nihil:~# lspci 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 03) 0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03) 0000:00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03) 0000:00:1b.0 0403: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 03) 0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03) 0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03) 0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03) 0000:00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03) 0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03) 0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d3) 0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03) 0000:00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller (rev 03) 0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03) 0000:06:08.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) 0000:06:09.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI7420 CardBus Controller 0000:06:09.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCI7x20 1394a-2000 OHCI Two-Port PHY/Link-Layer Controller 0000:06:09.3 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments PCI7420/PCI7620 Dual Socket CardBus and Smart Card Cont. w/ 1394a-2000 OHCI Two-Port PHY/Link-Layer Cont. an 0000:06:0a.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05)
nihil:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 13 model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHz stepping : 8 cpu MHz : 1729.305 cache size : 2048 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe nx est tm2 bogomips : 3463.28
nihil:~# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 505360 166736 338624 0 6592 78652
-/+ buffers/cache: 81492 423868
Swap: 1967952 0 1967952
nihil:~# fdisk -l /dev/hda Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 1216 9767488+ 83 Linux /dev/hda2 1217 3648 19535040 83 Linux /dev/hda3 3649 9484 46877670 83 Linux /dev/hda4 9485 9729 1967962+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
You only need to download the last version of Debian Stable and install it following step by step the installer instructions.
NB: the installation won't work from 2.6 kernel, so you have to give the linux24 command at the installation boot prompt.
NNB: the partition scheme you read above is totally up to you to decide. the one above was the scheme i was comfortable with.
Personally I installed the base system and passed to Debian Unstable, adding then packages as it was needed.
THe final part of your /boot/grub/menu.lst file should look like this:
### MY KERNEL ### title nihil root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15 root=/dev/hda1 ro vga=792 savedefault bootI tried to use intelfb instead of vesa console driver, but had no result insofar.
In /etc/modules you shouldn't have any line, since kernel, udev, hotplug should do the trick.
CONFIG_SND_INTEL8X0=y CONFIG_SND_INTEL8X0M=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_INTEL=y
After the basic installation install the xserver-xorg package. Then you can just substitute my xorg.conf file with the officially distributed one.
Recently I have been hacking around my video board and discovered a number of things
(--) PCI:*(0:2:0) Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller rev 3, Mem @ 0xb0080000 /19, 0xc0000000/28, 0xb0040000/18, I/O @ 0x1800/3 (--) PCI: (0:2:1) Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller rev 3, Mem @ 0x32000000 /19The second on seems to fix a "rtc error" the log was giving
Most Vaio use the sonypi interface to deal with the integrated webcam and
the like. Unfortunately mine seems not too. I did not fathom how to make it work
and it graudges me beyond concern.
I read much about it but could not make any use of this informations:
Unfortunately the Fn+Fx combinations won't work unles you trouble a little with them. I tried many different approaches basically following this links:
After that I stumbled on a ubuntu forum page explaining failry well how to have
fsfn software working together with sony_acpi kernel module and
this proved at the moment the most satisfying solution.
Both sonypid and spictrl proved useless on my laptop, while the
sonyfn hack from the second page linked above proved to work.
To have the sony_acpi / fsfn connection to work you have to:
more detailed information here: this ubuntu forum thread
i810switch software should do the trick of VGA/LCD/CRT switch but i do not have a beamer to try it out around so be careful :)
I add this part on how to encrypt you home directory even if you can find wide documentation on line. This is because the latest Debian unstable packages do not allow you to encrypt your home using the easy cryptsetup wrapper. cryptsetup will return you error on the device mapper system even if the device is up and working. On line I could not find any more hazy solution to rebuild the package, but in my case still was not working.
Normally you would have encrypted you homedir using the very well-done documentation at
DM Debian Grimoire.
In our case we had to use directly dmsetup and hashalot tools and hack around an init script to launch at startup. All this helped by the never-too-much-thanked dm-crypt documentation.
The only original contribution to the matter on my part has been the init script I wrote and that I link here in case someone find it useful: nihilcrypt. In case you want to use it, download it, put it in the /etc/init.d directory, and link it in rcS.d, rc0.d and rc6.d directory (boot, halt and reboot directories).