HARDWARE Fujitsu Stylistic ST5010 Manual

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[edit] General

This guide is about how to install Linux on the Fujitsu Stylistic ST5010. Since Fujitsu only guarantees Windows to work on this box, I want to supply as much information as possible to make Tux dance on this tablet.

• product description Fujitsu Computer Systems - LifeBook® ST5000 Series Tablet PC
• used the gentoo-dev kernel-sources starting with 2.6.7
• activate as much acpi-support in the kernel as possible

Update: As of 9/17/2005, screen rotation works on the i810 driver / i915 dri combination found at the freedesktop dri wiki download link. Just install the binary drivers into a modern X.org installation. You must enable SWCursor with: 'Option "SWCursor" "on"' to get pointing devices to work properly (otherwise they align for 768x1024 going the wrong direction on the display -- try it without, you'll see).

Update 2: Also as of 9/17/2005: The Linux Wacom project's Beta release, 0.6.9, fully supports without bugs the stylus interface on the ST5010 when the screen is rotated (previous versions, including the 0.6.8 stable release had issues), and no longer has issues with the pen loosing sync when you move it in and out of range.

Update 3: Also as of 9/17/2005: The apanel driver also can get 4/10 of the buttons working, notably, 'email', 'rotate', 'esc', and 'ent'. Note that they don't actually preform a function, apanel just runs a shell script. I have them all bound to a shell script that runs 'su - <myusername> -c "xscreensaver-command -deactivate"' currently. :) I modified the fjkeyd.c file in the utils source for clarity, but the errors written to stderr will give you an idea of what needs to happen. If you have questions, send me an email.

Update: (Feb 2006) there is a small and simple kernel driver available that can make the buttons work, at least on Fujitsu FMV TB11/B (Japanese model).

[edit] Installation

This was a hard one because the tablet has no CD-ROM builtin and I bought no external drive. So after downloading the Live-CD there was no drive to put in. The BIOS supports netboot so I used the diskless client approach to set up the base system. Trying to use as much of the Live-CD install scripts as possible I soon gave up as it seemed there is no way than having a CD-ROM drive. I got fed up with this. Finally I used an existing Gentoo system, copied all over to the tftpboot-dirs, compiled a kernel for the tablet and got a somewhat working system to reinstall the core parts.

[edit] Graphic Card

The graphic card is intgrated into the Intel 855GME chipset. It is supported Xorg via the i810 driver.

There should be kernel support for the framebuffer console via the i810fb module, but I could not get it to work right now. So I have to use the generic vesafb kernel driver.

Sadly I could not get the external VGA monitor port to work even the graphic chip supports dual head. I have tried i810switch and i855crt but only got a flickering output on the CRT. Rotating the screen on the flat panel is not possible at the moment too. I tried both i810crt and X11 with the framebuffer driver. i810crt said 'No LCD support for this chipset'. The fbdev driver gave me a distorted output in horizontal mode and odd yellow-green lines when rotated by 90 degree. But there is hope: Helmar Spangenberg posted a patch for the i830 X driver to enable screen rotation. It is not integrated yet, but there good chances.

[edit] Xorg

The essential parts in /etc/X11/xorg.conf are:

   Section "InputDevice"
       Identifier  "Mouse0"
       Driver      "wacom"
       Option      "Type" "stylus"
       Option      "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
       Option      "ForceDevice" "ISDV4"
   EndSection

   Section "Device"
       ### Available Driver options are:-
       Identifier  "Card0"
       Driver      "i810"
       VendorName  "Intel Corp."
       BoardName   "82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device"
       BusID       "PCI:0:2:0"
       
       # experimental
       #Option      "MonitorLayout" "CRT,LFP"
       #Option "Rotate" "CW"
   EndSection

The complete configuration can be found in Appendix B.

