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    Australian CF-18DHB22KA and Linux

    Discussion in 'Panasonic' started by coredump01, Apr 20, 2009.

  1. coredump01

    coredump01 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello everybody,
    I've finally gotten my ordered Australian CF-18. This case is pretty beaten up
    but the Screen and keyboard are still in very good condition.

    Anyway, I'm just reporting back that the Australian CF-18 MK2 are fully supported under Linux. Suspend-to-RAM (!), hibernate (!!), touchscreen, sound, wlan, everything but the four hardware hotkeys on the front next to brightness Up/Down keys works.

    The touchscreen is using the standard "evtouch" driver and requires a
    not so standard calibration tool to get it working (the original evtouch calibration software is pretty much FUBAR currently).

    The WLAN card uses the well-supported Intel IPW2200 chip and I have it up and running with WPA encryption. Also I've been a bit wardriving with kismet, that's where the table mode really comes in handy!

    The Intel 855GM onboard graphics chip uses the OSS "intel" driver from Xorg and 3D acceleration is supported (but bloody slow heh, should be the same in windows.) glxgears shows 540fps...

    The volume, brightness, hibernate and sleep hotkeys are working.
    I had to fix the brightness ACPI scripts in Debian to make them work with the new panasonic hotkey driver (patch added to the Bugtracker).

    I didn't try the wired ethernet, PCMCIA, serial and headset ports yet, but I don't see any problems there.

    All in all it is a very nice, compact machine. Perfect to take with you wherever you go. Also it is a nice feeling that your laptop can basically withstand any level of abuse you can reasonably throw at it =)
     
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    displacedtexan Notebook Enthusiast

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    Great to hear!!

    What distro did you use?

    And how did you calibrate the touch screen? Any How-to's available?

    Thanks!!
     
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    coredump01 Notebook Enthusiast

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    My Distro of choice is Debian. I'm working on a CF-18 setup guide.
    Calibration was done via a tool called "calibrator" which I had to compile from source. It spits out the min/max values for X and Y when done. You the have to manually insert them into your xorg.conf. Stay tuned for the setup guide.
     
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    displacedtexan Notebook Enthusiast

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    Great!

    I already am dual booting Debian Lenny...

    Looking forward to the setup guide... any links to the "calibrator"
     
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    coredump01 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Here's the guide, have fun!
     
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