SamsungQ70

Current Issues

Tested with 7.10 Gutsy, kernel: 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP

Needs some polishing, see the notes section, after that most things work, except...

  • Problems setting the backlight-brightness (see notes)
  • Problems with the WLAN, it does not find essids, not clearly locatable
  • The hardware volume switch does not work (but software does)

System Info

There are different Models of the Q70, as fare as I can see, the differ only concerning the processor speed, the tested one is DEVON

  • DURY Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T7500 (2.20GHz/4MB/800FSB)
  • DEVON Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T7300 (2.00GHz/4MB/800FSB)

Common:

  • 13.3" WXGA Super Bright Glare TFT, max. Resolution 1280x800
  • 2048 MB DDR2-RAM
  • 200 GB SATA Harddisk 4200rpm
  • 128 MB Turbo Cache Nvidia Geforce 8400M G
  • DVD+-R/+-RW Double Layer
  • WLAN (a/b/g/n) Intel
  • Bluetooth 2.0

Hardware details

Screen & Monitors

Device

Works?

Bug #

7.10 (Gutsy)

Hardy (current development)

Screen

Yes

Untested

Correct resolution?

Yes

Untested

Correct refresh rate?

Yes

Untested

3D Acceleration

Untested

Untested

External monitor works?

Untested

Untested

External monitor - mirrors

Untested

Untested

External monitor - extend desktop

Untested

Untested

Power Management

Battery detected?

Yes

Untested

Hibernates?

No (does not wake up)

Untested

Suspend

No (does not wake up)

Untested

Dim monitor on battery

Yes (Nvidia no)

Untested

Blank monitor on inactivity

Untested

Untested

Lid Close

Untested

Untested

Cpu frequency scaling

Yes

Untested

Sound

Sound works?

Yes (see notes)

Untested

Correct volume?

Yes

Untested

Hardware volume switch

No

Untested

Headphone jack

Yes

Untested

Mic jack

Untested

Untested

Networking

Wired NIC

Untested

Untested

Wireless NIC

Yes (see current issues)

Untested

Firewire

Untested

Untested

Bluetooth

Untested

Untested

Modem

Untested

Untested

Touchpad & Mice

Touchpad

Yes

Untested

Touchpad - Doubletap = double click

Yes

Untested

Touchpad - Scroll down side

Yes

Untested

Additional Hardware

CD/DVD drive

Yes

Untested

Express Card drive

Untested

Untested

Function and other keys

Fn key

Operation

Keycode

Works?

Bug #

7.10 (Gutsy)

Hardy (current development)

+ Space

Untested

Untested

+ Esc

Untested

Untested

+ F1

Untested

Untested

+ F2

Untested

Untested

+ F3

Untested

Untested

+ F4

Untested

Untested

+ F5

Untested

Untested

+ F6

Untested

Untested

+ F7

Untested

Untested

+ F8

Untested

Untested

+ F9

Untested

Untested

+ F10

Untested

Untested

+ F11

Untested

Untested

+ F12

Untested

Untested

+ ArrowUp

Brightness Up

No

Untested

+ ArrowDown

Brightness Down

No

Untested

+ ArrowRight

Volume Up

No (see current issues)

Untested

+ ArrowLeft

Volume Down

No (see current issues)

Untested

+ PgUp

Home

Yes

Untested

+ PgDown

End

Yes

Untested

Other special keys

Key

Operation

Keycode

Works?

Bug #

7.10 (Gutsy)

Hardy (current development)

KEY

Untested

Untested

Notes

Audio

The mixer (kmix) gets much more settings and the internal speakers mute when plugging a head phone, if you give the audio driver a hint concerning the model of your notebook: add the following line "options snd-hda-intel model=basic" to the file "/etc/modprobe.d/options” and restart (changing the option on a running system is possible but much more complicated). Maybe there is a even better option, but with this one, it works.

Wireless

Currently only the manual configuration works, no nm, no wicd, no wlassistent. It does not recognize the essid, it does not connect

Card Reader

To use sd-cards with the build-in card reader, add the following lines to the file "/etc/modules" 

   tifm_sd
   tifm_7xx1
   tifm_core

Driver homepage: xd cards are not working yet, http://tifmxx.berlios.de/

SergioZanchetta/Old/SamsungQ70 (last edited 2010-02-26 15:24:15 by host226-241-dynamic)