64-bit

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Laptop Information

Status on 64-bit Feisty Fawn

Things seem to work fine with Feisty herd 3.

Status on 64-bit Edgy Eft

Testing with 64-bit Ubuntu and Kubuntu distributions is yet to be done - work in progress!

Things that need attention

  • WLAN card uses Broadcom BCM4306 chip. Its firmware cannot be included due to legal restrictions, but it is downloadable separately from certain Ubuntu reposity. See WifiDocs for details.

  • 3D acceleration works out-of-the-box
    • 'radeon' driver (the default driver) offers working 3D
  • External display doesn't work, at least not out-of-the-box

Hardware information

Screen & Monitors

Device

Works?

Bug #

Screen

Yes

Correct resolution?

Yes

Correct refresh rate?

Yes

3D Acceleration

Yes

External monitor

Untested

Power Management

Device

Works?

Bug #

Battery detected?

Yes

Hibernate

Untested

Standby

Untested

Dim monitor on battery

Yes

Blank monitor on inactivity

Yes

Lid Close

Yes

Cpu frequency scaling

Yes

Sound

Device

Works?

Bug #

Sound works?

Yes

Correct volume?

Yes

Hardware volume switch

Untested

Headphone jack

Yes

Mic jack

Untested

Networking

Device

Works?

Bug #

Wired NIC

Yes

Wireless NIC

Untested*

PCMCIA NIC

Untested

Firewire

Untested

Bluetooth

Untested

Modem

Untested

Infrared

Untested

[*] See top of the page

Touchpad & Mice

Device

Works?

Bug #

Touchpad

Yes

Touchpad - Doubletap

Yes

Touchpad - Scroll side

Yes

External mouse - USB

Untested

External mouse - Bluetooth

Untested

Additional Hardware

Device

Works?

Bug #

CD/DVD drive

Yes

PCMCIA cards

Untested

Parallel Ports

Untested

Memory Card Reader

Untested

Function and Other Keys

Key

Operation

Keycode (xev)

Keycode (showkey)

Works?

Fn + F1

Help

246

none

Yes*

Fn + F2

???

none

none

No

Fn + F3

???

none

none

No

Fn + F4

Sleep

ACPI event

Untested

Fn + F5

External display

none (hardware? fglrx?)

No

Fn + F6

Turn monitor off

(hardware)

Yes*

Fn + F7

Touchpad enable/disable

(hardware)

Yes*

Fn + F8

Mute

160

0xe0 0x20 0xe0 0xa0

Yes*

Fn + Up Arrow

Volume +

176

0xe0 0x30 0xe0 0xb0

Yes*

Fn + Down Arrow

Volume -

174

0xe0 0x2e 0xe0 0xae

Yes*

Fn + Left Arrow

Brightness -

(hardware)

Yes*

Fn + Right Arrow

Brightness +

(hardware)

Yes*

"Envelope"

Launcher 1

236

0xe0 0xec 0xe0 0xec

Yes*

"Planet"

Launcher 2

178

0xe0 0x32 0xe0 0xb2

Yes*

P1

Launcher 3

159

0x9f**

Yes

P2

Launcher 4

151

0x97**

Yes

[*] The key is assigned correctly out-of-the-box

[**] This is the shown keycode from Gnome's shortcut editor

Notes and Comments


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