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| − | My plan when I finish is to have my laptop (HP Compaq nc6220) dual booted with Windows XP Pro (work image). I repartitioned my hard drive with [http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php Gparted Live CD]. It only took a minute or so. I will be doing the install with the arch 0.8 beta2 base cd. There is an [http://archlinux.org/static/docs/arch-install-guide.html installation guide (0.7.2)] that may help.I will do my best to give as much detail as possible.
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| − | NOTE: Per [http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12130_na/12130_na.HTML HP's website], this laptop is Novell Linux Desktop 9 certified. So getting linux on this laptop should not be too hard.
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| − | ===System Specifications===
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| − | HP Compaq nc6220 - Intel Centrino
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| − | * Intel Pentium M processor 750 (1.86-GHz, 533-MHz FSB, 2-MB L2 cache)
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| − | * Mobile Intel 915GM Express Chipset
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| − | * 512-MB 533-MHz DDR2 SDRAM
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| − | * 60-GB 5400 rpm IDE ATA Harddrive
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| − | * 14.1-inch color TFT SXGA+ (1400 x 1050 resolution and 16 M colors)
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| − | * Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900 with up to 128 MB of shared system memory
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| − | * ADI AC '97 CODEC
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| − | * 9.5-mm DVD/CD-RW Combo (Matshita UJDA775 IDE ATA 8x DVD/24x CDRW)
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| − | * 56K Fax/Modem
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| − | * NetXtreme Gigabit PCI Express Ethernet Controller (10/100/1000 NIC)
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| − | * Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG 802.11b/g WLAN
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| − | * One Type I/II PC Card Slot??
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| − | * One Integrated Smart Card Reader??
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| − | * One Integrated Secure Digital Slot??
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| − | * Dual pointing devices (both Pointstick and Touchpad)
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| − | * 6-cell high capacity Lithium-Ion (52Wh)
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| − | * External 65W adapter
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| − | Output of lshwd
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| − | 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp.|Mobile Memory Controller Hub (intel-agp)
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| − | 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp.|Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (i810)
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| − | 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corp.|Mobile Graphics Controller (vesa)
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| − | 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp.|I/O Controller Hub PCI Express Port 0 (unknown)
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| − | 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corp.|I/O Controller Hub PCI Express Port 1 (unknown)
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| − | 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp.|I/O Controller Hub USB (unknown)
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| − | 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp.|I/O Controller Hub USB (unknown)
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| − | 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp.|I/O Controller Hub USB (unknown)
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| − | 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp.|I/O Controller Hub USB2 (unknown)
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| − | 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp.|82801 Hub Interface to PCI Bridge (hw_random)
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| − | 00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp.|82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (snd-intel8x0)
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| − | 00:1e.3 Modem: Intel Corp.|I/OController Hub Modem (Hsf:www.linmodems.org)
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| − | 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp.|I/O Controller Hub LPC (i810-tco)
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| − | 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp.|I/O Controller Hub PATA (piix)
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| − | 02:04.0 Network controller: Intel Corp.|Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG (ipw2200)
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| − | 02:06.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments|Texas Instruments PCIxx21/x515 Cardbus Controller (yenta_socket)
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| − | 02:06.3 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments|Texas Instruments PCIxx21 Integrated FlashMedia Controller (unknown)
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| − | 02:06.4 : Texas Instruments|Texas Instruments PCI6411, PCI6421, PCI6611, PCI6621, PCI7411, PCI7421, PCI7611, PCI7621 Secure Digital (SD) C (unknown)
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| − | 02:06.5 : Texas Instruments|Texas Instruments PCI6411, PCI6421, PCI6611, PCI6621, PCI7411, PCI7421, PCI7611, PCI7621 Smart Card Controller (unknown)
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| − | 10:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corp.|NetXtreme BCM5751M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (tg3)
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| − | 004:001 USB Hub: Virtual|Hub (unknown)
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| − | 003:001 USB Hub: Virtual|Hub (unknown)
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| − | 002:001 USB Hub: Virtual|Hub (unknown)
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| − | 001:001 USB Hub: Virtual|Hub (unknown)
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| − | ===What works/What doesn't===
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| − | Pretty much everything works on this laptop except the SD-card reader. I am still working on it. The screen needs a little tweaking to get the full resolution and works great. Also I have not tried the modem (no POTS line) or tried to suspend the laptop yet.
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| − | ==Xorg==
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| − | ===Video Driver===
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| − | The NC6220 has an onboard Intel 9xx series VGA, supported by the xf86-video-intel driver.
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| − | ====Mouse====
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| − | There is a synaptic touchpad on this laptop. If you follow this [http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Touchpad_Synaptics howto], you should have no problems getting this to work. It works great for me.
