Re: Asus L2460D
On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 11:17:03PM -0700, Roman Stepanyan wrote:
> Hi Samuele
>
> I own ASUS laptop from A1 series.
> Though hardware in your model seems to be quite different, except the graphics
> part.
> I do not know if it helps, but you will certainly need this
> http://www.winischhofer.net/linuxsis630.shtml
> if you want to get XFree running. Or have to use VESA framebuffer :(
Hmm, SIS has their own page for the topic, and while it may be as cryptic as
the average drivers page, nonethless here it is:
http://www.sis.com/support/driver/linux.htm
Note that you'll want to fetch the package and look inside it, as current
debian (rather than stable) offers a more recent version of X 4 than that,
so we may do a better job than the vendor's out of box offering. Note that
they also cross-reference customers to visit SuSE's XFcom site.
I can tell you from direct experience that it's okay to mix parts between
SuSE and Debian :)
Go for direct support if it works, the framebuffer driver is mu u uch slo o
o wwwer unless you also have kernel support to get the acceleration from
that side of the equation instead. At least it's prettier than SVGA though.
> I also found some other links concerning ASUS laptops (other models, but some
> bits of hardware can be the same as in yours)
>
> http://www.seindal.dk/rene/asus8400/
> http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/asus.html
I knew the Asus 8400 as Tuxtops' "Topaz" and it's really a beautiful machine;
however, its internals do not at all resemble the machine described below.
It had S3 Savage/IX video chipset, required kernel-framebuffer support if you
wanted to use textmode consoles safely (else, switching back from X to text
one/two/many times would give it streaks and you'd never se real text again).
If you encounter that last part, it'd all be the fault of the Xserver and
hardware not agreeing on a clean reset, but I've not seen that happen on
a SiS yet.
You'll have your best luck just convincing it to boot on a rescue disk of
some capability (I suggest lnx-bbc, if you like what you see you can step
right onward into the installer sequence) ... run lspci and ASK the hardware
what it is. lnx-bbc also can do X to some crude degree so it may help you
figure out about modelines. Luckilly X 4 is pretty good about coughing up
VESA bits.
If you get to play with one in a store, with MSwin loaded, visit the Control
Panel's "system" section and read what it says under the hardware device list.
Sometimes it's quite useful; I've never had it fail to tell me which flavor
of USB bus you get, or which modem chip, for example.
> although you r right - no specific info for the L2 series
>
> Also CHECK the modem - if it's winmodem, then 90% probability, that it
> will NOT be supported. It's the case for A1 series - everything works
> perfectly, except winmodem (in my case it's motorola).
Since paying attention to the linmodems.org site for the last couple of years
... where the notes about which winmodems are junk and which are merely
annoying is tracked ... I'd have to downgrade your enthusiastic rag on
winmodems to 65%. There is a fair chance that your winmodem may be
supported but so poorly you want to shoot it anyway - and you'd hear no
dissent from *me* - I won't use the darn things even when they work.
> Cheers
> Roman
Best of luck to Samuele!
* Heather Stern * star@ many places...
> --- Samuele <s244797@studenti.ing.unipi.it> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all.
> > I'm going to buy an Asus L2460D; I plan to install Debian (woody)
> > on it, but I'm not sure of which hardware parts are supported and which are
> > not. After a quick research on the Web I've found no informations about a
> > Linux-dist running on it or on any other laptop of the L2 series, and I
> > suppose
> > it is because those are very-new. Does anyone here know something about that
> > machine, or at least something about particular parts/devices surely not
> > supported or that can create problems with Linux? This is the technical
> > description:
> >
> > AMD Mobile Athlon 4, 1.2GHz / 100MHz FSB, on a SIS 730S Chipset
> > AWARD BIOS 256KB Flash EPROM, PMU, PnP
> > 256MB SDRAM
> > 14.1" TFT LCD, XGA+ 1024x768
> > Graphical subsystem integrated on the SIS 730S Chipset with
> > system-shared memory (max 64MB)
> > HDD UDMA/100 20GB
> > Combo DVD 8x-CDRW 8x/4x/24x
> > FD
> > PCMCIA 2.1, 2 type II or 1 type III
> > 2 FireWire
> > 2 USB
> > IrDA 1.1
> > Ai-Box connector
> > VGA Port
> > Parallel port
> > S-Video TV out
> > PS/2 Port
> > Integrated Modem AC97 2.1 MDC v.90 Universal PPT support
> > (DGT,CTR21,JATE, FCC)
> > NIC 10/100 BaseT on-board, std
> > AC97 Soundsystem
> > Stand-by support, Suspend-to-disk & Suspend-to-Ram
> > ACPI 2.0
> > Li-Ion battery, 2000 mAh/cell, 9 cells
> >
> >
> > Regards, and thanx in advance :)
> >
> > --
> > Samuele Catusian
>
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