Newsgroup: it.comp.os.linux.iniziare
Titolo: Linux su acer tm507dx

ciao, ho un mezza idea di mettere linux su questo portatile, ma :
1. non l'ho trovato nell'elenco dei portatili su cui č possibile installarlo
(sono ciecato?)
2. non voglio ASSOLUTAMENTE che linux giri piů lentamente di quanto non
faccia XP.
Vi rammento le caratteristiche di questo portatile:
Produttore sistema Acer
Modello sistema TravelMate 505 Series
Tipo sistema PC basato su X86
Processore x86 Family 6 Model 6 Stepping 10 GenuineIntel ~466 Mhz
Versione/data BIOS ACER V3.0 R01-A3L-EN, 18/09/2000
Versione SMBIOS 2.1
Memoria fisica totale 160,00 MB
ho mandrake 10.0, mi piace kde, č possibile farcelo girare ?
Non mi interessano le cazzatine grafiche, ma voglio una "struttura" simile a
windows (barra applicazioni, icone sul desktop). Window maker mi fa cagare
come pure gnome.
Che uso ne faccio ?
Bah, in prevalenza open office, skype, amsn, media player (mp3, divx),
navigazione sul web.
Che dite ?
Grazie, ciao.

 come pure gnome.
Provato icewm?
Personalmente preferisco icewm o blackbox
Ciao

 rispettato o no.
si, ma c'è 505 non 507dx, ho capito che è uguale...
Proverò gentoo, ma voi avete capito se il modem interno lo posso usare ?
Grazie ancora.

 ha scritto nel messaggio 
news:oGLdf.1402$P16...@tornado.fastwebnet.it...
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ehm scusate, mi riferivo a quanto scritto qui :
http://www.ecn.org/sh404/projects/travelmate_en.html
(c'e' anche in italiano)

Google è tuo amico ;)
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review
The Acer Travelmate 507dx is part of the 505 series. Although this isn't 
a notebook with quite new technique it's a useful assistant for daily 
tasks. Disadvantages are a high weight of about 6.3 lbs and like all dx-
models a bad HPA (High Performance Adressing) display. I bought a new 
battery with 500 mAh more capacity than the original. The price is 
around 45 €. Search for BTP-1831 with your favorite search engine.
ingredients
The table below shows the most important information about the 
components of this notebook. It's similar to this overview from Acer 
(
http://www.acersupport.com/notebook/html/tm507dx_specs.html
). The 
latest available BIOS version is R01-A3L You can get it from here 
(
http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/notebook/tm_505.html
)
    ? chipset 	Intel 440MX Chipset
    Intel 440MX UHCI USB Controller
    O2 Micro OZ6812 Cardbus Controller 	lspci -vvv
    ? processor 	Intel Celeron (Mendocino) 466 MHz 	cat /proc/cpuinfo
    ? hard drive 	IBM Travelstar 12GN
    2.5-inch ATA 33 / S.M.A.R.T. / 4.8 GB 	hdparm -I /dev/hda
    ? video card 	Neomagic NM2160 MagicGraph 128DX
    2048 KB VRAM
    ? display 	12.1-inch HPA LCD
    800x600x16M
    HorizSync 15-90, VertRefresh 30-85
    ? sound card 	Cirrus Logic CS4299 rev 4 AC'97 Audio Controller
    ? modem 	Lucent Technologies Soft Modem - AMR
    56k 	output from scanmodem
    ? storage devices 	TEAC CD-224E ATAPI CD-ROM 24x
    Floppy 1.44 MB 3.5"
    ? pointing device 	Synaptics Touchpad, model 1, Firmware 5.0,
    multifinger and palm detection
    ? special keys 	2 software controlled, 11 hardware controlled
compatibility
The table shows Linux compatibility with kernel 2.6.10. Everything 
highlighted in green is fully supported. Orange means particularly 
supported and everything in red isn't supported at the moment.
    chipset 	suspend-to-ram, suspend-to-disk, chipset, usb, cardbus
    hard drive 	udma
    video card 	framebuffer, hardware acceleration
    sound card 	works
    modem 	works
    storage devices 	floppy, cdrom
    pointing device 	works
    special keys 	works
installation
debian base system
    I used sarge netinstall with Debian installer release candidate 3. 
If you don't have a LAN PC-Card you better use the full CD images. Boot 
your notebook with the CD inside your drive and go step by step through 
the installer menu. There's nothing special in here.
custom kernel
    I'm using highly patched debian source of kernel 2.6.10. Get it 
with:
'apt-get install kernel-source-2.6.x'
    Here you can get my .config file. 
chipset (acpi, usb, firewire etc.)
acpi
    Kernel configuration:
Power management options (ACPI, APM)
  [*] Power Management support
  [*]   Power Management Debug Support 
  [*] Software Suspend
  (/dev/hdafoo) Default resume partition
 
