Compaq Pressario 706EA

COMPAQ Presario 700 Model: 706EA

Note on S3 Savage Twister-K video card :
In this specific card, you should use above option, to solve a bug, with the mouse pointer when switch to a different video-mode

Option "HWCursor" "false"

Notes on Fedora Core 4 or Kernels 2.6.x :
Do a problem on new Synaptics Mouse drive. One normal mouse doesn't work on this laptop, if want have mouse working,
edit /boot/grub/grub.conf
and add psmouse.proto=imps in boot options like this :

kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.14-1.1656_FC4 ro root=LABEL=/ psmouse.proto=imps

This boot option make mouse works but lose the ability of control the Touchpad and his 4 buttons.
if in /etc/X11/xorg.conf you
Load "synaptics"
and use

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier "Synaptics"
    Driver "synaptics"
    Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
# Option "MaxTapTime" "0"  # Disabling "double-tap"
    Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

You may work fully in your Touchpad.

On project ../xorg you could install dri on Savage video drive

2004-11-17 -
Finally, on kernel-2.4.28 and kernel-2.6.9, we don't need boot options or recompile kernel to boot on this laptop (and in many others computers include almost Presarios 7xx) .
Reason: when BIOS say to not use lapic (local apic), lapic is not enable.
Before kernel attempts enable lapic which is present but seems not used or even programed.

Middle of 2002 - First version
At least install on this Laptop RedHat 7.3 or Slackware 8.1.
I use grub (GRand Unified Bootloader comes with redhat), for boot manager. I like it more that LILO, it could make easily dual boot with windows or even install 2 different Linuxs.
It is import for this laptop, use the latest kernel 2.4.18 ( for sound works ) and latest Xfree 4.2.0 (for X in 32 depth bits of color).

After this, if (local) APIC (Advance programmer interrupt controller) are enable, you should recompile kernel for disable it.
Since kernel-2.4.21, 22 or 23 we can disable lapic with boot option nolapic.

Xfree86

sound

hsfmodem

video

Ethernet 10/100 RTL3189 works well is detected and installed by the system use module 8139too.o, or adding to /etc/modules
alias eth0 8139too

in progress:
acpi project from http://sourceforge.net/projects/acpi
the acpi patch for kernel 2.4.19
my dsdt.dsl dsdt1.dsl