If you own a 6510b, like I do, you may have noticed that your fan is working overtime.
HP support will try to tell you that this is “normal”, but it isn’t. The simple fix that I found for this annoyance, is to update the BIOS to the latest version. Here is the link. Good luck!
Ok. So let me break away from the Oracle OpenWorld related side of things, and discuss my new adventure. Because of my long interest/affair with Linux (#307589), I picked up a copy of Oracle Unbreakable Linux and decided to install it on my laptop (HP Compaq 6510b).
Here is a bit of my install experience of what I had to do to get to this point, where I’m ready to install the Oracle Database.
My system is setup (now) for a dual boot between both Windows XP Pro & Oracle Linux. I had to repartition my drive (Paragon Partition Manager worked just dandy), start the Oracle Linux install (which is basically a recompiled version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5), created my Linux partitions, selected the Software Development + Web Server package, and let roll. 15-minutes later it was complete. After a reboot I noticed that the X didn’t start (startx). The problem is that the new /etc/X11/xorg.conf (as of RHES 4x) didn’t discover my laptop’ video/display information. So I hacked my way through it and added/modified the Monitor and Screent sections of the xorg.conf. This is part of how my xorg.conf looks:
Section “Device”
Identifier “Videocard0″
Driver “vesa”
EndSection
Section “Screen”
Identifier “Screen0″
Device “Videocard0″
Monitor “Monitor0″
DefaultDepth 24
# Modes “1280×800″ “1024×768″ “800×600″
SubSection “Display”
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes “1280×800″ “1024×768″ “800×600″
EndSubSection
EndSection
After updating the xorg.conf, issued a startx and voila! Xwindows (gnome) is up and running… Now, on to getting the database installed …. Cheers.
