strategic commander
ok, i really don't know why the button 1 keeps breaking. damn, just the one that i use for firing in fps games :). here is some pictures to know how to open it. of course you'll void your warranty, blah, blah, blah. do it at your own risk, blah, blah, blah.
[07/04/2003] a friend of mine that works for m$ (yeap, it turned into an orc) bought a new sc to me. button #1 works until now but i guess i don't play quake as much as before :)
[28/10/2004]I don't use it anymore. It is too fragile for fps games so I play only using keyboard and mouse now.
sparcstation SLC
the nice sparcstation slc (mine is called muttley) is an old graphic terminal. it's very slow but has a nice video. here is it's cpuinfo and here you may find some pics. when i got muttley it came with a dead nvram. it forgot who it is, his ethernet address and so on. a newer nvram costs about U$40 plus shipping and idiot taxes that my country has. then i found Mark Henderson's NVRAM/hostid FAQ (here is a local copy if you can't reach it) and i put a external battery (i used a 386 bios battery).
[23/10/2001] Today muttley's battery was dead again. It has passed about 2 or 3 years with the first one. I got some pictures.
[28/10/2004]Bad news. Sparcs like muttley (I guess all sun4 models) have a limitation that boot image can have only ~2.4M. No, compressing doesn't help. Kernels like 2.6.x series reaches easily this mark. After some googling I tried to strip some elf sections before converting it in a.out format but it rendered an unbootable kernel. Maybe I forgot something. But booting it isn't the only problem. sun4c support is currently broken and seems noone wants to fix because seems its mmu sucks. Yes, "be my guest". I really would enjoy that, but there's no time for yet another project. :(
acer travelmate 341t
I bought this notebook (matthew) some time ago and I had few problems with. I started to make a homepage explaining how to make this notebook work with linux but I found a (good) work already started. Then I just sent new things I discovered to them. Here is the page.
[27/09/2001] damn! i had the idiot idea of update its bios. here is a newer bios for this notebook. use with care. or don't use it, stay with yours :).
[07/04/2003] here is some instructions of how is the linux support for this notebook. it's really old and it's in portuguese.
[21/08/2003] the pain is over! after spending hours trying to put an end in "cpu update code mismatch", finally i found the problem: the r01-a3c bios version that i found before they put in global.acer.com page is broken. it don't have the microcode and also disables key to select tft/external display. i've updated the files section with the correct one and also some interesting files.
[28/10/2004] I found that matthew has a mini-pci slot! It's amazing that I didn't found any site reporting travelmate 34x series have a mini-pci slot. The bad news is that this slot is populated by a card that is both lucent modem and eepro ethernet card. No way in earth I would be without my eepro100 8). So I bought PCMCIA/Cardbus cards. Yes, three. An orinoco based from LG, an atheros based from D-Link and a broadcom based from Linksys.