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Hardware

New Hardware list updated, as of 12-10-2011

Computer

• Processor 2x Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P7350 @ 2.00GHz Memory 3095MB (908MB used) Operating System Debian GNU/Linux 5.0

Display

• Resolution 1440x900 pixels

  OpenGL Renderer ?GeForce 9600M GT/PCI/SSE2 X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation

Multimedia

• Audio Adapter HDA-Intel - HDA Intel

Input Devices

• Macintosh mouse button emulation AT Translated Set 2 keyboard Power Button (FF) Power Button (CM) Lid Switch Sleep Button (CM) Video Bus Video Bus PC Speaker HP Webcam

  SynPS/2 Synaptics ?TouchPad PIXART USB OPTICAL MOUSE

Printers

• HP Deskjet 5550

IDE Disks

SCSI Disks

product: WDC WD3200BEVT-6 vendor: Western Digital bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0 logical name: /dev/sda version: 12.0 serial: WD-WXE708FS6840 size: 298GiB (320GB)

product: INTEL SSDSA2CW16 bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0 logical name: /dev/sdb version: 4PC1 serial: CVPR1110042N160DGN size: 149GiB (160GB)

product: DVDRAM GSA-T50L vendor: HL-DT-ST bus info: scsi@4:0.0.0 logical name: /dev/cdrom logical name: /dev/cdrw logical name: /dev/dvd logical name: /dev/dvdrw logical name: /dev/scd0 logical name: /dev/sr0 version: SC04 capabilities: support is removable, Audio CD playback, CD-R burning, CD-RW burning, DVD playback, DVD-R burning, DVD-RAM burning

• mounting the SSD Disk:
  • /dev/sdb1 on / type ext4 (rw,discard,errors=remount-ro,user_xattr,commit=0)

Operating System

• Kubuntu

Version

• Kernel Linux 3.12.0-031200rc7-generic #201310271935 (x86_64) Compiled #1 Sun Oct 27 23:37:06 UTC 2013 C Library GNU C Library version 2.7 (stable) Distribution Kubuntu (KDE 4.12.0) Debian GNU/Linux 5.0

lspci:

• 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07)
• 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Graphics Port (rev 07)
• 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
• 00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
• 00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
• 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
• 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
• 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
• 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
• 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
• 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03)
• 00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 03)
• 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
• 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
• 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
• 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03)
• 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
• 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93)
• 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
• 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)
• 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)

• 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G96 [?GeForce 9600M GT] (rev a1)

• 02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01)
• 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)

• 06:00.0 ?FireWire (IEEE 1394): JMicron Technology Corp. IEEE 1394 Host Controller

• 06:00.1 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. SD/MMC Host Controller
• 06:00.2 SD Host controller: JMicron Technology Corp. Standard SD Host Controller
• 06:00.3 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. MS Host Controller
• 06:00.4 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. xD Host Controller

lsusb:

• Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
• Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
• Bus 006 Device 004: ID 0458:7004 KYE Systems Corp. (Mouse Systems) VideoCAM Express V2
• Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
• Bus 005 Device 014: ID 056a:00d1 Wacom Co., Ltd
• Bus 005 Device 012: ID 04d9:0499 Holtek Semiconductor, Inc. Optical Mouse
• Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
• Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

• Bus 003 Device 003: ID 138a:0001 ?DigitalPersona, Inc Fingeprint Reader

• Bus 003 Device 002: ID 03f0:171d Hewlett-Packard Wireless (Bluetooth + WLAN) Interface [Integrated Module]
• Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
• Bus 002 Device 020: ID 0b05:4e1f ASUSTek Computer, Inc.
• Bus 002 Device 004: ID 090c:c371 Feiya Technology Corp.
• Bus 002 Device 001: ID 04a9:318d Canon, Inc.
• Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

lspnp:

00:00 PNP0a08 (unknown)

• state = active
  • io 0xcf8-0xcff

00:01 PNP0c02 Motherboard resources

• state = active
  • io 0x2e-0x2f io 0x4e-0x4f io 0x164e-0x164f io 0x61-0x61 io 0x68-0x68 io 0x6c-0x6c io 0x70-0x70 io 0x80-0x80 io 0x92-0x92 io 0xb2-0xb3 io 0x63-0x63 io 0x65-0x65 io 0x67-0x67 io 0x600-0x60f io 0x610-0x610 io 0x800-0x80f io 0x810-0x817 io 0x820-0x823 io 0x400-0x47f io 0x500-0x53f mem 0xf8000000-0xfbffffff mem 0xfed1c000-0xfed1ffff mem 0xfed10000-0xfed13fff mem 0xfed18000-0xfed18fff mem 0xfed19000-0xfed19fff mem 0xfec00000-0xfec00fff mem 0xfed20000-0xfed8ffff mem 0xfee00000-0xfee00fff

00:02 PNP0200 AT DMA controller

• state = active
  • io 0x0-0x1f io 0x81-0x91 io 0x93-0x9f io 0xc0-0xdf dma 4

00:03 PNP0b00 AT real-time clock

• state = active
  • io 0x70-0x77

00:04 PNP0103 High-Precision Event Timer

• state = active
  • mem 0xfed00000-0xfed003ff irq 8

00:05 PNP0c04 Math coprocessor

• state = active
  • io 0xf0-0xf0 irq 13

00:06 INT0800 (unknown)

