Date posted: 12/04/2006Last updated: 12/04/2006See new Page : GentooThank linux-on-laptops for giving me precious informations to find my new laptop;As a feedback , you can see here below the result of my research.. Especially for the photos, I was looking for a good screen, not too large. So 15,4" WSXGA+ 1680x1050 was my choice , I may now confirm , the screen is nice . I tested Wifi , but not all the other hardware devices : bluetooth, firewire, External media controls ..... |
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| Hardware Components | Status Under Linux | Notes |
| Processor 0,Genuine Intel,T2400,1,83Ghz, Processor 1,Genuine Intel,T2400,1,83Ghz | Works | No special procedures required during installation - See note 1 |
| 15.4" UltraSharpTM WSXGA+ (1680x1050) display with TrueLifeTM | Works | See note 2 |
| Intel Media Accelerator 950 Graphics1 | Works | Use vesa XOrg driver. See note 2 |
| 1 GB of shared1 DDR2 SDRAM standard; 2 Dimms 512MB | Works | No special procedures required during installation |
| Sound card Intel I/O controller HHDA | Works | No special procedures required during installation-driver snd-hda-intel |
| 100 GB Hard Drive,Mobile I/O Controller Hub SATA | Works | No special procedures required during installation |
| Integrated Network Card | Works | No special procedures required during installation |
| Internal 56k Modem | ???? | Not tested, No need for me |
| Intel Pro/Wireless 3945 802.11 ABG Mini Card Wireless | Works | See Note 3 |
| 9-cell (80 WHr) "Smart" Lithium Ion battery: | Works | No special procedures required during installation |
| Dell Wireless 350 Bluetooth Internal ?????????????? | ???? | Not tested, No need for me |
This laptop is operating under Kernel version 2.6.12-12mdksmp .
No absolute proof, but with the default setup of the BIOS, the machine freezes totally when I need a lot of CPU ... Very strange!
I suspect the "Intel SpeedStep mode" . Turned OFF in the BIOS and the freeze disappears...
Other test with "Intel SpeedStep mode= ON" and multicore Suppport = OFF, and a generic kernel 12-12mdk (without SMP ), the freeze is the same.
Of course, except in dreams, the installation does not detect the resolution of the screen (1680x1050)
Drakxconf of Mandriva selects "vesa" driver ; the only one which works in Mandriva.
The detected resolution is 1280x1024 and works normally... But a little picture in a large black screen is really horrible !...
There are certainly lots of solutions. The first I find is the very efficient program , for Intel chipset , "915resolution",
and the whole screen is colored , ..... thank the autors.
http://www.geocities.com/stomljen/download.html
Before starting X , I use the command: "./915resolution 5a 1680 1050 32 "
"./915resolution -l " gives us the final status:
Intel 800/900 Series VBIOS Hack : version 0.5.1
Chipset: 945GM
BIOS: TYPE 1
Mode Table Offset: $C0000 + $269
Mode Table Entries: 36
Mode 30 : 640x480, 8 bits/pixel
Mode 32 : 800x600, 8 bits/pixel
Mode 34 : 1024x768, 8 bits/pixel
Mode 38 : 1280x1024, 8 bits/pixel
Mode 3a : 1680x1050, 8 bits/pixel
Mode 3c : 1920x1440, 8 bits/pixel
Mode 41 : 640x480, 16 bits/pixel
Mode 43 : 800x600, 16 bits/pixel
Mode 45 : 1024x768, 16 bits/pixel
Mode 49 : 1280x1024, 16 bits/pixel
Mode 4b : 1680x1050, 16 bits/pixel
Mode 4d : 1920x1440, 16 bits/pixel
Mode 50 : 640x480, 32 bits/pixel
Mode 52 : 800x600, 32 bits/pixel
Mode 54 : 1024x768, 32 bits/pixel
Mode 58 : 1280x1024, 32 bits/pixel
Mode 5a : 1680x1050, 32 bits/pixel ------------modified-------------
Mode 5c : 1920x1440, 32 bits/pixel
I hope that this page will help you . Please send additions and thoughtful comments to jackyvuillemin@free.fr.
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