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[edit] Notebook ASUS F3Ja

Work In Progressssss...

TODO:

  • Audio.... ALSA 1.0.14r2
  • Touchpad
  • Video Camera
  • Bluetooth
  • SD/MMC Card Reader
  • Suspend

[edit] Specification

http://www.asus.it/products.aspx?l1=5&l2=26&l3=316&model=1220&modelmenu=2

  • Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor T5500
  • Intel® 945PM Express Chipset
  • 15,4’ WXGA (1280x800) Color shine
  • 1GB DDR2 533MHz SDRAM
  • ATI Mobility Radeon X1600, 256MB VRAM
  • Intel® PRO/Wireless Intel Wireless 802.11a/b/g
  • Realtek 10/100,1000 LAN
  • Bluetooth v2.0 + EDR Module
  • 1.3M MegaPixel camera
  • Built-in Card Reader
  • NO TPM chip :) 
#lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) Serial ATA Storage Controller IDE (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M56P [Radeon Mobility X1600]
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 01)
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02)
06:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller
06:01.1 Class 0805: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19)
06:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0843 (rev 01)
06:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 0a)

[edit] Slackware 11 install

http://www.slackware.com/ ...you know how it works?

[edit] Kernel upgrade

cd /usr/src
tar jxvf linux-2.6.20.tar.bz2
cd tar jxvf linux-2.6.20.tar.bz2
make menuconfig

make clean
make bzImage && make modules && make modules_install
cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/bzImage-2.6.20-20070225 && cp System.map /boot/System.map-2.6.20-20070225 
unlink /boot/System.map && ln -s /boot/System.map-2.6.20-20070225 /boot/System.map
#vi /etc/lilo.conf
lilo

[edit] Ethernet

Realtek RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet

The Realtek drivers are not yet part of the last Linux kernel (2.6.20) download them from realtek site: http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=13&PFid=5&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false 

cd /usr/src
wget ftp://210.51.181.211/cn/nic/r1000_v1.05.tgz
tar -zxvf r1000_v1.05.tgz
cd r1000_v1.05
make clean modules
make install
depmod -a

[edit] Wireless

Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG

The drivers are not yet part of the last Linux kernel (2.6.20) download them from Intel site:

Recently (22/02/2007) new drivers have been published. Theese last drivers don't need the regulatory daemon. Don't follow instructions you can find on google about the old drivers.

Follow the HowTo on http://intellinuxwireless.org/?p=iwlwifi ...they are good! 

cd /usr/src

wget http://intellinuxwireless.org/d80211/downloads/d80211-1.0.1.tgz
tar xvf d80211-1.0.1.tgz
cd d80211-1.0.1 
make
make patch_kernel

cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.20
make menuconfig
#Networking -> <M> Generic IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack (dscape)
#nb. non attivare Enable led_triggers, nel mio portatile causano un kernel panic
make modules modules_install
modprobe 80211

cd /usr/src/
wget http://intellinuxwireless.org/iwlwifi/downloads/iwlwifi-ucode-2.14.1.tgz
tar xvf iwlwifi-ucode-2.14.1.tgz
cp iwlwifi-ucode-2.14.1/iwlwifi-3945.ucode /lib/firmware/

cd /usr/src/
wget http://intellinuxwireless.org/iwlwifi/downloads/iwlwifi-0.0.8.tgz
tar xvf iwlwifi-0.0.8.tgz
cd iwlwifi-0.0.8 
make
make install

...for WPA support use WPA supplicant (not tested yes...hope it works with IPW) 

cd /usr/src/
wget http://hostap.epitest.fi/releases/wpa_supplicant-0.5.7.tar.gz
tar zxvf wpa_supplicant-0.5.7.tar.gz
cd wpa_supplicant-0.5.7

echo 'CONFIG_DRIVER_HOSTAP=y
#CONFIG_DRIVER_HERMES=y
#CONFIG_DRIVER_MADWIFI=y
#CONFIG_DRIVER_ATMEL=y
#CONFIG_DRIVER_WEXT=y
CONFIG_DRIVER_NDISWRAPPER=y
#CONFIG_DRIVER_BROADCOM=y
CONFIG_DRIVER_IPW=y
#CONFIG_DRIVER_BSD=y
#CONFIG_DRIVER_NDIS=y
CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXTENSION=y
CONFIG_IEEE8021X_EAPOL=y
CONFIG_EAP_MD5=y
CONFIG_EAP_MSCHAPV2=y
CONFIG_EAP_TLS=y
CONFIG_EAP_PEAP=y
CONFIG_EAP_TTLS=y
CONFIG_EAP_GTC=y
CONFIG_EAP_OTP=y
CONFIG_EAP_SIM=y
CONFIG_EAP_AKA=y
CONFIG_EAP_PSK=y
CONFIG_EAP_SAKE=y
CONFIG_EAP_GPSK=y
CONFIG_EAP_PAX=y
CONFIG_EAP_LEAP=y
#CONFIG_PCSC=y
' > .config

make
cp wpa_cli wpa_supplicant /usr/local/bin

[edit] Video Card

ATI Radeon Mobility X1600 I suggest to use ATI "non free" drivers. ATI drivers are often a couple of kernel versions late (on last kernel the ATI modules doesn't compile) Download ATI installer from http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/linux/linux-radeon.html 

mkdir ati-drivers/
cd ati-drivers/
wget --no-check-certificate  https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/fglrx_6_8_0-8.34.8-1.i386.rpm
chmod +x ati-driver-installer-8.34.8-x86.x86_64.run
./ati-driver-installer-8.34.8-x86.x86_64.run

If you have an error compiling the module try with the expert installation: do not install the module and then follow the section below.

