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HP n5190 Linux
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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 above for the n5190 laptop showed me all kinds of useful stuff.

Here is a list of what I have done so far that may help someone else who is just getting started:
Page 1 (this) - details going from m$ to linux-and Xwin-3.3.6

Page 2 - details my next adventures - cdrom? network? not sure yet... (i ended up trying several linux distros and decided to come back to the first one listed here as working rh62-rt3 because i wanted to learn about kernel hacking and realtime issues rather than making my laptop play dvds right away.)

Page 3 - redetails everything that is stream-of-consciousness from above, so that someone else can at least get xwin running on RTLinux3.0

note to self - the silly angelfire editor always assumes that LT-GT is an html-tag and that DQ-SQ is the end of the string, so dont use them. parenthesis and square brackets are fine...

last updated 05 apr 2001

From m$ to linux