| Box
| Worked out of the box , i.e. after a clean installation.
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| Conf
| It needed editing a configuration file or running a
setup GUI.
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| Add-On
| Needed additional or patched software: download it;
follow instructions to compile and install it; it works.
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| Fiddle
| As with Add-On , but it required some workarounds
in the procedure, which might seem minor to an experienced user
but which might prevent a newbie from making it work.
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| Hack
| So you call yourself a guru? This one will challenge
your skills. But this guru eventually got it working.
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| Fail
| I wasn't able to get this one to work, at least so far.
|
| N.T.
| Not tested.
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| *
| I'm using some special security procedures, which needed to be modified
for OpenSuSE 11.2. Before that was done, the console user's session
was being registered incorrectly so it could not mount removable
devices. Once that was fixed, items marked '*' functioned according
to their color background.
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| Does it boot at all? | Box
|
| | Time, power button to greeter | 78 sec
|
| | Time, greeter to desktop (XFCE) | 17 sec
|
| | Time, desktop GUI to shutdown | 23 sec
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| OS Installation | No prob
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| Processor (AMD E-350) | Recognized
|
| | Chipset (AMD M1) | Recognized
|
| Video (Radeon HD 6310 on chip with the CPU) | Box
|
| | 2D graphics: Xorg radeon driver with KMS, needs kernel 3.x
| Box
|
| | Radeon driver
cannot yet do DRI on Evergreen graphics engine.
|
| | 3D graphics: ATI fglrx driver without KMS. | Install
|
| Hard disc (250Gb SATA) | Box
|
| | Toshiba MK2565GS, 5400rpm. The actually available size
is 233Gb, compared to a Western Digital 250Gb disc on the machine being
replaced, where the user can actually use 250Gb.
|
| Optical disc, Blu-Rau
|
| | Read data DVD | Box
|
| | Movie DVD | Box
|
| | Play music CD |
|
| | Read data CD | Box
|
| | Write data CD |
|
| | Read check |
|
| | Write DVD |
|
| | Read Blu-ray (no media) | N.T.
|
| | This drive is readonly (4X) for Blu-ray but can do
8X DVD+/-RW (read and write both media types, and CDs).
|
| Flash card slot |
|
| Wired Ethernet | Box
|
| | IPv4 (dhcp) | Box
|
| | IPv6 (RFC 2462) | Box
|
| |
|
| Sound
|
| | 3.5mm stereo (front, hw:1,0) | Conf
|
| | HDMI audio (hw:0,3) | Conf
|
| | Needs radeon module parameter audio=1
|
| | Microphone |
|
| CPU speed modulation | Conf
|
| | In /etc/sysconfig/kernel MODULES_LOADED_AT_BOOT,
specify powernow-k8 for the E-350 CPU. The default governor is
ondemand, and the CPU frequency actually varies depending on the CPU
load.
|
| Random number generator | Missing
|
| | amd-rng does not load, saying no such device .
|
| Suspend to RAM | Update BIOS
|
| | For s2ram you need --force, because the chipset is
not recognized. The machine is shipped with a buggy BIOS and has a
probability of about 20% of freezing when it wakes.
Here is the BIOS update procedure.
This done, suspend to RAM is reliable (20 times without failure).
Surprisingly, there was never any problem with the video driver
(fglrx or radeon).
1 sec to sleep, 2 secs to wake. Wake on LAN, or a keypress
or mouse click, will wake it. Do not press the power button as you would
on an Intel box; it will get very confused and thoroughly stuck.
|
| Suspend to disc (hibernate) | Box
|
| | s2disk suspends with no problems (9 secs to sleep and
27 secs for the normal boot procedure diverted to image restoration).
Tested 16 times with no failures, and considerable production service
subsequently. It wakes on similar events as with suspend to RAM.
|
| Wake on LAN | Conf
|
| | In BIOS setup you need to enable Wake on LAN. It will
wake from suspend (S3 and S4), and from poweroff (S5) except not if power
was lost (e.g. plug pulled) and restored.
(Note, there is a BIOS setup option for what to do when power fails and
resumes. I have it set to reboot, if it was running at the time of
failure.)
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| Wake on USB | Box
|
| | It will wake from S3 or S4 when you press a key on the
USB keyboard, or click the mouse. It will not wake from S5 though (duh).
An optical mouse's lamp is off, so mouse motion does nothing, but clicking
a button wakes the machine. Jimc recommends against this because it's
unclear if the mouse event will be interpreted by the GUI. Similarly,
use the shift or ctrl key, not Enter , to wake.
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