Fedora Core 1 on Acer Extensa 710

A real nice work machine for office and internet. Fine keyboard and clear display will make
it comfortable to use. A new battery will be fine ;)

Hardware

Device	Description
CPU	Intel Pentium II 233 MHz
Memory	256 MB (2x128)
Video	Neomagic 128XD (NM2160) 2 MB RAM
Harddisk	20GB 4200 rpm Hitachi Ultra-DMA 33
CD/DVD	12xCD
PCMCIA	2x PCMCIA Slots
Display	14,1 Inch, 1024x768
Sound	ESS Technology ES1968 Maestro 2
Communication	RealTek8139 10/100MBit LAN, PCMCIA
Floppy	3,5 Inch Floppy built in
IrDA	Fast IrDA 4MBit

Installation was easy, hardware was detected correctly. I can say it works out of the Box.

Partitions

Partition	Mountpoint	Size
/dev/hda1	/boot	100MB
/dev/hda2	/	1GB
/dev/hda3	SWAP	256MB
/dev/hda5	/usr	4GB
/dev/hda6	/home	14GB

Xfree86

The graphics-chip and the display where both detected correctly, i choosed the nativ display resolution of 1024x768 as default.
The builtin Mousepad works as a 2 button PS2 mouse, also i added a USB mouse with wheel.



Network

I setup a RealTek NIC with 8139 chipset 32-cardbus style.
The card worked well, but (because of it was a PCMCIA) the installer did not enter an entry in the modprobe.conf file,
this causes the the wrong driver (8139cp) was tried to load, after the first reboot, so the card does not work.
It took a minute to understand what was going on, because at installtime the NIC was correctly detected.
I found the problem in /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.pcimap.
The driver wrongly loaded (8139cp) has an entry with the same pci-device-id than a line for the correct 8139too.
I added a static entry to the modules.conf, because i used this card everytime in this notebook
"alias eth0 8139too" and since this time the card works well.

The notebook has been upgraded from 64MB to 256MB of RAM. This improves extremly the speed.
The battery seem to be nearly dead. It lasts 40 minutes. Standard-apm settings works fine for me.
I enjoid this laptop for a long time and it was realy good to use.

The following files are available for info:

File	shell command
Memory Info	cat /proc/meminfo
PCI Info	lspci -v -v

Last updated: 17/01/2005 09:48 pm.

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