A110 Hardware Status

This page tracks what hardware components are working with the latest upstream (unpatched) Linux kernel (2.6.25 at the moment) and which (if any) patches are needed to make more hardware components work properly.

CPU

Works fine, including CPU frequency scaling. See CPU for details.

RAM

Works fine.

SSD

Works out of the box, it's recognized as an "IDE" disk at /dev/hdc. See SSD.

Ethernet

Works out of the box with a standard Debian kernel (tested: 2.6.24 and 2.6.25). The required kernel module is 8139too.

Wireless

See Wireless for the current status.

Modem

The Agere Softmodem works fine. Yet efax needs some adaptions to utilize fax-mode, which the Agere library offers. See Modem for details.

VGA

Which features work (or don't) depends heavily on your kernel, X.org driver (e.g. VIA binary driver, or OpenChrome). See LCD.

Audio

Works out of the box with mainline 2.6.25 kernel. See Audio for more information.

PC speaker

Works fine (test e.g. via the beep utility) but it's very loud. See the FAQ on how to disable the beeping.

USB

Works fine. Various devices have been tested, e.g. USB mouse, USB thumb drives, USB-attached DVB-T adapters, etc.

Touchpad

Works out of the box. See Touchpad for details.

Battery

The battery status can be displayed e.g. using the yacpi command line tool.

SD-card slot

The card reader doesn't work out of the box on most Linux kernels. See SD for how to enable the card reader and for the current driver status.

Suspend

Please see Suspend.

Keyboard / special keys

Keyboard works fine, special keys are partially working, see Keyboard.

LEDs

Please see LEDs.