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TravelMate

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Does not work

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Model	SUSE Linux Release	Hardware Support									Remark:
		Video			Sound	Network		Bluetooth	Power Management	Other
		2D	3D	TVout		Wired	Wireless
Travelmate 220	10.2									modem
Travelmate 6292	10.3									modem	I changed manually the xorg configuration to support 3D video.
Travelmate 613TXV	10.0									modem
Travelmate 800	10.0-RC1
Travelmate 803	10.0
Travelmate 290	10.2						using ipw2100 driver
TravelMate 2310	10.0 - 10.2						using madwifi			Modem not tested	acerhk not supported sisctrl for VGA output 3D not supported
Travelmate 2350	9.3									modem	HDD supports udma5 (ATA100), but no matter what use udma2 (ATA33)
TravelMate 2410	10.0-RC1		never tested		a little flaky at times		ndiswrapper			modem (not tested) media keys suspend to RAM	Neither 9.2 nor 9.3 could detect the HD, but 10.0-RC installed flawlessly and worked quite well for a year until upgrading to 10.2
TravelMate 2410	10.2		not tested		works great		ndiswrapper (Linux driver supplied but requires vendor firmware)			modem (not tested) media keys suspend to RAM (not tested)	Had to add bcm43xx driver to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist before ndiswrapper would work.
TravelMate 2413NLMi	10.1						using madwifi				Works like a charm minus minor hiccups.
TravelMate 2413WLMi	10.2						with madwifi			modem	Working well out of the box
TravelMate 2420	10.1		had to choose 3D during installation					detected but not tested		modem media keys with xmodmap suspend to ram	Works beautifully.
TravelMate 2490	11.0							NA to my serial number of TM2490		media keys with xmodmap suspend to ram Modem	Works well, also with OS 10.2 and 10.3 previously. Had to install WLAN(Atheros) by hand in each case.
TravelMate 3000	10.1							detected but not tested		modem	Installs and works beautifully.
Travelmate 3260	10.2 10.3						using ipw3945 driver				works great
Travelmate 4002LMI	9.3/10.0		(With ATI Driver)						Only after fixing buggy DSDT	Modem via smartlink-softmodem FireWire and IrDA	Full Details(German,Suse 9.3)
Travelmate 4100WMLi	10.0	with Driver from ATI							Suspend to Disk Power Button shutdown	Modem not tested FireWire IrDA not tested	2D only works after install of "official" ATi drivers, until then you can only use Run Level 3. Install possible if you already own one, but not for beginners, avoid buying for Linux use.
Travelmate 4151	10.0									modem	I didn't deal with many things but as I think its fully supported ....
TravelMate 4152LMi	10.2								Seems to work(?)	modem irda pcmcia 6-in-1 cardreader	3d accel is disabled by default. When you activate it it works fine.
Travelmate 4200WMLi	10.0									Modem not tested FireWire not tested IrDA not tested
Travelmate 4400WMLi	11.0		with ATI through Yast							Modem not tested FireWire not tested IrDA not tested Card Reader	Had to manually enable wireless card, but kernel support was out of box. Machine is a little slow to run KDE 4.0
Travelmate 4600	10.0		(With ATI Driver)				(see below)			Modem FireWire IrDA
Travelmate 4670	10.1						Used add on media for Intel wireless.			Modem Firewire IrDA	Overall this is a very functional laptop, works well with 10.1 and super quick.
Travelmate 5612	10.2									Modem	for details on power management setup.
Travelmate 5623WSMi	10.3									Modem PCMCIA Card-reader	See NVidia Suspend HOWTO to configure suspend to HDD
Travelmate 8204	10.2	With ATI Driver								Modem untested FireWire IrDA	ATI Driver has problems when installing. Got with working X.org 6.8, not 7.1...

Aspire 1xxx

Model	SUSE Linux Release	Hardware Support									Remark:
		Video			Sound	Network		Blue tooth	Power Management	Other
		2D	3D	TVout		Wired	Wireless
Aspire 150L	11.0						madwifi			Suspend to ram Suspend to disk	Issues with card-reader and wireless, s2ram needs --force, see below
Aspire 1300	11.0									Suspend to ram Suspend to disk Touchpad	Hotkeys Mail and Webbrowser work with package acerhk installed (but not P1 and P2)
Aspire 1362LC	10.2									modem IrDA	Experienced display problems (slowness, etc) after installing openSUSE 10.2. Resolved the issue by performing following steps: 1. Installed the driver for the "S3 Unichrome Pro" graphics card (available here), 2. In /etc/X11/xorg.conf, changed the Driver value of the "Device" section to "via".
Aspire 1400	10.0-Beta2									modem	You can say: fully supported, I guess the modem will be fixed
Aspire 1511LMi	10.1		nVidia driver				ndiswrapper			Modem Suspend to ram Suspend to disk
Aspire 1522WLMi	10.3		nVidia driver							Modem Suspend to ram Suspend to disk	Suspend to ram will work with 'nv' driver only
Aspire 1524WLMi	10.2		nVidia driver							Modem
Aspire 1642WLMi	10.1									modem
Aspire 1644WLMi	10.2		3D Desktop Effects not working							modem	Soft modem Conexant chip.(Major shortcomings in Linux distributions that they did not support soft modems.The modem driver of this chip set is sold by linuxant.com)
Aspire 1681	9.3								Only after fixing buggy DSDT		Full details
	10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3								See below more info	Modem
Aspire 1690WLMi (DDR2)	10.2		(With ATi Driver)				with firmware update for intel chip	not tested		Modem not tested yet
Aspire 1694WLMi	10.0		(With ATi Driver)						See Below	Modem not tested yet

