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Since Catalyst cannot handle switchable graphics cards, you have to disable the Intel card from the BIOS. At least with BIOS v.1.19 you can do that by changing VGA mode to "Discrete". | Since Catalyst cannot handle switchable graphics cards, you have to disable the Intel card from the BIOS. At least with BIOS v.1.19 you can do that by changing VGA mode to "Discrete". | ||
| − | If you use the stock kernel you can install Catalyst with the AUR packages {{AUR|catalyst-utils}} and {{AUR|catalyst}}. If you have a 64-bit system and you want to use 3D acceleration also in 32-bit games, you should also install {{AUR|lib32-catalyst-utils}} | + | If you use the stock kernel you can install Catalyst with the AUR packages {{AUR|catalyst-utils}} and {{AUR|catalyst}}. If you have a 64-bit system and you want to use 3D acceleration also in 32-bit games, you should also install {{AUR|lib32-catalyst-utils}}. |
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'''cpufreq.conf''' Adjust CPU speed | '''cpufreq.conf''' Adjust CPU speed | ||
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'''dpms-standby.conf''' Turn off screen when not needed | '''dpms-standby.conf''' Turn off screen when not needed | ||
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== Hardware == | == Hardware == | ||
=== Bluetooth === | === Bluetooth === | ||
| − | Works out of the box. On some machines, Bluetooth cannot turn on because of {{ | + | Works out of the box. On some machines, Bluetooth cannot turn on because of {{ic|Fn}}+{{ic|F3}} switching only WLAN. [http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=10021228&postcount=183 Fixed DSDT table] seems to solve the problem. |
| − | On the 3820TG, Bluetooth might not work even if {{ | + | On the 3820TG, Bluetooth might not work even if {{ic|Fn}}+{{ic|F3}} is used to turn it on. (Symptoms include "usb disconnect" messages in dmesg, and the adapter not showing up in ''hcitool dev''.) |
In this case, copying {{ic|/lib/firmware/ath3k-2.fw}} to {{ic|/lib/firmware/ath3k-1.fw}} helps, see [http://www.mail-archive.com/ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com/msg2579867.html this mailing list thread]. If it does not work for you, please change this note! | In this case, copying {{ic|/lib/firmware/ath3k-2.fw}} to {{ic|/lib/firmware/ath3k-1.fw}} helps, see [http://www.mail-archive.com/ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com/msg2579867.html this mailing list thread]. If it does not work for you, please change this note! | ||
Revision as of 10:50, 1 September 2013
Hardware is a 4820TG/5820TG, but should be similar for all these laptops.
| Device | Status | Modules |
| Intel | Working | xf86-video-intel |
| Ati | Partially Working | xf86-video-ati |
| Ati | Working | fglrx |
| Bluetooth | Working | bluetooth |
| Ethernet | Working | atl1c (2.6.36) |
| Wireless | Working | ath9k / wl |
| Wireless | Working | bcm4357 / wl |
| Audio | Working | snd_hda_intel |
| Camera | Working | uvcvideo |
| Card Reader | Working | |
| Function Keys | Working |
Contents
Installation
There is a quirk if you want to install Arch Linux. You need to connect via wireless, as Ethernet hardware is supported only by Linux kernel 2.6.34 and higher. Follow the Beginners' Guide for the rest.
Xorg
Open source drivers
You need ati and i915 xorg drivers:
pacman -S xf86-video-ati xf86-video-intel
While installing Arch Linux, you should disable the radeon kernel module, otherwise you may encounter kernel crash during booting. See Kernel_modules#Blacklisting for instructions.
If you need to use radeon and HDMI, you can manually enable it by executing
modprobe radeon
TimelineX 4820TG is having switchable graphics. To disable switchable graphics, add following to /etc/modprobe.d/radeon.conf
options radeon modeset=0
For more information, check Intel and ATI.
Closed Catalyst drivers
Catalyst (also known as fglrx) is a closed source graphics driver provided by ATI. It does not support certain features that the open source drivers do, but it has fully working, fast 3D acceleration. This is working at least with Acer Aspire TimelineX 3820TG that has ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650.
