# Medion MD98300

## lspci

    00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
    00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2)
    00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2)
    00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2)
    00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2)
    00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
    00:00.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2)
    00:00.7 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2)
    00:02.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
    00:03.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
    00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C51 [Geforce 6150 Go] (rev a2)
    00:09.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
    00:0a.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 LPC Bridge (rev a3)
    00:0a.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP51 SMBus (rev a3)
    00:0a.3 Co-processor: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PMU (rev a3)
    00:0b.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
    00:0b.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
    00:0d.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 IDE (rev f1)
    00:0e.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev f1)
    00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
    00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
    00:14.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)
    00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
    00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
    00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
    00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
    03:09.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller
    03:09.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19)
    03:09.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev 0a)
    03:09.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 05)
    03:09.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev ff)

## lsusb

    Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0ace:1215 ZyDAS WLA-54L WiFi
    Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002
    Bus 002 Device 002: ID 04d9:0499 Holtek Semiconductor, Inc.
    Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001

## Soundcard

This Notebook has a Realtek ALC 833. Run

    cat /proc/asound/version

If it returns

    Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.17.

(or a higher version) then continue reading at Edit modprobe.conf

## Mute your speakers and use your headset

You might have noticed that your speakers do not get muted automatically when you put in your earphones. Here's my solution to do that manually: Open up alsamixer (like described before) Mute Surround by pressing M (for mute), so it says MM instead of 00. Now you won't hear anything from the built-in speakers, but you can use your earphones.

## Recording

Start alsamixer, navigate to 'mic' and set it to capture by pressing the 'spacebar' key on keyboard; the word 'capture' will appear at the bottom of the 'Mic' control when capture is set.[1]

## Graphicscard

There are two possible drivers you can use for the Nvidia 6150 Geforce Go. I recommend the non-free driver, because the open one had no mouse cursor as I tried it (which was really annoying). If you want 3d-allocation, you must use the closed source one.

## Nvidia (non-free driver)

Note: The xorg.conf is based on this one which was made for gentoo.[2]

Save the following as /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

### Xorg.conf

    Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "X.org Configured"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
      # Screen      1  "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    EndSection

    Section "Files"
        RgbPath         "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
        ModulePath      "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
    EndSection

    Section "Module"
        Load           "extmod"
        Load           "glx"
        Load           "dbe"
        Load           "record"
        Load           "xtrap"
        Load           "freetype"
    EndSection

    Section "ServerFlags"
        Option         "Xinerama" "0"
    EndSection

    Section "InputDevice"
        # generated from data in "/etc/conf.d/gpm"
        Identifier     "Mouse0"
        Driver         "mouse"
        Option         "Protocol"
        Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
        Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
            Driver          "synaptics"
            Option          "Name"                  "Synaptics Touchpad"
            Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"
            Option          "Protocol"              "auto-dev"
            Option          "SendCoreEvents"        "true"
            Option          "SHMConfig"             "true"
            Option          "LeftEdge"              "1900"
            Option          "RightEdge"             "5900"
            Option          "TopEdge"               "1900"
            Option          "BottomEdge"            "4350"
            Option          "FingerHigh"            "25"
            Option          "FingerLow"             "20"
            Option          "MaxTapMove"            "220"
            Option          "MaxTapTime"            "180"
            Option          "MaxDoubleTapTime"      "180"
            Option          "MinSpeed"              "0.04"
            Option          "MaxSpeed"              "0.18"
            Option          "AccelFactor"           "0.001"
            Option          "VertScrollDelta"       "100"
            Option          "HorizScrollDelta"      "100"
            Option          "EmulateMidButtonTime"  "0"
            Option          "RTCornerButton"        "0"
            Option          "RBCornerButton"        "0"
            Option          "LTCornerButton"        "2"
            Option          "LBCornerButton"        "0"
    	#Option      	"CircularScrolling"     "on"
            #Option      	"CircScrollTrigger"     "2"

    EndSection

    Section "InputDevice"
        # generated from default
        Identifier     "Keyboard0"
        Driver         "kbd"
        Option         "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option         "XkbLayout" "de"
        Option         "XkbRules" "xorg"
    EndSection

    Section "Monitor"
        # HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
        Identifier     "Monitor0"
        VendorName     "Unknown"
        ModelName      "LPL"
        HorizSync       30.0 - 75.0
        VertRefresh     60.0
        Option "DPMS" "True"

    EndSection

    Section "Device"
        Identifier     "Videocard0"
        Driver         "nvidia"
        VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
        BoardName      "GeForce Go 6150"
        Option         "NVAgp"         "3"
        Option         "RenderAccel" "true"
        Option         "Coolbits" "1"
        Option         "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
        Option    	   "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
        Option	   "TripleBuffer" "false" #we do not have too much ram.
        Option         "NoLogo" "1"
        Option         "DPMS" "TRUE"
        Option "BackingStore" "True"
        Option "DamageEvents" "True"
        Option "RegistryDwords" "PerfLevelSrc=0x3333"
        Option         "OnDemandVBlankInterrupts" "True"

    EndSection

    Section "Screen"
        Identifier     "Screen0"
        Device         "Videocard0"
        Monitor        "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth    24
        Option         "metamodes" "1280x800 +0+0; 800x600 +0+0; 640x480 +0+0"
        SubSection     "Display"
            Depth       24
            Modes      "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
    EndSection

    Section "Extensions"
    	Option "Composite" "Enable"
    EndSection

## Cpufrequtils

Cpufrequtils is a CPU Frequency Scaling, a technology used primarily by notebooks which enables the OS to scale the CPU speed up or down, depending on the current system load and/or power scheme. Note that the module you need to load at the CPU Frequency Driver part is powernow-k8.

## Disk related tweaks

### Disable file access time

Doesn't write the access time every time you read or modify a file. See here[broken link: invalid section].

### Laptop mode tools

They allow your HD to spin down when it isn't used. See here[broken link: invalid section].

### Ionice

If you plan to copy a big file or do some other hard-disk-stressing operation, your MD98300 will totally hang until its done under linux (thats at least my experience). With ionice, you can start applications with a different read/write scheduling class so it doesn't hang anymore.

Here's an example how to use it:

    ionice -c 3 cp /path/to/huge/file /path/of/the/copy

It starts cp with the scheduling class idle. That means that you shouldn't get a hanging system while it is copying (although it will need longer, but thats the deal).

More information in the man page[3]:

    man ionice

## Touchpad tweaks

On this page are a few cool tweaks like circular scrolling.

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