Greetings! I want to put Openstep on One of two Laptops I have. I have gotten it on a Compaq Armada 1700 With these specs:
Compaq Armada 1700: Model 6300/T/5000/D/M/1 manufactured in 1998
CPU: Pentium II 300Mhz
Memory: 160 Mb
Display: 14" TFT
Video chip: Chips and Technologies 65555
Sound chip: ESS1869
Internal modem: Compaq 56VL Global Internal Modem (Lucent WinModem)
PCMCIA/CardBus slots: Two
IrDA (infrared) works
USB 1.1 slot: works
Floppy drive: internal
CD-ROM drive: internal
Hard Drive: upgraded to Hitachi Travelstar Model 4K40 (30 GB)
Mouse: Synaptics Touchpad (PS/2) works
But the Video will only give me Black and White and I have no idea about the sound card.
I also have a Dell Latitude CPi (I didn't pay for it :) )
Which is better and is there any way to get the cd Driver to load on the dell?
Thanks!
Jon
You should try them both. I have installed Openstep on a CPi, but I can't remember how much of it worked (sound, etc)
A resolution less than 800x600 is no fun, and that's likely to be the res. on the Dell.
The C&T 65555 on the Armada is somewhat supported by a (hard to find) third party driver, but it is also VESA compliant, and works fine with the VESA driver.
The hard disk is not a big issue, but you might have to "downgrade" it. Be prepared to slice it up into 4GB partitions.
USB, IRDA, Modem, not likely to be functional or useful with Openstep.
What do you mean by "get the CD driver to work on the Dell"? Does it not have a CDROM drive? - if that's the case, unless you have the chassis for a CDROM and you don't mind taking the Compaq drive completely apart and putting the drive mechanism in the Dell chassis, then no.
It sounds like the Compaq is your best option.
The VESA gives me 800x600 so I guess that is the best the display will do.
Sound is working. :)
The Dell has removable drives and I have not stumbled onto the right driver to make the CD go. I may be dumb on that one.
I will try to get the rest of the HW specs off of it and post them so I can get more help.
:)
Thank!
Jon