Aspire >1xxx

Model	SUSE Linux Release	Hardware Support									Remark:
		Video			Sound	Network		Blue tooth	Power Management	Other
		2D	3D	TVout		Wired	Wireless
Aspire 3002 LC	10.0								Only after fixing buggy DSDT	Modem not tested yet
Aspire 3002 LCi	10.0						ndiswrapper bcmwl5a.inf			Modem not tested yet
Aspire 3003 LC	10.3									Modem not tested yet
Aspire 3003 LMi	10.0-RC1						ndiswrapper		Only after fixing buggy DSDT	Modem
Aspire 3012 WTMi	10.1				(with last alsa package)		with ipw3945			Modem IrDA Webcam Cards reader
Aspire 3503 WLCi	10.2									Modem IrDA
Aspire 3506 WLCi	11.0
Aspire 3610	10.1						using madwifi				Had to use the safe graphical mode during installation or the screen skewed. Apart from that, works great!
Aspire 3613WLMi	10.3 (32bit)						with ndiswrapper			Full DVD-RW support	Everything that was compatible was detected during installation, though the wireless still needed to be configure to use ndiswrapper and now uses eth0 with the LAN port using eth1. For some reason the provided drivers don't work. This laptop also works well when connected to a Digital Projector for presentations. 3D desktop is supported out the box.
Aspire 3624 WXCi	10.3						with madwifi		Suspend to disk Suspend to RAM Power button shutdown	Modem requires Linuxant driver	Suspend to RAM must be enabled manually.
	11.0						with madwifi		Suspend to disk Suspend to RAM Power button shutdown	Modem	"Just plain works" with openSUSE 11.0.
Aspire 3680-2682	10.3 (x86) 32bit			not yet tested	specify acer as model in sound hardware config		Madwifi 5007eg snapshot			Modem	Despite being marked as having an Atheros AR5BXB63 chip for wireless it appears that the Madwifi snapshot used for the 5007eg chip works perfectly. Use the instructions at the Madwifi site for Atheros 5007eg. Sound hardware must have option model=acer (default is null) which may be configured at install or in YaST after install.
Aspire 4930g	11.1 (x86) 32bit			HDMI-out not yet tested	works best with latest alsa drivers		Intel (iwlagn)		Suspend to RAM Suspend to disk Display brightness	Webcam (uvcvideo) Cardreader Fingerprint reader (libfprint) Modem (not tested) Infrared CIR	Works out of the box with Opensuse 11.1. Nevertheless, older Opensuse versions will have troubles with wireless card because not yet supported in older kernel versions (iwlagn). The fingerprint reader is supported by libfprint, but I didn't get to make it work with yast and pam.
Aspire 5002 WLMi	10.2 (x86) 32bit		not yet tested				Broadcom			Modem	No real problems except getting wireless to work. Wireless works using bcm43xx-fwcutter. Could not get 3-D video working correctly.
Aspire 5003 WLMi	10.2 (x86) 32bit		not yet tested				Broadcom			Modem	No real problems except getting wireless to work. Wireless works using bcm43xx-fwcutter. Power Management shows 1 minute as 1%, which is incorrect. Also shows laptop charges from 3% to 100% in 4 minutes (I wish).
Aspire 5004 WLMi	10.2 (x86)		not yet tested				Broadcom			Modem	No real problems except getting wireless to work. Wireless works great with ndiswrapper or using a newer kernel and the bcm43xx-fwcutter method. Can not find 3d drivers for sis video card.
Aspire 5051 AWXMi	10.2 (x86_64)	Dual-head support out of the box	not yet tested	not tested			madwifi and ndiswrapper works (for the broadcom versions)	detected but not tested		Modem Card reader Camera (not tested)	Some odd ATA and ALSA error messages on boot, but works well. To correct the S-ATA message recompile the kernel and opt-out no support for SiliconImage3112. The hard drive is a PATA one but obviously there is some modified SATA chip (ATi 4379) in the motherboard. It is useless. Look http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html#ati4379 and http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html#sil for more info.
