By: amit

amit — Sun, 06 May 2007 23:10:32 +0000

Hi Vincent,

I used the Debian stock kernels, since they incorporate various bugfixes and patches over the kernel.org kernel. They support all the functionality of the laptop adequately.

By: Vincent

Vincent — Sun, 06 May 2007 15:01:40 +0000

Hi,

Very interesting post. I have the same hardware and I would like to optimize it too because with recent apps, the system is not really usable.

I choosed Debian Sid to and some “light weight” applications (xfce, opera)

I use a generic kernel provided by debian packages and I wonder if it would not be better to use a custom kernel but I’m not a kernel guru.
Did you compile a customized kernel? If yes, could you send me your .config by email?

Thank you.

By: amit

amit — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 19:39:58 +0000

Section "Files"
        FontPath        "unix/:7100"                    # local font server
        # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/CID"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
        RgbPath         "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
        ModulePath      "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load    "dbe"
        Load    "ddc"
        Load    "glx"
        Load    "dri"
        Load    "fb"
        Load    "extmod"
        Load    "freetype"
        Load    "int10"
        Load    "record"
        Load    "type1"
        Load    "v4l"
        Load    "vbe"
        Load    "GLcore"
        Load    "xaa"
        Load    "ramdac"
        Load    "xf1bpp"
        Load    "xf4bpp"
        Load    "shadowfb"
        Load    "i2c"
        Load    "vgahw"
        Load    "fbdevhw"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver          "kbd"
        Option          "CoreKeyboard"
        Option          "XkbLayout"     "us,dev,ar"
        Option          "XkbModel"      "pc101"
        Option          "XkbOptions"    "ctrl:swapcaps,grp:alt_shift_toggle"
        Option          "XkbCompat"     "default+pc+iso9995"
        Option          "XkbRules"      "xorg"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "CorePointer"           "on"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mouse0"
        Option          "Protocol"              "ExplorerPS/2"
        Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5 6 7"
        Option          "EmulateWheelButton"    "2"
        Option          "EmulateWheel"          "on"
        Option          "EmulateWheelTimeout"   "300"
        Option          "YAxisMapping"          "4 5"
        Option          "XAxisMapping"          "6 7"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "USB mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "AlwaysCore"            "on"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mouse1"
        Option          "Protocol"              "ExplorerPS/2"
        Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5 6 7"
        Option          "Buttons"               "9"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "ATI Technologies, Inc. Rage Mobility P/M"
        Driver          "ati"
        Option          "DMAMode" "async"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier      "Generic Monitor"
        Option          "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier      "Default Screen"
        Device          "ATI Technologies, Inc. Rage Mobility P/M"
        Monitor         "Generic Monitor"
        DefaultDepth    24
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           1
                Modes           "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           4
                Modes           "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           8
                Modes           "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           15
                Modes           "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           16
                Modes           "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           24
                Modes           "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier      "Default Layout"
        Screen          "Default Screen"
        InputDevice     "Generic Keyboard"
        InputDevice     "Configured Mouse"
        InputDevice     "USB Mouse"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
        Mode    0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
        Option          "Composite"     "enable"
EndSection

By: Dan Reiland

Dan Reiland — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 03:59:13 +0000

Could you post your xorg.conf file — SuSE Enterprise fails to properly probe the display and I am having one hell of a time getting it to go.

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