MSI Wind

MSI Wind

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SATA
You don't need the IDE driver, nor any SATA chipset driver, just the SATA AHCI driver.

Sound
The Realtek ALC 888S works fine with the Intel HDA driver.

Function Keys
You may need to update your BIOS to have certain keys working.
 * Fn+F2 : no effect, ACPI event "video IGD" if CONFIG_ACPI_VIDEO and BACKLIGHT_CLASS are compiled into the kernel
 * Fn+F3/F6/F11 : hardware, work as expected
 * Fn+F4/F5 : works with CONFIG_ACPI_VIDEO and BACKLIGHT_CLASS just as Fn+F2, you need to press them 1-2s to change the brightness by 1/8 (works fine with BIOS 1.10a), also generate ACPI event "video LCD", and generates an "Unknown key pressed"
 * Fn+F10 : works with BIOS 1.09 and for overclocking with BIOS 1.0A
 * Fn+F12 : ACPI event "button/sleep SLPB"
 * Fn+F7/F8/F9 don't work but can be reprogrammed with xmodmap, evdev automaticaly assignes them.

Webcam
It works with mplayer and v4l2, but it doesn't seem to work with v4l1. The LED left of the webcam is lit when the webcam is capturing (as it should).

It should work with other applications as long as they use v4l2. It was reported to work with Skype.

Detection problem
If the synaptics touchpad and/or the keyboard sporadically don't work after booting, add as kernel parameter.

Resume from Sleep
If you changed your hard drive's power management level to 254 as recommended above, the hard drive will reset its power management to 128 on resuming from sleep. In your acpi events file for button/lid and button/sleep add

after your pm-suspend command.

Halt with r8101
For me (2.6.27-gentoo-r7) NIC driver from Realtek leads to system halt on doing 'ifconfig eth0 down' or 'rmmod r8101'. So it's unable to stop/restart eth0 and turn off/reset Wind. The workaround is modified /etc/conf.d/net

and /etc/init.d/rc

But it's still unable to restart interface and you have to ignore error message on system shutdown.

BIOS Update
Check out this howto to create a USB flash drive with FreeDOS. Or here in french : Flasher bios

You also need to force your usb drive to be seen as a HDD: In the BIOS go into There you should see your usb drive, set it to