Power management options (ACPI, APM) -->  ACPI (Advanced 
Configuration...) support
  [*] ACPI support
  [*] Sleep states
  <M> AC Adapter
  <M> Battery
  <M> Button
  <M> Video
  <M> Fan
  <M> Processor
  <M>   Thermal Zone
  [*] Power Management Timer Support
    Suspend-to-RAM (S3) doesn't work - after all task were stopped they 
restarted again. Suspend-to-Disk (S4) cause some problems: PCMCIA and 
USB devices don't work after resume. Try this workaround:
        * disconnect and reconnect all USB devices,
        * remove your PCMCIA device and insert it again:
cardctl eject
cardctl insert
    Or much easier: install the hibernate-package. It will do this tasks 
for you. 
chipset
    Kernel configuration:
Device Drivers --> ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support
  <*> Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL disk/cdrom/tape/floppy support
  <*> Include IDE/ATA-2 DISK support
  [*] Use multi-mode by default
  <M> Include IDE/ATAPI CDROM support
  <M> Include IDE/ATAPI FLOPPY support
  <*> generic/default IDE chipset support
  [*] PCI IDE chipset support
  [*] Sharing PCI IDE interrupts support
  [*] Generic PCI IDE Chipset support
  [*] Generic PCI bus-master DMA support
  [*] Use PCI DMA by default when available
  <*> Intel PIIXn chipset support
 
Device Drivers --> Parallel port support
  <M> Parallel port support
  <M>   PC-style hardware
  [*]     Use FIFO/DMA is available
 
Device Drivers --> Block devices
  <M> Normal floppy disk support
 
Device Drivers --> Input device support
  [*]   Provide legacy /dev/psaux device
  (800) Horizontal screen resolution
  (600) Vertical screen resolution
  <M> Event interface
  <M> PCI PS/2 keyboard and PS/2 mouse controller
  [*] Mice
  <M>   PS/2 mouse
  [*] Misc
  <M>   PC Speaker support
 
Device Drivers --> Character devices --> Serial drivers
  <M> 8250/16550 and compatible serial support
  <M>   8250/16550 device discovery via ACPI namespace
  (1)   Maximum number of non-legacy 8250/16550 serial ports
usb
    Kernel configuration:
Device Drivers --> USB support
  <M> Support for Host-side USB
  [*] USB device filesystem
  [*] USB suspend/resume
  <M> UHCI HCD (most Intel and VIA) support
    Enable other features related to your hardware (USB Printer, USB-
Stick etc). 
cardbus
    Kernel configuration:
Bus options (PCI, PCMCIA, EISA, MCA, ISA) --> PCCARD (PCMCIA/CardBus) 
support
  <M> PCCard (PCMCIA/CardBus) support
  <M>   16-bit PCMCIA support
  [*]   32-bit CardBus support 
  <M> CardBus yenta-compatible bridge support
processor
    kernel configuration:
Processor types and features
  Subarchitecture Type (PC-compatible)
  Processor family (Pentium-II/Celeron (pre-Coppermine))
  [*] Generic x86 support
  [*] HPET Timer Support
  [*] Local APIC support on uniprocessors
  [*] IO-APIC support on uniprocessors
  <M> /dev/cpu/*/cpuid - CPU information support
hard drive
installation
    kernel configuration:
Device Drivers --> ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support
  <*> Intel PIIXn chipset support
temperature control
    hddtemp is a little tool that displays the current temperature of 
your hard drive. Install it with:
'apt-get install hddtemp'
    You can get your drive's temperature with the following command:
'hddtemp /dev/hda'
video card
    Kernel configuration of console framebuffer support:
Device Drivers --> Graphics Support
  [*] Support for frame buffer devices
  <*>   NeoMagic display support
Device Drivers --> Graphics Support --> Console display driver support
  [*]    Video mode selection support
  <M> Framebuffer Console support
    Kernel configuration to enable hardware acceleration:
Device Drivers --> Character devices
  <M> /dev/agpart (AGP Support)
  <M> Intel 440 LX/BX/GX, I8xx and E7x05 chipset support
  [*] Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support)
    Don't forget to install xlibmesa-dri.
sound card
    Kernel configuration:
Device Drivers --> Sound
  <M> Sound card support
Device Drivers --> Sound --> Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
  <M> Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
  <M> Sequencer support
  <M> Sequencer dummy client
  <M> OSS Mixer API
  <M> OSS PCM (digital audio) API
  [*] OSS Sequencer API
  <M> RTC Timer support
Device Drivers --> Sound --> Advanced Linux Sound Architecture --> PCI 
devices
  <M> Intel/SIS/nVidia/AMD/ALi AC97 Controller
    Also you need to configure your sound card. The package alsa-utils 
is very useful in this case:
'apt-get install alsa-utils'
# become root and run
'alsaconf'
modem
    I didn't tried to configure the modem yet. Have a look at this site 
for more information.
storage devices
    Everything done in chipset configuration section.
pointing device
touchpad
    Kernel configuration:
Device Drivers --> Input device support
  <M> Event interface
  [*] Mice
  <M> PS/2 mouse
    You can use your Touchpad in X without any special configuration. 
But if you want such things as emulation of the middle button by tapping 
in one corner you need a special driver:
'apt-get install xfree86-driver-synaptics'
    Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf as described below:
Section "Module"
        ...
        Load "synaptics"
        ...
EndSection           
 
