FujitsuAmiloA7640
- Contact: Dave Meikle, Johan Dahlin
- Make: Fujitsu Seimens
- Model: Amilo A7640
Current Issues
Everything has went without a hitch but when running a dist-upgrade on Colony-3 last night (02/09/2005) the following happened:
1) With the current kernel image for i386 the battery status sometimes does not update. This is like on many previous kernels before. The original one installed with Colony-3 works perfectly. Will try to work out what this is. I don't think this is a bug as it is probably the crappy acpi in this laptop.
Hardware details
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 |
Untested |
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Sleep |
Sometimes |
Sometimes |
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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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Docking Station/Port Replicator |
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AC through replicator |
N/A |
N/A |
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USB |
N/A |
N/A |
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Serial |
N/A |
N/A |
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Parallel |
N/A |
N/A |
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External Monitor - VGA |
N/A |
N/A |
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External Monitor - DVI |
N/A |
N/A |
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Modem |
N/A |
N/A |
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NIC |
N/A |
N/A |
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PS/2 |
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 |
Yes |
Yes |
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TV out |
Yes |
Yes |
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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 |
Doesn't Work |
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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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+ F9 |
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Untested |
Untested |
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+ F10 |
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Untested |
Untested |
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+ F11 |
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Untested |
Untested |
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+ F12 |
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Untested |
Untested |
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+ 1 |
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Untested |
Untested |
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+ 2 |
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Untested |
Untested |
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Other special keys |
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Key |
Operation |
Keycode |
Works? |
Bug # |
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in Hoary (current stable)? |
in Breezy (current development)? |
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Key |
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Untested |
Untested |
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Breezy Install Notes
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
This then allowed me to build the module and insert it. I then followed the standard procedure for setting driverloader up.
Notes
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.