Re: Centrino

Martin List-Petersen (martin@list-petersen.dk)
02 May 2003 09:30:39 +0200


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On Fri, 2003-05-02 at 06:53, Anders Karlsson wrote:
> Hi folks,
>=20
> I've been trying to install linux on an IBM X31 Centrino laptop the last
> few days. There are a few things that doesn't work so well. Like agp
> driver (radeon.o) and the IDE subsystem. I've been trying to install it
> with SuSE Pro 8.2 which is using a 2.4.20 kernel. The question I'd like
> to ask is what the Centrino support is like in kernel 2.4.x and 2.5.x
> and what the outlook would be on this should the support be a bit
> lacking.
>
> I have the laptop at home, and I would be willing to try things out to
> get them working, so if there were patches to try out (preferably
> against a 2.4.20 kernel) I'd be happy to do that.

I've got the Dell Latitude D600 (Centrino, ATI Radeon Mobility 9000 32
MB)

The Wlan card is unsupported yet (if you've got that). The AGP drivers
of the Kernel work fine (radeon driver loads without complaining) on
2.4.21-rc1. X needs a tweak, since the Radeon 9000 first will be
supported in 4.3.0. I've started documenting my setup at
http://www.marlow.dk/dell_d600

A lot of the PCI devices are still unknown though (Host Bridge, PCI
Bridge, ISA Bridge, IDE, CardBus Bridge) on lspci

Regards,
Martin List-Petersen
martin at list-petersen dot dk

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