Subject: Amilo D, thanks and a question about APM/ACPI From: Roman Vanicek To: visvanath at ratnaweera.net Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0.1 Date: 04 Mar 2002 09:39:39 +0100 Message-Id: <1015231179.794.14.camel at gulliver.xtg.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests= version=2.01 Status: RO Content-Length: 1657 Lines: 42 Hello, thank you very much for your description of Amilo and how to make it work with Linux. I have been looking for a new notebook with good quality/power/price ratio which would also work smoothly with Linux and your web helped me a lot to make my choice which I have not regretted since. I am now running Linux (RedHat 7.2) on this machine for two weeks and I am completely satisfied. I have purchased model "CY 23", ie. 256M RAM, 30G HDD, CDRW built-in. Some small comments: * the graphic chip is reported as S3 Twister under Windows and as ProSavage in /proc/pci and it is not auto-detected by Linux (RH). The "savage" driver works fine, though. * I have had some problems with Alsa, but the via82cxxx_audio driver (oss) works fine. * network and modem work smoothly exactly as you say (tulip and lucent drivers). * CD/RW (Toshiba) works wonderfully, I am even running udf support (makes CDRW behave just like a disk, copy and delete files at leisure) which is really cool. ** The only thing which causes me a bit of trouble is power management. I have tried to use both APM and ACPI with the latest kernel (2.4.18) and the result is the same. The PM reports the notebook to be constantly on-line and to have no batteries. Windows, on the other hand, report the state of batteries all right and (as far as I know) without a special driver for this model. I would like to ask you, if you have managed to get the power management work (battery state, suspend, etc.) and how. I will be thankful for any piece of information you can give me. Thanks again for the excellent page and I hope your day goes well. Roman Vanicek vanicek at xtg.cz