Friday, October 5, 2007, 12:13 PM
This site is obsolete because I have installed a new Debian on this Laptop two month ago and had no problems - everything (I need) works fine. [2012-02-14]
This site may be a little bit confused.
I've written down the steps of one of the debianinstalls on my laptop.
Now i have done a new one and the changes I made are marked with '--- V2 ---'.
I installed debian etch via netinstal and made an dist-upgrade to sid.
--- V2 ---
I installed the testing version of debian (lenny) and don't upgraded to sid.
Then i fetched the firmware (the driver has been instaled for default in etch) for the wireless lan card from ipw2100 an copied in the directory given in the documentation (/usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/ or /lib/firmware/ )and in the documentation are some important options for kernel compiling.
--- V2 ---
Same procedure
I compiled a kernel with help of debian-administrators and the options of the following intel article.
Really good article about Centrino Speedstep technology.
http://www.intel.com/cd/ids/developer/a ... .htm?prn=Y
Path where you can read and set the cpu-settings: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq
--- V2 ---
I don't build an own Kernel I use the standard kernel which was installed with the system.
All the powersave features worked out of the box.
Now I installed powersaved and kpowersave.
Meanwhile I don't use kpowersave so I don't have to install all the KDE things. I installed powersaved use the gnome Battery-Icon in the Panel to do things like suspend to disk or ram.
An advantage of the gnome applet is the better gnomeintegration. It is easy to configure gnome for example to suspend when you are closing the display.
With aptitude install cupsys my Kyocera mita FS-1000+ works fine.
--- V2 ---
Not tried until now.
So far it's an pretty good linux (almost) out of the box.
the SD-card-reader
Here I found an interresting homepage: Winbond-howto
With
modprobe wbsd
modprobe mmc-block
it works
--- V2 ---
Don't tested yet.
bluetooth (I don't testet it yet, perhaps it works already)
It works. But when I tried to compile the gnome bluetooth tool it wont work at all. (It's not available as an debian-package)
--- V2 ---
Don't tested yet.
Things I'd like to work:
clone or enlarge the display (I've read this is possible with the X.org radeon driver or with an driver from ati)
The driver from ati wont work at my machine.
3D-acceleration
IrDA
special buttons (like suspend)
--- V2 ---
The three Buttons for Mute / Volumecontrol are working now out of the box.
