Samsung Q35-T5500 Ruby
with Debian Etch 4.0 - Kernel 2.6.18
& Kubuntu Feisty Fawn
7.04 - Kernel 2.6.20
This notebook
works with LINUX
™ Debian
Etch (4.0; Kernel 2.6.18), Kubuntu
Feisty Fawn (7.04; Kernel 2.6.20), Debian Lenny
(testing state), Kubuntu
Gutsy Gibbon Tribe 2 (unstable).
This is
the actual guide for Samsung Q35 with Linux.
Advantages [+]
| Disadvantages [-]
|
+ Leightweight
+ Small-sized
+ Ruby/Red-design
| - Continual ongoing fan
-
Audible harddisk
- Windos preinstalled
- Unergonomic keyboard
|
Specific
configuration and
information about the implemented devices:
= Operates
= Does not
work
= Works
partially
= I did not
try it yet
= Under
development
=
Hardware information (lspci)
Debian installation procedure:
To
get KDE and some laptop features automatically type on boot-prompt:
install
tasks="kde-desktop, laptop"
To install KDE after
first booting, install these packages:
apt-get install
x-window-system-core
apt-get install kde-core kdeaddons
kdeadmin kdeartwork kdegraphics kdemultimedia kdenetwork
apt-get
install kdepim kdeutils kdewebdev gtk-qt-engine
apt-get
install kdm
A Debian
installation with option »expert« or »expertgui« allows you to prevent
root login. Root tasks have to execute with prefix »sudo« as known from
Ubuntu. See: Enabel
and Disable Ubuntu Root Password
Caution, your
desktop-links will getting unusable.
An installation
of Debian
Lenny
(testing) kills
the display soft copy (view) at the end of installation procedure. You
have to choose the last 3 options blind. At least by expert or
expertgui. But there is nothing important to decide and you can type
[Enter] 3 times. After rebooting the system everything works fine again.
Ubuntu
installation procedure:
Basic information about Ubuntu Feisty Fawn
by german Magazine LinuxUser.
Support
& Help for Ubuntu 7.04
Motherboard
Samsung
Q35 T5500 Ruby
Chipset: Intel i945
ACPI
& Battery
Li-Ion Battery Standard; AA-PB5NC6B (6cell)
AC Adapter: AD-6019S, 60 Watts, 110 ~ 240 VAC, 50 / 60 Hz
Running time ~ 6 h (according to manufacturer)
The battery has an indicator to
check the state manually.
Battery recharge time: 2 hours ON / 2 hours OFF
Check your temperature with: acpi -V
I recommend You to install kpowersave,
powernowd
and klaptopdaemon
[apt-get
install kpowernowd klaptopdaemon].
Fan
& Loudness 
The
fan runs almost all the time. It is a very quiet noise level about Sone
1.1. Above Sone 1.0
a notebook is declared as unquiet. Particularly,
if the fan runs almost non-stop. Pressing »Etiquette Mode« [= Fn + F10]
stops the fan until a heating treatment up to 3 °C more. It's no use.
It looks like all small laptops of
this class (very small laptops with 12 " display ...) have this
problem. It seems that nobody cares about that.
For me this
notebook becomes unacceptable therefore.
Report
in german about this problem
Forum
discussion about Samsung Q35
Forum
discussion Q35 Noise?
Audio
/ Sound
High Definition Audio, SRS 3D Sound
2
Stereo loud speaker x 2
Watt
Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio
After installation you hear a high frequency tone (Ubuntu) or
nothing (Debian). To fix this, open or
generate the file /etc/modprobe.d/options and add this row:
options snd-hda-intel single_cmd=1 model=laptop-eapd
Tip:
Install XMMS
instead of Amarok
or install amarok-arts package instead
of amarok-xine package. Otherwise you can't play wave-files probably.
BIOS
You
can enter the BIOS configuration pressing F2.
The latest BIOS version is 25SD (July 2007).
You
can get BIOS upgrades
here (unfortunately for weak operating systems only): BIOS
Firmware updates from Samsung™
Bluetooth
Bluetooth
2.0
CPU
Intel® Core™ 2
Duo Prozessor T5500, 1.66 GHz 2 MB Cache 667 MHz FSB
Dimensions
and weight
299
x 214 x 27.4~35.8 mm
1.89 kg
with Kensington Lock Slot
Display
/ Monitor - LCD / CRT
12.1" WXGA SuperBright
Glare™ TFT
1.280 x 800
Brightness 200 cd/m² (max.)
External monitor configuration: 2.048 x 1.536 True Color; 75
Hz
/etc/X11/xorg.conf will be configured
automatically.
DVD
/ CD-RW
DVD-Super-Multi Double
Layer TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-L632D ATA Device
8x DVD+/-R
DL 2,4 4x DVD+/-RW 5x DVD-RAM 8x DVD-ROM
Drive speed 24
Review the performance: hdparm -T -t /dev/scd0
FireWire /
i.LINK / IEEE 1394
Ricoh
Co Ltd R5C552 IEEE1394 Controller
IEEE1394 (4pin, 400 Mbps)
Graphic /
VGA
Intel 945GM Express
max. 128 MB Intel
Graphic Media Accelerator 950
You have to do nothing. Debian will configure
/etc/X11/xorg.conf by itself and correctly.
