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Video Controller	ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 VRAM 64MB	WORKS
Audio	Internal Speaker: 2 Stereo Speakers (1.0W )	WORKS out of the BOX
Screen	1400x1050 SXGA+, max. 32bit colors	WORKS out of the BOX
Optical Drive	COMBO	WORKS out of the BOX
Communication Port	56K Fax/MODEM	WORKS
LAN	10/100 Base on board LAN	WORKS out of the BOX
Wireless LAN	(802.11b/g)	WORKS
PCMCIA Slot	Type II x 1, CardBus?: Support	NOT TESTED
Card Reader	MMC/ SD/ MS/ SM 4-in-1 card reader x 1	NOT TESTED
Power Management	ACPI Power Management, support standby suspend	FAILED

Installation (anaconda)

The M510c suffers from the garbage bug but thats not all...

You will also need to disable acpi during the install and while booting the kernel, this can be done from the install prompt as follows...

linux acpi=off nofb

VGA Driver (ATi 9700M)

The M510c comes with either an ATi 9600 or 9700 mobile Radeon, installation was simple and trouble free.

You will need the following rpms

2258fps on glxgears
445fps on fgl_glxgears

Images will comes glxgearsfgl_glxgears ATi-fglrx Display Settings

Unreal Tournament 2004 at 1280x1024 everything HIGHEST is liquid.
Quake 3/Team Arena at 1024x768 everything HIGH above 80fps on any timedemo map!

Modem

The INTEL modem in this laptop seems to work well with the SmartLink? Drivers

First add the following line to /etc/modprobe.conf

install snd_intel8x0m /bin/true

Then execute the following command to unload the module

rmmod snd_intel8x0m

Then make and make install the following.

http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/smartlink/slmodem-2.9.9e-pre1.tar.gz

or slmodem-2.9.9e-pre1.tar.gz on this server

Then

cp -Rf /dev/slamr0 /etc/udev/devices/

Then copy the following file into /etc/init.d/

http://oasis.dit.upm.es/~jantonio/personal/aspire1410/slmodemd

or slmodemd on this server

Give it permissions

chmod 755 /etc/init.d/slmodemd

And edit line 18 in that file to reflect the correct country, country names can be take from

slmodemd --countrylist

Finally

chkconfig --levels 345 slmodemd
reboot

Wireless Lan (ipw2200)

The Intel PROWireless works really well on this laptop.

You will need to install the following rpms.

Dont forget to turn the card ON using the antena button.

/sbin/lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller (rev 21)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller (rev 21)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 83)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]
02:03.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
02:04.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev ac)
02:04.1 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev ac)
02:04.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C552 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 04)
02:09.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05)

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