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Newer page: version 3 Last edited on Monday, August 1, 2005 8:23:06 pm by JohnMcPherson Revert
Older page: version 2 Last edited on Monday, July 18, 2005 2:00:38 am by JohnMcPherson Revert
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 You can download the driver (and the firmware) from http://ipw2200.sf.net, although you will also need to build the ieee80211 support modules which are currently outside of the kernel tree (I think there is a version of them in linux-2.6.13-rc1, so it might be a part of future releases). 
  
 Ubuntu Linux (5.04) already comes with support for this wireless card out of the box, so you should be all ready to go. 
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 !!Graphics 
-The graphics controller uses an Intel 915GM chipset, which is supported by Xorg's i810 driver. Unfortunately , the default xorg.conf that Ubuntu calculates for this laptop results in a blank screen when X starts - examining the /var/log/Xorg ..log file shows that all modes except "640x480" are not supported (!!):  
-<verbatim>  
-(II) I810() : Generic Monitor: Using default hsync value of 48 .36 kHz  
-(II) I810(): Generic Monitor: Using vrefresh range of 50 .00 -74 .00 Hz  
-(II) I810(): Not using mode "1024x768" (no mode of this name)  
-(II) I810(): Not using mode "800x600 " (no mode of this name)  
-(II) I810(): Increasing the scanline pitch to allow tiling mode (640 -> 1024) .  
-(--) I810(): Virtual size is 640x480 (pitch 1024)  
-(**) I810() : Built -in mode "640x480"  
-< /verbatim>  
+The graphics controller uses an Intel 915GM chipset, which is supposedly supported by Xorg's i810 driver. However , it doesn't seem to be properly supported by the version of Xorg in Hoary, and graphics didn't work out of the box . (!!)  
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+http ://lists .freedesktop .org/pipermail/xorg/2005 -June/008272 .html suggests it all works with newer versions of various packages, so hopefully it will just work in the next release of Ubuntu.  
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+For now, use the "vesa " graphics driver .  
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+(The difficulty in supporting this chip is described in an [xorg thread|http ://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/xorg/2005 -March /007151.html].)  
  
-The solution is the same as found  
-at http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=11221 (for a different type of laptop) - add  
-<verbatim>  
-HorizSync 56-85  
-VertRefresh 30-81  
-</verbatim>  
-to the "Monitor" section in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf to get other modes for higher resolutions.  
  
 !! BlueTooth 
 The laptop has built-in BlueTooth. It appears to be attached to the [USB] internal bus, so make sure your kernel has CONFIG_BT_HCIUSB support. The kernel that came with Ubuntu 5.04 had this.