EverexStepNoteXT5000T

Hardware details

  • Everex Stepnote XT5000T
  • AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-50 1.6 GHz
  • 2048MB Memory (Using both slots)
  • 100 GB HDD - Serial ATA-150 - 5400 rpm / 160 GB HDD - Serial ATA-150 Western Digital - 5400 rpm
  • DVD-ROM/DVD-RW/CD-RW Dual Layer Combo Drive
  • 17" XGA TFT Screen
  • NVIDIA® GeForce® Go 7600 with 256MB VRam

  • 56K Modem
  • LAN 10/100
  • Atheros 5006EG 802.11b/g
  • USB 2.0 (3 ports)
  • DVI-I
  • S-Video
  • Microphone Port
  • Headphone Port
  • IEEE1394 FireWire port

  • ExpressCard 54

  • 4 in 1 Card reader
  • Windows VISTA Professional
  • US Keyboard (with additional oddly placed buttons and numpad)
  • 2 Button Glide Pad
  • Built in speakers - left, right and a center subwoofer
  • Realtek ALC885 High-Definition Audio Codec

Notes

  • Has a killswitch at the front to toggle WLAN.
  • Has a volume wheel at the front ror the volume
  • Has five buttons above the keyboard - Media launcher, Mail launcher, reduced power mode, internet launcher and power off

Installation Notes

  • Installed via downloaded Ubuntu LiveCD.

Hardware Information

Screen & Monitors

Device

Works?

Bug #

in Gutsy 7.10?

in Hardy Heron 8.04?

Installation Successful

Yes

Yes

Screen

Yes

Yes

Correct resolution?

Yes

Yes

Correct refresh rate?

Yes

Yes

3D Acceleration

Yes

Yes

Use of restricted nVidia Drivers (must be connected to Internet to turn on)

External monitor works?

Yes

Untested

External monitor - mirrors

Untested

Untested

External monitor - extend desktop

Untested

Untested

Power Management

Battery detected?

Yes

Yes

Hibernates?

Yes

N/A

Sleep

Yes

N/A

Dim monitor on battery power and Blank monitor on inactivity

Monitor dims ONLY when restarted on battery power.

Yes

Lid close

If powered - default is blanks monitor, If set to suspend - suspends but doesn't seem to be rewakeable

Untested

CPU Frequency Scaling

Untested

N/A

Sound

Sound works?

No

Yes (see note)

Easily corrected via the following directions - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=506303

Correct volume?

Yes

Yes

Note this is after changing the config file as noted above

Hardware volume switch

No

No

the Fn combinations work, but the sound wheel doesn't for either main speakers, nor headset

Headphone jack

Yes

Yes

Mic jack

Untested

Untested

Line-in jack

Untested

Yes

Networking

Wired NIC

Yes

Yes

Wireless NIC

Yes

Yes

Use of restriced Atheros/madwifi Drivers

PCMCIA NIC

N/A

Untested

ExpressCard 54

Untested

Untested

Firewire

Untested

Untested

Modem

Untested

Untested

Touchpad & Mice

Touchpad

Yes

Yes

The scroll distance does not scale to the pad so it takes many touchpad strokes to cross the distance of the screen

Touchpad - Doubletap = double click

No

Yes

Touchpad clicking very sensitive(changing sensitivity settings and double-click threshold settings for mouse helps)

Touchpad - Scroll down side

Yes

Yes

External mouse - USB

Untested

Untested

External mouse - Serial

N/A

N/A

Additional Hardware

CD/DVD drive

Yes

Untested

PCMCIA cards

N/A

Untested

Parallel port

N/A

Untested

SD Card Reader

Untested

Untested

S-Video

Untested

Untested

DVI-Out

No

Untested

Use of Envy fixes problem - http://www.albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html

WLAN Kill Switch

No

Untested

Volume Wheel

No

Untested

Function and other keys

Fn key

Operation

Keycode

Works?

Bug #

in Gutsy 7.10

Hardy Heron

+ F1

Sleep

Untested

Untested

+ F3

?

Untested

Untested

+ F5

Enables or Disables Touch pad function

No

Untested

+ F6

Mutes or Unmutes Sound

Yes

Yes

+ F8

Decreases the display brightness

No

Untested

+ F9

Increases the display brightness

No

Untested

+ F10

Decreases volume

Yes

Yes

+ F11

Increases Volume

Yes

Yes

Other special keys

Key

Operation

Keycode

Works?

Bug #

in Gutsy 7.10

Hardy Heron

Key

Untested

Power Button

Shut down/Hibernate Unit (depends on user setting)

Yes

Yes

Media Button

Launches Media Player

Yes

Untested

Mail Button

Launches Mail Application

Yes

Untested

Reduced Power Button

Toggles Reduced Power Mode

No

Untested

Internet Button

Lauches Browser

Yes

Untested

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