• state = active
  • mem 0xff800000-0xffffffff

00:07 PNP0303 IBM enhanced keyboard (101/102-key, PS/2 mouse support)

• state = active
  • io 0x60-0x60 io 0x64-0x64 irq 1

00:08 SYN0156 (unknown)

• state = active
  • irq 12

00:09 HPQ0004 (unknown)

• state = active
  • irq 23

00:0a ENE0100 (unknown)

• state = active
  • io 0xfd60-0xfd63 irq 4

Status report

i installed Sid AMD64 using netinstall in parallel to ms(tm) vista (that came with the laptop)

• (resized the ntfs partition with gparted before the install using SystemRescueCD livecd)

xorg's nv works fine BUT to get full 3D with latest KDE 4.4.5 i used Nvidia's latest proprietary drivers which works just fine !!!

to get the wireless i had to use Broadcom's proprietary wl kernel module (compiled from sources)

HP Webcam (Feiya) seems to work out of the box with Flash Player 10 64bit beta and Ekiga 2 (after installing v4l2 : libpt2.4.2-plugin-v4l2)

Recently (11-2010), i got a Wacom Bamboo (CTH-460)

 dmesg:
 usb 8-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
 usb 8-1: New USB device found, idVendor=056a, idProduct=00d1
 usb 8-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
 usb 8-1: Product: CTH-460
 usb 8-1: Manufacturer: Wacom Co.,Ltd.
 input: Wacom BambooFun 2FG 4x5 Pen as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.3/usb8/8-1/8-1:1.0/input/input43
 input: Wacom BambooFun 2FG 4x5 Finger as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.3/usb8/8-1/8-1:1.1/input/input44

Since the current wacom.ko that comes with kernel 2.6.36 (trunk) does not support CTH-460 (056a:00d1) module, i had to compile it from sources: linuxwacom and "fix" the linuxwacom-0.8.8-10/src/2.6.30/wacom_wac.c (comment out lines: 205-211 , 846-852) for it to compile.

also, download and compile from sources the xf86-input-wacom driver which is the wacom-specific X11 input driver for the X.Org X Server version 1.7 and later (i use 1.9.2). setup xorg.conf. restart X... awesome

some configuration files excerpts

xorg's xorg.conf (nvidia section):

Section "Device"

Identifier "Device0" 
Driver "nvidia" 
VendorName  "NVIDIA Corporation"
BusID   "PCI:1:0:0"

# compiz(fusion) recommands for nvidia
 Option "RenderAccel" "True"
 Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals"  "True"
 Option "DamageEvents" "True"
 Option "UseEvents" "False"
 Option "TripleBuffer" "True"
 Option "BackingStore" "True"
 Option "NoLogo" "True"
#http://userbase.kde.org/GPU-Performance#NVIDIA
 Option "UseCompositeWrapper" "True"
 Option "AllowIndirectPixmaps" "True"
 Option "PixmapCacheRoundSizeKB" "2000"
 Option "OnDemandVBlankInterrupts" "True"
EndSection

and have this command issue on system startup too:

nvidia-settings -a InitialPixmapPlacement=2 -a GlyphCache=1 

to enable some multimedia keys:

xmodmap -e "keycode 115 = Meta_L"
xmodmap -e "keycode 174 = XF86AudioLowerVolume"
xmodmap -e "keycode 176 = XF86AudioRaiseVolume"
xmodmap -e "keycode 160 = XF86AudioMute"

not working (update! Working!)

Update: (11-2010) After upgrading the kernel to 2.6.36 and xorg to 1.9.2 and probably some other elements (udev maybe?)... I got the irda remote to work without any configurations. here are the lines from xorg.log file:

 (II) config/udev: Adding input device ENE eHome Infrared Remote Receiver (/dev/input/event9)
 (**) ENE eHome Infrared Remote Receiver: Applying InputClass "evdev keyboard catchall"
 (**) ENE eHome Infrared Remote Receiver: always reports core events
 (**) ENE eHome Infrared Remote Receiver: Device: "/dev/input/event9"
 (--) ENE eHome Infrared Remote Receiver: Found keys
 (II) ENE eHome Infrared Remote Receiver: Configuring as keyboard
 (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "ENE eHome Infrared Remote Receiver" (type: KEYBOARD)

I am keeping the following lines in case some one search for this info on google.

irda is not working and i acctually have no idea how to make it work too. i read allot of wep pages and tried several kernel drivers but nothing. similar modules of hd pavilion report success with other irda devices i guess it is in reach, but since i do not use it daily... i let it go (for now)

this is what i get out of lspnp:

00:0a ENE0100 (unknown)
    state = active
        io 0xfd60-0xfd63
        irq 4

it has the following ids on the back of the remote:

rc1762307/01
3139 228 53391
hp sps : 464793-001
hp: hstnn-pro7
RC6 (ir)
cp11 50837 c149809 rev b

to be continued (really!)