Add the
following subsection to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf, if you want to
hamstring the enforced restart of X-server:
Section "ServerFlags"
# Ignore ALT-CTRL-BACKSPACE
option "DontZap"
EndSection
Gimp
contingently can't open raw JPEG-images from your (relative new)
digital camera. It results from an faulty libexif library. To fix this,
first install the libexif12 (library to parse EXIF files; Most digital
cameras produce EXIF files, which are JPEG files with extra
tags
that contain information about the image. The EXIF library allows you
to parse an EXIF file and read the data from those tags.) as
suggested. It should be version 0.6.13-5. Secondly download the latest
libexif12 from this website. Replace the file
/usr/lib/libexif.so.12.2.0 and the links /usr/lib/libexif.so.12 and
/usr/lib/libexif.so.
Tip: Boot messages will shown
clearly, by adding »vga=788« as Kernel option to /boot/grub/menu.lst.
Harddisk
120 GB
Hitachi; 9.5mmH 2.5" HDD, PATA/SATA; 5.400 UPM
Review the performance: hdparm -T -t /dev/sda
I/O
Ports / Interfaces
2 USB (USB 2.0); IEEE1394 (4pin, 400 Mbps); PCMCIA Type I+II
PC card; RJ11; RJ45;
Headphone-out; Mic-in; Memory stick™, MS pro, SD, MMC, High Speed MMC,
XD; 1 x VGA
Keyboard
Hot Keys
The notebook uses hotkeys or
key combinations for the following:
Fn-Esc = Standby
Fn-F2 = Battery state control
Fn-F4 = Display toggle, switches display output between display screen
and external monitor or to dual view
Fn-F5 = Backlit; screen blank, turns the display screen backlight off
to save power
Fn-F6 = Mute; speaker on/off
Fn-F9 = Turns the touchpad on and off
Fn-F10 = Etiquette Mode; Etiquette Mode makes the computer (fan)
silent
Fn-F11 = Num Lock
Fn-F12 = Scroll
(rogue with graphical X11-mode)
Fn-↑ = Screen brightness up
Fn-↓ = Screen brightness down
Fn-→ = Loudness up
Fn-← = Loudness down
It could be recommendable to set the variable LANG=en_IE@euro in
/etc/default/locale and /etc/environment. Older data with special
charakters are displayed correctly with this variable.
To
use the »Tux-key« on your keyboard generate the file ~/.Xmodmap with
this row:
keycode 116 = <wanted key>
<wanted key with shift>
While starting KDE the
.Xmodmap will be loaded, if you add a small script (link to ~/.Xmodmap)
to: ~/.kde/Autostart
The keyboard is unergonomic,
because Samsung changed some keys and shrinked the right shift key.
Nobody seems to know why.
German
keyboard layout
Memory
Stick Card Reader
支援: Memory stick™, Memory stick pro, SD, MMC, High Speed MMC,
XD
Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter
Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bux Host Adapter
Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller
NIC
/ Ethernet
Broadcom Corporation
BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX
PCMCIA
PCMCIA Typ I und II; Ricoh
RAM
1024 MB PC2-5300 (2 x 512)
Softmodem
56Kbps
/ V.92 onboard
SENS LT56ADW Modem from Agere
Agere SoftModem Version 2.1.75
Found somewhere in internet (did not work for me ):
To get the
modem work install the package sl-modem-daemon
from
multiverse repository. After that type sudo slmodem -c YOURCOUNTRY
--alsa hw:0,6
Please check the link from /dev/modem to /dev/ttySL0.
Touchpad
Synaptics PS/2 Port Pointing Device
USB
2 x USB 2.0
To
see usb drives data with the correct encoding/charset, add this row to
/etc/fstab:
/dev/sdb1
/media/sdb1 vfat
user,noauto,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-15
0 0
Wireless
LAN
Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG (802.11abg, Mini card type);
Module = ipw3945
Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g
Using Debian you have to generate/install the ipw3945 module
by manual work, because the ipw3945 module is
non-free-software.
May be you wont
use NetworkManager
for wireless networking (easy to configure and connect). NetworkManager
should be installed by default. Inexplicable NetworkManager
will do a reconnect from time to time and you have to wait a few
seconds.
To
get
further
information please visit the following links:
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with mobile computers
The TuxMobil
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is
dedicated to Mobile UniX systems. It leads you to a
lot of
useful
hands-on information about installing and running Linux, BSD,
Solaris and other UniXes on laptops,
PDAs,
cell
phones, wearables
and other
mobile computer devices. You may find the Linux-Mobile-Guide
and the Infrared-HOWTO,
a
survey of supported
PCMCIA/CF cards, other mobile
hardware surveys, some links to databases
of stolen
laptops and PDAs, a survey
of laptop
manufacturers and their Linux status, software
for
mobile computers
and the `linux-laptop`
mailing list. For even more information see the navigation
bar
above, the A-Z
index
or the sitemap.
Debian
Administration
Debian
Tutorials
Samsung
Support Hotline Germany +49(1805)121213
Last
Update: Aug 7th, 2007
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German
keyboard layout