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Averatec AV3270

Reviews	Views	Date of last review
1	2774	11-05-2006

Recommended By	Average Price	Average Rating
100% of reviewers	None indicated	6.0

Description:	[Direct from manufacturer webpage] The Averatec 3200 Series thin and light notebook packs a lot of punch into a trim package. With a Mobile AMD Sempron™ processor,Genuine Windows® XP Home Edition, multi-format DVD burner, 60 or 80-GB hard drive and wireless connectivity, it’s hard to believe all that fits into a 4.5-pound, 1-inch thin powerhouse.
Keywords:	Averatec 3270 AMD Sempron 2800+
/sbin/lspci output:	00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge 00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge 00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge 00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge 00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge 00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI bridge [K8T800/K8T890 South] 00:09.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2500 802.11g Cardbus/mini-PCI (rev 01) 00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB1410 Cardbus Controller (rev 01) 00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80) 00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80) 00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (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/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) 00:11.6 Communication controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 80) 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 74) 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. S3 Unichrome Pro VGA Adapter (rev 01)

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11-05-2006, 06:09 PM

Spinlock

Registered: Jan 2006

Distribution: Slackware 11

Posts: 124

Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 6

Kernel (uname -r):	2.6.18
Distribution:	Slackware 11.0

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After a few days tracking down hints and tricks, I've got a fairly complete Slackware setup on this machine.

Drivers for the wifi card are available from rt2x00.serialmonkey.com.
The stock "Via" driver works fine for the video, although a few changes are needed in Xorg.conf (noted below.) No 3D acceleration yet, but I'm working on that.
The Smartlink modem can be used with heavy patching to the drivers. Pseudo-howto available at http://www.averatecforums.com/showpost.php?p=26448&postcount=6.
Sound works fine after a lot of headaches on my part. First, run alsaconf, then alsamixer and unmute EVERYTHING! (I don't know what is muted by default that caused me problems, but I just unmuted everything and sound started working fine.)
Ethernet card works fine by default, no driver downloads needed.

My modifications to xorg.conf:

Under "Graphics Device Section":

Code:

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Via Unichrome"
    Driver      "via"
    BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
    Option      "DisableIRQ"
    Option      "EnableAGPDMA"
    Option      "NoAGPFor2D"
EndSection

Under "Screen sections":

Code:

    Device "Via Unichrome"

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