Friday, March 16, 2007

Laptop Specs and Linux Status

Model: Acer Aspire 9300

Acer Website Specs

I have installed Fedora Core 6, and below are the things I have working so far.

ComponentSpecsWorking In Linux
Screen17" WXGAWorks great at 1440x900@50hz
Video CardnVidia GeForce Go 6100Works by installing nvidia driver rpm from freshrpms repository; had one small problem with Beryl and NVidia combination.
Installing Nvidia Driver
DVD/CDDVD & CD BurnerCD works fine -- burned both CD and DVD from K3b
Touchpad "Scroll wheel" does not work, but the touchpad works fine as a regular mouse.
Camera Not Sure
ModemNot SureHaven't tried to use it
EthernetnVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet ControllerWorks fine
WirelessAtheros AR5005G 802.11abgWorks by installing madwifi rpm from freshrpms repository
AudionVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio Works fine -- had a little hickup with a kernel upgrade. Forced change to Alsa drivers and had to adjust volume for Alsa.
Card ReaderTexas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card ReaderNot Sure; never used it.


lspci listing:
00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2) 00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2) 00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2) 00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2) 00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2) 00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2) 00:00.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2) 00:00.7 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2) 00:02.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1) 00:03.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1) 00:04.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1) 00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a2) 00:09.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Host Bridge (rev a2) 00:0a.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 LPC Bridge (rev a3) 00:0a.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP51 SMBus (rev a3) 00:0a.3 Co-processor: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PMU (rev a3) 00:0b.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3) 00:0b.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3) 00:0d.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 IDE (rev f1) 00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PCI Bridge (rev a2) 00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev a2) 00:14.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller (rev a3) 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control 04:05.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5005G 802.11abg NIC (rev 01) 04:06.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Cardbus Controller 04:06.2 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD)

smoltSendProfile

We are about to send the following information to the Fedora Smolt server: UUID: 727afa5c-bf79-46ea-a530-a1ccd4b6dca3 OS: Fedora Core release 6 (Zod) defaultRunlevel: 5 language: en_US.UTF-8 platform: x86_64 bogomips: 1608.26 CPUVendor: AuthenticAMD CPUModel: AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-50 numCPUs: 2 CPUSpeed: 1600 systemMemory: 873 systemSwap: 1759 vendor: Acer system: Aspire 9300 0100 formfactor: laptop kernel: 2.6.19-1.2911.fc6 Devices ================================= (4318:760:4133:274) pci, Unknown, OTHER, C51 Memory Controller 5 (4318:761:4133:274) pci, Unknown, OTHER, C51 Memory Controller 4 (4318:583:4133:274) pci, nvidia, VIDEO, C51 PCI Express Bridge (4318:755:4133:274) pci, Unknown, OTHER, C51 Host Bridge (4318:639:4133:274) pci, Unknown, OTHER, C51 Memory Controller 3 (1204:32897:None:None) usb, usbhid, OTHER, USB HID Interface (1204:32897:None:None) usb, usbhid, OTHER, USB HID Interface (None:None:None:None) input, Unknown, None, PC Speaker (None:None:None:None) usb_device, Unknown, None, USB Raw Device Access (None:None:None:None) ide, ide-cdrom, None, IDE device (master) (None:None:None:None) ide, ide-disk, None, IDE device (master) (4318:625:4133:274) pci, Unknown, OTHER, MCP51 PMU (4318:624:4133:274) pci, Unknown, OTHER, MCP51 Host Bridge (4318:762:4133:274) pci, Unknown, OTHER, C51 Memory Controller 0 (4318:763:0:0) pci, pcieport-driver, OTHER, C51 PCI Express Bridge (4318:764:0:0) pci, pcieport-driver, OTHER, C51 PCI Express Bridge (4318:765:0:0) pci, pcieport-driver, OTHER, C51 PCI Express Bridge (4318:766:4133:274) pci, Unknown, OTHER, C51 Memory Controller 1 (4318:767:4133:274) pci, Unknown, OTHER, C51 Host Bridge (None:None:None:None) net, Unknown, NETWORK, Networking Interface (None:None:None:None) serio, Unknown, None, i8042 AUX0 port (4318:638:4133:274) pci, Unknown, OTHER, C51 Memory Controller 2 (None:None:None:None) platform, Unknown, None, Platform Device (bluetooth) (4172:32827:4133:274) pci, tifm_7xx1, OTHER, 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD) (None:None:None:None) pnp, i8042 aux, None, PnP Device (SYN0302) (None:None:None:None) input, Unknown, None, Cypress PS/2 to USB Adapter (4318:617:4133:274) pci, forcedeth, OTHER, MCP51 Ethernet Controller (4318:608:4133:274) pci, Unknown, OTHER, MCP51 LPC Bridge (4318:612:4133:274) pci, nForce2_smbus, OTHER, MCP51 SMBus (4318:613:4133:274) pci, AMD_IDE, IDE, MCP51 IDE (1026:22018:None:None) usb, Unknown, OTHER, USB Vendor Specific Interface (None:None:None:None) input, Unknown, None, SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad (None:None:None:None) usb_device, Unknown, None, USB Raw Device Access (4172:32825:4133:274) pci, yenta_cardbus, SOCKET, PCIxx12 Cardbus Controller (4318:620:4133:274) pci, HDA Intel, OTHER, MCP51 High Definition Audio (4318:621:4133:274) pci, ohci_hcd, USB, MCP51 USB Controller (4318:622:4133:274) pci, ehci_hcd, USB, MCP51 USB Controller (4318:623:0:0) pci, Unknown, OTHER, MCP51 PCI Bridge (None:None:None:None) platform, i8042, None, Platform Device (i8042) (None:None:None:None) platform, pcspkr, None, Platform Device (pcspkr) (None:None:None:None) usb_device, Unknown, None, USB Raw Device Access (None:None:None:None) usb_device, Unknown, None, USB Raw Device Access (None:None:None:None) net, Unknown, NETWORK, Networking Wireless Control Interface (None:None:None:None) serio, Unknown, None, i8042 AUX1 port (4130:4352:0:0) pci, Unknown, OTHER, K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration (4130:4353:0:0) pci, Unknown, OTHER, K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map (4130:4354:0:0) pci, k8_edac, OTHER, K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller (4130:4355:0:0) pci, k8temp, OTHER, K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control (None:None:None:None) input, Unknown, None, Cypress PS/2 to USB Adapter (None:None:None:None) net, Unknown, NETWORK, WLAN Interface (None:None:None:None) serio, Unknown, None, i8042 AUX2 port (None:None:None:None) pnp, i8042 kbd, None, IBM Enhanced (101/102-key, PS/2 mouse support) (None:None:None:None) serio, psmouse, None, i8042 AUX3 port (None:None:None:None) serio, atkbd, None, i8042 KBD port (None:None:None:None) input, Unknown, KEYBOARD, AT Translated Set 2 keyboard (None:None:None:None) platform, Unknown, None, Platform Device (vesafb.0) (None:None:None:None) platform, serial8250, None, Platform Device (serial8250) (5772:26:5224:1048) pci, ath_pci, OTHER, AR5005G 802.11abg NIC Send this information to the Smolt server? (y/n)