Mandrake 9.0 on a Twinhead Slimnote 9T 166 TZ

So, first of all, I have an old Twinhead Slimnote 9T 166TZ with the following Hardware :

PI 166 MHz CPU
128 MB RAM (SO DIMM EDO)
graphic card ?
2 gb harddisk
CD
3,5'' Floppy
12.1'' TFT-Display
Sound ?
PCMCIA
IrDA
USB
apm

Installation

Because of disk space limitation, I made only a / partition (and a Swap partition).
There were no problem during installation.
I like the Mandrake distro and his spirit.
Thanks to Mandrake for their great work !

Graphic card

It works fine.

Sound

It seems it does not work.

PCMCIA

It works fine. I have a PCMCIA modem, and a PCMCIA ethernet (10/100) card. They are both recognized without problem.
Sometimes, I experienced a crash of the computer when unplugging a pcmcia card.

IRDA

Not tried.

USB

I have tried an USB mobile hard disk and it works fine.
However, I have to manually load the USB kernel module.

Apm

Suspend to disk works without problem with Linux. It is a good thing, because restarting linux on this old laptop takes a long time !
You simply have to configure your Bios so that suspend to disk is activated.
Then give the appropriate permissions to the users to suspend :
chmod u+s /usr/bin/apm
You can suspend with the following command :
apm -s

Remark : I had to disable the automatic suspension of the computer in the Bios. Indeed, after some time of inactivity, the computer was crashed.

Comments ? Questions ? Suggestions ? parrenin [at] ujf-grenoble [dot] fr .

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