F8­x86_64 on the Acer Ferrari 3400LMi

F8-x86_64 on the Acer Ferrari 3400LMi

 

by

 

 

Sven­Göran Bergh

 

 

Table of Contents

 

1 Introduction

3

1.1

Version

3

1.2

Quick reference guide

3

2 Installation

5

2.1

Potential pitfalls

5

2.1.1 Graphical installer

5

2.1.2 Disk size

5

3 Hard drive

6

3.1

Upgrading the drive

6

4 IEEE 1394 Firewire

6

4.1

Potential problems

7

4.2

Configuring Firewire

8

4.3

Comments

8

5 USB

9

6 5-in-1 Card reader

9

7 PC-card

9

8 Special keys & buttons

9

8.1

Configuration procedure

10

8.1.1 X key-codes

10

8.1.2 Scan-codes

11

8.1.3 Linux key-codes

12

8.1.4 X key-codes revisited

13

8.1.5 Configure actions

14

9 CPU & ACPI support

14

9.1

Suspend

15

9.2

CPU frequency scaling

15

10 Graphics

15

10.1 Basics

15

10.1.1 The radeon driver

16

10.1.2 Simple X configuration

16

10.2 Dual-Head

16

10.2.1 Virtual screen size

17

10.2.2 The xrandr tool

18

10.2.3 Fn-F5 button

18

10.3 3D acceleration

19

10.3.1 Simple benchmark

20

10.3.2 Optimization

20

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