FujitsuAmiloM3438G
Work in progress, hold on...
Contact: Kristoffer Lundén
- Make: Fujitsu Seimens
- Brand: Fujitsu Seimens
- Model: Amilo M3438G
Website: http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com/home/products/notebooks/amilo_m_3438_4438.html
Current Issues
Hardware details
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in Breezy? |
in Dapper Flight 3? |
Installation works? |
Untested |
Yes |
Hardware Information |
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Screen & Monitors |
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Device |
Works? |
Bug # |
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in Breezy? |
in Dapper (current development)? |
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Screen |
Untested |
Yes |
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Correct resolution? |
Untested |
Yes1 |
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Correct refresh rate? |
Untested |
Yes |
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3D Acceleration |
Untested |
Yes2 |
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External monitor works? |
Untested |
Untested |
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External monitor - mirrors |
Untested |
Untested |
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External monitor - extend desktop |
Untested |
Untested |
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Power Management |
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Battery detected? |
Untested |
Yes |
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Hibernates? |
Untested |
Untested |
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Sleep |
Untested |
Untested |
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Dim monitor on battery |
Untested |
Yes |
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Blank monitor on inactivity |
Untested |
Untested |
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Lid Close |
Untested |
Untested |
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Cpu frequency scaling |
Untested |
No7 |
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Sound |
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Sound works? |
Untested |
Yes3 |
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Correct volume? |
Untested |
No3 |
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Hardware volume switch |
Untested |
Untested |
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Headphone jack |
Untested |
Yes |
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Mic jack |
Untested |
Yes |
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Networking |
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Wired NIC |
Untested |
Untested |
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Wireless NIC |
Untested |
Yes |
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PCMCIA NIC |
Untested |
Untested |
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Firewire |
Untested |
Untested |
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Bluetooth |
Untested |
n/a |
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Modem |
Untested |
Untested |
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Infrared |
Untested |
Untested |
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Touchpad & Mice |
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Touchpad |
Untested |
Yes |
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Touchpad - Doubletap = double click |
Untested |
Yes |
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Touchpad - Scroll down side |
Untested |
Yes |
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External mouse - USB |
Untested |
Yes |
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External mouse - Serial |
Untested |
Untested |
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Additional Hardware |
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CD/DVD drive |
Untested |
Yes |
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PCMCIA cards |
Untested |
Untested |
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Parallel Ports |
Untested |
Untested |
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Card reader(s) |
Untested |
Untested |
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Remote Control |
Untested |
No4 |
Function and other keys |
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Fn key |
Operation |
Keycode |
Works? |
Bug # |
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in Breezy? |
in Dapper (current development)? |
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+ F1 |
Sleep |
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Untested |
Untested |
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+ F3 |
Mute |
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Untested |
Yes |
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+ F4 |
Dual head |
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Untested |
Untested |
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+ F5 |
Volume up |
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Untested |
Yes |
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+ F6 |
Volume down |
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Untested |
Yes |
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+ F7 |
Brightness up |
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Untested |
Yes |
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+ F8 |
Brightness down |
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Untested |
Yes |
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+ F9 |
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Untested |
Untested |
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Other special keys |
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Key |
Operation |
Keycode |
Works? |
Bug # |
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in Breezy? |
in Dapper (current development)? |
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Internet |
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Untested |
Yes5 |
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Untested |
Yes6 |
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Fan |
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Untested |
Untested |
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Pad |
Enable/Diable Pad |
Hardware Switch |
Untested |
Yes |
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Wireless |
Enable/Diable Wireless |
Hardware Switch |
Untested |
Yes |
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Notes
Need to install nvidia-glx to get to 1440x900, can't go higher that 1024x768 without it. Remember "sudo nvidia-glx-config enable" to activate. Also recommended to mark this alternative during install, otherwise modeline needs to be added manually.
With Nvidias closed drivers. Works well.
Initially, headphone sound is set correctly, but internal speakers are muted and with volume set to zero. Use volume applet or similar to activate.
The laptop comes with a small remote control that controls a special mode called "Instant on", a media player outside of any OS. It also works with both Windows and Linux media players, for common functions like play, pause, stop, forward and so on.
Opens default Browser
Opens default E-Mail Client
Can be monitored with CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor applet, and can also be manually adjusted if applet is given SUID rights (sudo chmod a+s /usr/bin/cpufreq-selector)
Instant On
The laptop has special functionality that starts up a PCM Linux powered media player instead of booting a regular OS at the press of a button. Problem is, this does not work if Grub has replaced the MBR, and when booting Windows it offers to "reactivate PCM". Which it does by replacing the MBR again (not the partition table) with a special version of the Windows MBR. Instant on uses a special, patched Grub to boot on an NTFS file system, as this Linux actually resides inside the Windows installation. I'm not exactly sure how the process works yet, but as of now, I haven't figured out a way to dual boot and retain this functionality (or have just Linux and retain it). This would be nice to investigate, for instance if this media player could be migrated to the Linux partition and booted via regular Grub.
Large or all parts of this system are available under the GPL, but it's a ~150 MB download so there's some data to go through. http://download.gocyberlink.com/ftpdload/linux/source/PCMLinux_GPL_sources.zip. It would be very interesting to figure out how it determines that this special button was pressed and not the usual power on. Is it done in MBR (why other a special one)? Or in the stages after? What does it look for? It would allow for all sorts of neatness if that was cracked, replacing their pretty crappy media player with something good for instance.
TODO: More links, to NTFS Grub project and PCM homepage etc.
LaptopTestingTeam/FujitsuAmiloM3438G (last edited 2008-08-06 16:26:53 by localhost)