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First of i wanna say im reall fresh in linux i do however badly wanna learn!
I decided to run linux on my Notebook computer wich happens to be a Fujitsu-Simens Amilo A1650 (AMD Centrino).
I have tried both Debian and have now Slackware 10.2 installed on it i have one major problem that keeps repeating it self and none of all the times i have installed a linux OS on it i get mouse trouble.
Sooner or later the mouse just freezes in best case scenario (wich was on Debian) only the mouse freeezes and i can still use the keyb. This helped me reboot so i could avoid hard reboot.
Most of the times both mouse & keyb freezes up totaly both i have noticed that the os seams to work (screensavers and such will still run).
Anyone have any pointers/good ideas or maybe the answer ?
In that case your distro - better be - SUSE/Ubuntu/Fedora something that is much more easier to configure.
I would suggest you to try SUSE - has good hardware detection - and a GUI installer. In case things dont go well come back here or check if anyone has already installed linux in your or a similar model: http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/fujitsu.html
i have now installed kubuntu and after a hell to make the xserver (xorg) to actuall work and show a screen that was actuallu usefull everything seams to work, so far the mouse/keyb hasent frozen once ....
actually i just downloaded the kubuntu dvd and installed.
my Xserver dident work i made some test to edit the config but with no luck and just right out of the blue it just worked i dunno what i did really but it works so now i dont dare do any changes to my xorg.conf.
Here comes a guide that i set up when i reinstalled my laptop ( i screwed up managed to remove about 130 packages by mistake lol ;p )
Fujitsu-Simens Amilo A1650
Mobile AMD Sempron 3100+ 1.78GHz
ATI Mobility Radeon Xpress 200
Linux Dist: kubuntu 5.10
First of all download the ubuntu or kubuntu 5.10 DVD ISO.
( If i have understood this correcly so is it the same thing but ubunut comes with more desktopmanagers and kubuntu comes only with KDE )
Burn and boot your Amilo on the DVD.
As for boot parameters i used the following;
Boot: linux vga=791 noapic nolapic
If u can surf direcly with your computer just using a dhcp then skip past this section if not add the parameter ‘netcfg/disable_dhcp=true’ , this disable the auto config of ur network card and let u chose ip, gateway and DNS.
Since i have noticed that on some linux distros u get a ‘apic error’ and this aparantly is not supported in the Amilo A1650 hardware use the ‘noapic’ & ‘nolapic’ parameters aswell.
Then just follow the install guide, its totaly selfexplaining and u dont need to answer anything but keyboard settings, timezone and a useraccount ( Except if u disable the DHCP, wich makes u have to set up ur network too )
When ur linux dist is installed u might be lucky and your xserver works, if not log in, and set the root password.
# sudo passwd root
Switch to root account by typing su followed by your root password, u dont need to do this although u can type ‘sudo’ before any root restricted commands.
Quote:
user@kubuntu:~$ su
Password:
root@kubuntu:/home/azazel#
Next step is to configure ur Xserver with the configurator (or use my xorg.conf)
Quote:
As root user:
root@kubuntu:~$ dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
And as normal user:
user@kubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
Password:
And here is my xorg.conf ( this should work if u got a machine like mine )
Quote:
# /etc/X11/xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the /etc/X11/xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man /etc/X11/xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
yeah i could but i need a webserver running (accessable from the outside) to do that feel free to copy my guide and post it on linux-on-laptops.com for me...
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Fujitsu-Simens Amilo A1650 Problems
