Installation manual

Contents iii

Contents

1. Once upon a time on a Thinkpad A31p .................. 1

1. 1. Hardware Information ...................... 1

1. 2. Unsolved Problems ...................... 2

2. Preparation Work ........................ 3

2. 1. Removing the Stickers . ..................... 3

2. 2. Backup of the Thinkpad Service Partion . ................ 3

2. 3. To ols for the Creation of the Hibernation File ............... 4

3. Installation of the Debian Base System .................. 7

3. 1. Partitioning the Hard Disk ..................... 7

3. 2. Installation of the Preliminary System ................. 9

3. 3. Conﬁguration of the Keyboard . .................. 9

3. 4. Conﬁguration of LILO ......................10

3. 5. Conﬁguration of LVM . .....................10

4. Conﬁguration of the Custom Kernel ...................13

4. 1. Kernel Conﬁguration Summary ...................13

4. 2. VESA Framebuffer . ......................15

4. 3. Radeon Framebuffer . .....................16

4. 4. DRI (Direct Rendering Infrastructure) .................16

4. 5. IEEE1394 Firewire (Disk) .....................17

4. 6. Hotplug (Modem, Ethernet, Scanner) .................17

4. 7. ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) ...............18

4. 8. Winmodem . ........................19

4. 9. Ethernet . .........................19

4. 9. 1. Intel PRO/100 Adapter Base Driver................20

4. 10. 802.11b Wireless Network . ...................20

4. 11. Bluetooth . ........................21

4. 12. IDE (Disk) .........................21

4. 13. SCSI (DVD/CD-RW, Scanner) . ..................21

4. 14. LVM(Logical Volume Management) .................22

4. 15. APM (Suspend & Hibernate) ...................23

4. 16. Thinkpad Control Tools . ....................23

4. 17. Thinkpad Buttons .......................24

5. Debian and other SoftwarePackages ...................25

5. 1. Updating Debian .......................25

5. 2. Local Debian Tree . ......................26

5. 3. GCC . ..........................26

5. 4. Debian Source Packages (Gendrooliﬁcation ;-) ...............27

5. 5. XFree86 4.0.0 Framebuffer Server . .................29

5. 6. Xi Graphics Accelerated-X Server . .................29

5. 7. XFree86 4.2.1 Radeon Server . ...................31

5. 8. Laptop-Net . ........................32