Does anyone succed on this? I would like to buy this notebook but I am at 100% on Linux so I really need to be sure before buying one.

Thanks for you help.

Paul

I bought the FUJITSU SIEMENS AMILO M1437G two weeks ago and I am still unable to install Linux on it. People at FUJITSU SIEMENS customer service in Belgium told me : "This computer is sold with Windows XP so...". I am still looking for any solution. It might be related to the SATA drive. One bad point is that I am not even able to change anything related to SATA support in the BIOS. The Linux drivers of the Discrete Serial ATA RAID controllers VT6420/1 for Linux are available at Via website, but as a newbie I don't know if it possible to create an installation cd with this driver. Can anyone help me ? Thanks.

Laurent

http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html

http://www.flexbeta.net/forums/lofiv...php/t5816.html

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/361365

Many be these help.

I have installed SuSE 9.1 on a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo M1451G. Initially it worked but I was unable to take advantage of the 1280x800 resolution and the ATI graphics card.

When I played around with the monitor configuration, first I got the notorious "Kernel Panic message" and I reinstalled Linux. When I tried to change the monitor and graphics card configuration, I got a black screen as a result. I changed the monitor settings with Sax2 (using an external monitor to be able to see what I was doing).

Looks OK now but cannot match the resolution I was getting with XP. Anyone has an idea of how to configure for a widescreen monitor WXGA (1280x800) and the ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 graphics card?

Ideas much appreciated.

Open your /etc/X11/xorg.conf or /etc/X11/XF86Config and replace

In the "Display" SubSection of the "Screen" section, I changed the Modes line to be:

Modes "1680x1050" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"

see for example:

http://www.silfreed.net/articles/hpzt3000cto

While getting the first menu during the installation of the Suse 9.3, the keyboard is not responding at all ... so after a few seconds xp is coming up. Fortunatelly I could find on this forum the way to go around this problem (LinuxQuestions.org > Forums > Linux - Distributions > Suse/Novell > Suse 9.3 and Amilo from tuco) and now it's doing fine. Thanks to all.

Hi Laurent,

I struggled for weeks and finally it works (although there are still some issues tosolve).

I've installed fedora core 4: (2.6.11-1.1369_FC4) .
I 've downloaded the ISO images and used CD's install.

During startup, I've used the options :
pci = noacpi acpi=off (this to avoid the kernel panic)

The install succeeded.

The next problem was setting the display .
I first downloaded fglrx_6_8_0-8.16.20-1.i386.rpm and ati-driver-installer-8.16.20-i386.run
and installed the driver.

running fglrxconfig changed my xorg.conf file, but it was not working properly.
I found after quite some surfing the following configuration to work (I'm a newbie,so I just copied and pasted)




Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "LCD Panel 1280x800"
HorizSync 31.5 - 90.0
VertRefresh 60.0 - 60.0
Option "DPMS"
Option "MonitorLayout" "LVDS,STV"
EndSection



Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Graphics Adapter"
Driver "fglrx"
# ### generic DRI settings ###
# === disable PnP Monitor ===
#Option "NoDDC"
# === disable/enable XAA/DRI ===
Option "no_accel" "no"
Option "no_dri" "no"
# === misc DRI settings ===
Option "mtrr" "off" # disable DRI mtrr mapper, driver has its own code for mtrr
# ### FireGL DDX driver module specific settings ###
# === Screen Management ===
Option "DesktopSetup" "(null)"
Option "HSync2" "unspecified"
Option "VRefresh2" "unspecified"
Option "ScreenOverlap" "0"
Option "GammaCorrectionI" "0x00000000"
Option "GammaCorrectionII" "0x00000000"
# === OpenGL specific profiles/settings ===
Option "Capabilities" "0x00000000"
Option "CapabilitiesEx" "0x00000000"
# === Video Overlay for the Xv extension ===
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
# === OpenGL Overlay ===
# Note: When OpenGL Overlay is enabled, Video Overlay
# will be disabled automatically
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
# === Center Mode (Laptops only) ===
Option "CenterMode" "off"
# === Pseudo Color Visuals (8-bit visuals) ===
Option "PseudoColorVisuals" "off"
# === QBS Management ===
Option "Stereo" "off"
Option "StereoSyncEnable" "1"
# === FSAA Management ===
Option "FSAAEnable" "no"
Option "FSAAScale" "1"
Option "FSAADisableGamma" "no"
Option "FSAACustomizeMSPos" "no"
Option "FSAAMSPosX0" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosY0" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosX1" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosY1" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosX2" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosY2" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosX3" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosY3" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosX4" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosY4" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosX5" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosY5" "0.000000"
# === Misc Options ===
Option "UseFastTLS" "0"
Option "BlockSignalsOnLock" "on"
Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "no"
Option "ForceGenericCPU" "no"
BusID "PCI:3:0:0" # vendor=1002, device=5653
Screen 0
EndSection

# **********************************************************************
# Screen sections
# **********************************************************************

# Any number of screen sections may be present. Each describes
# the configuration of a single screen. A single specific screen section
# may be specified from the X server command line with the "-screen"
# option.
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "ATI Graphics Adapter"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0 # initial origin if mode is smaller than desktop
# Virtual 1280 1024
EndSubsection
EndSection




Now I'm struggling the sound




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Thanks a lot for all your answers. It is a big help. You help me to make my choice.

Many thanks :-)

Hi belaenl,

Thank you for your tip. My laptop (Amilo M1473G) is now working on FC4, except for the sound.
I guess it will take some time ...


Laurent.

Have you installed the drivers from Realtek? I have had sound in both ubuntu hoary, and kubuntu breezy. But I had to run the installer from Realtek to get it working. These drivers are simply the source code for ALSA, with a nice install script (and possibly some tweaks) made by Realtek.
Here is the link:
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/...&Software=True

Regarding the drivers from ATI, I simply downloaded the installer from ATI, ran it, and used fglrxconfig to generate a xorg.conf. After I had done this, I added 1280x800 to the Modes line under Screen, subsection Display in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. I also added to the same file, under section Device.

Note, if you are going to install Kubuntu Breezy, you might experience a hang when the boot process is trying to load hotplug subsystem. This is because of the sound drivers that follow this install. Either press ctrl+c to bypass this, and install the drivers from Realtek. However, this might not happen after the relase, as I am running the release candiate.

Just a thought, I had some kernel panics in ubuntu hoary, but I solved this by adding the line acpi_cpufreq to the bottom of my /etc/modules file. Maybe this works in fedora as well. I have not had any panics in kubuntu breezy so far.

I have installed Mandriva 2006 and 2007 on my 1437g without problems.

Was unable to install Suse 10.0 and Suse 9.3.

Driver Issues:
The 2006 version used a vesa driver, so i had to download the ati installer.
The 2007 version used a desktop version of the fglrx driver, so i used the ati installer again.
Sound is good on both but there is a high level of background noise on both.


Excellent laptop apart from that, very happy with it.

Also Mandriva 2007 lets you resize an NTFS partition and create a linux partition in its place, if you want to keep the windows installation on the computer (without using a windows tool e.g. partition magic)