Aspire 5052NWXMi	10.2 (x86_64)		not yet tested	not tested	Built-in mic does not work. Alsa behaves weirdly			detected but not tested		Modem Card reader Webcam	Some odd ATA and ALSA error messages on boot, but works well.
Aspire 5100-5232	10.2 x86	Dual-head support out of the box	w/ ATI Driver	not tested			madwifi	Has Bluetooth button!?	Not fully tested	Modem Webcam Card reader	Some odd ATA and ALSA error messages on boot, but works!
Aspire 5100-5674	11.0 (x86_64)	Dual-head support out of the box	w/ ATI Driver				w/ b43 driver			Modem Webcam	LCD Brightness and Volume Fn-Keys work.
Aspire 5102WLMi	10.2 (x86_64)						madwifi		not fully tested	modem cardreader camera	Also some ALSA error messages on boot. Most of the Fn-key functions work.
Aspire 5113WLMi	10.3 (x86_64)						madwifi		not fully tested	modem cardreader camera IrDA	Most of the Fn-key functions work.
Aspire 5220	11.1 (x86x32)								i haven't tried suspend-to-disk yet, but suspend-to-ram works fine	cardreader not tested	Everything was working great since the first install, all the hardware was detected correctly. The correct screen resolution came up right after the first online update and system restart, thus no issues at all!
Aspire 5315 051G08Mi	10.3			not tested			ndiswrapper needed. see also http://johnbokma.com/mexit/2007/12/29/. follow the guidelines and use the driver, and it will work.			modem not tested	new ALSA drivers (1.0.15) needed for sound to work (www.alsa-project.org).
Aspire 5315 051G08Mi	11.1			not tested						modem not tested	Everything worked out of the box
Aspire 5504 WXMi	10.2		(With ATI Driver)							Modem IrDA Cards reader	You can't install SuSE 10.x in graphic mode on this laptop. Choose your monitor as Acer Aspire 55s, 14.1 TFT and 1280x800, restart and it can enter X!
Aspire 5520-401G12Mi	10.3 x86_64		With NVIDIA driver		Requires ALSA 1.0.15		See HCL (Atheros 5007)		Suspend to disk PowerNow!	Card reader (SD) Webcam (uvcvideo) Firewire Modem	Can be made to work if you update ALSA to 1.0.15 or later. Disabling persistent network device naming is suggested. Modem may work with Linuxant driver. Using openSUSE 11.0 instead is recommended.
	11.0 x86_64		With NVIDIA driver				See HCL (Atheros 5007)		Suspend to RAM Suspend to disk Set display brightness PowerNow!	Card reader (SD) Webcam (uvcvideo) Firewire Modem	Modem may work with Linuxant driver. Disabling persistent network device naming is suggested.
Aspire 5520-402G16Mi	11.1 x86_64		(with nvidia driver)	not tested				using LowCost-USB-stick	Power button shutdown	Modem IrDA Cardreader Camera (uvcvideo)	ToDo --Extra-buttons without function If no poweroff after shutdown kerneloption 'acpi_skip_timer_override' helps
Aspire 5570-4421	10.2										WLAN needs ipw3495 v1.2.1+ to avoid "killswitch" issue. Screen resolution of 1280x800 (or other WXGA) must be set using 915resolution and a boot.local entry.
Aspire 5580	10.2							not tested	Suspend to disk works fine, suspend to RAM does not	Modem and IrDA not tested Cards reader does not work	To get 1280x800 resolution in openSUSE 10.2, had to Patch_the_Video_BIOS.
Aspire 5630WLMI nvidia go 7300	10.2		(with nvidia driver)					not tested		Modem and IrDA not tested	other: for sniffing on wireless network you have to recompile ipw3945 module. For have a correct visualization in xorg start X from cdm with -- -dpi 96 options. (startx -- -dpi 96)
Aspire 5720 with NVIDIA GF8400 GS	11.1		(with nvidia driver)	not tested			(Intel Pro/Wireless 3945ABG with native driver)		suspend to disk works suspend to ram works with s2ram -f, but sometimes fails to wake up	webcam card reader (tested with SD) Modem and IrDA not tested	touchpad works strange... some hotkeys such as Empowering Technology don't work
