Lifebook P7120
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Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook P7120
Datasheet
| Hardware | Support | Chipset | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Board | Yes | Intel 915GMS | – |
| Processor | Yes | Intel Pentium M 753 Ultra-Low Voltage @1.2GHz | – |
| Memory | Yes | DDR2-400MHz SDRAM 512MB (x2) | – |
| Hard-disk | Yes | 60GB P-ATA UDMA100 4200 rpm Toshiba MK6006GAH | – |
| DVD-ROM | Yes | Matshita DVD 24x UJ-832S (1.01) | – |
| Touchpad | Yes | Synaptics SynPS/2 | – |
| LCD Display | Yes | 10.6" TFT XGA, CrystalView, 1280x768 | – |
| Video | Yes | Intel 915GM Express Graphic (Dual-head) | Needs 915Resolution for 1280x768 |
| Sound | Yes | HDA Intel (RealTek ALC260) | – |
| Ethernet | Yes | 10/100Mbps (Chipset Realtek RT8139) | – |
| Wireless | Yes | Intel Corp. PRO/Wireless 2915ABG | Needs up-to-date ipw2200 firmware |
| Bluetooth | Yes | Alps Electric UGTZ4 | – |
| Modem | Yes | 56K V.90 MDC 1.5 (Chipset ?) | Didn't try by myself but go to Joey Hess page |
| USB | Yes | Intel 82801FBM (ICH6 Family) UHCI | – |
| Multi-Card Reader | Partial | Ricoh R5C822/R5C592/xD-Picture (SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro) (driver: sdhci) |
SD-Cards: ok, MemorySticks: not ok |
| Firewire | Yes | Ricoh IEEE 1394 R5C552 | – |
| Fingerprints Scanner | No | Authentec AES2501B (?) | See: VeriFinger Fingerprint Identification SDK |
| TPM | Partial | Infineon (tpm_infineon) |
See: Linux Device Driver for Infineon TPM |
Scans & Probes
Results of usual scans and probes of the hardware:
Installing Debian
Installing Debian from a recent version of the Debian installer should work out-of-the-box.
If you try to install an old version of Debian, you might hit problems because of some problems in the S-ATA driver, the old default Debian kernel doesn't work properly. As long as the BIOS is in charge of the DVD-ROM reader everything is fine but when it's up to the OS to handle it everything is going down (note that a Fedora or a Mandriva will not have this problem).
I performed the network installation booting on a USB stick. Here are the steps to follow:
- Download the following files:
Note: If you don't have room enough on your stick better get debian-testing-i386-businesscard.iso.
- Plug the stick and do:
zcat boot.img.gz > /dev/sda - Mount the stick and copy the ISO image (netboot or businesscard) on it.
- Set your BIOS to boot on the Stick
- Boot... here you go !
Compiling the kernel
Download the last 2.6.x kernel (at least a 2.6.22) on
www.kernel.org. And the last
version of the
ipw2200
firmware. Compile the kernel with this
.config
and install the firmware.
CPU Scaling
Use the cpufreqd package with the following
/etc/cpufreqd.conf
file. You might need to load the module through
/etc/modules (just add a line with
speedstep-centrino).
Hard-drive
Unless some strange manipulations the hard-drive is located in
/dev/hda.
Hard-drive specifications & capabilities
Performances (hdparm -tT)
/dev/hda: Timing cached reads: 2804 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1403.04 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 3.07 seconds = 20.85 MB/sec
DVD-drive
Unless some strange manipulations the DVD-drive is located in
/dev/scd0.
/proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: MATSHITA Model: DVD-RAM UJ-832S Rev: 1.01 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Capabilities
It seems to have the following capabilities:
- CD/CD-RW 24x/16x
- DVD-R/RW 4x/2x
- DVD+R/RW 4x/2x
- DVD-RAM 3x
Performances (hdparm -tT)
/dev/scd0: Timing cached reads: 2752 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1377.20 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 2 MB in 3.90 seconds = 525.66 kB/sec
Network
Two network interfaces should appear:
- Ethernet card (Realtek RT8139)
- Wifi card (Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG)
The bluetooth works out-of-the-box. Just install the
package bluetooth and try it.
Automatic network detection
I use Network-manager with success in combination with its Gnome applet, it's working nicely.
Kismet
To have Kismet working, just install the kismet
package and modify /etc/kismet/kismet.conf to specify
the source in the following way:
source=ipw2200,wifi0,ATHEROS.
Xorg Server
Here is my xorg.conf file.
915Resolution
Install the package 915resolution or get it from
the official
website. Set
/etc/default/915resolution as follow:
# 915resolution default MODE=4d # Resolutions for the mode XRESO=1280 YRESO=768
And in /etc/X11/xorg.conf set the resolution as:
Modes "1280x768".
Suspend-to-RAM & Suspend-to-Disk
Both should run almost out-of-the-box with the package
'hibernate. Just take care to uncomment the line
about i915Resolution and Netwrok-manager in
/etc/hibernate/common.conf.
Hotkeys
The special keys should be working on any recent Gnome-desktop (Raise-Sound, Lower-Sound, Mute-Sound, Raise-Brigthness, Lower-Brightness).
Remark about the 'ECO' Key
For now, I didn't manage to catch any signal coming from this key. I'm suspecting the BIOS to catch it (as for the brightness control).
TODO list
- Authentec AES2501B Fingerprint Scanner (see this news and checkout the VeriFinger SDK). I should also try this.
- TPM Infineon support (status)
Other Pages about the Lifebook P7120
- Joey Hess (Debian)
- Lars Wirzenius (Debian)
- Paul Littlefield (Gentoo)
Bugs, Wishes & Improvements
If you found this page helpful and/or if you have ideas to improve it, just feel free to contact me.