FujitsuAmiloA1650G

Revision 26 as of 2006-07-19 12:17:29

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Current Issues

The graphic card (Radeon XPress 200M) didn't work "out of the box" 3D acceleration only works with proprietary drivers, but with those drivers the computer doesn't wake up from sleep...

Hardware details

in Breezy?

in Dapper (current development)?

Installation works?

Yes, except graphic card under X

Yes

Hardware Information

Screen & Monitors

Device

Works?

Bug #

in Breezy?

in Dapper (current development)?

Screen

Not out of the box, but I friend of mine succeded

Yes

Correct resolution?

Not out of the box, but easy

Yes

Correct refresh rate?

Untested

Untested

3D Acceleration

Almost

Almost (only with fglrx)

External monitor works?

Almost

Almost (had to reboot, resolution is wrong)

External monitor - mirrors

Untested

Almost (resolution is wrong)

External monitor - extend desktop

Untested

No (fglrx is buggy, with "ati" I don't know how to try)

Power Management

Battery detected?

Yes

Yes

Hibernates?

Untested (it fails, but I see in dmesg "not enough swap")

Untested (it fails, but I see in dmesg "not enough swap")

Sleep

Yes (with parameters noapic nolapic)

Yes

Dim monitor on battery

Yes (hardware feature, isn't it?)

Yes

Blank monitor on inactivity

Untested

Untested

Lid Close

Untested

Yes (screen off, nothing more)

Cpu frequency scaling

Yes

Yes

Sound

Sound works?

Yes

Yes

Correct volume?

Yes

Yes

Hardware volume switch

Yes

Yes

Headphone jack

Yes

Yes

Mic jack

Untested

Almost*

Networking

Wired NIC

Untested

Yes

Wireless NIC

No

Almost****

PCMCIA NIC

Yes

Yes

Firewire

Untested

Untested

Modem

Untested

No **

Touchpad & Mice

Touchpad

Yes

Yes

Touchpad - Doubletap = double click

Yes

Yes

Touchpad - Scroll down side

Yes

Yes

External mouse - USB

Yes

Yes

Additional Hardware

CD/DVD drive

Yes

Yes

PCMCIA cards

Yes

Yes

Card reader(s)

No

No

Function and other keys

Fn key

Operation

Keycode

Works?

Bug #

in Breezy?

in Dapper (current development)?

+ F1

?? There's a question mark

Untested

Untested

+ F2

?? There's the drawing of a moon

Untested

Untested

+ F3

External monitor

Untested

No

+ F4

Monitor off

Yes (hardware feature, I suppose)

Yes (hardware feature, I suppose)

+ F5

Mute

Yes

Yes

+ F6

Volume down

Yes

Yes

+ F7

Volume up

Yes

Yes

+ F8

Brightness down

Yes (hardware feature, I suppose)

Yes (hardware feature, I suppose)

+ F9

Brightness up

Yes (hardware feature, I suppose)

Yes (hardware feature, I suppose)

+ F10

Wireless on/off

No (wireless doesn't work, led doesn't enlight)

No (wireless doesn't work, led doesn't enlight)

+ F11

Num lock

Yes

Yes

+ F12

Scroll lock

Untested

Untested

Other special keys

Key

Operation

Keycode

Works?

Bug #

in Breezy?

in Dapper (current development)?

Key

button 1: wireless on/off (same task as fn+F10)

No

No

Key

button 2: start browser (or any other application, under Windows it can be configured)

No

No

Key

button 3: fan silent/normal mode

No

No ***

Notes

* Can't tell whose fault it is, but when listening and in the meanwhile recording, frequency of recorded sounds is approximatly a half of real. I noticed it on Audacity, recording while listening to recorded tracks. It happens every time, with both the "mic" and the "line in" jacks. Seems like data input rate is a half of what the driver expects.

** the modem monitor asks me for the modem port; I try the automatic recognizing, it doesn't work

*** Onestly I don't find a difference even when I do it under Window, except an icon appearing on taskbar; I say "no" just because nothing appears in dmesg

**** The wireless radio module problem was finally (almost) solved thanks to the acer_acpi module, downloaded from http://www.archernar.co.uk/acer_acpi/acer_acpi_main.html and very easy to install and to use. Notice that it still is not perfect: dhclient works almost 1 time out of 10, but after it gets the dhcp packet, all is OK. I had the same results with the "hardware way", but I think it's less interesting for a laptop-owner to open his machine than to install a module... anyway, here's the link: http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/MiniPCI.