I've installed Debian long ago. I wanted to write this howto since then but I had some problems with the laptop hardware I was unable to solve until today.
Now this laptop is really cool. I bought an extra gig RAM and replaced the 40 gigs harddrive with another 80 gigs one because The one equipped with it was dying.
- Hardware Configuration:
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz
RAM: 256MB
Hard disk: 40GB
Optical Media: CD burner. The DVD burner never worked reliably for me. - lspci output:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:00.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:00.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 83)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
02:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1520 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
02:04.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1520 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
02:05.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset (rev 01)
02:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) - dmesg output:
CPI: BOOT (v001 PTLTD $SBFTBL$ 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000001) @ 0x4eeeafd8
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x1008
Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4
Virtual Wire compatibility mode.
Allocating PCI resources starting at 60000000 (gap: 50000000:aec10000)
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda2 ro lapic resume2=swap:/dev/hda6 ec_intr=0 i8042.nomux
ACPI: EC polling mode.
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling.
Found and enabled local APIC!
mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000)
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 65536 bytes)
Detected 2598.201 MHz processor.
Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Memory: 1277348k/1293184k available (1408k kernel code, 15176k reserved, 528k data, 144k init, 113536k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 5203.94 BogoMIPS (lpj=10407897)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux: Disabled at boot.
Capability LSM initialized
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00004400 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00004400 00000000 00000000
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000080 00004400 00000000 00000000
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU0: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available
CPU0: Thermal monitoring enabled
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz stepping 09
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 0c30)
checking if image is initramfs... it is
Freeing initrd memory: 1082k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
ACPI: bus type pci registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd6b4, last bus=2
PCI: Using configuration type 1
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20060127
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
Boot video device is 0000:00:02.0
PCI quirk: region 1000-107f claimed by ICH4 ACPI/GPIO/TCO
PCI quirk: region 1180-11bf claimed by ICH4 GPIO
PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:1f.1
PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
PCI: Bus #03 (-#06) may be hidden behind transparent bridge #02 (-#02) (try 'pci=assign-busses')
PCI: Bus #07 (-#0a) may be hidden behind transparent bridge #02 (-#02) (try 'pci=assign-busses')
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCIB._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 10 11) *5
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs *10 11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 10 11) *4
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 10 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs *10 11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs *10 11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs *10 11)
ACPI: Embedded Controller [EC] (gpe 28) polling mode.
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 11 devices
PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report
pnp: 00:04: ioport range 0x600-0x60f has been reserved
PCI: Ignore bogus resource 6 [0:0] of 0000:00:02.0
PCI: Bus 3, cardbus bridge: 0000:02:04.0
IO window: 00003400-000034ff
IO window: 00003800-000038ff
PREFETCH window: 62000000-63ffffff
MEM window: 64000000-65ffffff
PCI: Bus 7, cardbus bridge: 0000:02:04.1
IO window: 00003c00-00003cff
IO window: 00001400-000014ff
PREFETCH window: 66000000-67ffffff
MEM window: 68000000-69ffffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0
IO window: 3000-3fff
MEM window: e0200000-e02fffff
PREFETCH window: e0500000-e05fffff
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1e.0 to 64
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] enabled at IRQ 10
PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:04.0[A] -> Link [LNKF] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] enabled at IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:04.1[B] -> Link [LNKG] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
Simple Boot Flag at 0x3c set to 0x1
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1155032858.244:1): initialized
highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
Initializing Cryptographic API
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered (default)
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K,PNP0f13:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.6[B] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:1f.6 disabled
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
TCP reno registered
TCP bic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
NET: Registered protocol family 8
NET: Registered protocol family 20
Using IPI Shortcut mode
ACPI wakeup devices:
LID LANC MODM
ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5)
Freeing unused kernel memory: 144k freed
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:1f.1 (0005 -> 0007)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 11
PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ICH4: chipset revision 3
ICH4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1810-0x1817, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1818-0x181f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: FUJITSU MHV2080AT, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R6112, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes supported
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 >
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
agpgart: Detected an Intel 855 Chipset.
agpgart: Detected 16252K stolen memory.
agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xe8000000
pnp: Device 00:07 activated.
parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,EPP,ECP,DMA]
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.3
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 11, io base 0x00001820
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
intelfb: Framebuffer driver for Intel(R) 830M/845G/852GM/855GM/865G/915G/915GM chipsets
intelfb: Version 0.9.2
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
i8xx TCO timer: initialized (0x1060). heartbeat=30 sec (nowayout=0)
hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.1[B] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.1 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 11, io base 0x00001840
usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.2[C] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.2 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 11, io base 0x00001860
usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] enabled at IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.7[D] -> Link [LNKH] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.7 to 64
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: debug port 1
PCI: cache line size of 128 is not supported by device 0000:00:1d.7
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 10, io mem 0xe0100000
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 4-0:1.0: 6 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:02.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
intelfb: 00:02.0: Intel(R) 852GME, aperture size 128MB, stolen memory 16252kB
intelfb: Non-CRT device is enabled ( LVDS port ). Disabling mode switching.
intelfb: Video mode must be programmed at boot time.
shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.5[B] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64
intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 55358 usecs
intel8x0: clocking to 48000
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:04.0[A] -> Link [LNKF] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:02:04.0 [1025:0039]
Yenta: Using CSCINT to route CSC interrupts to PCI
Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
Yenta TI: socket 0000:02:04.0, mfunc 0x00921b22, devctl 0x64
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 5.8, id: 0x9248b1, caps: 0x904713/0x4000
hostap_pci: 0.4.4-kernel (Jouni Malinen <jkmaline@cc.hut.fi>)
input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /class/input/input1
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0038, PCI irq 10
Socket status: 30000006
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge I/O window: 0x3000 - 0x3fff
cs: IO port probe 0x3000-0x3fff: clean.
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0xe0200000 - 0xe02fffff
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0xe0500000 - 0xe05fffff
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:04.1[B] -> Link [LNKG] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:02:04.1 [1025:0039]
Yenta: Using CSCINT to route CSC interrupts to PCI
Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
Yenta TI: socket 0000:02:04.1, mfunc 0x00921b22, devctl 0x64
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0038, PCI irq 10
Socket status: 30000020
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge I/O window: 0x3000 - 0x3fff
cs: IO port probe 0x3000-0x3fff: clean.
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0xe0200000 - 0xe02fffff
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0xe0500000 - 0xe05fffff
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:0a.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0x3000, 00:0a:e4:04:c4:8e, IRQ 11
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8101'
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:05.0[A] -> Link [LNKE] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
hostap_pci: Registered netdevice wifi0
wifi0: Original COR value: 0x0
8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v1.2 (Mar 22, 2004)
prism2_hw_init: initialized in 232 ms
wifi0: NIC: id=0x8022 v1.0.0
wifi0: PRI: id=0x15 v1.1.1
wifi0: STA: id=0x1f v1.8.4
wifi0: Intersil Prism2.5 PCI: mem=0xe0500000, irq=11
wifi0: registered netdevice wlan0
ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output
pccard: CardBus card inserted into slot 1
PCI: Enabling device 0000:07:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:07:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKG] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:07:00.0 to 64
cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x3af: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x3e0-0x4ff: excluding 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x820-0x8ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcf7: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x3af: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x3e0-0x4ff: excluding 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x820-0x8ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcf7: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean.
Adding 1349420k swap on /dev/hda8. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1349420k
EXT3 FS on hda2, internal journal
ACPI: AC Adapter [AC] (on-line)
ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2])
ACPI: Video Device [VGA] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no)
ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRS] (44 C)
ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRC] (42 C)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present)
input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input2
p4-clockmod: P4/Xeon(TM) CPU On-Demand Clock Modulation available
[drm] Initialized drm 1.0.1 20051102
input: Acer hotkey driver as /class/input/input3
Acer Travelmate hotkey driver v0.5.33
Automatic switching of wireless hardware needs polling, enabling it
usbcore: registered new driver usbserial
drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for generic
usbcore: registered new driver usbserial_generic
drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial Driver core
drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for PocketPC PDA
drivers/usb/serial/ipaq.c: USB PocketPC PDA driver v0.5
usbcore: registered new driver ipaq
fuse init (API version 7.6)
device-mapper: 4.5.0-ioctl (2005-10-04) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda3, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended
EXT3 FS on hda5, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda6, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.14 <tigran@veritas.com>
microcode: CPU0 updated from revision 0x17 to 0x2e, date = 08112004
IA-32 Microcode Update Driver v1.14 unregistered
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLP2]
NET: Registered protocol family 10
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:02.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
[drm] Initialized i915 1.4.0 20060119 on minor 0
[drm] Initialized i915 1.4.0 20060119 on minor 1
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
eth0: no IPv6 routers present - Sound:
modprobe snd-intel8x0 - X:
