HARDWARE Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Pro V2020
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[edit] Introduction
The Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Pro V2020 is a sleek black centrino notebook almost predestinated for the use with Gentoo Linux. Almost all components are supported, though the sd/mmc-cardreader is only accessible through PIO mode.
[edit] Integrated Video Chip: Intel 855GME
The framebuffer can be supported with the intelfb driver (accelerated), though I experienced 2 strange vertical blocks on the right of the screen that only happened on framebuffer (maybe a memory limitation?) - with newer drivers, these blocks only appear after the X driver is started; AGP is used via agpgart-intel driver, the card itself will gladly run in X with the i810 driver. Xv and DRI are fully supported. TV-Out works with the following Options in the xorg.conf, though it is black/white only as far as it was tested yet:
Option "MonitorLayout" "LFP,TV"
[edit] Integrated Ethernet: Realtek 8139-clone
The ethernet chip will work with the 8139too driver module.
[edit] Integrated WLAN: Centrino/Intel IPW2200
The integrated WLAN chipset will work with the ipw2200 driver:
emerge ipw2200 ipw2200-firmware
The only fault in this driver is the erroneous signal strengh displayed with iwconfig, though this should not stop the driver from working correctly.
Since kernel-2.6.15, the ipw2200-driver has been merged into the kernel tree. Intel started a new Project on sourceforge with the intention to bring Access Point Capabilities to every ipw2200/2915; it can be found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/ipw2200-ap - this has not been tested yet.
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[edit] Integrated Sound/Modem: Intel ICH4
The South bridge, Intel's I/O Controller Hub 4, features an ac97-compatible sound codec. It works with the snd-intel8x0 ALSA driver; the modem should work with the corresponding snd-intel8x0m driver.
The modem was configured to work using the net-dialup/slmodem package and wvdial.
The options:
Carrier Check = no
Stupid Mode = yes
were added in the default /etc/wvdial.conf configuration file.
Further Information about the 855GME South-bridge: http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/embedded/855gme.htm
[edit] Power Management: Centrino / ACPI
The speedstep frequency handling of the cpu can be supported with the cpufreq-modules, including acpi-cpufreq. The scheduler can be selected like shown in the Laptop HOWTO.
[edit] Keyboard/Mouse
Keyboard and mouse are supported out of the box. Since the notebook does not have any connector for external PS/2 input devices, you'll need usb devices in order to extend the input capabilites.
[edit] Controller: i8042
The kernel boot option i8042.noacpi will make the keyboard and touchpad input less irratic.
[edit] Synaptics Touchpad
The touchpad will work great with the synaptics driver.
[edit] PCMCIA / Cardbus / MMC /SD-Cards
The Controller for PCMCIA / Cardbus / MMC / SD-Cards is an O2 Micro OZ711M1. PCMCIA and Cardbus capabilities are managed via the yenta drivers. The cardreader is supported via the driver available at http://mmc.drzeus.cx/wiki/Controllers/O2/OZ711Mx ; a patch to compile the driver on kernels newer than 2.6.15 can be found at http://jmaurer.awardspace.info/e8210/ozscrlx.diff . The driver requires ISA and PCMCIA support to be compiled into the kernel.
[edit] Links
- HARDWARE_Maxdata_Pro_7000DX - a bulk copy of Amilo V2000