Aspire 5720z Intel GM965 Express LX.ALA0C.002 PMD-T2310 15" 2048MB 160GB 07-November-2008	11.0			not tested			Atheros 5007EG (AR5BXB63) madwifi for atheros 5007eg, kernel 2.6.25.16-0.1-pae Common link: http://en.opensuse.org/Atheros_madwifi Before installation disable original modules: 1. blacklist ath5k, add the line "blacklist ath5k" to the end of file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist 2.->rmmod ath5k 3.->rmmod mac80211, rmmod cfg80211 After installation: 4.->modprobe ath_pci if ath_pci module will not load automatically: yast-system-sysconfig editor-system-kernel-modules loaded on boot -> ath_pci control: ->lspci / grep ath Installation: a. Search http://software.opensuse.org/search for madwifi-kmp-pae (madwifi-kmp-default, etc) b. select according to kernel version: mine section was - madwifi-kmp-pae home:schmolle1980/openSUSE_11.0_Update or home:schmolle1980/openSUSE_11.0 kernel modules for atheros cards snapshot c. install madwifi-kmp-pae-r3725+AR5007EG_<your kernel version>.i586.rpm WiFi LEDs blinking http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/EnableLEDs		suspend to disk works suspend to ram works eventually, try: create (or open) a file named config in the /etc/pm/config.d directory, add the following line: S2RAM_OPTS="-f" http://en.opensuse.org/S2ram http://en.opensuse.org/Pm-utils#Configuration	webcam http://en.opensuse.org/Webcam, then http://en.opensuse.org/UVC_Webcams Installation 1. Open Yast-Software Management 2. Search for 'UVC' 3. Install 'uvcvideo-kmp-default' and 'luvcview'. Luvcview is known to work with the UVC driver 4. Reboot ->linux-pnux:/etc/X11 # lsusb Bus 007 Device 002: ID 064e:a101 Suyin Corp. HP Pavilion dv9640us WebCam check support: http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/#devices 064e:a101 Acer CrystalEye webcam (Acer notebooks)SuYin card reader (tested with MMS) Modem and IrDA not tested	* No wireless connections after s2ram, s2disk, must reactivate network via "yast-network devices-network settings-finish" w/out real changes: create (or open) a file named config in the /etc/pm/config.d directory, add the following line: SUSPEND_MODULES="ath_pci" * Touchpad works after parameters tunning. Part of xorg.conf: Section "InputDevice" Driver "synaptics" Identifier "Mouse[3]" Option "AccelFactor" "0.10" Option "Buttons" "7" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on" Option "EmulateMidButtonTime" "75" Option "InputFashion" "Mouse" Option "MaxSpeed" "0.90" Option "MinSpeed" "0.15" Option "Name" "ALPS;Touchpad" Option "Protocol" "auto-dev" Option "SHMConfig" "on" Option "SendCoreEvents" "on" Option "TapButton1" "1" Option "TapButton2" "3" Option "TapButton3" "2" Option "TopEdge" "50" Option "Vendor" "Sysp" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "MaxTapTime" "180" EndSection * Fn keys, Empowering Technology button not tested
Aspire 5720z Intel T2390 Graphic X3100 2048MB 160GB 28-March-2009	11.1									webcam http://en.opensuse.org/Webcam, then http://en.opensuse.org/UVC_Webcams card reader (tested with MMS) Modem and IrDA not tested	Fn keys, Empowering Technology button work
Aspire 5920	11.1			not tested			not tested	not tested		fn keys gsm connection through mobile phone runs ok but the connection must be established with phone function not through opensuse tools	some fn keys run ok, other run with klineakconfig tool and lineak daemon empowering technology fn-keys don't run
Aspire 7730ZG	11.1		(with nvidia driver)							Modem and IrDA not tested. Bluetooth device should be built in but is not detected (neither lspci nor lsusb)
Aspire 9413ZWSMi nvidia go 7300	10.3							not tested		Modem and IrDA not tested
Aspire 9802	11.0				2.1 sound. See remarks					tbd	Sound (ALC883): latest alsa-1.0.17rc3 /etc/modprobe.d/sound option model=medion