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| − | Note: Make sure you update the modules in /etc/rc.conf.
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| − | ====Compiz Fusion====
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| − | This laptop supports Compiz Fusion. So I followed the [http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Compiz_fusion wiki], and it worked great.
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| − | ===Fix Resolution===
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| − | xf86-video-i810 used to required 915resolution to get a correct resolution. This isn't needed anymore by the superseeding xf86-video-intel driver.
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| − | Section "ServerLayout"
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| − | Identifier "Xorg Configured"
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| − | Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
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| − | EndSection
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| − | Section "ServerFlags"
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| − | Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "true"
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| − | EndSection
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| − | Section "Monitor"
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| − | Identifier "Monitor0"
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| − | Option "DPMS" "true"
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| − | HorizSync 28.0 - 96.0 # Warning: This may fry old Monitors
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| − | VertRefresh 50.0 - 75.0 # Very conservative. May flicker.
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| − | # 1400x1050 @ 60.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 65.22 kHz; pclk: 122.61 MHz
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| − | ModeLine "1400x1050" 122.61 1400 1488 1640 1880 1050 1051 1054 1087 -HSync +Vsync
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| − | EndSection
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| − | Section "Device"
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| − | Identifier "Card0"
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| − | Driver "i810"
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| − | VendorName "Intel Corp."
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| − | BoardName "Unknown Board"
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| − | Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
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| − | Option "DRI" "true"
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| − | EndSection
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| − | Section "Screen"
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| − | Identifier "Screen0"
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| − | Device "Card0"
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| − | Monitor "Monitor0"
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| − | DefaultColorDepth 24
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| − | SubSection "Display"
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| − | Depth 24
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| − | Modes "1400x1050"
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| − | EndSubSection
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| − | EndSection
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| − | ==Audio==
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| − | See [[ALSA]].
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| − | == Network ==
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| − | === Wired ===
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| − | The wired connection worked out of the box. The Neworkmanager, that we will setup in the next section, will manage this as well as the wireless.
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| − | === Wireless ===
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| − | To enable the blue wireless LED, add the following to /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf:
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| − | options ipw2200 led=1
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| − | ==== Troubles with wireless ====
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| − | The default bios settings maximize power savings by only allowing either power to be given to the wireless card or the ethernet card. Either disable the "LAN/WLAN Switching" in the bios, eject the "tg3" module when you want to use the wireless card, or unplug the ethernet cable.
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| − | === Modem ===
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| − | Have not tried.
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| − | == Card Readers ==
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| − | === PCMCIA ===
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| − | As far as I've understood from other reports, the pcmcia card works as expected. I don't have one at this time, so I can't confirm it.
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| − | === Compact Flash ===
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| − | The same goes for the Compact Flash. It's supposed to work as it uses the same interfaces as the PCMCIA does, but I can't confirm anything since I don't have a CF-card.
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| − | === Secure Digital ===
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| − | The SD-card reader on the other hand is a pain! It uses proprietary drivers from ricoh under windows and there are no drivers under linux. I would really want this working but I think the only chance would be to reverse engineer the reader and I guess not enough coders have this device. Subsequently, there are no drivers now and there won't be in the foreseeable future...
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| − | ==Other Tweaks==
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| − | ===Sudo===
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| − | I like to use sudo to manage my system. So as root, I do a:
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| − | # pacman -S sudo
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| − | Then I do a give myself rights:
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| − | # visudo -f /etc/sudoers
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| − | Add myself under root.
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| − | ===DISABLE IPV6===
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| − | I disabled the IPV6 module because I do not need it. Here is the [http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/IPv6_-_Disabling_the_Module howto] to get this.
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| − | ===SSHfs===
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| − | To connect to other shares and doing updates I use SSHfs. Here is a [http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sshfs howto] for that.
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| − | ===Packages===
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| − | affinity
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| − | firefox
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| − | thunderbird
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| − | flashplugin
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| − | flashplayer-standalone
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| − | jre # Java
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| − | mplayer
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| − | vlc
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| − | Glipper
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| − | tomboy
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| − | gaim
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| − | ms-fonts
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| − | ntp
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| − | tracker
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| − | affinity
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| − | f-spot
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| − | ===Files Edited===
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| − | rc.local
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| − | rc.conf
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| − | pacman.conf
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| − | modprobe.conf
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| − | inittab
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| − | xorg.conf
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| − | sudoers
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| − | = External Links =
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| − | * This report is listed at the [http://tuxmobil.org/fujitsu.html TuxMobil: Linux Laptop and Notebook Installation Guides Survey: Fujitsu-Siemens - FSC].
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