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use to emulate the modem port device. When you dial out, the sounds from the modem and from the telephone line
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I needed to give them both a bit of help setting up the default route to be via ppp0, as follows:
ip route del default ip route add default dev ppp0The /etc/wvdial.conf looks like this:
[Dialer Defaults] Dial Command = ATM1L3DT Modem Type = Analog Modem Baud = 460800 Carrier Check = on ;Minimize = off Check Def Route = on Abort on Busy = off Abort on No Dialtone = on Ask Password = off Init = ATZ Phone = 12345678 Username = your_username Password = your_password Init1 = ATZ Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 Auto Reconnect = off ISDN = 0 Auto DNS = on Idle Seconds = 0 Stupid Mode = on ;Dock = off Dial Attempts = 1 Modem = /dev/ttySL0Remember after you're connected to remove any passwords you care about from the files /etc/ppp/pap-secrets and /etc/ppp/chap-secrets in case they've been cached there.
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Untested as yet. The SD Flash Card Reader slot is easy to miss. It's located just above the DVD drive, on the left of the machine.
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apt-get install sl-modem-daemonInstalling the sl-modem-daemon package will create a /dev/modem symbolic link, pointing to /dev/ttySL0. It
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brightness can be very hard to read out of doors. The Fn Esc key combination mutes the sound, and Fn F1 locks the screen with the xscreensaver. Suspend to disk works fine with Dapper Drake (remember to configure sufficient swap space during the installation to allow this). Suspend to disk is invoked by ckicking the red power button in the top right, and selecting the "Hibernate" option. Kanotix is also good at suspend, tested with Kanotix 2005_03, although there was a little manual setup script involved at the time, if I remember correctly. | |||||||
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brightness setting by going to the System->Preferences->Power Management box and choose
the "Running on Battery" tab and make the setting using the "Set display brightness to" slider.
Sound Muting shortcut keyThe Fn Esc key combination mutes the sound.Lock Screen shortcut keyThe Fn F1 key locks the screen with the xscreensaver.Suspend and HibernateBoth suspend and hibernate (aka suspend to disk) work fine with Dapper Drake (remember to configure sufficient swap space during the installation to allow hibernate to work). Hibernate is invoked by ckicking the red power button in the top right, and selecting the "Hibernate" option. To suspend (which is quicker, but remember it still uses a little battery power), you can configure the system so that closing the laptop lid suspends the machine. You configure the action under the System->Preferences->Power Management under both the "Running on battery" and "Running on AC" tabs, in the drop-down selection for what to do when "Actions" -> "When laptop lid is closed" -> select [Suspend]. Suspend appears to be very reliable: it even allows openGL programs running in the X session to resume just fine, the orinoco wireless card is also restored on resume, and sound continues unaffected after resume. | |||||||
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id Software Quake III Arena CD-ROM distributed by Activision 1000505.201.US (barcode 0 47875 10605 5), like this:
cd quake3/baseq3 ln -s /mnt/cdrom0/quake3/baseq3/pak0.pk3 . ln -s /mnt/cdrom0/quake3/baseq3/pak1.pk3 . ln -s /mnt/cdrom0/quake3/baseq3/q3config.cfg .I tried building the latest sources from the icculus svn, using the ioq3build.sh build script, but the result (although it worked), was very dim (low brightness). I still need to figure out why this is. svn co svn://svn.icculus.org/quake3/trunk quake3 Output of
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VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. SuperSavage IX/C SDR (rev 05)It works fine with xorg savage driver, including 3D acceleration.
Tested in both OpenSuSE 10.1 GA and in Ubuntu Dapper Drake. Dapper had no problem configuring xorg correctly.
The OpenSuSE 10.1 GA installer needed a bit more help, as it didn't enable 3D (it didn't seem to be aware that
it was even available), and also configured a smaller screen size of 800x600, so I needed to edit the xorg configuration file /etc/X11/xorg.conf to replace the existing Module section with the following:
Section "Module"
Load "i2c"
Load "bitmap"
Load "ddc"
Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
Load "int10"
Load "type1"
Load "vbe"
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I also needed to change the HorizSync and VertRefresh settings to allow the display to run at 1024x768, as follows:
Section "Monitor" DisplaySize 0 0 #HorizSync 28-38 HorizSync 28-51 Identifier "Monitor[0]" ModelName "1024X768@60HZ" Option "DPMS" VendorName "--> LCD" #VertRefresh 30-61 VertRefresh 43-60 UseModes "Modes[0]" EndSectionThe savage graphics card does not yet work with Xgl, as it is missing required texture support. The error message from compiz will be as follows:
compiz: Support for non power of two textures missing EthernetThe 100baseT ethernet is provided by an Intel Corporation 82801CAM (ICH3) PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller, and thee100 module in the linux kernel drives this just fine.
