Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo A1630

This guide will help you installing Gentoo on a Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo A1630. This Laptop is manufactered by Uniwill under the name 258ka0´. It is sold under different names.

I'm running 64-Bit Gentoo (but 32-Bit should work too) on it and so far I managed to get everything to work, except for the card reader (which is currently not supported by the Kernel), and suspending.

Quick specs

 * Athlon64 3400+/3700+ S754
 * 512MB DDR-RAM (2x256MB, max 2GB (2 RAM-Slots))
 * 60GB PATA HDD
 * 15,4" WXGA (1280x800) LCD
 * ATI RADEON 9700Mobility (M10/M11)
 * RealTek ALC655 5.1 Audio Codec
 * SIS900 Fast Ethernet Controller
 * Ralink RT2500 802.11g 54MB/s WiFi (in the Mini-PCI Slot)
 * Different DVD-Writers available (Mine is a HL-DT-ST DVD+R/RW GCN-4040N))
 * PCMCIA Slot
 * 4-in-1 card reader (SD/MMC/MS/MSPRO)
 * 3x USB 2.0 Ports
 * 1x Firewire Port (4 Pin)

Installation
Installation works without problems. I took the 2006.1 AMD64 minimal CD. The Live-CD setups up the network correctly, if you have DHCP on your Network. Before you start to compile anything, run:

to load the cpufreq driver for the Athlon64. Else you will do all the work with just 800MHz. If you don't want the CPU to run at full speed you cann also do:

which will set the cpu-speed as needed.

32Bit Support
Select IA32 Emulation to support 32Bit Binarys (like firefox-bin, mplayer-bin)

Network / Wireless
Unselect the IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack (for the RT2500 driver)

Audio / Modem
The Sound chip is a RealTek 5.1 Audio Codec, which is supported by the driver

Graphics
Select the SIS AGP driver

Temperatur Monitoring
The A 1630 only has the CPU integrated temp sensor. But only kernels >=2.6.19 support it. And you will need lm_sensors >= 2.10.1. And as of now only the unstable/beta versions of the frontends can read the new format. But that kernel is still unstable (30.10.2006). You can run the unstable kernel, or apply the patches to any 2.6.18 kernel maunally.

Patch 1 Patch 2 Patch 3

Then select I2C support

PC Card
See this guide.

Framebuffer Support
For framebuffer support read Framebuffer

Do NOT select any specific drivers (like ATI RADEON etc.)

And DON'T select anything inside LOGO configuration

I hope I have time to finish this article soon.

Wi-fi Installation
Setting up the RT2500 WLAN device in the A1630 could not be easier. Portage contains the RT2500 drivers so all that needs to be done is emerge rt2500. This will compile and install the rt2500 kernel module, which can be inserted into the kernel, using modprobe rt2500. Don't forget to add rt2500 to /etc/modules.autoload.d so that the module is loaded at boot time. Before loding the module, look at /etc/Wireless/RT2500STA/RT2500STA.dat and set the CountryRegion option.

For a good tutorial using WPA-PSK look here

Graphics
I'm running ati-drivers-8.29.6 with 2.6.18-beyond1pre1 and Xorg-7.1 and its working so far. With a kernel below 2.6.18 i only managed to get the ati-driver 8.27.10 to work. Every kernel rebuilt will require rebuilding of the module though.

Suspending
I tried it with suspend2 in 2.6.18-beyond1pre1. It switches off X and hangs with the fbsplas-theme, and does nothing. But I'm still trying.