRAM); TFT 13" 1024x768 monitor; ESS MDM Modem (WinModem, i assume); Synaptics PS/2 Touchpad Mouse; and lots of other details about sound/usb/pcmcia...

The link listed on the next page for the n5190 laptop was the real trailblazer.

updates from 2001

• since i originally put this site together, linux has kept evolving...
• basically ANY distribution in 2002 should work straight out of the box
• assuming you can boot from the cd (hit esc if necessary during bootup)
• ive installed several versions successfully:
• redhat 7.1/7.2
• suse 8.0
• lycoris amethyst upd2 (build 46 june 2002)
• so you should not need to worry about anything if you have an old laptop that you want to use
• with a newer distribution these days.
• personally, i liked lycoris because it allowed me to play dvds straight out of the box
• unfortunately, i havent been able to get a recent development build to bootup correctly (build 66).
• as in all linux - ymmv - but ill go ahead and include the links
• to the other pages that showed my first struggles to get this laptop
• running in linux back when the video-drivers were not supported, etc...
• this page was updated on 30 dec 2002