HARDWARE Amoi T30-15

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[edit] Specifications

  • 12,1" (30,7 cm) screen featuring WXGA+ (1280 x 800) resolution
  • Intel Centrino 2 (“Sonoma”), scalable between 600Mhz and 1500Mhz
  • Intel 915GM onboard graphics
  • 512 MB RAM, I added an extra 1024 MB to my notebook
  • ipw2200 WLAN 802.11b/g (54 Mbps)
  • Bluetooth
  • Super-Slim CD-burner/DVD
  • Ports: 2 x USB 2.0, PCMCIA, Ethernet, Firewire IEEE1394, Modem
  • Internal modem: Intel AC97 Modem-on-Board
  • S-ATA 60 GB Harddisk
  • Weight 1.800g including battery

Battery should last 5 hours according to the reseller, but it does not last as long in Linux for me.

[edit] Kernel

You can find the patch needed for suspend-to-ram+S-ATA there: http://rtr.ca/dell_i9300/kernel/kernel-2.6.13/04_libata_suspend.patch

RTC has apparently some problems, I have no idea yet why: 

select() to /dev/rtc to wait for clock tick timed out


[edit] Video

855resolution is needed.

in /etc/conf.d/855resolution: 

replace[0]="5c"
with[0]="1280 800"

rc-update add 855resolution /etc/init.d/855resolution start

the drm module is i915: modprobe i915 in /etc/X11/xorg.conf i810 should be used as gfx-driver

[edit] ACPI

[edit] Sound

For 'optimal' sound settings, I prefer the following (in alsamixer):

PCM: Unmuted, 74 (try around, 74 sounds good for me, no hissing)

Headphone: Unmuted and your volume of choice

[edit] Suspend-To-Ram

For suspend-to-ram the best explanation you can find right in your kernel tree: /usr/src/linux/Documentation/power/video.txt

On this Notebook the video does not come back automatically, so we need to use vbetool as described in workaround 6. Suspending/resuming in console works with that.

To get your S-ATA working after resume you need a kernel patch: http://rtr.ca/dell_i9300/kernel/kernel-2.6.13/04_libata_suspend.patch

After Resume the X-Server does not work. You can currently only use it in text-mode.

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