Download form the same site "X.Org 6.8 Drivers" and search a patch on google ATI+linux+2.6.20+8.34+patch 

wget --no-check-certificate https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ati-driver-installer-8.34.8-x86.x86_64.run
rpm2tgz fglrx_6_8_0-8.34.8-1.i386.rpm
tar -zxvf fglrx_6_8_0-8.34.8-1.i386.tgz
cd lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod
wget http://whoopie.gmxhome.de/linux/patches/2.6.20/fglrx-8.34.8-for-2.6.20.patch
patch -p0 firegl_public.c fglrx-8.34.8-for-2.6.20.patch
sh make.sh
cp fglrx.ko /lib/modules/2.6.20/
depmod -a

Configure Xorg with aticonfig 

aticonfig --initial --input=/etc/X11/xorg.conf

fglrxinfo should show ATI drivers 

display: :0.0  screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Mobility Radeon X1600
OpenGL version string: 2.0.6334 (8.34.8)

If fglrxinfo is not like above and if OpenGL is slow (glxgears should reach some thousands FPS) add these lines in /etc/X11/xorg.conf 

Section "DRI"
   Mode         0666
EndSection

also add the 1280x800 resolution in xorg.conf

[edit] Software ...and some packages

[edit] Swaret

As package manager I use Swaret - http://swaret.sourceforge.net/ 

wget http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/swaret/swaret-1.6.3-noarch-2.tgz
installpkg swaret-1.6.3-noarch-2.tgz
cp /etc/swaret.conf.new  /etc/swaret.conf

Edit /etc/swaret.conf setting you slackware version and your linuxpackages best mirror ( http://linuxpackages.net ) 

VERSION=10.1 -> VERSION=11.0
REPOS_ROOT=Inode.at%http://linuxpackages.inode.at/Slackware-11.0

Upgrade all your packages. 

swaret --update
swaret --upgrade

[edit] GNOME

I suggest dropline gnome installer 

wget http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/dropline-gnome/dropline-installer-2.16-i686-2dl.tgz
installpkg dropline-installer-2.16-i686-2dl.tgz
dropline-installer

...choose the packages you need: I usually prefer a minimal installation for GNOME libraries

[edit] Firefox and flash player

swaret --search firefox
swaret --install mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.1-i686-1
wget http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
tar -zxvf install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
chmod +x install_flash_player_9_linux/flashplayer-installer
install_flash_player_9_linux/flashplayer-installer
cd ..
rm -rf install_flash_player_9_linux*

[edit] The great COWSAY :)

cd /usr/src
wget http://www.nog.net/~tony/warez/cowsay-3.03.tar.GZ
tar zxvf http://www.nog.net/~tony/warez/cowsay-3.03.tar.GZ
cd cowsay-3.03
./install.sh

echo '
fortune fortunes fortunes2 linuxcookie | cowthink -W 90 -T " U"' >> ~/.profile

...or edit /etc/profile.d/bsd-games-login-fortune.sh

[edit] Qemu

swaret --search sdl
swaret --install sdl-1.2.11-i486-1

cd /usr/src
wget http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/qemu-0.8.2.tar.gz
tar -zxvf qemu-0.8.2.tar.gz
cd qemu-0.8.2
./configure
make
make install

cd /usr/src
wget http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/kqemu-1.3.0pre11.tar.gz
tar -zxvf kqemu-1.3.0pre11.tar.gz
rm -rf qemu-0.9.0*
cd kqemu-1.3.0pre11
./configure
make
make install


[edit] Openoffice

swaret --search openoffice
swaret --install openoffice.org-2.1.0-i586-1kjz

...for national dictionaries follow instructions on openoffice local site: http://it.openoffice.org/linguistico/index.html

[edit] mplayer

You can find it on linux packages... this section is just to remember dependencies and how to install some broken packages 

swaret --install libdvdcss
swaret --install libdvd
swaret --install libtheora
swaret --install speex
swaret --install jack
swaret --install faac
swaret --install libogg
swaret --install libpng
swaret --install libxmms

...this package doesn't work on Linuxpackages, do it yourself by hand 

swaret --install libmpcdec
swaret --remove libmpcdec-1.2.2-i686-1jto
wget http://mirrors.unixsol.org/linuxpackages//Slackware-11.0/ken/libmpcdec-1.2.5-i486-1kjz.tgz
installpkg libmpcdec-1.2.5-i486-1kjz.tgz
ldconfig

swaret --search mplayer
swaret --install MPlayer-codecs-essential-20061022-i686-1jto

...this package "try2" doesn't work on Linuxpackages... maybe a problem with filename... do it yourself by hand 

swaret --install mplayer-1.0rc1try2-i486-1kjz

[edit] other stuff 

swaret --install unrar-3.6.8-i486-1kjz

[edit] Author

  • Ilias Bartolini

[edit] Thank's to

  • People who share information on Internet
  • Google
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