- This is to describe the installation of Linux Slackware 10.2 on Compaq Presario M2000 laptop.
- Description of Slackware Linux 10.2 can be found here
- The description of the laptop can be found here
- Initial setting
- Outcome of lspci command can be found here. It shows my specs.
- Problems - the following problems were encountered:
- very slow hard drive - fixed by enabling UDMA. This allowed me to get following timings (using hdparm -tT /dev/hda):
- cached reads=822 MB/sec
- buffered disk reads=22 MB/sec
- very slow graphics - fixed by:
- installing ATI drivers from here
- configuring Xorg server - copy of my initial xorg.conf can be found here, my final config can be found here
- enabling POSIX Shared Memory on your system:
(1) add the following line to /etc/fstab (if it isn't there already):
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
(2) Mount shared memory as follows:
mount /dev/shm
(3) Issue the following command to check that it mounted properly:
mount $\vert$ grep ''shm''.
This gives 150 fps in fgl_glxgears (64MB allocated to graphics), and 700 fps in glxgears.
- function keys - fixed by following advice by Mr. Michael Prokop that can be found here