# XF86Config-4 (XFree86 X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the XF86Config-4 manual page.
# (Type "man XF86Config-4" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xfree86 package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xfree86
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following commands as root:
#
# cp /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.custom
# md5sum /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 >/var/lib/xfree86/XF86Config-4.md5sum
# dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86Section "Files"
FontPath "unix/:7100" # local font server
# if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/CID"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts"
EndSectionSection "Module"
Load "bitmap"
Load "dbe"
Load "ddc"
Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
Load "int10"
Load "record"
Load "type1"
Load "vbe"
Load "synaptics"
EndSectionSection "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
Option "XkbLayout" "us,ar"
EndSectionSection "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
# Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
# Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
# Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
# Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "LeftEdge" "1700"
Option "RightEdge" "5300"
Option "TopEdge" "1700"
Option "BottomEdge" "4200"
Option "FingerLow" "25"
Option "FingerHigh" "30"
Option "MaxTapTime" "180"
Option "MaxTapMove" "100" # was 220
Option "VertScrollDelta" "100"
Option "MinSpeed" "0.06"
Option "MaxSpeed" "0.12"
Option "AccelFactor" "0.0010"
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
EndSection# The USB Mouse
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "USB Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
EndSectionSection "Device"
Identifier "Generic Video Card"
Driver "i810"
# Option "BusID" "0000:00:02.1"
#Option "Clone" "true"
##Option "MonitorLayout" "CRT,LFP"
#Option "FlipPrimary" "true"
##Option "DevicePresence" "true"
#Option "Display" "BIOS"
EndSectionSection "Monitor"
Identifier "Generic Monitor"
HorizSync 30-60
VertRefresh 50-75
Option "DPMS"
EndSectionSection "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Generic Video Card"
Monitor "Generic Monitor"
DefaultDepth 16
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSectionSection "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
InputDevice "USB Mouse"
EndSectionSection "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSectionSection "Extensions"
# Option "Composite" "Enable"
# Option "RENDER" "Enable"
# Option "DAMAGE" "true"
EndSection - NIC:
modprobe 8139cp
modprobe 8139tooOne of them works. I'm not sure.
- Modem:
Works fine with Smartlink slmoden. I noticed that keeping the power supply plugged in while dialing might lead to a freeze. I'm yet to verify this. - 3D:
Works fine. - Acpi/Suspend/Resume/Battery:
Battery status works fine. Suspend seems working but it won't power on the monitor when you resume. - IRDA:
Works fine. I can't remember the details as I used it once! - Wireless:
You need acerhkmodprobe acerhk poll=0 autowlan=1The wireless chip is a prism chip. Load hostap.
modprobe hostap_pci - Touchpad:
The synaptics touch pad works. You need evdev loadedmodprobe evdevAnd you need t install the synaptics driver
apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-synapticsI always had problems with that touchpad. It's jumpy and sometimes you find it selecting text randomely while you are moving the mouse cursor. Even worse, It can even click random clicks. Sticky keyboard was a pain. The keyboard eating letters is also a pain especially when you are coding ;-)
I noticed a lot of similar lines in /var/log/messages:
kernel: psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync atUp to 2.6.15, You can pass ec_intr=0 to the kernel and it'll be a bit better it won't resolve it completely. This option doesn't work as expected in 2.6.16 and the situation became worse. Random mouse freeze and you have to switch to a virtual console and then back to X and sometimes the touchpad speed increases and the solution is the same. Switch to a virtual console and then back. I discovered that passing "i8042.nomux" at boot time fixes everything. I'm not sure about the touchpad speed increase issue but I don't care as long as it's working fine.
- Kernel parameters:
lapic ec_intr=0 i8042.nomux
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