TODO

• Synaptic Touchpad
• Enable proper sound-mixing (install xmms-arts plugin) --> see also this
  
• Get Suspend to Ram and Software Suspend going --> see this
  
• Remove crap packages & update what's left
  
• Install JDK 1.5 & TripleA
  
• make a patch with ATI Driver fixes in it
• package up working /usr/src/linux/drivers/mmc into a tar ball --> wbsd is now in mainline kernel, this may not be necessary
  
• X.org 6.8.x
• Enable Poweroff backlight in Power Saving Screensaver mode
• Get ZD1211 USB2-54G (now part of kernel) and Prism54g working (needs firmware windows? see this)
  

• GRUB boot CD if possible
  
• Modem support
• Get Xen Working ... maybe
• Get KQEMU working
  

Fix the incidious 'always german' language selection to be Canadian, eh!

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< # will be overridden via "lang=ca" boot commandline
---
> # will be overridden via "lang=de" boot commandline
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< [ -n "$LANGUAGE" ] || LANGUAGE="ca"
---
> [ -n "$LANGUAGE" ] || LANGUAGE="de"
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< ca)
< # Canadian version
< COUNTRY="ca"
< LANG="C"
< LANGUAGE="en_CA"
< KEYTABLE="us"
< XKEYBOARD="us"
< KDEKEYBOARD="us"
< CHARSET="iso8859-1"
< # Additional KDE Keyboards
< KDEKEYBOARDS="us"
< TZ="Canada/Eastern"
< ;;

Kernel Options

• Always remember to export MAKEFLAGS="CC=gcc-2.95"; export CC=gcc-2.95

• say N to DEVFS (or disks don't mount)
  
• DRM as M (ATI Drivers require this be rmmod-ed)
  
• DRM_RADEON as M (ATI Drivers require this be rmmod-ed)

ATI Video Drivers

• Always remember to export MAKEFLAGS="CC=gcc-2.95"; export CC=gcc-2.95
• Had to apply 2 patches to get it to compile
• mkdir -p /lib/modules/kernel-2.6.x/misc; cp /usr/src/modules/fglrx-kernel-src/fglrx.ko /lib/modules/kernel-2.6.x/misc; depmod -ae
  
• Must enable Shared Memory (/dev/shm in fstab) for Accelerated 3D support see http://www.ati.com/support/infobase/4687.html

Sound and Volume

• Compile in ALSA Support
• Append the following to /etc/modules-`uname -r`
  

  # Enable Sound
  snd_intel8x0
  snd_ac97_codec
  

• Set Regional & Accessiability -> Keyboard Layout to Hewlitt-Packard Omnibook XE3 GF
• Use KHotKeys to create volume up/down and mute actions in group called volume control
• For mute, increase and decrease volume, create a simple command action that uses volume_control.sh as follows:
  

# ./volume_control.sh 0     - mute/unmute
# ./volume_control.sh -5    - decrease volume by 5%
# ./volume_control.sh 5     - increase volume by 5%

• drop the .asoundrc file in your ~ (home dir) to enable software mixing. so XMMS and KDE can both make noise at the same time.
  

WinBond SD Card Reader

• Compile in MMC & WinBond support (ISA must be enabled also)
• Append the following to /etc/modules-`uname -r`
  

  # WinBond SD Card Reader
  mmc_core
  mmc_block
  wbsd
  

• mknod /dev/mmcblk0 b 254 0;  mknod /dev/mmcblk0p1 b 254 1; mkdir -p /mnt/mmc
  
• append the following to /etc/fstab
  

  # mmc/sd card auto mounting
  /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt/mmc   auto   noauto,rw,user,exec,sync   0 0

• insert an SD card
• mount /mnt/mmc; ls -la /mnt/mmc