Debian GNU/Linux on Maxdata PRO IW 600
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Intro
This is a really good “business” notebook, and ships customized: mine has e.g. Italian keyboard and no bundled operating system but preinstalled Caldera DR-DOS.
Specifications
cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 15 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7200 @ 2.00GHz stepping : 6 cpu MHz : 1000.000 cache size : 4096 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 0 cpu cores : 2 fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 10 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm bogomips : 3996.87 processor : 1 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 15 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7200 @ 2.00GHz stepping : 6 cpu MHz : 1000.000 cache size : 4096 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 1 cpu cores : 2 fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 10 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm bogomips : 3991.89
lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02) 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 02) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 02) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 02) 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 02) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02) 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) Serial ATA Storage Controller IDE (rev 02) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02) 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02) 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8055 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 11) 07:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Cardbus Controller 07:01.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCIxx12 OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller 07:01.2 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD) 07:01.3 Generic system peripheral [0805]: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 SDA Standard Compliant SD Host Controller
lspcmcia
Socket 0 Bridge: [yenta_cardbus] (bus ID: 0000:07:01.0)
free -m
total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 1003 967 35 0 23 276 -/+ buffers/cache: 668 334 Swap: 2863 0 2863
What does work
| Item | Works | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Video | OK | Good 2d and 3d acceleration. I should verify some issues under certain conditions. |
| Video out | ? | I must check. |
| Audio | OK | |
| HDD SATA | OK | ~ 90 MB/s ? |
| DVD+/-RW | OK | |
| USB | OK | |
| Card reader | ? | I must check. |
| Ethernet | OK | |
| Wi-Fi | OK | |
| Bluetooth | N.A. | Not available with my configuration. |
| Firewire | ? | I haven't tried it. |
| Touchpad | OK | Vertical scrolling works too, no idea about horizontal scrolling. |
| “Multimedia” keys | OK | lineakd (to be described!) |
| Frequency scaling | OK | |
| Suspend to RAM | OK | |
| Suspend to disk | OK |
Installation
I booted from a Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch) RC1 “netinstall” CD (see the Debian installer homepage), architecture amd64, using the “expertgui” parameter.
I choosed to create an encrypted LVM partition using guided partitioning. This may take some time, but is straightforward and works fine. I didn't left DR-DOS on the disk.
non-free (and contrib) repository must be included by selection.
fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 31 248976 83 Linux /dev/sda2 32 9729 77899185 5 Extended /dev/sda5 32 9729 77899153+ 83 Linux
lvs
LV VG Attr LSize Origin Snap% Move Log Copy% home patroclo -wi-ao 64,82G root patroclo -wi-ao 6,68G swap_1 patroclo -wi-ao 2,80G
Configuration
Video card
(Possibly unnecessary) Run as root
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
and select “i810” as the video driver. It seems to be a safe choice to leave defaults for all other options.
Then run
aptitude install 915resolution
and edit /etc/default/915resolution as follows:
# # 915resolution default # # find free modes by /usr/sbin/915resolution -l # and set it to MODE or set to 'MODE=auto' # # With 'auto' detection, the panel-size will be fetched from the VBE # BIOS if possible and the highest-numbered mode in each bit-depth # will be overwritten with the detected panel-size. MODE=5c # # and set resolutions for the mode. # e.g. use XRESO=1024 and YRESO=768 XRESO=1280 YRESO=800 # # We can also set the pixel mode. # e.g. use BIT=32 # Please note that this is optional, # you can also leave this value blank. BIT=
Resolution will change after reboot or restarting X.org.
Enabling AIGLX: In order to enable AIGLX, I've edited /etc/X11/xorg.conf as follows:
under the “Device” section:
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
under the “ServerLayout” section:
Option "AIGLX" "true"
and finally one new section:
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
Option "RENDER" "true"
Option "DAMAGE" "true"
EndSection
(This just works very well, e.g. with Beryl, although I cannot say those are the best options)
Wi-Fi
Run as root
aptitude install firmware-ipw3945 ipw3945-modules-2.6-686 ipw3945d
Turn off the radio kill switch, which is in practice the fifth key on the left top of the keyboard, (the related led on the right button must be enlightened).
Frequency scaling
I'm using powersaved with its front-end for KDE (kpowersave) and it seems to behave well, but cpufreqd and perhaps powernowd and cpudyn should do the same.
Touchpad
Synaptics touchpad may be configured through several graphical tools, provided that the following line is added in the corresponding InputDevice section in /etc/X11/Xorg.conf.
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
Card reader
Working out of the box. 