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- Contact: Dave Meikle, Johan Dahlin
- Make: Fujitsu Seimens
- Model: Amilo A7640
Current Issues
The laptop is working beautifully apart from a small bug that Johan raised back in Warty (http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6628) and PCMCIA Cards not working.
Need to look a little further into PCMCIA thing once I get a hold of one.
Hardware details (x86)
Hardware Information |
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Screen & Monitors |
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Device |
Works? |
Bug # |
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in Hoary (current stable)? |
in Breezy (current development)? |
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Screen |
Works |
Works |
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Correct resolution? |
Yes 1024x768 |
Yes - 1024x768 |
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Correct refresh rate? |
Yes |
Yes |
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3D Acceleration |
N/A |
N/A |
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External monitor works? |
Yes |
Yes |
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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? |
Yes |
Yes |
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Hibernates? |
Untested |
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Sleep |
Sometimes |
Yes |
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Dim/Blank monitor? |
Yes |
Yes (works better on Screen Lid Close |
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Sound |
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Sound works? |
Yes |
Yes |
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Correct volume? |
Yes |
Yes |
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Hardware volume switch |
N/A |
N/A |
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Headphone jack |
Yes |
Yes |
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Mic jack |
Yes |
Yes |
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Networking |
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Wired NIC |
Yes |
Yes |
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Wireless NIC |
Yes - with NDISwrapper/Linuxant |
Yes - with Linuxant (notes to follow) |
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PCMCIA NIC |
Untested |
Untested |
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Firewire |
Untested |
Untested |
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Bluetooth |
N/A |
N/A |
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Modem |
Untested |
Untested |
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Infrared |
N/A |
N/A |
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Touchpad & Mice |
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Touchpad |
Yes |
Yes |
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Touchpad - Doubletap = double click |
Yes, but I turn this off |
Yes, but I turn this off |
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Touchpad - Scroll down side |
Yes |
Yes |
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External mouse - USB |
Yes |
Yes |
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External mouse - Serial |
N/A |
N/A |
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Additional Hardware |
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CD/DVD drive |
Yes |
Yes |
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PCMCIA cards |
No |
No |
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TV out |
Yes |
Yes |
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Flash card reader |
No |
No |
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Function and other keys |
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Fn key |
Operation |
Keycode |
Works? |
Bug # |
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in Hoary (current stable)? |
in Breezy (current development)? |
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+ Space |
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Untested |
Untested |
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+ Esc |
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Untested |
Untested |
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+ F1 |
Sleep |
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Doesn't Work |
Works |
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+ F2 |
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Untested |
Untested |
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+ F3 |
Mute |
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Doesn't Work |
Work |
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+ F4 |
LCD/Monitor Switch |
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Works - at start up |
Works - at start up |
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+ F5 |
Volume Up |
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Doesn't Work |
Works |
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+ F6 |
Volume Down |
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Doesn't Work |
Works |
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+ F7 |
Brightness Up |
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Works |
Works |
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+ F8 |
Brightness Down |
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Works |
Works |
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Breezy Install Notes (x86)
Installed using the following parameters:
linux vga=771
Installation was fine. Only Problem I had after installation was getting the Wireless to work using driverloader (NDISWrapper did not even entertain me!). Here is what happend:
I installed the kernel headers for my kernel and then driverloader. Upon the driverloader install it tried to compile the driverloader module but couldn't as it was looking for gcc-3.4. So I then installed the gcc-3.4 package. This allowed the module to be built but there was a problem inserting it into the kernel.
Upon checking dmesg it showed that it couldn't insert it as the magic number where different - this was due to it picking up gcc-4.0 for the module and the kernel was compiled with gcc-3.4 (this is due to the gcc symlink pointing to gcc-4.0 when compiling the module).
To solve this I ran the following: cd /usr/bin sudo rm gcc sudo ln -s gcc gcc-3.4
NOTE: You could all use export CC=/usr/bin/gcc-3.4 and then run dldrconfig, but then you would have to do this each time a new kernel update came in.
This then allowed me to build the module and insert it. I then followed the standard procedure for setting driverloader up.
Notes (x86)
Most things in the Laptop just worked. which was pretty impressive due to the customisation I used to have to with other distros.
The Wireless Card (Intersil 3886) requires NDISWrapper or Linuxant to run correctly. This is due to no native Linux driver being available - prism54.org is working on one apparently. Hibernation is not quite working. It's not possible to query how much battery powers there is left, so applets will not work.
25/08/2005 - Johan, I can query how much battery power that is left <acpi -b>. This used to be a problem for me on other Distros but never on Ubuntu. The standard Gnome Battery Charge Monitor has always worked for me. If it doesn't work for you maybe we can bang our heads together and work out why.
03/09/2005 - Dave: acpi -b just reads /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state which has the "present rate" field always set to 0 mA. I reported this on warty as http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6628 and it's still present using breezy. Seems to be an ACPI interpreter incompability issue. Have you modified your ACPI bytecode or done something else to make it work? I never got pcmcia cards working either, maybe it's a problem with my hardware, dunno. I also tested hibernation on breezy and it seems to work just fine. I'm using the kernel command line option acpi_sleep=s3_bios, it might be needed, haven't tested without yet. --Johan
LaptopTestingTeam/Old/FujitsuAmiloA7640 (last edited 2010-03-02 09:41:00 by host226-241-dynamic)