[vox-tech] Fwd: Re: Debian Sid amd64 on a Compaq v2310us (status report)

[Alex Mandel]

I actaully just did an Ubuntu install on a Dell 1100 with a PCMIA Belkin 
  Wifi G card(Broadcom chip). Now I haven't gotten it working yet(I'll 
post on my problem later) but I found drivers for linux that are said to 
work
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Rt2500WirelessCardsHowTo

and drivers are available at
http://ralink.rapla.net/
and
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/rt2400/


Alex

Bill Kendrick wrote:
> 
> It appears Lennart is not subscribe to vox-tech, or posted from an alternate
> address.  I'm taking the liberty of posting this for them...
> 
> 
> Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 08:43:30 -0400
> From: lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)
> Subject: Re: Debian Sid amd64 on a Compaq v2310us (status report)
> To: Ken Bloom <kbloom at gmail.com>
> Cc: debian-amd64 at lists.debian.org, vox-tech at lists.lugod.org
> 
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 08:50:07PM -0500, Ken Bloom wrote:
> 
>>Display:    14.0" WXGA High-Definition BrightView Widescreen (1280 x
>>768) display
> 
> 
> Hmm, interesting.  That is 15:9 ratio.  Most I have seen were the 15.4"
> WXGA which are 1280x800 (16:10 ratio).
> 
> 
>>Wireless connectivity:    54g Integrated 802.11b/g wireless LAN with
>>25HSM/SpeedBooster support (based on a Broadcom chipset)
> 
> 
> Yeah broadcom needs ndiswrapper.
> 
> 
>>Digital media:    6-in-1 integrated Digital Media Reader for Secure
>>Digital cards, MultiMediaCard, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro,
>>SmartMedia or xD-Picture Cards (Texas Instruments)
> 
> 
> Most I have seen are a TI pci device, and have no support in linux (and
> probably never will).  They also work very badly in windows (the one my
> wife has can't work with cards over 512M in size making it completely
> useless.)
> 
> 
>>External ports:    3 Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0, 1 notebook
>>expansion port, 1 IEEE 1394 (FireWire)
> 
> 
> At least those ports are standard and should just work.
> 
> 
>>Communications:    Integrated 10/100Base-T Ethernet LAN (RJ-45
>>connector), high speed 56K modem (RJ-11 connector)
> 
> 
> Ethernet should usually work fine, modem is probably going to be a pain
> if possible at all.
> 
> 
>>Dimensions:    13.15" (L) x 9.1" (W) x 1.29" (H) (min) or 1.53" (H) (max)
>>Weight:    5.38 lb.
>>Sound:    Altec Lansing
>>
>>*** Debian Install ***
>>I installed Debian Sarge, using a netinstall CD over wired ethernet. The
>>install used Kernel 2.6.8 as the install kernel. As DMA for the ATI
>>chipset is not supported until kernel 2.6.11, I had another working
>>computer download kernel 2.6.12 from Debian sid amd64, so that I could
>>scp it over and install it as soon as possible after the initial install
>>is done.
> 
> 
> ATI support is rather flacky in linux still, although by 2.6.12 at least
> some stuff is starting to work.
> 
> 
>>After installing the 2.6.12 kernel, I upgraded to Debian Sid, and
>>installed my favorite packages.
>>
>>*** Video ***
>>You can use the ATI driver, or the non-free fglrx driver.
>>
>>The ATI driver is unaccelerated, but supports suspend/resume.
>>
>>The fglrx driver is accelerated, but does not support suspend/resume.
>>
>>I chose the former. To specify that you want unaccelerated video, you
>>must use the option
>>        Option          "noaccel"
>>in Section "Device".
>>Becuase my cursor looked ugly after that, I also used
>>        Option          "swcursor"
>>You may be able to get away without swcursor. Try it. The worst that can
>>happen is aesthetic problems.
>>
>>My xorg.conf is attached.
>>
>>For some reason, I can't use the scroll stuff, and can't get the
>>typing-disables-trackpad behavior. I could probably reconfigure that,
>>but I would have to use
>>	Option "shmconfig" "on"
>>in the Section "InputDevice" corresponding to the synaptics touchpad.
>>When I turned that on, things started to crash, so I turned it off. I
>>might have even had that working on Debian and lost it in a
>>dist-upgrade. I'm not sure.
>>
>>If you have a solution, let me know.
> 
> 
> Typing disabling the touchpad would be a nice feature.  The one I have
> set up does however have an on/off switch above the touchpad so it's not
> a big deal.
> 
> Len Sorensen
> 
> 
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