Asus L8400K
v1.2 27/10/2001 bertrand@florat.net
General
|
CPU |
Mem |
HD |
Screen |
Video |
Lectors |
Price |
Autonomy/weigth |
Sound |
Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
PIII850 |
128Mo |
20 Go |
14,1TFT |
S3 Savage MX/MV |
DVD 8X floppy
|
About $2000 |
2-4 h 2.9 kg |
ESS Allegro 1988-1 |
Ethernet: Realtek 8139 Modem : ESS winmodem |
Connectors
2 PCMCIA port
1 PS2 ( you can use a double ps2 plug to use keyboard & mouse at the same time )
1 Infra Red port
1 TV out ( S-video )
Audio: 1 out, 1 in, 1 jack
2 USB
1 RJ45 for ethernet and modem
1 serial port ( little one)
1parallel port
1 kensington hole
1 VGA out
2 built-in loudspeakers
1 microphone
Note: I didn't get any portbar connector in spite of the advert description.
Excellent product to be used under linux at work and at office. Mine was sold with Microsoft Windows Millenium. After having resized partition ( with partition magics ), I installed Suse 7.2 and everything was OK.
Summary for Suse 7.2 and Mandrake 8 ( kernel 2.4.4/ XFree 4.0.3/KDE 2.1.1 ) :
|
Video |
yes |
|
Sound |
yes |
|
DVD |
CD-ROM reading: yes |
|
Mouse |
yes ( see XF86config ) |
|
IR |
? (must work ) |
|
APM |
yes , I use KDE module to check battery level |
|
Ethernet |
yes |
|
Modem |
no ( winmodem ) |
To sum up, everything
was perfect except the modem. I will use one old one on serial port
or I will buy a cheap one for PCMCIA.
Every hardware part have
been detected without any additional configuration ( but mouse under
Suse ) and I got a running and usable system in less than half an
hour. I advise you to avoid Mandrake 8.0 with this lapstop because I
had some BIOS clocks problems with this distribution.
Star Office 5.2 can freeze your notebook. If you use it, put that line in your profile:
export SAL_DO_NOT_USE_INVERT50=true
Change BIOS settings: OS= others. Note that suspend to RAM works perfectly.
To avoid big and ugly fonts under text console, put vga=791 in your /etc/lilo.conf and type 'lilo' under root:
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
vga=791
root=/dev/hda6
append=" quiet"
read-only
To add some RAM : you have one slot bellow the keyboard. I tried to add a 256 Mo memory to reach 384 Mo but in this case, system detects only 256Mo, so put only a 128Mo memory.
Using Suse 7.2, I had a bad X11 configuration with sax: the touchpad didn't work at install ( random jumps ). The mouse for the touchpad must be PS/2 to solve problem. Now, I use my lapstop with the touchpad and a USB cordless/optical/wheel logiteck mouse, both running perfectly.
I recompiled the 2.4.4 kernel without problem.
