Puppy and a Compaq Armada 1700

[raymac46]

I have this ancient Compaq Armada 1700 laptop from 1998 which I want to run Puppy on.
Because its most recent BIOS is from 2000, Puppy defaults to apm and won't load acpi even though it's supported.
As a result the cooling fan won't run, which can't be A Good Thing for the hardware.
I've been able to fix this first by running the boot option command:
puppy acpi=force
and second by modifying the very last section of the /etc/rc.d/rc.modules file as follows:

#v2.13
#dougal suggested this:
if [ -d /proc/acpi ];then
modprobe fan
modprobe ac
modprobe thermal
modprobe button
modeprobe battery
modprobe processor
else
modprobe apm
fi

Just posting this in case anyone else wants to use Puppy on such an old machine.

[bongmaster]

armada 1750 1st machine i used puppy on

[cthisbear]

raymac46

I sort of misread your post - as a solution.
Here is a page for others who might not be able to use your fix.
Linux is on the bottom of the page.


Dell Inspiron/Latitude/Precision fan control utility

http://www.diefer.de/i8kfan/index.html

regards Chris

[lubemnky]

I too am running 2.14 on the armada 1700, however I have not had any issues with the fan not working. I had to modprobe the sound card but that was it.