Opensuse 10 3 on Esprimo Mobile M9400

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The Fujitsu Siemens Computers Esprimo Mobile M9400 laptop works nicely with OpenSUSE 10.3. I have a model with Atheros WLAN (also available with Intel i4695). See also HCL/Laptops/Fujitsu.

Enabling Suspend-to-RAM

The laptop is not in the S2ram whitelist, the force flag must be used. Just create a file /etc/pm/config.d/s2ram with the content

S2RAM_OPTS="-f"

WLAN connection after Suspend-to-RAM

The current madwifi driver 0.9.3.3 has known issue with suspend. As a workaround, the ath_pci driver needs to be unloaded before suspend. Create a file /etc/pm/config.d/modules with the content

SUSPEND_MODULES="ath_pci"

Configure kmix

kmix (the KDE mixer application) doesn't recognize the controls of the Intel sound chip properly. Right-click on the Speaker icon in the KDE panel click on "Select master channel...", then select the "Front" channel.

For sound recording from the built-in Mic, set the first (top in the kmix window) "Input Source" switch to "Front Mic" and activate the first (left) "capture" control ("Capture" on, almost full volume), and set the "Digital" control to high volume.

Actually, kmix doesn't seem to get the input controls 100% right in the first place. alsamixer works better.