Since Catalyst cannot handle switchable graphics cards, you have to disable the Intel card from the BIOS. At least with BIOS v.1.19 you can do that by changing VGA mode to "Discrete".
If you use the stock kernel you can install Catalyst with the AUR packages catalyst-utilsAUR and catalystAUR. If you have a 64-bit system and you want to use 3D acceleration also in 32-bit games, you should also install lib32-catalyst-utilsAUR.
See the AMD Catalyst wiki page for third-party repository and configuration after install.
Switchable Graphics
Switching video cards works with the open source graphics driver.
You must have debugfs mounted for the switch access:
# mount -t debugfs debugfs /sys/kernel/debug
or add following to /etc/fstab:
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs 0 0
Make sure that your radeon driver is loaded:
modprobe radeon
Then you can use the following commands:
#Check current status: cat /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch #Enable ATI echo DDIS > /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch #Enable Intel echo DIGD > /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch #Power off unused card echo OFF > /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch #Power on unused card echo ON > /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch
You may also use acpi_call module to switch graphics. There is a package in the AUR named acpi_call-gitAUR.
By doing the following, my TimelineX 4820TG laptop's battery life got improved significantly (now it gives 5+ hours on average .. with laptop-mode customization and radeon switchoff) -
#mount -t debugfs none /sys/kernel/debug #modprobe radeon #echo ON > /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch #echo OFF > /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch #cat /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch 0:+:Pwr:0000:00:02.0 1: :Off:0000:01:00.0
Touchpad
Touchpad is a synaptics so you need its driver:
pacman -S xf86-input-synaptics
Then add to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ a new file (name it 20-synaptics.conf)
Section "InputClass" Identifier "touchpad" Driver "synaptics" MatchIsTouchpad "on" Option "SHMConfig" "on" Option "TapButton1" "1" Option "TapButton2" "2" Option "TapButton3" "3" Option "VertEdgeScroll" "on" Option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "on" Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "on" Option "HorizTwoFingerScroll" "on" Option "CircularScrolling" "on" Option "CircScrollTrigger" "2" Option "EmulateTwoFingerMinZ" "0" EndSection
For more info, check Touchpad_Synaptics.
Keyboard
Add a new file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ (name it 20-keymap.conf)
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Acer Keyboard"
MatchIsKeyboard "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Option "XkbLayout" "it"
Option "XkbModel" "acer_laptop"
Driver "evdev"
EndSection
Replace it with your keymap.
ACPI
ACPI works with BIOS v1.18 and higher.
If you do not have Windows installed, you can flash with a FreeDOS thumb drive.
Laptop Mode Tools
Install laptop-mode-tools
pacman -S laptop-mode-tools
You need to enable these modules in /etc/laptop-mode/conf.d/
auto-hibernate.conf Hibernate when battery level becomes critical
cpufreq.conf Adjust CPU speed
dpms-standby.conf Turn off screen when not needed
ethernet.conf Turn off ethernet when on battery
intel-hda-powersave.conf Turn on powersaving for audio chip
intel-sata-powermgmt.conf Powersave for hard disk
lcd-brightness.conf Change brightness when on battery
The file is called /proc/acpi/video/GFX0/DD02/brightness and acceptable values are 10..100 with a step of 10
sched-mc-power-savings.conf Additional CPU powersave features
sched-smt-power-savings.conf Additional CPU powersave features
usb-autosuspend.conf Suspend unused USB devices
video-out.conf Disable video out on battery
wireless-power.conf Powersaving for atheros chip
Hardware
Bluetooth
Works out of the box. On some machines, Bluetooth cannot turn on because of Fn+F3 switching only WLAN. Fixed DSDT table seems to solve the problem.
On the 3820TG, Bluetooth might not work even if Fn+F3 is used to turn it on. (Symptoms include "usb disconnect" messages in dmesg, and the adapter not showing up in hcitool dev.)
