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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.

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Models covered
COMMERCIAL NAME

Sub-models (LIST OF MODEL REFERENCE NUMBER) options :
- Video card (ATI radeon)
- Screen size: 11"
- Wireless card: RTL8191SE V2 or Intel wireless
- HDD: 160 GB baseline, upgrade to 250 GB; RAM 1 GB minimum to 4 GB from Lenovo, upgrade to 8 GB possible
- Standard USB webcam; bluetooth option

Overall Status

Core Components

[ATTACH]

Boot Standard Kernel:

{OK}

LAN network card:

[?]

Detect CD/DVD:

[-]

Detect hard drives:

{OK}

Extra Features

CPU Frequency Scaling

[?]

Hibernation

[?]

Sleep / Suspend

[?]

Xorg

{OK}

- OpenGL

X-(

- Resize-and-Rotate(randr)

[?]

Switch to External Screen

[?]

Mouse

- Built-in (Trackpoint)

{OK}

- Built-in (Touchpad)

{OK}

Modem

[-]

Wireless/Wifi

X-(

Keyboard's Hotkeys

[?]

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

none

Configuration

Display

ATI Mobility Radeon 3200. Under other distros, the default FOSS drivers cause freezes; NOT TESTED under Debian. VESA is functional and solid under Debian. Acceleration may work with the radeon driver or with Gallium3d; I installed fglrx and ran aticonfig --initial

Radeonfb should NOT be used for running frame-buffer applications (links2 with svgalib): it works, but the display is corrupted afterwards.

Audio

Azalia audio. Not tested under Debian, but probably works (no tweaking needed under Lubuntu...) UPDATE: Sound doesn't work with stock ALSA; alternatives are installing a newer ALSA or installing oss4-dkms (the simple route) Note that if you use OSS4, you will need to change the default input device for recording

I have not tried a newer ALSA.

Mouse

I used gpm, repeating in 'raw' mode; needs some configuration for scrolling:

xinput set-int-prop 'TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint' 'Evdev Wheel Emulation' 8 1
xinput set-int-prop 'TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint' 'Evdev Wheel Emulation Button' 8 2
xinput set-int-prop 'TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint' 'Evdev Wheel Emulation Timeout' 8 200
xinput set-int-prop 'TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint' 'Evdev Wheel Emulation Axes' 8 6 7 4 5

Power Management

WiFi

The "Thinkpad bgn" wireless option is an RTL8191SE V2 wireless chip, unsupported by any in-kernel drivers (tested with wireless-testing, git from Dec. 19). It does function, after a manner, with Realtek's out-of-tree driver (r8192se_pci). This driver is GPL, but includes non-free binary firmware. Some tweaking is necessary to get beyond dhcp; loading with the hwwep=0 parameter (modprobe -r r8192se_pci; modprobe r8192se_pci hwwep=0) may help get WEP working. I found that it would associate only when I ran 'iwlist wlan0 scanning' after configuring the interface.

hwwep=0 doesn't really change whether WEP works, but it does reduce the frequency of hard freezes...

Installing wireless driver (largely based on the Positivo/Aureum process): 1. Download the Linux driver for RTL8191SE-VA2/RTL8192SE from http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/ 2. Install dkms or module-assistant; the dependencies will be enough to build it 3. Edit makefiles to remove the -DENABLE_LPS flags (may improve reliability-see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/401126)

4. make; run make install as root 5. Create r8192se_pci.conf with these lines:

options pciehp pciehp_force=1
options r8192se_pci hwwep=0
#Needed for wireless to work:
softdep r8192se_pci pre: pciehp

Add these lines to /etc/modules:

pciehp
r8192se_pci

This forces pciehp to load, and tries loading it before the driver. The driver will load with hardware WEP encryption disabled, as it is extremely unstable.

Modem


System Summary

lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 Host Bridge [1022:9600]
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (int gfx) [1022:9602]
00:05.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 1) [1022:9605]
00:06.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 2) [1022:9606]
00:11.0 SATA controller [0106]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 SATA Controller [AHCI mode] [1002:4391]
00:12.0 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller [1002:4397]
00:12.1 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700 USB OHCI1 Controller [1002:4398]
00:12.2 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller [1002:4396]
00:13.0 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller [1002:4397]
00:13.2 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller [1002:4396]
00:14.0 SMBus [0c05]: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller [1002:4385] (rev 3c)
00:14.2 Audio device [0403]: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) [1002:4383]
00:14.3 ISA bridge [0601]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 LPC host controller [1002:439d]
00:14.4 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge [1002:4384]
00:18.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration [1022:1100]
00:18.1 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map [1022:1101]
00:18.2 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller [1022:1102]
00:18.3 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control [1022:1103]
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc RS780M/RS780MN [Radeon HD 3200 Graphics] [1002:9612]
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller [10ec:8168] (rev 03)
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8191SEvB Wireless LAN Controller [10ec:8172] (rev 10)

lsusb

lsusb -v | grep -E '\<(Bus|iProduct|bDeviceClass|bDeviceProtocol)' 2>/dev/null

Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
  bDeviceClass            9 Hub
  bDeviceProtocol         0 Full speed (or root) hub
  iProduct                2 OHCI Host Controller
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
  bDeviceClass            9 Hub
  bDeviceProtocol         0 Full speed (or root) hub
  iProduct                2 OHCI Host Controller
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
  bDeviceClass            9 Hub
  bDeviceProtocol         0 Full speed (or root) hub
  iProduct                2 OHCI Host Controller
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 04f2:b1b4 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd Lenovo Integrated Camera
  bDeviceClass          239 Miscellaneous Device
  bDeviceProtocol         1 Interface Association
  iProduct                2 Integrated Camera
      (Bus Powered)
  bDeviceClass          239 Miscellaneous Device
  bDeviceProtocol         1 Interface Association
  (Bus Powered)
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0bda:0158 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. USB 2.0 multicard reader
  bDeviceClass            0 (Defined at Interface level)
  bDeviceProtocol         0 
  iProduct                2 USB2.0-CRW
      (Bus Powered)
  bDeviceClass            0 (Defined at Interface level)
  bDeviceProtocol         0 
  (Bus Powered)
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
  bDeviceClass            9 Hub
  bDeviceProtocol         0 Full speed (or root) hub
  iProduct                2 EHCI Host Controller
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
  bDeviceClass            9 Hub
  bDeviceProtocol         0 Full speed (or root) hub
  iProduct                2 EHCI Host Controller

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

Resources

Attachments

Some configuration files and sample outputs.

Credits


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