Compaq Armada E500

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[edit] Introduction

Compaq Armada E500 is a little older laptop. It has Intel i440BX chipset, Ati Rage Mobility P/M graphics controller, ESS Maestro 2E soundchip, one usb port, two pcmcia slots, 24x cd-rom drive and 14.1" screen. It usually comes with 500-900 MHz Intel Celeron or Pentium III processor, 6 GB hard drive and mini-pci modem and/or ehternet controller. Mine has 600 MHz Celeron and both modem and ethernet controller. Hard disk has been upgraded to 60 GB. I also have a wlan card with RaLink RT2500 chipset.

[edit] Hardware

Code: lspci output 
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
00:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1225 (rev 01)
00:04.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1225 (rev 01)
00:07.0 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 03)
00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1978 Maestro 2E (rev 10)
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 09)
00:09.1 Serial controller: Agere Systems LT WinModem
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x (rev 64)

[edit] What works

The following items I have managed to get working so far:

  • Sound
  • Touchpad
  • Ethernet
  • CD-rom
  • Floppy
  • USB
  • CardBus/PCMCIA
  • Display
  • ACPI monitoring (processor, fan, thermal zone, lid switch etc. works!)
  • External keyboard and mouse
  • Volume buttons
  • 3D acceleration (stable X11-drm is incompatible with kernels > 2.6.13, so I used masked version of drm)

The following items I have not tested, but I assume they are at least partially working:

  • ACPI power saving (my battery is completely dead)
  • IRda (module support installed, but I haven't had an use of it)

The following items I have not been able to get working:

  • Modem (I will never have any use of it so I haven't even compiled support for it in the kernel)
  • Internet Hotkeys (perhaps are working in X.org, but I'm trying to find a non-X way to use them)
  • TV-out

[edit] What doesn't work

TV-out is configurable through the BIOS menu. In the BIOS menu it is possible to choose between the NTSC and the PAL signal

[edit] Kernel

Everything works with basic kernel modules. Sound chip works with module es1968 and ethernet with eepro100.

[edit] X

Here's a part of my X.org config (the part where display properties are set):

Code: xorg.conf 
Section "Monitor"
    Identifier  "LCD display"
    HorizSync   31.5 - 48.5
    VertRefresh 50-70
EndSection
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