Fedora Core2 Test1 on Acer TravelMate C100 (C102Ti)

15.05.2007
The laptop broke into 2 pieces.. it actually started to disintegrate into
small pieces on the second day after i bought it. All that remains from it
is the screen piece (alot of cracks everywhere), motherboard, harddrive, and
the keyboard. 
id have to say, this was not a very good laptop, buggy incompatible bios,
windows only this and that.. and the worst of all, the quality of the
material it was build of was really bad. So, never ever again acer laptops for me.

15.08.2005
Found i nice site with nfo about installing linux (in this case gentoo)
to acer C100 http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Acer_Travelmate_C100

30.06.2005
It's been a while since i tried to use linux on acer c100...
last distro i tested was suse 9.2 (if i remember correctly
about 4 months ago), it worked quite well as a normal laptop..
(too lazy to get pen working..)

now i'm using ms winduws again.. (mysterious problems, with
no solutions in this os too.. duh..)
(keyboard isn't working properly :\ )


update:
16.08.2004:
i've installed Linspire on my laptop now.. and it seems to work better
than any other distros (out of the box i mean... ofcourse with lotsof
tweakking every distro gets better) (i've now tested gentoo, fedora
core and linspire (former Lindows))..

Linspire:
all sound and wlan seems to work...
Gonna test the pen in couple of days...

(if any guestions email them to
mikael.korpela(at)[spamblock]helsinki.fi 
and remove that '[spamblock]' )


18.08.2004:
Well still using Linspire, althought it seems that in order to get
software or updates from Linspire corporation you need to pay monthly
fees.. something i'm not willing to do for a product aimed only for
beginners.. (Really no ssh, no man pages, default user = root .. i
really dislike that Linspire really thinks it can adopt M$ windows
style purely on linux .. it's quite insane)
For now i'll keep trying to use this thing..
well the problems in short:
* default user ROOT
* old KDE (why KDE why not GNOME)
* most console apps missing
* Sleep mode hangs when trying to use 'out-of-the-box'
* well... only 1 virtual desktop... number of desktops can be increased, but don't yet know how to switch from one to the other


13.09.2004
Got tired of Linspire (way too simple for linux and missing some very
important software)

Next project is to install SuSe linux (i downloaded ftp installation cd and it booted)
Well... not going to add experiences of this distro here... but to another page (which i'll create soon).

i bought my C100 because it was tablet & it was cheap, i didn't at the time realize that
nowdays there could be PC's that are made only for micro$oft windows and installing linux
or any other os could be such a pain..

firstly i tried to install gentoo linux.. no success here, booting to an linux 'installer'
from cd doesn't work.. on almost any linux.. (Gentoo, red hat (& Fedora Core), Knoppix were tested.. 
something to do with the way bios loads from usb cd-rom drive..) (BeOs doesn't boot either)

So to install Fedora Core, i created an 2 gig. fat partition where i put the iso's and dosutils
directory from Fedora Core CD1. Then i downloaded FreeDos boot disc image from the net (www.freedos.org)
and using nero burning rom i burned bootable cd-rom with free-dos, that could be booted on C100 with
usb cd-rom.

now booting with the FreeDos BootCD
in options :
* basic i386 Mode
* you only need minimum amount of stuff in freedos, not even cd-rom support is needed anymore..
when you have booted.. go to that drive where you have placed all the iso's and dosutils..
go to dosutils directory and run autoboot.bat -> install fedora core.. should be easy enought..

Next is how to get stylus working

 
This is how to get all working in Fedora Core2 test1:
Not as instructed in REF(1) site ( Getting touchscreen to work in xfree86 ) 
we edit inittab (/etc/inittab) which should run before X starts and add next
line after id:5:initdefault:
10:5:respawn:/bin/setserial /dev/ttyS0 port 0x93f8 autoconfigure

(i'm not sure, maybe stylus could be used in bootloader too if you put that line before that initdefault...
i'm now too tired of trying... clock is 23:33 i started this whole thing ~13:00.. day well spent )

(i made the error to follow the instructions letter by letter.. then about 6 hours searching for the
problem.. for that i can paste nice picture of my config file.. )
(Basic problem is that ttyS0 must be set before we start XFree86 server..)

Next we will download the driver from REF(1) site, put wacomTM100_drv.o to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/

and then add the following lines to your XF86Config ( /etc/X11/XF86Config )
in section ServerLayout add inputdevice line:
	InputDevice	"stylus" "AlwaysCore"

and in section where all the inputdevice sections are add following lines:
Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"stylus"
	Driver	"wacomTM100"
	Option	"Type" "stylus"
	Option	"Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
EndSection

Howto get the sounds working...

No idea...