Linux on Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook C1110

The laptop

Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook C1110 running Slackware Linux 12.2 with Linux kernel 2.6.27.7. Note: The information below is outdated.

CPU, chipset, RAM and built-in PCI-hardware
Internal HDD
Graphics
Audio
Network
WLAN
Combo CD-RW/DVD
USB
ACPI
Touchpad and Keyboard
Other devices
Credits, disclaimer and contact information

CPU, chipset, RAM and built-in PCI-hardware.

The laptop has a Intel Pentium M 1.3GHz CPU (Intel 855GM Chipset), with 256MB DDR SDRAM (266MHz). All seems to work fine.

Below is a list of built-in PCI-hardware (from /sbin/lspci):

  00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
  00:00.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
  00:00.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
  00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
  00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
  00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
  00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
  00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
  00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
  00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 83)
  00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
  00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 03)
  00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
  00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
  00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
  01:0a.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ6933/711E1 CardBus/SmartCardBus Controller (rev 01)
  01:0a.1 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ6933/711E1 CardBus/SmartCardBus Controller (rev 01)
  01:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
  01:0d.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter (rev 04)

Internal Hard Disk Drive

The internal HDD has 40GB of storage. I used fdisk to create partition tables. I'm using /dev/hda1 as swap, /dev/hda2 as /, etc. I prefer to use the ext3 filesystem (which basicly is just ext2 + journaling). I've experienced no problems with the internal HDD.

Graphics

The laptop has a Intel 810 graphic card with 15" XGA display (supports up to 1024x768 pixels).
I configured X11R6.9.0 (X.Org) with the i810 driver.
From my Section "Device" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf
  Identifier  "** Intel i810 (generic)               [i810]"
  Driver      "i810"
  
You may take a look at the DRI-site for information about Direct Rendering. In general, compiling the kernel with support for the graphic card as modules, is a good idea. Remember to load the modules and set permissions properly in xorg.conf. Check the output of glxinfo | grep "direct rendering", hopefully it returns with a "Yes". I get more than 1000 FPS (according to glxgears, which works very well with games likes BZFlag and Quake3Arena).

Audio

The built-in audio card is an Intel AC'97 Audio Controller and is supported by the snd_intel8x0 module in the kernel. ALSA and OSS-emulation works fine.

Network

The built-in network card is a Realtek 8139 (10/100Mbps Fast Ethernet) and is supported by the 8139too module in the kernel.
  8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27
  eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xd007e000, 00:0b:5d:03:e3:d8, IRQ 11
  eth0:  Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'
  

WLAN

The WLAN-card (Intel PRO/Wireless 2100) should be supported by newer versions of the Linux-kernel, but I haven't tested this yet though, as I don't use WLAN that much. Adding firmware to /lib/firmware/ should work fine (which I haven't done yet, so I get a few error messages when booting up, as shown below). When the firmware is added, you could use iwconfig to configure it.
  ipw2100: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Driver, git-1.2.2
  ipw2100: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
  ipw2100: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Connection
  ipw2100: eth0: Firmware 'ipw2100-1.3.fw' not available or load failed.
  ipw2100: eth0: ipw2100_get_firmware failed: -2
  
You may take a look at the Intel ipw2100-site for more information and downloading firmware.

Combo CD-RW/DVD

Works fine and is found by kernel. DVD-playing was tested with MPlayer. CD-R was tested with cdrecord.
  hdc: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R2412, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
  hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
  Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
  

USB

This laptop has two built-in USB 2.0 ports, which I am using for the following purposes:
1) I have a external Western Digital 120GB USB Hard Disk Drive. It came with FAT32-filesystem so I did the following:

mke2fs /dev/sda1 (to create a Linux ext3 filesystem)
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbdisk (mounts the USB-HDD to /mnt/usbdisk)

I use to have
  if [ -e /dev/sda1 ]; then
    echo "Now mounting /dev/sda1 to /mnt/usbdisk"
    mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbdisk
  fi
in my /etc/rc.d/rc.local file to mount it on startup. You could also edit /etc/fstab.
(I also have a 512MB USB flash memory drive, which I occationaly use on /dev/sda1.)
2) I have a Logitech wheel (five button) mouse. I had to modify /etc/X11/xorg.conf (in order to make the wheel work) so it looks like this:
  Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier "Mouse1"
    Driver "mouse"
    Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
    Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
    Option "Buttons" "5"
    Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    Option "Emulate3Buttons"
  EndSection

Power Management

Works fine with ACPI. APM is unsupported.

  ACPI: AC Adapter [AC] (on-line)
  ACPI: Battery Slot [CMB1] (battery present)
  ACPI: Battery Slot [CMB2] (battery absent)
  ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
  ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
  ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
  ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2] C3[C3])

Touchpad and keyboard

The internal touchpad and keyboard works fine with X11R6.9.0 (X.Org) using standard options given by the xorgconfig configuration tool (or, edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf with the following options: Option "Protocol" "PS/2" for the touchpad, and Option "XkbModel" "Microsoft" for the keyboard).

Other devices

I currently do not use these devices (modem, IrDA and application panel), therefore I do not know if they work properly. Anyway, I will try to give some useful information to you below.
It looks like the modem is supported by the kernel.
The IrDA-port could work.
The application panel could work.
Note that this laptop comes without FireWire and Bluetooth.

Credits, disclaimer and contact information

Thanks to Jorge Barrera Grandon for language-help.
Thanks to Kjetil Nes for letting me test my WLAN-card (when I was using Slackware 10.2/Linux 2.6.14, that is) with his Airport.
ALL INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT IS WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!
Please e-mail any comments to me: stian at atlantiscrew period net.

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