Section "InputDevice"
        Driver "synaptics"
        Identifier "Mouse0"
        Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
        Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
        Option "LeftEdge" "1700"
        Option "RightEdge" "5300"
        Option "topEdge" "1700"
        Option "BottomEdge" "4200"
        Option "FingerLow" "25"
        Option "FingerHigh" "30"
        Option "MaxTapTime" "180"
        Option "MaxTapMove" "220"
        Option "VertScrollDelta" "100"
        Option "MinSpeed" "0.06"
        Option "MaxSpeed" "0.12"
        Option "AccelFactor" "0.0010"
        Option "SHMConfig" "on"
EndSection
    For a full documentation have a look at /usr/share/doc/xfree86-
driver-synaptics/. There's also a GUI for configuration called 
QSynaptics.
special keys
    You can almost use all special keys with Linux except Fn+F1/F2/F3. 
After pressing one of these no message appears in /var/log/acpid and 
nothing happens. The hardware controlled hotkeys work without any kind 
of configuration. All other keys are are controlled by software. You 
need a key code and a script to make them work. First the hotkey codes 
(How to get them is described here):
key        symbol                 code
----------------------------------------------------
Power                             80    button/power			
 
Fn+F4      sleep                  80    button/sleep
    Second a script which looks in /var/log/acpid for the key code:
# this is /etc/acpi/events/btn_power
 
event=button[ /]power
action=/etc/acpi/btn_power.sh
    Last you need an action script in /etc/acpi:
# this is /etc/acpi/btn_power.sh
# and need to be marked as execute (chmod +x)
/sbin/shutdown -h now "Power button pressed"
software configuration
x-server
    Below my x-server configuration file. You can also download it from 
here.
Section "Files"
	FontPath	"unix/:7100"			# local font server
	# if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
EndSection
Section "Module"
	Load	"GLcore"
	Load	"bitmap"
	Load	"dbe"
	Load	"ddc"
	Load	"dri"
	Load	"extmod"
	Load	"freetype"
	Load	"glx"
	Load	"int10"
	Load	"record"
	Load	"speedo"
	Load	"type1"
	Load	"vbe"
	Load	"synaptics"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Keyboard"
	Driver		"keyboard"
	Option		"CoreKeyboard"
	Option		"XkbRules"	"xfree86"
	Option		"XkbModel"	"pc105"
	Option		"XkbLayout"	"de"
	Option		"XkbVariant"	"de"
	Option		"XkbOptions"	"nodeadkeys"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier    "Synaptics"
        Driver        "synaptics"
        Option        "Device"        "/dev/psaux"
        Option        "Protocol"      "auto-dev"
        Option        "LeftEdge"      "1700"
        Option        "RightEdge"     "5300"
        Option        "TopEdge"       "1700"
        Option        "BottomEdge"    "4200"
        Option        "FingerLow"     "25"
        Option        "FingerHigh"    "30"
        Option        "MaxTapTime"    "180"
        Option        "MaxTapMove"    "220"
        Option        "VertScrollDelta" "100"
        Option        "MinSpeed"      "0.06"
        Option        "MaxSpeed"      "0.12"
        Option        "AccelFactor"	"0.0010"
        Option        "SHMConfig"     "on"
        Option        "RTCornerButton"  "2"
EndSection
Section "Device"
	Identifier	"NeoMagic NM2160 [MagicGraph 128XD]"
	Driver		"neomagic"
	Option		"UseFBDev"		"true"
	VideoRam	2048
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"LCD"
	HorizSync	15-90
	VertRefresh	30-85
	Option		"DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Screen"
	Device		"NeoMagic NM2160 [MagicGraph 128XD]"
	Monitor		"LCD"
	DefaultDepth	24
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		1
		Modes		"1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		4
		Modes		"1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		8
		Modes		"1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		15
		Modes		"1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		16
		Modes		"1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		24
		Modes		"1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier	"Default Layout"
	Screen		"Screen"
	InputDevice	"Keyboard"
	InputDevice	"Synaptics"		"CorePointer"
EndSection
Section "DRI"
	Mode	0666
EndSection
misc
manual
    Acer provides a site with user manuals in different languages.
links
    More information about Linux and this notebook can be found at 
TuxMobil.org or at Linux on Laptops.
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L'ho trovato usando la funzione cache, dato che la pagina originale non 
era più online ;)
Spero ti sia utile.
Ciao,
Fabio