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11-01-2005
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100% of reviewers
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None indicated
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5.0
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Description:
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Small notebook PC, AMD 1800 mobile processor.
1 PCMCIA slot
1 Firewire port
2 USB ports
Internal Modem (mini-pci)
Ethernet 10/100 port
External VGA connector
External S-Video connector
No Floppy drive
CDRW/DVD ROM drive included.
Has BIOS issues, cardbus cards wont work without patching yenta.c, ACPI does not work with current BIOS no power managment in Linux (winXP is fine)
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Keywords:
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Sharp Notebook AMD Processor
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/sbin/lspci output:
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0:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P/KN266 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP]
00:05.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c475 (rev b8)
00:05.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C551 IEEE 1394 Controller
00:06.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. VT8375 [ProSavage8 KM266/KL266]
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04-13-2005, 06:56 AM
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Registered: Nov 2004
Distribution: Mandriva + kernel 2.6.15
Posts: 38
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 6
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Kernel (uname -r):
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linux-2.6.11.6
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Distribution:
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Mandrake 10.0 (with vanilla kernel)
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I found that by updating the linux kernel to 2.6.11.6 (from www.kernel.org), that I am now able to get ACPI to work!
When compiling the kernel, I had to disable APM and compile ACPI into the kernel (ie, not as a loadable module).
Now the fan works! The battery gauge (klaptop) reports! I get much longer run times now. I have some issues to work out with suspend mode, but manly laptops also do. Suspend mode is not a necessity for me, yet...
Also, the BIOS issue was addressed with one of the recent versions of the PCMCIA module, and in order to have cardbus compatiblity I had to add this to modprobe.conf:
options yenta_socket override_bios=1
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11-01-2005, 07:26 AM
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#2
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Registered: Nov 2004
Distribution: Mandriva + kernel 2.6.15
Posts: 38
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 4
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.6.14
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Distribution:
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mandriva
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The kernels since 2.6.12 have given this laptop issues with ACPI. Lockups on battery events, lid, ac_power, etc. The fan control works fine. I have a kernel bug submitted regarding this, hopefully it can be reseolved.
Currently with 2.6.14 everything except ACPI works fine, USB, Firewire, LAN, Video, etc. all work well.
The factory dsdt has 4 compile warnings from iasl, but they do not appear to be critical. Fixing them offers no help. I would post the fixes to the sourceforge ACPI dsdt repository when I am convinced that they actually fix something.
Overall I am happy with this lappy, but if I were to do it all again I would probably buy a HP.
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