USBThe two USB 1.0 ports are provided by an Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB controller.AudioThe sound is provided by an Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller, and the ALSA modulesnd_intel8x0 module drives this.
Physical Dimensions1.5 inches high, a little more than 12 inches across, and 10 inches deep.Drive BaysThere is a DVD-ROM in the left drive bay.Serial portThere's one serial port. Not tested yet.Parallel portHaven't tested the parallel port.InstallationIt's convenient to install either Ubuntu Dapper Drake, or OpenSuSE 10.0 GA on this machine.Other useful infoThe screen brightness control works with Dapper Drake, using the Fn F6 and Fn F7 key combinations. Disconnecting the system from the AC power will immediately dim the screen slightly. A very excellent and useful warning prompt will pop up saying:Power Information: The AC power has been unplugged. The system is now using battery power.When power is restored, the screen returns to full brightness. In case you have sufficient battery reserves, you can choose to increase the screen brightness using Fn F7 as the low brightness can be very hard to read out of doors. The Fn Esc key combination mutes the sound, and Fn F1 locks the screen with the xscreensaver. Suspend to disk works fine with Dapper Drake (remember to configure sufficient swap space during the installation to allow this). Suspend to disk is invoked by ckicking the red power button in the top right, and selecting the "Hibernate" option. Kanotix is also good at suspend, tested with Kanotix 2005_03, although there was a little manual setup script involved at the time, if I remember correctly. Front ports
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CPUCPU is an Intel P3 (1.0 GHz).cpuid eax in eax ebx ecx edx 00000000 00000002 756e6547 6c65746e 49656e69 00000001 000006b1 00000006 00000000 0383f9ff 00000002 03020101 00000000 00000000 0c040883 80000000 80000004 00000000 00000000 00000000 80000001 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 80000002 65746e49 2952286c 6e655020 6d756974 80000003 20295228 20494949 69626f4d 4320656c 80000004 20205550 20202020 30303031 007a484d Vendor ID: "GenuineIntel"; CPUID level 2 Intel-specific functions: Version 000006b1: Type 0 - Original OEM Family 6 - Pentium Pro Model 11 - Stepping 1 Reserved 0 Brand index: 6 [brand 6] Extended brand string: "Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Mobile CPU 1000MHz" Feature flags 0383f9ff: FPU Floating Point Unit VME Virtual 8086 Mode Enhancements DE Debugging Extensions PSE Page Size Extensions TSC Time Stamp Counter MSR Model Specific Registers PAE Physical Address Extension MCE Machine Check Exception CX8 COMPXCHG8B Instruction SEP Fast System Call MTRR Memory Type Range Registers PGE PTE Global Flag MCA Machine Check Architecture CMOV Conditional Move and Compare Instructions FGPAT Page Attribute Table PSE-36 36-bit Page Size Extension MMX MMX instruction set FXSR Fast FP/MMX Streaming SIMD Extensions save/restore SSE Streaming SIMD Extensions instruction set TLB and cache info: 01: Instruction TLB: 4KB pages, 4-way set assoc, 32 entries 02: Instruction TLB: 4MB pages, 4-way set assoc, 2 entries 03: Data TLB: 4KB pages, 4-way set assoc, 64 entries 83: 2nd-level cache: 512KB, 8-way set assoc 32 byte line size 08: 1st-level instruction cache: 16KB, 4-way set assoc, 32 byte line size 04: Data TLB: 4MB pages, 4-way set assoc, 8 entries 0c: 1st-level data cache: 16KB, 4-way set assoc, 32 byte line size cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_idprocessor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 11 model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Mobile CPU 1000MHz stepping : 1 cpu MHz : 730.996 cache size : 512 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse bogomips : 1463.13 Output of
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