Acer Travelmate 5310 - How to run a GNU/LINUX on it
30 May 2008
The original configuration:
Intel Celeron M Processor 520
(1.6 Mhz, 533Mhz FSB, 1MB L2 cache)
15,4” WXGA LCD
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950
512 MB RAM
80 GB harddisc
DVD Super Multi DL
802.11 b/g WLAN
lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (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 Controller #1 (rev 02) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02) 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #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.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02) 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02) 03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 01) 0a:06.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Cardbus Controller 0a:06.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCIxx12 OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller 0a:06.2 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD) 0a:06.3 Generic system peripheral [0805]: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 SDA Standard Compliant SD Host Controller
lsusb Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
VIDEO CARD
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
The module in kernel who works with this is i915. You may also need to install DRI for 3D ( dri.freedesktop.org)
Xorg.conf (/etc/X11/xorg.conf)
Section "Module"
# This loads the DBE extension module.
Load "dbe" # Double buffer extension
# This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables
# initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module.
SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga" # don't initialise the DGA extension
EndSubSection
# This loads the font modules
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
#Load "speedo"
# This loads the GLX module
Load "glx"
Load "dri"
EndSection
Section "dri"
Mode 0666
EndSection
kernel .config CONFIG_FB_INTEL=m
After that glxgears shows values like: 4908 frames in 5.0 seconds = 981.419 FPS
SOUND
You may try to compile ALSA modules from kernel, but for this version of kernel, the things don't work very well. I can get sound but no headphones output, mixer seems it's missing Output tab (it has only one Input tab with one controller), so…. compile kernel without ALSA modules.
Download ALSA from realtek (at this time, realtek-linux-audiopack-4.06b.tar.bz2). Unpack and run install script. This script will compile and install everything you need. After reboot you should have:
root@bunny:/# lsmod | grep snd snd_seq_oss 28160 0 snd_seq_midi_event 5760 1 snd_seq_oss snd_seq 41936 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq_device 6412 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq snd_pcm_oss 34208 0 snd_mixer_oss 13696 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_hda_intel 259996 1 snd_pcm 61316 2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel snd_timer 16772 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd_page_alloc 7176 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm snd_hwdep 6660 1 snd_hda_intel snd 40676 11 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
The mixer at your choice should show now like in Output tab: Headphones, PCM, Front, in Input tab 2x Capture and in Switches tab 2x Input Source The integrated mic still don't work for record. Maybe in future versions of ALSA it will be supported.
TOUCH PAD
This is the link of interest for you. You must download the driver and configure the Xorg file. In section Module in xorg.conf add
Load "synaptics"
and also:
Section "InputDevice" Driver "synaptics" Identifier "touchpad" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "Protocol" "auto-dev" Option "LeftEdge" "1700" Option "RightEdge" "5300" Option "TopEdge" "1700" Option "BottomEdge" "4200" Option "FingerLow" "25" Option "FingerHigh" "30" Option "MaxTapTime" "180" Option "MaxTapMove" "220" Option "VertScrollDelta" "100" Option "MinSpeed" "0.09" Option "MaxSpeed" "0.18" Option "AccelFactor" "0.015" Option "SHMConfig" "on" #always usefull Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on" EndSection
WIRELESS LAN
For this to work, we need ndiswrapper and the package Wireless Broadcom v.4.100.15.5 (BCM43XX). I've found one at XDrivers but feel free to look on the net for another one if this link doesn't work.
Note: this is a Windows driver. It's ok, will be used with ndiswrapper.
If you install ndiswrapper from the sources, read INSTALL file. Read especially “Install Windows driver” section. All you have to do is to install bcmwl5.sys from the package above.
