I installed Redhat 7.2 on my Winbook XL laptop (specifications below). The install probe didn't find a a mouse and specifying a generic PS/2 mouse didn't allow the GUI install to continue. The text install went fine and i used all the auto/default features of the install. Unfortunately, I have yet to get the system up and running due to display, keyboard and mouse issues. I have solved the display issues (detailed below) and can display either the X window or GNOME. Unfortunately, the keyboard and mouse do not work yet. My system specification are setforth below. The Winbook is factory spec except for the 20 Gig Western Digital Hard drive and a Xircom 10/100 XE2000 PCMCIA card. KEYBOARD/POINTER ISSUES: I have tried kbdcfg to configure the keyboard but this has failed when the command locks up the keyboard, necessitating a reboot. As an alternative kbdconfig gets me a window that allows me to select a "US type keyboard which gives me no help. I have also used startx -- test which tells me it expected to find a keyboard but didn't. As explained below, I can't use X-configurator because it asks me to confirm my display settings by using my keyboard or mouse. When I fail to respond, Xconfigurator prompts me to try again or cancel. **************************************************************************************************** I AM POSTING THE FOLLOWING FOR ANYONE WITH DISPLAY ISSUES OR TRYING TO INSTALL ON A WINBOOK XL LAPTOP. i am pretty sure that a linux install is possible on a winbook xl. I have referred to two homepages mentioning their good results (which I have yet to duplicate). http://www.peter-englmaier.de/winbook/ and http://rei.nerv.gweep.net/~ratinox/wbxl.html POINTER RESOURCES: Regarding the mouse issues, i have been told that winbook uses a standard Synaptics Touchpad. I went to the the Synaptics site and downloaded a utility to determine if i have such a pad (http://www.synaptics.com/decaf/utilities/tprev.exe) and the utitlity says I have a generic PS/2 nonsynaptics pad. DISPLAY RESOURCES: i solved the display issues after a long search for two excellent display resources. http://www.xmission.com/~howardm/modelines.html and http://www.hut.fi/Misc/Electronics/faq/vga2rgb/calc.html. Using these resources, modlines can be easily calculated by reference to VESA standards. The cacluator suggests: Modeline "1024x768" 65 1024 1048 1184 1344 768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync. This translates into Horizontal sync frequency = 48.36 vertical sync frequency = 60. i ran out of options with Xconfigurator, however. Xconfigurator recognized the chip (C&T65554) and installs a default driver, recognizes the RAM (2048), and asks for the monitor type. If you specify Generic laptop, Xconfigurator tests the settings, displays a beautiful desktop and asks that i confirm the settings by typing 'y.' unfortunately, my keyboard and mouse lock up which Xconfigurator interpets a failure and prompts me to try again or cancel. I was able to get around this problem by using xf386config but i have yet to solve my keyboard and mouse issues. I have a $39.99 incident call into Redhat. There phone system indicates that they will return my call within one business day. I have left a message and will report back on my results. ********************************************************************************************************* SYSTEM SPECIFICATIONS: WinBook XL Laptop PCMICIA CARD: Xircom 10/100 XE2000 PROCESSOR: Intel Pentium w/MMX 266 MEMORY: 128MB, EDO 60ns, 144-pin SODIMMs CACHE: Synchronous, pipeline burst, 256k MECHANICAL LAYOUT, Device Bays: "Three spindle" design, CD-ROM, FDD and HDD are simultaneously available CORE LOGIC Chip Set: Intel Mobile Triton II, 430TX Display Chipset: Chips & Technologies 65554 Memory Type: EDO Memory Size: 2 MB Bus: PCI Maximum Color Depth/Resolution- External Monitor: 16.7 Million colors/800x600, LCD, 13.1" TFT, Resolution: 800x600 r 1024x768, Depth: 64k HARD DRIVE: 20 GB Western Digital (replacement) CD-ROM: Toshiba Floppy Drive: 3.5" 1.44 MB- built-in MODEM Type: WinModem / Internal Speed: 56600 Model: LT WinModem Supported Standards: v.32 bis, v.32, v.34, v.90 SOUND Chip Set: Yamaha YMF715 Compatibility: SoundBlaster Pro, MS Sound System Speakers: 2 Stereo, above keyboard Microphone: Mono, in palmrest I/O Chip Set: National Semiconductor NS87338 PORTS Parallel: 1 25-pin D-sub connector, Bi-directional, EPP or ECP Serial: 1 9-pin D-sub connector, 16550 UART USB: 2 Universal Serial Bus Ports PS/2: 1 mini-DIN 6-pin, keyboard or mouse PCMCIA Chip Set: TI PCI 1131 Slots: 2 Type II or 1 Type III CardBus: Both sockets ZoomVideo: Lower socket only Keyboard # Keys: 84 Windows 95 Keys: Yes Power Management APM: 1.2 Modes: Normal, standby and suspend Suspend to RAM?: Yes Suspend to Disk?: Yes Pointing Device: 2-button Touchpad

