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Installing Fedora Core 5 on a HP Compac nw8440 T2600

Hardware

Component

size/value

Status

Notes

Processor Intel Duo Core T2600

2.16 GHz (2mb 2nd level cache)

{OK}

fc5 install automatically selects SMP kernel

Processor Chipset

Mobile Intel 945PM Express (667 MHz FSB)

{OK}

Memory

2 x 1.0 GB (667 MHz DDR II SDRAM)

{OK}

Video Adapter

ATI Mobility FireGL V5200 (256 MB)

{OK} [info ]

Harddisk (Hitatchi Travelstar 7200 RPM, 8MB Cache, SATA150)

80 GB

{OK}

15.4" Screen

WUXGA (1920x1200)

{OK}

Interface

VGA (15 Pin)

[ ]

Interface

Microphone

[ ]

Interface

Headphone/Line out

{OK}

Interface

RJ-11 Modem

[ ]

Interface

RJ-45 LAN

{OK}

Interface

Serial / 9 Pin

[ ]

Interface

Firewire IEEE 1394

[ ]

Interface

S-Video / TV Out

[ ]

Interface

USB 2.0

{OK}

Interface

Docking Port

[ ]

DVD+/-RW

{OK}

cdrecord not tested, yet

Audio System

ADI High Definiton CODEC

{OK}

using alsa

Speakers

{OK}

FlashCard

1x SmartCard reader / 1x SD Card Slot

[ ]

Keyboard Type

Standard SWISS / 101/102-key

{OK} [info ]

bugger, wanted US KB

Pointing Device

Touchpad

{OK} [info ]

Pointing Device

Pointstick

{OK}

Other Device

Biometric Fingerprint Sensor

{X} [info ]

Power Management

Suspend

{X}

Power Management

Hibernate

{X}

Bluetooth Type 2.0

[ ]

Intel 3945ABG Wireless LAN controller

{OK} [info ]

Fax/Modem

56K V.92

[ ]

Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express Controller

10/100/1000

{OK}

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%ICON{warning}% Does work partially

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Preparation

the laptop came with a preinstalled Windows XP Pro and the 'HP Backup Manager' on a seperate partitions. I decided, that i will never use the backup manager and uninstalled it (which removed the extra partition). then i used PartitionMagic to resize the windows partition to 16gb.

Installation of Fedora Core 5

i decided to install FC5 because i already had it on my dell laptop and made good experience with it. i downloaded the latest FC5 (may 2006) DVD iso image and started the installation. i tried to select the very minimal set of packages, including KDE. i prefer to install additional packages whenever i need it.

Disk Layout

as always, i struggeled about the correct partition sizes and was almost tempted to use LVM. but since i wanted to be able to access the ext3 partitions from windows i decided not to do it, and rather have a large =/home= partition.

(windows)

16gb

/boot

100mb

/

10gb

/home

(rest)

/var

2gb

/tmp

2gb

/swap

2gb

Post-Install

[#ConfAti ]

ATI Mobility !FireGL V5200

until today, there is not specific driver from ati available. so i tried the generic fglrx driver:

and modified xorg.conf

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0"
        Driver      "fglrx"
        BoardName   "ATI Technologies Inc, FileGL v5200"
        ChipID      0x71c5
        BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

after restarting X, fgl_glxgears just runs fine:

$ fglrxinfo
display: :0.0  screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 Pentium 4 (SSE2) (FireGL) (GNU_ICD)
OpenGL version string: 2.0.5879 (8.26.18)
$ fgl_glxgears
Using GLX_SGIX_pbuffer
2165 frames in 5.0 seconds = 433.000 FPS
2278 frames in 5.0 seconds = 455.600 FPS

UPDATE (Feb 9 2007): The official Linux drivers can be found at http://www.ati.com (direct link: http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/linux/linux-firegl.html). Follow the instructions for Distro Specific or Default. To do Distro Specific you will need to pre-set your screen to at least 1024x768 or the [OK] button will be off your screen. Tested both installs many times with no problems.

Getting the nice fonts

[#ConfTouch ]

Touchpad

the default config in xorg.conf enables 3 button emulation. since my touchpad has 3 buttons, this can be disabled:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Synaptics"
        Driver      "synaptics"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option      "Protocol" "auto-dev"
EndSection

#ConfWlan

Intel 3945ABG Wireless LAN controller

after installation, lspci shows:

10:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 4222 (rev 02)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 135c

you can find the drivers here http://atrpms.net/dist/fc5/ipw3945. just enable the repository in yum, and install the ipw3945. After reboot, by card does not come up automatically. i have to explicitely remove and add the module.

#ConfFinger

Fingerprint Sensor

played around a bit with the instructions in http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_enable_the_fingerprint_reader, but get errors:

Description: TouchChip TFM/ESS Fingerprint BSP
Vendor: UPEK, Inc.
Module ID: {5550454b2054464d2f45535320425350}
Device ID: 0x00000000
BioAPI_ModuleLoad failed, BioAPI Error Code: 6477 (0x194d)

#ConfKey

For the error message see http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_enable_the_fingerprint_reader#Fedora_Core:

    If running ./Sample produces the error message 'BioAPI_ModuleLoad failed, BioAPI Error Code: 6477 (0x194d)' 
    then uncommenting the line 
    //BioAPI_SetGUICallbacks(gModuleHandle, NULL, NULL,TextGuiCallback, NULL); 
    in main.c can help.

Special Keys

The keys for changing the volume and muting the sound completely side don't work out of the box, but you can easily map them to any commands you want under X11, e.g.:

    xmodmap -e "keycode 176 = XF86AudioRaiseVolume"
    xmodmap -e "keycode 174 = XF86AudioLowerVolume"
    xmodmap -e "keycode 160 = XF86AudioMute"

(this works at least under KDE). To make the settings permanent you need to save the map into some file:

    xmodmap -pke > ~/xmodmap.conf

and then read it back using

    xmodmap ~/xmodmap.conf

in some startup file. You can also put the codes to =/etc/X11/Xmodmap=

Needful Things

Type

Application

rpm / version

notes

Jukebox

amarok

amarok-1.4.0-5.fc5

install amarok-extras-nonfree-1.4.0-1.lvn5 for mp3 support

Messenger

psi

psi-0.10-4.fc

install qca-tsl for ssl support

Browser

firefox

1.5.0.4

Mail reader

thunderbird

1.5.0.4

(usually use gmail in browser)

Java Development

intellij

5.1.2

Java Profiling

YourKit Java Profiler

5.5.4

Torrent

azureus

2.4.0.2

VPN Client

pptp

pptp-1.7.1-1.fc5

PPTP Client

Install PPTP and the pptpconfig GUI using the following commands:

[# rpm -Uvh http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/yum/stable/fc5/pptp-release-current.noarch.rpm
]
[# yum --enablerepo=pptp-stable install pptpconfig ||]

Readers comment : TPM module

This laptop (at least mine) also has a TPM chip. Did you test it ?

xerces8

CompaqNw8440 (zuletzt geändert am 2007-12-23 22:46:21 durch localhost)