[edit] Pen - Wacom Active Digitizer

Activate the hidden port in the kernel:

Device Drivers ---> 
    Character devices ---> 
       [*] Serial drivers

• 8250/16550 device discovery via ACPI namespace

Got the tip from HandheldsWiki FujitsuST4120

To activate, add the following line to /etc/conf.d/local.start:

/bin/setserial /dev/ttyS0 irq 4 port 0x220 autoconfig

The driver provided by X11 does not work well. So you may want to:

emerge linuxwacom

[edit] USB

In short: It works. I verified the USB-1.1 supported by the UHCI Hostcontroller kernel driver using keyboard, mice and Digicam. USB 2.0 support is done by the EHCI Host Controller Driver. Successfully copied some files from an external hard disk to my disk.

[edit] Firewire

In short: Should work. The documentation of the OHCI-1394 kernel driver states to be tested with NEC chipsets - maybe the one on this board. Not verified at the moment due to lack of hardware.

[edit] Ethernet controller

The box comes with a NetXtreme BCM5788 Gigabit Ethernet Network Card. After activating the kernel support it works as expected. No problems.

[edit] Wireless LAN

My box came with the optional Intel PRO Wireless 2100 wireless network card. As of August 2004 the driver supports all basic features like associating to Wikipedia:Access points, Wikipedia:wep and monitoring. To actually send and receive packets you have to toggle the hardware WLAN switch. You find it at the lefthand backside of the box.

[edit] Internal Modem

Status 

working

Hardware 

SmartLink Modem HAMR5600 based AMR modem card on the Intel ICH4 Southbridge

Kernel support 

uses ALSA-Driver [M] Intel i8x0/MX440; AMD768/8111 modems (EXPERIMENTAL)

To make it work you need additional kernel modules and a userspace program. The package is net-dialup/slmodem. On the console type:

emerge '>=net-dialup/slmodem-2.9.9-r2'

Lookup your country in the list of supported countries.

slmodemd --countrylist

Configure the modem-daemon. Be sure to substitute the COUNTRY parameter by the one you looked up.

# Config file for /etc/init.d/slmodemd

DEV=/dev/ttySL0
COUNTRY=GERMANY
GROUP=dialout

# The following symlink will be created if uncommented
LN_DEV=/dev/modem

# Raise priority to reduce modem dropouts
NICE=-6

# ALSA Options:

# The following sets the ALSA (alsasound) init script to
# be a dependency of the slmodem one. It does also provides
# ALSA support.
MODULE=alsa

# The hardware slot
HW_SLOT=1

# Non-ALSA OPTIONS:

#  MODULE=slamr
# or
#  MODULE=slusb

# this file must be kept in sync with:
# /etc/devfs.d/slmodem (devfs)
# /etc/modules.d/slmodem (devfs)
# /etc/udev/rules.d/55-slmodem.rules (udev)
# /etc/udev/permissions.d/55-slmodem.permissions (udev)

/etc/init.d/slmodem start

There are some programs available. A list could be found at the Gentoo Packages Dialup-Category. I use wvdial.

emerge '>=net-dialup/wvdial-1.54.0'

Adopt the configuration to your needs. Substitute the Phone, Username and Password with the ones your provider gave you.

[Dialer Defaults]
Modem = /dev/ttySL0
Carrier Check = no
Stupid Mode = yes
Baud = 460800
Init1 = ATZ
Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
ISDN = 0
Modem Type = Analog Modem
Phone = 019285530
Username = username
Password = password

When you want to add accounts to your /etc/wvdial.conf then always include Carrier Check = no. Otherwise wvdial wont work with slmodem.

Now you are ready to connect to the internet.

wvdial

0000:01:0a.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711M3 SmartCardBus MultiMediaBay Controller
0000:01:0a.1 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711M3 SmartCardBus MultiMediaBay Controller
0000:01:0a.2 System peripheral: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711Mx MultiMediaBay Accelerator
0000:01:0a.3 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711M3 SmartCardBus MultiMediaBay Controller
0000:01:0a.4 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711M3 SmartCardBus MultiMediaBay Controller