Red Hat staff spent about an hour on the phone repeating the commands i tried below to no avail. Additionally, they tried hand editing the config file.

I just successfully dual booted this winbook xl laptop with RedHat 6.2 using the default installation. I have tried lots of new distros (redhat 7.2 and 7.3, etc) to try to install linux on this winbook laptop. All my efforts failed, including purchased installation support personnel from Redhat. I was really surprised by my lack of success because two websites detailed their mundane, successful installs using older distros of Redhat. Installing newer distros, however, caused an IRQ conflict between the psaux mouse and the psmcia controller (IRQ 12). This caused the mouse and keyboard to lock up in any X session. The PCMCIA NIC also knocked out the floppy. I could fix the PCMCIA NIC problem by editing /etc/pcmcia/config.opts, but I could never solve the mouse/keyboard lockup if the NIC was enabled. This seems to only apply to laptops that use psaux. This appears to be a known problem with newer installations. see [url]http://www-hft.ee.tu-berlin.de/~strauman/tp4utils/[/url] Regardless, this laptop is running correctly under Redhat 6.2 with its psaux mouse configured as a ps-2 generic with the three mouse button emulation. The RedHat 6.2 install correctly configured the Xircom PCMCIA nic. I only had to use netconfig to supply the IP addresses and the default installation did the rest. Here is the correct configuration of the IRQ's. # cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 185024 XT-PIC timer 1: 2265 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 3: 865 XT-PIC xirc2ps_cs 6: 23 XT-PIC floppy 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc 12: 15469 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse 13: 1 XT-PIC fpu 14: 186451 XT-PIC ide0 15: 4 XT-PIC i82365 NMI: 0

This is not a duplicate post. I just successfully dual booted this winbook xl laptop with RedHat 6.2 using the default installation. I have tried lots of new distros (redhat 7.2 and 7.3, etc) to try to install linux on this winbook laptop. All my efforts failed, including purchased installation support personnel from Redhat. I was really surprised by my lack of success because two websites detailed their mundane, successful installs using older distros of Redhat. Installing newer distros, however, caused an IRQ conflict between the psaux mouse and the psmcia controller (IRQ 12). This caused the mouse and keyboard to lock up in any X session. The PCMCIA NIC also knocked out the floppy. I could fix the PCMCIA NIC problem by editing /etc/pcmcia/config.opts, but I could never solve the mouse/keyboard lockup if the NIC was enabled. This seems to only apply to laptops that use psaux. This appears to be a known problem with newer installations. see [url]http://www-hft.ee.tu-berlin.de/~strauman/tp4utils/[/url] Regardless, this laptop is running correctly under Redhat 6.2 with its psaux mouse configured as a ps-2 generic with the three mouse button emulation. The RedHat 6.2 install correctly configured the Xircom PCMCIA nic. I only had to use netconfig to supply the IP addresses and the default installation did the rest. Here is the correct configuration of the IRQ's. # cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 185024 XT-PIC timer 1: 2265 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 3: 865 XT-PIC xirc2ps_cs 6: 23 XT-PIC floppy 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc 12: 15469 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse 13: 1 XT-PIC fpu 14: 186451 XT-PIC ide0 15: 4 XT-PIC i82365 NMI: 0