I'm looking at bits and pieces of a TI/Acer Extensa 455T laptop, and I would like to try LinuxBIOS for it if I can get the datasheet. I wrote ALI, but I'm not getting my hopes up.
On 19 Feb 2003, Jeremy Jackson wrote:
I'm looking at bits and pieces of a TI/Acer Extensa 455T laptop, and I would like to try LinuxBIOS for it if I can get the datasheet. I wrote ALI, but I'm not getting my hopes up.
Is this a new or old laptop?
ron
On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 10:51, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
On 19 Feb 2003, Jeremy Jackson wrote:
I'm looking at bits and pieces of a TI/Acer Extensa 455T laptop, and I would like to try LinuxBIOS for it if I can get the datasheet. I wrote ALI, but I'm not getting my hopes up.
Is this a new or old laptop?
Very old.
ron
On 19 Feb 2003, Jeremy Jackson wrote:
On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 10:51, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
On 19 Feb 2003, Jeremy Jackson wrote:
I'm looking at bits and pieces of a TI/Acer Extensa 455T laptop, and I would like to try LinuxBIOS for it if I can get the datasheet. I wrote ALI, but I'm not getting my hopes up.
Is this a new or old laptop?
Very old.
If it doesn't have SDRAM, but only has DRAM, there is a good chance that DRAM will Just Work, simplifying linuxbios.
I sure wish you would buy a new sis 630-based laptop and make it work!
ron
On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 22:58, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
If it doesn't have SDRAM, but only has DRAM, there is a good chance that DRAM will Just Work, simplifying linuxbios.
How is that? It is FP-DRAM, do some of those controllers do the autosizing in hardware? It has 2 SODIMMs. I seem to remember now that 72pin SIMMs had size jumpers.
I sure wish you would buy a new sis 630-based laptop and make it work!
I'd love to. It may not be in my budget right now.
BUT, who makes them? I will look around at stores; I'd prefer to have one apart first, but I might settle for and lspci on one in a store. LinuxBIOS support is one criterion, ATI or other open-source DRI supported 3d graphics is another.
On 20 Feb 2003, Jeremy Jackson wrote:
How is that? It is FP-DRAM, do some of those controllers do the autosizing in hardware? It has 2 SODIMMs. I seem to remember now that 72pin SIMMs had size jumpers.
no, the old DRAM is simple. You just start accessing it. To see how much there is, you start reading/writing until you get errors. It was really easy.
ron
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