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DebianOn is an effort to document how to install, configure and use Debian on some specific hardware. Therefore potential buyers would know if that hardware is supported and owners would know how get the best out of that hardware.

The purpose is not to duplicate the Debian Official Documentation, but to document how to install Debian on some specific hardware.

If you need help to get Debian running on your hardware, please have a look at our user support channels where you may find specific channels (mailing list, IRC channel) dedicated to certain types of hardware.

Models covered
Lenovo G40-80

This laptop is listed on the Lenovo website as an entry-level laptop. It has an intel HD 5500 broadwell integrated graphics card, intel i3 processor, 14" HD screen, qualcomm wireless card, bluetooth, 1tb toshiba HDD, and 4gb of ram.

Overall Status

Core Components

[ATTACH]

Boot Standard Kernel:

{OK}

LAN network card:

{OK}

Detect CD/DVD:

{OK}

Detect hard drives:

{OK}

Extra Features

CPU Frequency Scaling

[?]

Hibernation

[?]

Sleep / Suspend

{OK}

Xorg

{i}

- OpenGL

{i}

- Resize-and-Rotate(randr)

{i}

Switch to External Screen

{i}

Mouse

- Built-in (Trackpoint)

[-]

- Built-in (Touchpad)

{OK}

Modem

{OK}

Wireless/Wifi

X-(

Keyboard's Hotkeys

{OK}

Legend :
{OK} = OK ; {X} Unsupported(No Driver) ; /!\ = Error (Couldn't get it working); [?] Unknown, Not Test ; [-] Not-applicable
{i} = Configuration Required; X-( = Only works with a non-free driver and or firmware

Important Note

This laptop comes with UEFI and secure boot, so you need to perform some additional things to even get the laptop to boot via USB. First of all, disable the fast startup option so Windows can properly shutdown, otherwise you might lose data. Also, you need to click the restart option while pressing shift so you can access the advanced configurations and perform an advanced restart. Then you select the EFI USB option and you will be able to go to the installer. If the installer boots ok and detects your hardware accordingly, you are good to go.

Dual-boot is a bit of a hassle to set up, but single-booting Debian works OK.

Myself, I did not have to disable secure boot or use UEFI on legacy mode or any of that to install Debian, but notice that the live-usb/live-cd does not actually work unless you change the boot parameters to make UEFI work on Legacy note. Also, make sure you set up a /boot/efi partition to make it work.

This page explains UEFI better: https://wiki.debian.org/UEFI

Configuration

Display

This laptop comes with the Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Integrated Graphics HD 5500. Debian will work, but you won't be able to get the full experience with the version of xorg that is being shipped with the default stable installation. To get it to work 100%, you need to add the backports repository (as explained on http://backports.debian.org/Instructions/ ), and update the xserver-xorg-video-intel package to the latest version with: apt-get install -t jessie-backports xserver-xorg-video-intel, so you can get it to work properly.

Audio

Mouse

Power Management

WiFi

You need to add the contrib and non-free repositories on your /etc/apt/sources.list Then, install the firmware-realtek and firmware-atheros packages, then you will be able to use the full wireless stack, plus the bluetooth that does not actually work without the non-free driver.

Modem


System Summary

lspci

{{{00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Host Bridge -OPI [8086:1604] (rev 09)

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Integrated Graphics [8086:1616] (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])

00:03.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Audio Controller [8086:160c] (rev 09)

00:14.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP USB xHCI Controller [8086:9cb1] (rev 03) (prog-if 30 [XHCI])

00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP MEI Controller #1 [8086:9cba] (rev 03)

00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP High Definition Audio Controller [8086:9ca0] (rev 03)

00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #1 [8086:9c90] (rev e3) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])

00:1c.2 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #3 [8086:9c94] (rev e3) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])

00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #4 [8086:9c96] (rev e3) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])

00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP LPC Controller [8086:9cc5] (rev 03)

00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP SATA Controller [AHCI Mode] [8086:9c83] (rev 03) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])

00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP SMBus Controller [8086:9ca2] (rev 03)

02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [10ec:8168] (rev 10)

03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 / AR9565 Wireless Network Adapter [168c:0036] (rev 01)

}}}

lsusb

{{{Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub

Bus 001 Device 006: ID 0cf3:3004 Atheros Communications, Inc.

Bus 001 Device 004: ID 5986:0652 Acer, Inc

Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:0129 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTS5129 Card Reader Controller

Bus 001 Device 007: ID 0458:003a KYE Systems Corp. (Mouse Systems) ?NetScroll+ Mini Traveler / Genius ?NetScroll 120

Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

}}} USB Host controllers entries (without OHCI, UHCI, EHCI) are removed too.

Resources

Attachments

Some configuration files and sample outputs.

Credits

GustavoRodrigues

CategoryLaptopComputer