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RDI Precision Book 160

parisc-linux Martin 3 participants 3 messages Jul 4, 2003

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Hi,
I've recently acquired an RDI Precision Book 160 which is currently
running HP-UX 10.2. From what I can find in the relevant documentation it is allegidly completely compatible with the HP B series workstations and thus should run Linux. Does anyone have any experience with installing / running Linux on these? It is possible? What devices are supported? Is Linux the best choice for this machine?

Cheers,
- Martin

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Hi Martin,

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I've recently acquired an RDI Precision Book 160 which is currently
running HP-UX 10.2. From what I can find in the relevant documentation it is allegidly completely compatible with the HP B series workstations and thus should run Linux. Does anyone have any experience with installing / running Linux on these? It is possible? What devices are supported? Is Linux the best choice for this machine?

Yes it works have a look on the thread:
<http://lists.parisc-linux.org/pipermail/parisc-linux/2003-March/019613.html>

hth,
Joel

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Hi Martin,

Quoted 6 lines

I've recently acquired an RDI Precision Book 160 which is currently
running HP-UX 10.2. From what I can find in the relevant documentation it is allegidly completely compatible with the HP B series workstations and thus should run Linux. Does anyone have any experience with installing / running Linux on these? It is possible? What devices are supported? Is Linux the best choice for this machine?

Yes it works have a look on the thread:
<http://lists.parisc-linux.org/pipermail/parisc-linux/2003-March/019613.html>

Yes, I also bought one of these RDI Precisionbooks from eBay (probably even from the same guy as you did).
It works fine, except I have some problems with the (internal) keyboard, ie. the control/function keys are mapped somewhat weird, eg. CapsLock = Ctrl.

A second thing is that stifb only works for me if you attach a external monitor, but sticon works fine with the internal LCD. I suspect that the stifb driver clears some flag that it should use the internal LCD during initialization.

If someone is interested I'd sell mine, since I need some money :-/

greetings, Max