Aspire One

Model	SUSE Linux Release	Hardware Support									Remark:
		Video			Sound	Network		Blue tooth	Power Management	Other
		2D	3D	TVout		Wired	Wireless
Aspire one AOA150_1	11.1									Suspend to ram Suspend to disk	the only issue is the noisy fan, fix here, no needs to follow other infos on that page. Allso see OpenSUSE_on_the_Aspire_One

Ferrari

Model	SUSE Linux Release	Hardware Support									Remark:
		Video			Sound	Network		Blue tooth	Power Management	Other
		2D	3D	TVout		Wired	Wireless
Ferrari 3200	10.2
Ferrari 4005WLMi	10.1		(With ATI Driver)						Only after fixing buggy DSDT
Ferrari 4006WLMi	10.3 (AMD64)		(With ATI Driver)				bug#331938		The DSDT is buggy, but there is a canonical fix		Haven't spent time exploiting power management features.
Ferrari 5005WLMi	11.0 (AMD64)		(With ATI Driver)

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Works to some extent

Does not work

Not Tested

Not Applicable

Extensa

Model	SUSE Linux Release	Hardware Support									Remark:
		Video			Sound	Network		Blue tooth	Power Management	Other
		2D	3D	TVout		Wired	Wireless
Extensa 3001WLMi	10.0										Driver for ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 (X700) needed! LAN and WLAN not tested yet.
Extensa 5620	10.3									SD Cardreader	Intel graphics (X3100) worked out of the box with XGL. A quick rundown of what worked for me... 1)Run Sax2 ... Enable the 3d checkbox. 2)Open Yast and goto --> "/etc/sysconfig Editor" turn xgl on. 3)Use the one click install for Compiz fusion. XGL performs well and most effects work.Great cheap laptop to run Vista and Linux!
Extensa 4420	11.0										Have installed 64bit OpenSuSE 11.0. Sound ok but not tested. Wlan b43 and eth0 sky2 ok. Video ATI X1250 used ati installer 8.2 for 3D. Not fully tested. The TV out s-video does work but only with pluging in s-video cable then booting so the system mirrors if you want a big desktop "extended mode" then it helps if you have the ATI Catalyst control center which can be downloaded for openSUSE on ati.amd.com other than that the system is great and only took me 6 seconds to log on in 64-bit version windows will never beat that so do as instructed by the openSUSE team and Have a lot of fun! [edit] : 14-April-2009 : A Different user (iloveads47): Hello World! It took me quite a long time to get the wireless up and running, and I still haven't messed with the video card too much. It is clearly doable (absolute n00b as of a 36 hours ago) and it already feels very fast compared to vista. It seems that my laptop had a Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01) wireless card, with PCID : 14e4:4315, which is not supported by the manufacturer or the open drivers at http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43. Instead I had to install ndiswrapper from the installation DVD [the command is sudo zypper install ndiswrapper], and then used the command "ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf" inside a folder into which I extracted from this archive "http://www.mediafire.com/?zyjnqmklzm1." I also blacklisted bcm43xx. I installed WiFiRadar and had to fiddle a tad with the wireless settings (probably the hardest part of this). Some tips for the wifi can be found here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?s=3e8afb1d045e0717af60e35da35d1ccd&t=769990 ; These are not 100% correct, since it was written for Ubuntu, but they give a good idea of what you want to do. Next I will try ndiswrapper with the official Acer Drivers to see if it works any better. Oh, and my firewall is off right now, I hope it works when I turn it back on. The autoconfiguration incorrectly indentified my soundcard, but sound still works, mysteriously. At bootup it gives a message that it's falling back to default. Haven't installed the proper graphics yet, but it already looks quite good (fingers crossed!) I installed Ubuntu in the space that was used for the Acer recovery partition with a 2GB ext partition. I personally think thats a much better usage of that space. P.S. I don't think the wireless setup process is going to be any easier with another distribution, because there is currently no open driver available.

Legend:

Works to some extent

Does not work

Not Tested

Not Applicable

Acer Aspire 150L

The Acer Aspire 150L is a netbook that comes with a 120GByte harddisk drive and pre-installed linpus linux. The desktop looks fancy, however, I missed many applications and therefore decided to install opensuse 11.0 because I am very familiar with it. Some issues have to be taken care of, though, so I will report here what I did and what remains difficult.

Prior to start the installation of opensuse it is a good idea to save the directory /etc from the original distribution. Many of the hints you find below are simply excerpts out of the scripts in /etc/init.d of the original distribution.

1.) INSTALLATION you need a bootable USB-Stick in order to boot. A very good guide how to create such one can be found on http://en.opensuse.org/SuSE_install_from_USB_drive. Which image you use depends on your options, I used the small netinstall image that suited me fine. A USB DVDROM and Installation disc also work nicely if you have them at your disposal.

2.) WLAN opensuse 11.0 does not support WLAN on this device out of the box. Neither does opensuse 11.1 if you want to use a decent encryption. It is unstable and broken. The usage of the Madwifi drivers does not work in conjunction with the r8169 lan driver that comes with the kernel. Having loaded the r8169 module and the ath_pci in parallel will cause severe data corruption when transferring larger chunks of data via wlan. Ndiswrapper is the option to realize a stable wifi interconnect in conjunction with the r8169 module. Alternatively you can use the madwifi drivers - however, not those supported from opensuse as they are outdated with regard to the wlan chip on the laptop. I found a significant time delay between system restart and wlan functionality when using ndiswrapper.

First we need to install a few things:

zypper install ndiswrapper

You will also need to download and extract the windows driver from here: http://www.atheros.cz/download.php?atheros=AR5007EG&system=1 YOU NEED VERSION 6.0.3.85, the newer versions do NOT work using ndiswrapper as supplied with openSUSE 11.1 (or 11.0, respectively).

If you want to use a more recent version you have to build and install ndiswrapper-1.54, it works with the latest win XP driver that can be downloaded from Acer directly (Wireless_Atheros_v.7.6.0.264.zip)

Save the file xp32-6.0.3.85.zip to a folder called ndis then

cd ndis
unzip xp32-6.0.3.85.zip

Now we need to install the ndis driver from inside the ndis directory or use the full path.

ndiswrapper -i net5416.inf
ndiswrapper -m

You can check to make sure it's installed

ndiswrapper -l

If you start yast2 now and go to the network configuration, you can configure the wlan card and enter "ndiswrapper" as the module to be used in the hardware configuration section. This being done there is no need to manually load ndiswrapper.

