WinXp
Ubuntu Dapper Drake - 6.06 LTS
Acer 1642 ZWLMi Notebook
Became my principal computer since August 2006, running Ubuntu Dapper Drake 6.06 LTS
- Processor
- Pentium M "Dothan" 735A@1.7GHz with 400Mhz FSB
- Memory
- 1GB DDR2-DRAM @533MHz
- Graphics Card
- Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900 with 128MB dedicated video memory
- Screen
- 15.4'' LCD at 1200x800 resolution
- CD-DVD
- Matshita Combo drive, DVD R+/-W
- Hard-drive
- 80GB
Operating Systems, in chronological order:
15 minutes - to see that everything works fine
ever since
What works on this laptop under Dapper 6.06 LTS:
CPU Freq Scaling
Touchpad
Ethernet
X11 - 3D acceleration
Dual - Monitor Display
PCMCIA slot
Audio
USB
Modem
Special Keys: Fn + ???
Suspend to RAM
Wifi
Ok
Ok
Ok
Ok
Ok - same or different resolution on the two screens
Not tested
Ok
Ok - only in USB1.1 mode!:(
Never tried
Ok
Ok
Should work, had no chance to test it yet
Getting things to work
It was not easy make practically everything work under Ubuntu. Installing drivers from source code, configuring and recompiling the kernel was a must, the hours spent searching forums with Google I'd rather not count:)
I'll be honest: if you are completely new to Linux, getting the machine fully functional will be difficult, be ready to learn a lot. Beleive me, it will be worth it!
now onto some serious business! Below you'll find some information that might help you how to get things working - I'll try to expand this with more in-depth descriptions, please be patient.
- CPU Freq Scaling
- None
- Touchpad
- None
- Ethernet
- None
- X11 3D acceleration
- I compiled the i915 driver as a kernel module and load it at each startup, by putting ''i915'' into /etc/modules
- Dual - Monitor Display
- Got it working after some Google Search, I have separate Xorg.conf files for this use - have to restart X-Server
- PCMCIA slot
- None
- Audio
- Don't compile any ALSA modules into the kernel! Just ALSA support, then download and install the latest ALSA driver. It works with out-of-the-box though with theUbuntu Edgy Eft live CD!
- USB
- Had to blacklist the ehci-hcd module otherwise no USB2 devices work (put 'blacklist ehci_hcd' into /etc/modules.d/blacklist). If EHCI-HCD is compiled into your kernel, well, then recompile it...Edgy Eft Live CD still has the same problem.
- Modem
- Probably will never try...
- Special Keys: Fn + ???
- None
- Suspend to RAM
- None
- Wifi
- No Intel Firmware or driver enabled in kernel config, both firmware and module source code was downloaded from the net
Some useful information (download links!)
- Kernel configuration file
- You can download it from here
- XServer Config File
- For single monitor output (the LCD screen): xorg.conf
- For Dual Monitor output, with different resolutions on the external monitor and the LCD: Xorg.conf.dual
- Lspci command output
- lspci.txt
