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| First the screen and then the power supply of the Acer 5051AWXMI I've been using for work died some 9 months after the warranty expired. Work said 'Pick a Dell', so I did. | First the screen and then the power supply of the Acer 5051AWXMI I've been using for work died some 9 months after the warranty expired. Work said 'Pick a Dell', so I did. | ||
| - | I wanted something not too large but with a screen with plenty of resolution. I picked the [[http:// | + | I wanted something not too large but with a screen with plenty of resolution. I picked the [[http:// |
| - | This time I'm installed Debian Unstable (Sid) from scratch. Or rather installed Debian Stable (currently Lenny) from a CD I had lying around and then upgraded. | + | This time I'm installed Debian Unstable (Sid) from scratch. Or rather installed Debian Stable (currently Lenny) from a CD I had lying around and then upgraded. I need to build some work stuff targetting i386 with GCC 3.3, so for simplicity this is a i386 install, and not x86_64. |
| ===== The Quick Summary ===== | ===== The Quick Summary ===== | ||
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| After the combined niggles of getting my old [[acer5051awxmi|Acer]] working, this has been very smooth. | After the combined niggles of getting my old [[acer5051awxmi|Acer]] working, this has been very smooth. | ||
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| ===== The Hardware ===== | ===== The Hardware ===== | ||
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| 0c:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless WiFi Link 5100 | 0c:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless WiFi Link 5100 | ||
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| + | ===== Video ===== | ||
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| + | The video is the Intel GM45 integrated graphics chipset. The Xorg '' | ||
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| + | I installed the MythTV front end and was immediately able to play video from my backend. | ||
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| + | KWin showed compositing disabled. I fiddled around for a bit with the config, then realised I did not have '' | ||
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| + | Mode 0666 | ||
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| + | </ | ||
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| + | The video and kernel support kernel modesetting, | ||
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| + | ===== Networking ===== | ||
| + | ==== Wired ==== | ||
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| + | The Broadcom BCM5761e Ethernet port works fine with the '' | ||
| + | ==== Wireless ==== | ||
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| + | I had to install the firmware package '' | ||
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| + | (I also installed '' | ||
| + | ===== Audio ===== | ||
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| + | Audio is the Intel HDA. So far this has just worked without me needing to do anything. I have yet to try audio capture or the headphone socket. | ||
| + | ===== Suspending/ | ||
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| + | Initially both seemed to work solidly. Then, sadly, it turned out this was an illusion. Suspend does seem to be reliable. Hibernate mostly works. Mixing the two seems to greatly increases the chances of the system wedging. The Dell BIOS DSDT shows the usual selection of warnings from the Intel compiler. | ||
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| + | I've installed '' | ||
