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233MHz.  Came with 32MB RAM and I added 32MB to the single slot.
EDO?  Does not work with identical looking memory that works elsewhere.
In theory you can add 64MB SODIMM.

Seems to be better quality than the early pentium Presarios, and has 
24-bit color (the 120MHz Armada had 8-bit color) which is needed by Opera 
post version 6.

Highly recommended for linux, except for the winmodem.
Not bad for Win98 but had to hunt up the Chips and Tech video driver 
(linux uses Xvesa) and it wanted a sound driver for the modem.

Must add nomce to boot line to avoid 'machine check error' with default 
kernel 2.2.26 (corrected in 2.2.27).  So Steven's BL3 disks won't boot on 
here.  David Moberg's syslinux 1-floppy USB BL also does not boot, don't 
know why.  BL3 loop works perfectly with nomce added to boot line.

Video  2MB video RAM

Not framebuffer.  Displays 800x600 24-bit, and up to 1280 on external 
monitor.  Nice looking text that almost fills the screen.

svgalib works but only as plain VGA.
Xvesa works fine, 800x600 in Xsetup.
svga X also works but uses more memory

Sound

ESS 1868 (?) sound which acts like sb16.  Use a kernel with sb sound 
compiled into it (bzimlsfu.431 - which also has framebuffer support) and 
then since it is ISA sound, you also need to insmod sb io=0x220 irq=5 
dma=1 dma16=5 (I don't recall if opl3 was also compiled in).  Works with 
mplayer and timidity now. (Without insmodding sb it cannot find /dev/dsp).
Due to some bug, you cannot insert sb/sound as modules on laptops.

I may compile a non-framebuffer small laptop kernel with sound some day.

Very nice quality speakers with volume control.  It is rare to find a 
laptop that works with BL and sound.  Would make a good internet radio.

Usable (a bit slowly) with lynx, links2 (graphical in X, Steven's 
version), Opera 9.64, Seamonkey and Firefox (first add firelibs.tgz for 
glibc 2.3.6 which disables uclibc Abiword so get another version - see 
archives).

Single USB port works well.  IR said to conflict with sound (IRQ 5).  I 
don't know how to get into BIOS setup - sometimes Armadas need setup 
floppy disks.

Comes with both floppy and CD-ROM drives.  The floppy can be removed to 
add a second battery.  Did not test parport for plip.

Two pcmcia slots.  Nice keyboard and screen.  Small power cable and built 
in power supply - makes it heavier but anything this age has a dead 
battery anyway.

I set it up for a friend with a 1GB hard drive.  Win98 came on it (I 
shrank it to 600MB) and he will use that for wordprocessing and some 
database program, and linux on the internet.  BL2 with all sorts of useful 
programs takes up 300MB (including mplayer and timidity with patches, 
some large browsers, netpbm....).  Has behaved okay without a swap 
partition, but I could delete the Win98 CAB files and shrink Windows to 
make space for one.  This will do everything he said he wanted (using a 
USB external hard drive for file storage) except play DVDs.  I will add a 
pcmcia ethernet card (it can even take cardbus) and maybe eventually an 
aironet wireless card (or get my cardbus kernel working with some cardbus 
card that needs glibc 2.3.6 to compile the driver).

Might work (very slowly) with DSL linux but probably not with firefox,
and too little memory for Puppy linux.



Sindi