Version 0.10
Dec 8th 2004

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The specs of my machine:
Dell Latitude D600
Pentium-M 1.6Ghz
1x512MB DDR RAM
40G 5400rpm IBM travelstar drive
14.1 XGA+ (1400x1050) LCD
DVD/CDRW (HL-DT-STCD-RW/DVD-ROM GCC-4240N)
Onboard Intel ICH3/SigmaTel STAC 9750 AC97 Soundcard
Onboard Broadcom 57xx based 10/100/1000 Mbit Ethernet adapter
Onboard Conexant D480 MDC V.92/Intel 82801DB AC97 Modem

This machine runs slackware linux current, why slackware? it is simply the best out there...

What doesn't work/still has problems:
1. Modem - Maybe it works, truth is that I never bothered to check ;) Checkout http://www.linuxant.com/drivers
2. TV out - doesn't work... What a shame... :|
3. Smart card reader doesn't work

What does work:
1. Radeon drivers seem to work fine with this card, however - I always find it tricky to configure X ever since Xfree4 was introduced (what's wrong with the good n' old 3.3.6 configuration tool...?) - I have used X -configure in order to identify the card, the configuration file created by this command wasn't good as X gave an error :no screens found
The solution was pretty easy, I manually edited the configuration file and fixed it... see attached XF86Config file here (remove the .txt extension and copy it to /etc/X11 to make it work)
2. Sound card was detected automatically by hotplug script, the modules needed for it to work are i810_audio and ac97_codec (auto loaded by i810_audio).
3. USB works great, both USB1 and USB2.
4. Network interface works great, tg3 module is used.
5. Intel RNG generator works by loading the i810_rng module, this could be handy to generate some pseudo random streams.
6. CDR works great, both TAO and DAO
7. DVD playback works great.
8. WIFI card - Works like a charm with the driver provided from http://ipw2100.sf.net
9. ACPI - works partially using 2.6 kernel

2.4 Kernel .config file can be found here
2.6 Kernel .config file can be found here