Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Pro2000

Arch linux & Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Pro v2000

This info may be helpful in addition to the Arch Linux Installation guide. This may apply fairly well to many other Amilo computers, for example to M7400 which has very similar hardware.

LAPTOP SPECS

IntelCeleron 1500Mhz, 256+512MB ram, 40Gb HD, CD-RW/DVD (QSI). Display adapter Intel 82852/82855. IrDA Fast Infrared, AC'97 Modem, PS/2 Keyboard & Synaptics Mouse, 3 USB ports, Firewire, 2 card slots. Network adapters:Broadcom 440x 10/100 and Intel PRO/Wireless 2200GB.

ETHERNET

add driver b44 to loaded modules in /etc/rc.conf and to modprobe.conf, add

    alias eth0 b44

XORG CONFIGURATION

Using arch's HW detection: hwd

    pacman -S xorg hwd

This will write a new xorg.conf:

    hwd -xa

SOUND

    pacman -S alsa-lib alsa-utils alsa-oss

Use alsamixer to set the default volume, use "m" to mute and unmute. Write the defaults with:

    alsactl store

Add "alsa" to loaded daemons in /etc/rc.conf. Finally,add user to audio group:

    gpasswd -a username audio

TOUCHPAD

It works with the driver installed by hwd, but lacks most functions. Install the synaptics driver with

    pacman -S synaptics

replace hwd-generated mouse configuration bit that looks like this:

    Section "InputDevice"
           Identifier  "PS/2 Mouse"
     .
     [etc etc]
     .
    EndSection

with synaptics configuration (thanks to Iphitus):

   Section "Input Device"
            Identifier  "Synaptics Mouse"
            Driver      "synaptics"
            Option      "Device"              "/dev/psaux"
            Option      "Protocol"            "auto-dev"
            Option      "LeftEdge"            "1700"
            Option      "RightEdge"           "5300"
            Option      "TopEdge"             "1700"
            Option      "BottomEdge"          "4200"
            Option      "FingerLow"           "25"
            Option      "FingerHigh"          "30"
            Option      "MaxTapTime"          "180"
            Option      "MaxTapMove"          "220"
            Option      "MaxDoubleTapTime"    "360"
            Option      "FastTaps"            "on"
            Option      "VertScrollDelta"     "100"
            Option      "HorizScrollDelta"    "100"
            Option      "MinSpeed"            "0.09"
            Option      "MaxSpeed"            "0.18"
            Option      "AccelFactor"         "0.0015"
            Option      "EmulateMidButtonTime""100"
            Option      "EdgeMotionMinZ"      "30"
            Option      "EdgeMotionMaxZ"      "35"
            Option      "EdgeMotionMinSpeed"  "100"
            Option      "EdgeMotionMaxSpeed"  "150"
            Option      "EdgeMotionUseAlways" "off"
            Option      "TapButton1"          "1"
            Option      "RBCornerButton"      "3"
            Option      "LBCornerButton"      "2"
            Option      "CoastingSpeed"       "0.1"
            Option      "SHMConfig"           "on"
    EndSection

Don't forget to add this to the ServerLayout section in the beginning of the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, and remove the previous mouse.

      Section "ServerLayout"
            ..blaa blaa..
            InputDevice    "Synaptics Mouse" "CorePointer"

IMPORTANT! The new udev 0.76 that depreciates hotplug requires that hardware detection is done with either hwd or hwdetect. In my case hwd broke the synaptics configuration, but hwdetect didn't. Therefore, if you upgrade your Arch so that your udev becomes >=0.76 (write 'pacman -Qi udev' to see), remove hotplug (or hwd) from the loaded daemons in /etc/rc.conf, and add the following line to rc.conf to use hwdetect:

      MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"

ACCESS TO DEVICES

Add user to groups (given you have created a user):

    gpasswd -a username video
    gpasswd -a username optical
    gpasswd -a username storage

WIRELESS LAN

This will need a kernel higher than 2.6.10! IMPORTANT :Note that upgrading Arch 0.7 with pacman -Su will break the system unless the DevFS -> Udev transition is made after the install, see guidelines here: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=15585). For wireless, the relevant driver is ipw2200:

    pacman -S ipw2200

Add ipw2200 to loaded modules in rc.conf.

Append rc.conf to include eth1 (this is a static IP configuration),

    eth0="eth0 192.168.2.253 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.2.255"
    eth1="eth1 192.168.2.252 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.2.255"
    INTERFACES=(lo eth0 eth1)

and to modprobe.conf, add line

    alias eth1 ipw2200

Amilo requires a "kill switch" module that turns the wireless card radio on. Get fsam7400 module (0.4.0) from http://linux.zwobbl.de/pub/ unpack and install with make, make install. Don't need to add it to the loaded modules in /etc/rc.conf.

Then, to automate the wireless connection on boot, add the following to /etc/rc.local (thanks to nahoj1976):

    echo 100 > /sys/class/firmware/timeout
    modprobe fsam7400 radio=1 autooff=0 autoload=0
    modprobe ipw2200 

After this just the iwconfig and route settings need to be ok for the wireless to work (after reboot of course, unless you modprobe the above commands yourself!). In my case

    iwconfig eth1 essid Mynetworkname mode Managed rate 11M
    route add default 192.168.2.1 eth1

These can be in /etc/rc.local. Now the laptop will be online and iwconfig (from root) should give something like this:

    eth1      IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"Mynetworkname"
              Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Access Point: 00:11:50:34:A9:53
              Bit Rate=11 Mb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm
              Retry limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
              Encryption key:off
              Power Management:off
              Link Quality=91/100  Signal level=-38 dBm  Noise level=-82 dBm
              Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
              Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:3

USB

Works normally. Create directory /mnt/stick, and add the following to fstab:

    /dev/sda1  /mnt/stick   vfat    rw,user,noauto,umask=0000     0    0

then the stick can be mounter by user with: mount /mnt/stick.

ACPI

Seems to work normally: Battery life is visible automatically (in KDE at least), and screen goes to power saving mode after a period of inactivity.

MONITOR OUT

Works

S-OUT

not tested

IRDA

not tested

HOTKEYS

don't work

CARD SLOTS

not tested