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  11 This page is no longer maintained by me, as I don't have access to my
  12 old laptop.  I would therefore like to transfer this page to anyone
  13 who is interested in maintaining it.  Mail me at
  14 <A HREF="mailto:pere@td.org.uit.no">pere@td.org.uit.no</A> if you are
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  19 <H1>HP Omnibook 4000C - Linux page</H1>
  20
  21 I created this page after searching the web for information about the
  22 HP Omnibook 4000C.  I did not find anything, so I created my own.
  23 This is most of the information I found useful to configure my HP
  24 Omnibook 4000C for Linux.
  25
  26 <P>4000C contains an 16bit sound-card and an infrared sender/receiver.
  27 The IR-device is <CODE>/dev/{ttyS1,cua1}</CODE>.  The tracking ball
  28 has an PS/2 busmouse interface.
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  30 <UL>
  31 <LI><A HREF="#kernel">Kernel configuration</A>
  32 <LI><A HREF="#xfree86">XFree86 configuration</A>
  33 <LI><A HREF="#screen">My screen is screwed up</A>
  34 <LI><A HREF="#pcmcia">Problems with PCMCIA</A>
  35 <LI><A HREF="#info">More information</A>
  36 </UL>
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  38 <A NAME="kernel"><H2>Kernel configuration</H2></A>
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  40 All this is tried on Linux kernel v.1.3.59.
  41
  42 <P>The option <CODE>Pocket and portable adaptors</CODE> is not needed to
  43 use PCMCIA cards.
  44
  45 <H3>Advanced Power Management configuration</H3>
  46
  47 <DL>
  48 <DT><CODE>Ignore USER SUSPEND</CODE>: <B>N</B>
  49 <DT><CODE>Enable PM at boot time</CODE>: <B>N</B>
  50 <DD>This seems to be important to get a stable system.
  51 <DT><CODE>Make CPU Idle calls when idle</CODE>: <B>Y</B>
  52 <DT><CODE>Enable console blanking using APM</CODE>: <B>N</B>
  53 <DD>Console blanking was not supported on linux 1.3.75
  54 </DL>
  55
  56 <H3>Sound configuration</H3>
  57
  58 Windows gives me the following information about the sound facilities:
  59 <PRE>
  60 ESS AudioDrive ES688
  61   I/O port 220
  62   IRQ        7
  63   DMA        1 size 32
  64 ESS AudioDrive MIDI
  65 </PRE>
  66
  67 Brian Vinter reported IRQ 5 from Windows 95.  This is normal, as the
  68 IRQ and DMA can be changed in the bios setup.
  69
  70 <P>It seems to be compatible with Soundblaster Pro. With a simple
  71 <A HREF="soundconf">configuration file</A> I managed to get stereo
  72 sound. Copy this to <CODE>/etc/soundconf</CODE> and run <CODE>make config</CODE> in <CODE>/usr/src/linux/drivers/sound/</CODE>.
  73
  74 <A NAME="xfree86"><H2>XFree86 configuration</H2></A>
  75
  76 The 4000c seems to be using the Western Digital 90C24A chipset.  This
  77 is supported by the XF86_SVGA server.  It has 512k videoram.  I have a
  78 <A HREF="XF86Config">sample <CODE>XF86Config</CODE></A> which gives
  79 you resolution 640x480.  Copy this file to
  80 <CODE>/etc/XF86Config</CODE> or <CODE>/etc/X11/XF86Config</CODE>.
  81
  82
  83 <A NAME="screen"><H2>My screen is screwed up</H2></A>
  84
  85 Sometime, after leaving X, the screen gets completely screwed up.
  86 This is due to a bug in the chipset.  To restore the screen, press
  87 <KBD>fn F5</KBD>.
  88
  89 <A NAME="pcmcia"><H2>Problems with PCMCIA</H2></A>
  90
  91 Dag Brattli has experimented with two different Ethernet-cards and
  92 discovered many problems.
  93
  94 <P>"3Com 3c589C Etherlink III worked with pcmcia-cs-2.7.6 but not with
  95 pcmcia-cs-2.8.6 and 2.8.7. 'if_port=3' must be present in
  96 <CODE>/etc/pcmcia/config</CODE>, or
  97 <CODE>/etc/pcmcia/config.opts</CODE> to get the card to work at
  98 all. 'exclude 0x300-0x30f' in the same file seems to avoid some strange
  99 conflict.
 100
 101 <P>IBM CCA Ethernet II works with all the pcmcia-cs versions tried.
 102 This card needs 'mem_speed=600' in <CODE>/etc/pcmcia/config</CODE> or
 103 <CODE>/etc/pcmcia/config.opts</CODE> if it exists.  This improves
 104 transfer speed and prevents filling <CODE>/usr/adm/messages</CODE>
 105 with UDP error messages."
 106
 107 <A NAME="info"><H2>More information</H2></A>
 108 <UL>
 109 <LI><A HREF="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/">The
 110 Linux Laptop Home Page</A>
 111 <LI><A HREF="http://hyper.stanford.edu/~dhinds/pcmcia/pcmcia.html">Linux
 112 PCMCIA Information Page</a>
 113 <LI><A HREF="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/apm.html">Linux
 114 and Advanced Power Management</A>
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 117
 118 <A NAME="acknow"><H2>Acknowledgments</H2></A>
 119
 120 Thanks to Dag Brattli &lt;dagb@stud.cs.uit.no&gt; for the
 121 XF86Config-file and lots of other info.  Thanks to Brian Vinter
 122 &lt;vinter@cs.uit.no&gt; for some informations on the screen.
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