You will need to blacklist the ath5k , ath_pci, and ath_hal (whichever you have installed if any) add

#disable default ath5k driver and any drivers from madwifi 
blacklist ath5k
blacklist ath_pci
blacklist ath_hal

to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

Reboot. You should have a properly working wlan now.

dmesg | grep ndiswrapper

if you need to troubleshoot.

To make the NET-Activity led on the front functional, two commands have to be issued:

sysctl -w dev.wifi0.ledpin=3
sysctl -w dev.wifi0.softled=1

both commands can be written into /etc/init.d/boot.local to be performed automatically. This does not work when using ndiswrapper.

The WIFI-kill switch uses the following commands, so you might want to put them into /etc/init.d/boot.local, too:

/bin/setkeycodes e055 159
/bin/setkeycodes e056 158

3.) CARD-Reader This one is somewhat tricky. First of all, one module should be blacklisted in order to prevent the system from hanging if a SD-Card resides in either the right or the left side card-slot. The line:

blacklist jmb38x_ms

should be entered in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist. The system will behave strange and instable if that module gets loaded. As a next step you need to load the module pciehp but you should initialize the device on the pci-bus accordingly before. So you should write:

/sbin/setpci -d 197b:2381 AE=47
/sbin/modprobe pciehp

into /etc/profile.local. But we are not done, yet. You will find that the cardreader works if the card is located in the card-slot during boot, but it does not work if not (always referring to the card reader on the right side of the netbook). But there is a solution. Create a script 81-mmc-config.rules and put it into /etc/udev/rules.d. It should contain the following line:

#/etc/udev/rules.d/81-mmc-config.rules
KERNEL=="mmc1", RUN+="/sbin/setpci -d 197b:2381 AE=47"

Now, if you boot without card and insert it, nothing happens (apparently). But if you unplug the card once and plug it back in, it will be detected the card will be mounted (if you want to) and everything should work as expected. I took me some time with udev to find this, and be assured I will publish it if I find a way how to avoid the plug-unplug-plug sequence.

4.) Graphics Nothing special here. Install opensuse, start sax2, choose the resolution 1024x600, activate 3D, save setup and you are done. Touchpad is just working without special efforts.

If this does not work for you as it did not for me run yast and go to system >> /etc/sysconfig editor >> desktop >> display manager >> displaymanager_randr_mode_auto value and change it to:

1024X600_60 48.96 1024 1064 1168 1312 600 601 604 622 -hsync -vsync

5.) Suspend Initially suspend did not work. This was caused by the fact that the Aspire 150L is not whitelisted as yet. After I found that it simply works when calling s2ram --force, I patched "suspend" accordingly:

suspend-0.80-whitelist-A150.diff:

--- whitelist.c.original        2008-08-17 00:30:55.000000000 +0200
+++ whitelist.c 2008-08-17 00:30:55.000000000 +0200  
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@
        { "Apple Computer, Inc.",       "MacBookPro2,2",        "",     "", VBE
        /* Tilman Vogel <tilman.vogel@web.de>, only works from X */
        { "Apple Inc.",                 "MacBookPro4,1",        "",     "", 0 }
+       /* Dr. Ing. Dieter Jurzitza */
+       { "Acer",                       "AOA150",               "",     "", 0 }
        /* Felix Rommel, https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=228572 */
        { "Acer,Inc.",                  "Aspire 1350",          "",     "", VBE
        /* Simon Bachmann <simonbachmann@bluewin.ch> works with proprietary ATI

I guess that the A110 is called AOA110 - therefore it probably makes sense to write something like "AOA1*. I leave this to the experienced :-).

5.) Suspend Alternative Configuration

For those of you that do not wish to patch and recompile for proper suspend support you can simply add a file called "config" to /etc/pm/config.d/ with the following

S2RAM_OPTS="-f"

This will simply force the suspend regardless of the white listed vendors.

6.) LAN

I experienced buggy performance from the default r8169 module included. This was even more of an issue for me after getting the wlan to work and using suspend. I opted to use the open source driver release by the manufacturer which seems much more stable.

First we need a few things

zypper install gcc make automake linux-kernel-headers kernel-source

The download the drive source from one of Realtek's mirrors

ftp://61.56.86.122/cn/nic/r8101-1.009.00.tar.bz2
ftp://152.104.238.19/cn/nic/r8101-1.009.00.tar.bz2
ftp://210.51.181.211/cn/nic/r8101-1.009.00.tar.bz2

or browse to them yourself

http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=14&PFid=7&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3

But watchout. The latest realtek drivers (version 1.011 as of this writing) are broken. They load smoothly and apparently run flawlessly but cannot be unloaded (system hang on ifdown ethX or / and rmmod r8101). So, _do not_ use a more recent r8101 module then version 1.010 for now.

