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Contents 1 Hardware 2 Problems and Solutions 2.1 Video 2.2 Framebuffer

[edit] Hardware

• Audio: Using alsa driver.
• Docking: works.
• Multimedia Keys: Work.

[edit] Problems and Solutions

[edit] Video

See this HowTo.

Problem exhibits when the lid is closed and reopened under X.org. A band of corruption shows up at the top of the screen, and will only go away by hitting Fn+F7 twice. This band can range from an inch or so to covering the entire screen. The solution requires installing the ibm-acpi driver. To fix the corruption problem run echo auto_disable >/proc/acpi/ibm/video as root. Add this to /etc/conf.d/local.start to have it run on startup.

[edit] Framebuffer

Possible solutions:

• Use vesafb
• Use "video=intelfb vga=0x318" (Reported to work with gentoo-sources-2.6.23).

Framebuffer works also with tuxonice-sources-2.6.23-r10