In this case, copying /lib/firmware/ath3k-2.fw to /lib/firmware/ath3k-1.fw helps, see this mailing list thread. If it does not work for you, please change this note!
Wi-Fi
Works out of the box and supports injection and AP mode.
TimelineX 5820
Wi-Fi driver needs to be installed. Open source brcm80211AUR driver causes kernel panics; the proprietary broadcom-wl driver works fine.
TimelineX 4820TG
Wi-Fi driver does not work by default. You need to install broadcom-wlAUR and b43-firmwareAUR.
Once you are done with driver and firmware installation, you need to add the following in the MODULES array in /etc/rc.conf and reboot:
MODULES=([...] lib80211 wl !b43 !ssb)
Once rebooted, you can confirm the working of the driver by following commands
# ip link # ip link set eth1 up # iwconfig eth1 # iwlist eth1 scan
For more information, check Broadcom_wireless.
Sometimes, the network (LAN/WLAN) interface names get swapped with every boot. To make the network interface name(s) stay constant, add the following to /etc/udev/rules.d/10-network.rules and bind the MAC address of each of your network interfaces to a certain interface name:
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ATTR{address}=="aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff", NAME="eth0"
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ATTR{address}=="ff:ee:dd:cc:bb:aa", NAME="wlan0"
Where:
- "eth0" is the name of LAN interface.
- "wlan0" is the name of WLAN interface.
- MAC address of each interface should be specified in lower-case. See the udev page for more information.
TimelineX 3820TG
Works out of the box, lspci lists the chip as
05:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9287 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
Camera
Works out of the box.
Card Reader
Works out of the box, tested with a SD card.
Display brightness control
Sometimes brightness control for integrated card does not work (at least with the 2.6.36.2-1 kernel). You may add acpi_osi=Linux to the kernel line in the GRUB config to fix this.
Info
lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller (rev 12) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor PCI Express x16 Root Port (rev ff) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 12) 00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller (rev 06) 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 05) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 05) 00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 6 (rev 05) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev a5) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller (rev 05) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 4 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 05) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller (rev 05) 00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem (rev 05) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Device 68e0 (rev ff) 01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Device aa68 (rev ff) 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications AR8151 v1.0 Gigabit Ethernet (rev c0) 03:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01) 7f:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers (rev 02) 7f:00.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder (rev 02) 7f:02.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 (rev 02) 7f:02.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0 (rev 02) 7f:02.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 02) 7f:02.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 02)
lspci - TimelineX 4820TG (with Broadcom 4357 wifi)
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller (rev 12) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor PCI Express x16 Root Port (rev 12) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 12) 00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller (rev 06) 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 05) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 05) 00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 6 (rev 05) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev a5) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller (rev 05) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 4 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 05) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller (rev 05) 00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem (rev 05) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Redwood [Radeon HD 5600 Series] 01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Redwood HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5600 Series] 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications AR8151 v1.0 Gigabit Ethernet (rev c0) 03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Device 4357 (rev 01) 7f:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers (rev 02) 7f:00.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder (rev 02) 7f:02.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 (rev 02) 7f:02.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0 (rev 02) 7f:02.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 02) 7f:02.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 02)
lspci - TimelineX 3820TG-5464G50iks
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller (rev 18) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor PCI Express x16 Root Port (rev 18) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 18) 00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller (rev 06) 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 05) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 05) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev 05) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev a5) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller (rev 05) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 4 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 05) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller (rev 05) 00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem (rev 05) 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Redwood [Radeon HD 5600 Series] (rev ff) 02:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Redwood HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5600 Series] (rev ff) 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications AR8151 v1.0 Gigabit Ethernet (rev c0) 05:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01) ff:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers (rev 05) ff:00.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder (rev 05) ff:02.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 (rev 05) ff:02.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0 (rev 05) ff:02.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 05) ff:02.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 05)
Issues
ATI chip has no 3D acceleration.
Ethernet chip driver is buggy in the 2.6.35 kernel.