Now that we have the files we need to make sure that the default r8169 module is not loaded

lsmod | grep r8169
rmmod r8169

I added mine to the blacklist to make certain I don't have any issues with it loading

blacklist r8169

in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist .

Change to the directory to where you downloaded the driver source file from above and

tar xvjf r8101-1.009.00.tar.bz2
cd r8101-1.009.00
make clean modules
make install
depmod -a
insmod ./src/r8101.ko

You can check to see whether the driver is loaded with

lsmod | grep r8101
ifconfig -a

All done. When you upgrade your kernel you will have to repeat this process so it might be a good idea to keep a copy of this driver source tarball.

r8169 (at least version 1.010) does not suspend / resume cleanly. In order to achieve this, you should create an entry in /etc/pm/sleep.d to cope with this:

/etc/pm/sleep.d/05r8101:

CUTCUTCUTCUTCUTCUTCUTCUTCUTCUTCUTCUTCUTCUTCUTCUTCUTCUTCUTCUTCUTCUTCUTCUT
#!/bin/bash

. /usr/lib/pm-utils/functions

case "$1" in
       hibernate|suspend)
               ifdown eth0
               rmmod r8101
               ;;
       thaw|resume)
               modprobe r8101
               ifup eth0
               ;;
       *)
               ;;
esac

exit $?
CUTCUTCUTCUTCUTCUTCUTCUTCUTCUTCUTCUTCUTCUTCUTCUTCUTCUTCUTCUTCUTCUTCUTCUT

finally this file should be made executable (chmod 0755 /etc/pm/sleep.d/05r8101)

7.) Keyboard You will find that all keys of the keyboard are functional - but the one for switching video output. As I want to be able to use my Netbook for presentations and similar issues, I went for a solution for this.

First of all you need to install xbindkeys. You can download it from openSUSE for your distribution: ftp://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/X11:/Utilities

You might want to add this repository to your set of repositories for your distribution. After installing it, we have to find out the key that is issued when pressing FN-F5:

<ONGOING WORK>

Acer Travelmate 2420

I chose 3D acceleration during the installation process and the laptop worked perfectly.

I have not tested bluetooth or the modem.

To make the media keys work I created a text file called /usr/local/share/xmodmap.custom containing:

keycode 160 = XF86AudioMute
keycode 174 = XF86AudioLowerVolume
keycode 176 = XF86AudioRaiseVolume
keycode 223 = XF86Sleep
keycode 236 = XF86Mail

and then I added the line:

xmodmap /usr/local/share/xmodmap.custom

to the /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc file in the section marked "Add your own lines here"

Acer Aspire 1681WMLi

Battery indication doesn't work unless you fix the DSDT. This is a bit tricky, but you can just download mine.

1. Download the fixed and compiled DSDT file (only use this file on an Aspire 1681WMLi) from here:DSDT.aml.
   

1. Copy the file DSDT.aml to:
   /etc/acpi/
2. Update /etc/sysconfig/kernel with the path to the DSDT file:
   ACPI_DSDT="/etc/acpi/DSDT.aml"
3. Run:
   mkinitrd.
4. Reboot.

Acer TravelMate 4060

OpenSuse 10.1 (Acer TM 4060)

• works fine with 1280x800 video mode
• dual head works in clone mode only
• network:
  1. WiFi works, but eth0 (wired) and eth1 (wireless) are sometimes detected swapped and then the network does not work at all.
     • Workaround: wired is enabled on boot and wireless is in manual mode. There are no problems with it.
  2. Wired eth0 does not work if it is unplugged during boot (maybe a configuration problem).
• Sound is OK.

OpenSuse 10.2 (Acer TM 4060)

• 1280x800 did not work after install (1024x748 was OK). The 915resolution package was installed by default, and I had to copy the /etc/sysconfig/videobios file from the OpenSuse 10.1 installation to get the 1280x800 mode work. See Patch_the_Video_BIOS for details.
• Both wired ethernet and WLAN work, and can be switched dynamically.
• Sound is OK.
• Dual head works in clone mode, even Xinerama (MergedFB) is working to some extent.
  1. Xinerama startup (DDC) detects the built-in LCD twice (instead of detecting the built-in LCD as monitor0 and the external display as monitor1)
     • Can not use those the modes of the external monitor, that are not supported by the built-in LCD
     • The external monitor can get out-of-range video signal (e.g. my Acer AL1711 can not use 1280x800)
     • Workaround: for the external monitor, select the best mode, that is common for the built-in and the external monitor (1024x768@60, in my case)
  2. After reboot, the Xinerama falls back to 2x640x480 (in fact the same, but slightly different if the external display is connected during the BIOS init)
     • Workaround#1: reset Xinerama before shutdown or reboot (e.g. save and restore your single head /etc/X11/xorg.conf)
     • Workaround#2: before using, configure Xinerama interactively and test it, in order to initialize everything correctly
  3. After several configuration changes and tests, the X server and even text mode may fail; probably the video chip is left in a mixed-up state. Reboot helps (Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to shut down the X server, Ctrl-Alt-Del to reboot). Then you can configure or restore a saved /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

Acer TravelMate 4600

WLAN with 'restricted key' didn't work.