If all went smooth, then you must have:
# ndiswrapper -l
bcmwl5 : driver installed
device (14E4:4311) present
I use a wireless router, secured with a WPA pre-shared key. I know, there are more stronger ways to secure, but trust me, for a home network, a 64 chars key is a very best solution. So, I use wpa_supplicant to assist my wireless device at connection. For this to work, you'll have to see in your /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf the following lines (I've omitted the commented lines):
## Example config information for wlan0. Uncomment the lines you need and fill ## in your info. (You may not need all of these for your wireless network) IFNAME[4]="wlan0" USE_DHCP[4]="yes" DHCP_KEEPRESOLV[4]="yes" DHCP_KEEPNTP[4]="yes" DHCP_KEEPGW[4]="yes" WLAN_ESSID[4]=DiamondAccess WLAN_MODE[4]=Managed WLAN_RATE[4]="54M auto" WLAN_CHANNEL[4]="auto" WLAN_WPA[4]="wpa_supplicant"
This is used (as you easily can see) with /etc/wpa_suppplicant file. An example of it:
# See /usr/doc/wpa_supplicant-0.5.7/wpa_supplicant.conf.sample
# for many more options that you can use in this file.
# This line enables the use of wpa_cli which is used by rc.wireless
# if possible (to check for successful association)
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
# By default, only root (group 0) may use wpa_cli
ctrl_interface_group=0
eapol_version=1
ap_scan=1
fast_reauth=1
#INTERFACES="-iwlan0"
#DRIVERS="-Dndiswrapper"
# WPA protected network, supply your own ESSID and WPAPSK here:
network={
scan_ssid=0
ssid="DiamondAccess"
proto=WPA
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
pairwise=TKIP
group=TKIP
psk="Tu{(~dsE1t/QXmdzqhF9E@qEa~'1zE7&/BK/RrN-B$th98rhX+l'dIRnak/F|cI"
}
# Plaintext connection (no WPA, no IEEE 802.1X),
# nice for hotel/airport types of WiFi network.
# You'll need a recent version of wireless-tools for this!
network={
ssid="any"
key_mgmt=NONE
priority=2
}
Encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK; AES/CCMP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK. Pretty well, huh? ;)
MULTI CARD READER 5 in 1 TEXAS INSTRUMENTS
Well, I have for you one good news and one bad news. The good news is that the card reader is working. The bad news is that it's not working all the time, and possible it supports only SD cards.
Let's see…. You'll need to get into your kernel (I have now 2.6.23 ) and at
Device Drivers -> (M) MMC/SD card support ->
(M) MMC block device driver
(M) Secure Digital Host Controller Interface Support
(M) TI Flash Media MMC/SD Interface Support
Compile and install as usual (make && make modules_install; copy bzImage… System.map, etc).
After reboot you shoud have (display only card reader modules):
#lsmod Module Size Used by tifm_7xx1 5376 0 sdhci 13964 0 mmc_block 9348 0 tifm_sd 8840 0 tifm_core 7172 2 tifm_7xx1,tifm_sd mmc_core 23428 3 sdhci,mmc_block,tifm_sd
I modified a script found on the internet to load/reload/unload the modules, which is a good idea, because as I said, sometimes the drivers seem dead
# cat /etc/rc.d/rc.cardreader #!/bin/sh start () { for i in mmc_core mmc_block sdhci tifm_7xx1 tifm_core; do /sbin/modprobe $i >/dev/null 2>&1 done } stop () { for i in sdhci mmc_block mmc_core tifm_7xx1 tifm_core; do /sbin/rmmod $i >/dev/null 2>&1 done } restart() { stop start } case $1 in start) start ;; stop) stop ;; restart) echo -n "Reloading SD modules" restart echo ".. DONE" ;; *) start esac
Don't forget to chmod u+x /etc/rc.d/rc.cardreader. And try /etc/rc.d/rc.cardreader restart. After inserting a SD card (I don't have any other types, sorry), you should see in KDE the opening dialog, or notice in console:
ls -l /dev/mm* brw-rw---- 1 root disk 179, 0 2008-05-30 14:05 /dev/mmcblk0 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 179, 1 2008-05-30 14:05 /dev/mmcblk0p1
Check dmesg| tail for messages as (here a remove/insert card operation):
tifm0 : demand removing card from socket 0:1 mmc1: card b368 removed tifm_core: MMC/SD card detected in socket 0:1 mmc1: new SD card at address b368 mmcblk0: mmc1:b368 SDC 975360KiB mmcblk0: p1
Just mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt/memory for example, and you'll be able to see your card. Don't forget, if your card is FAT formatted, you'll need vfat module as well.
