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@@ -9,13 +9,20 @@
Ubuntu Linux (5.04) already comes with support for this wireless card out of the box, so you should be all ready to go.
!!Graphics
-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. (!!)
+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. (!!)
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.
-For now, use the "vesa" graphics driver.
+For now, use the "vesa" graphics driver. Otherwise, if you really want to use the i810 driver, you can download a newer snapshot of the driver from http://dri.freedesktop.org/snapshots/. I used the
+"i915-20050718-linux.i386" which at least got X working with the i810 driver, but still didn't get me accelerated [OpenGL] since it probably wants a newer version of [XOrg] installed. I got the following message in /var/log/Xorg..log:
+<verbatim>
+(EE) I810(): [dri] I830DRIScreenInit failed because of a version mismatch.
+[dri] libdri version is 4.1.0 bug version 5..x is needed.
+[dri] Disabling DRI.
+</verbatim>
+But at least it looks like this will all work out of the box in Ubuntu 5.10 aka "Breezy Badger"
.
(The difficulty in supporting this chip is described in an [xorg thread|http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/xorg/2005-March/007151.html].)
@@ -27,12 +34,28 @@
<verbatim>
kernel: hci_cmd_task: hci0 command tx timeout
</verbatim>
message in dmesg/syslog.
+
+!!Touchpad
+With the default xorg.conf(5x) that Ubuntu (5.04 Hoary) generated, the
+touchpad generates a middle-click when you tap it, which is very annoying.
+Changing the <tt>/etc/X11/xorg.conf</tt> file to have
+<verbatim>
+ # don't do anything for 1-finger taps
+ Option "TapButton1" "0" # 0 = no action
+</verbatim>
+in the synaptics touchpad ~InputDevice section made no difference either.
+However, disabling the synaptics driver completely (by commenting out
+or removing the "~InputDevice Touchpad" line from the ~ServerLayout section
+meant that it was just seen as a normal mouse (using the already existing "Configure Mouse" ~InputDevice). This has the disadvantage that the vertical scrolling function of the touchpad no longer works, but that is an acceptable tradeoff to not have middle-clicks generated everywhere :)
+You can still get a middleclick (mouse button2) by pressing buttons 1 and 3 simultaneously -- this assumes you have the Emulate3Buttons option for the default mouse ~InputDevice.
!!Other
-To add:
-*
card reader
-* touchpad + disable middle clicking on tap
+The video card supports having a 2nd monitor, so it looks like you can use this in dual-head mode as well as just using it as an external monitor.
+
+The "Expansion Port 2" slot is only for attaching the laptop to Compaq's docking station.
+
+The 6-in-1
card reader might work (the LinuxKernel supports this -- CONFIG_MMC found in Device Drivers -> MMC/SD Card -> MMC support) but I only have CompactFlash cards, which aren't supported by this reader.
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