Fixed by editing /etc/modprobe.d/ipw2200:

Changed

options ipw2200 hwcrypto=0 led=1

to

options ipw2200 auto_create=0 led=1

Acer TravelMate 4200WMLi

Use vga=792 kernel parameter for 1024x768 to work around the 800x600 default. I selected an LCD monitor that had a 1280x800@60Hz to get the 1024x768 resolution to work correctly. Still investigating the WXGA workaround for 1280x800.

Intel 3945ABG driver project on Sourceforge [1] although there hasn't been much activity in the forums.

Acer Extensa (TravelMate) 4100WMLI

Install works fine (chooses 800x600 graphics mode for install). However when it sets up the graphics card, 10.0 correctly detects the Radeon Mobility X700 PCIe chipset and the QDS QuantaDisplay monitor, but the OSS Radeon driver cannot do anything with the chipset. After initial reboot you end up with a blank screen. You need to switch to a text console and install the ATi fglrx driver and edit the graphic device section in /etc/X11/xorg.conf file to use "fglrx" instead of "radeon", then you will have full 2D/3D capability.

The good news is that Wireless and pretty much everything not ATi X700 related works out of the box, shutdown with power button etc.

Update: The May release of the ATi drivers has brought full 3D support for my Mobility X700 chipset, running glxgears has bumped the fps from 157 to around 4,300fps, a vast improvement!

Step-By-Step for ATi fglrx install:

You need to finish the basic installation before you can proceed with the instructions below. Also, if you do not have a second PC to download the drivers with, download them first! (If you are downloading them on the laptop, then I assume you are dual-booting with Windows, the Windows drive should be mounted read-only after the SUSE install, otherwise burn them to a CD or copy them to a USB stick.)

NOTE: This guide describes installing the drivers under SUSE Linux 10.0. If you are using an older or newer version, the ATi package you download will need to be the one for your version of Xorg, or you will need to download the generic .run file and build the drivers for your version (in this case, you will also need to install the Kernel source packages).

Pre-Install

1. Go to the ATi website and download the ATi package for Xorg 6.8 32-bit RPM or Xorg 6.8 64-bit RPM.
   If you have a chipset other than Radeon 8500+ or Xn00 chipset, then please check out Clicky for the full list of drivers.
   NOTE: Currently (Feb 2006) there is no support for X1nnn series chipsets or graphics cards, in this case, you will have to find a supported card or chipset (E.g. older ATi chipsets or nVidia)
2. Store the package in a place where it will be accessible from SUSE 10.0 once it is installed
   Either in a partition which won't be overwritten, on a network share (E.g. NFS, FTP or SMB) or burn it to CD or copy it to a USB stick etc.
3. Make sure you have installed the Kernel Source packages using YaST, and if there have been any Kernel updates, make sure to re-run the updates to download the latest sources!

During Install

1. When the installation is nearly complete, you will be presented with a screen for configuring devices connected to your system. The first entry will be your video card and monitor.
2. Write down the model name of the card that SUSE has detected, you will need this in the next section!
3. If SUSE proposes some strange monitor name, such as "QDS QuantaDisplay", do not change this, SUSE does know what it is talking about.
4. Select the correct resolution for your display panel - this will save some hassle later.

Post-Install

1. After installation has finished and the system has restarted, you will probably be confronted by a blank screen.
   Press Alt+Ctrl+F2 to switch to a text console.
2. Log into a console as root using the password you defined during the install.
3. Issue an "init 3" command to terminate the current X session which is running on the "blank" screen.
4. (optional) Mount the media where the ATi RPM is located if it hasn't been automatically mounted.
5. Change to the directory where the ATi RPM is stored.
6. Type rpm -iU fglrx_6_8_0-8.22.5-1.i386.rpm
   NOTE: That is the correct file name at the time of writing, if ATi has updated the package name, you will need to change the command line accordingly. Tip: type in just fglrx and press Tab, the shell should complete the file name for you.
7. Press return and the RPM should install.
8. Type mcedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf to start editing the xorg.conf file
   If you prefer an alternate editor, please substitute mcedit for it, but you will need to re-work the following for your editor.
9. You now need to search for the graphics card entry in the file. Press F7
10. Enter the name of the card which was detected during the install, or part thereof that will be unique - entering "radeon" should be sufficient.
11. Look for the line that says Driver "radeon"
12. Change the word "radeon" for "fglrx"
13. Press F10 to exit the editor, and select "Yes" when prompted if you want to save the changes.
14. Type startx on the command line and your graphics environment should start up.
    If you hadn't selected the correct resolution for your screen, you should now be able to go into YAST from within KDE, Gnome or whatever graphic manager you use and select the relevant resolution for your display.