time for another report
acpi works well, in fact it works flawlessly, i only tested it for detecting the screen bieng closed, battery, and temp but they work fine (thats all i needed), next is suspend to ram and disk but the suspend to disk can wait till i get my kernel out
the screen issue was me doing bad things with X, i enabled several resalutions, however it ranks them by size and of course i chose 1600x1200 as the max for testing, basically it dosent slide and it dosent like having the mode changed at all
debian detecteted and set it up as a vesa device which is fine but i should be able to get a bit more out of it down the track (performance wise, ie accelerated 2d draw)
reminds me i need to release a keyboard mapping as the default one has some notable ommisions (ie '|', which is annoying) there is nothing really that mapps nicly to it so it will be a custom job, at the moment i am using gb but its not and exact match, lucky for me those 2 japanese buttons next too the keyboard would make great buttons for prev/next VT (for those who know my Z's keyboard layout with those 5 buttons at the bottom)
one problem i do have is that VGA is always on, may not seem like much but it chews power. you may also want to note that it is not independent from the LCD screen, its one or the other or both but both must be at the same refresh and rez, hence the 1600x1200 limit when the hardware can do 1080p (over 2000)
still cant get wifi to work but that is somthing i cant work on till i crak the root password, bout to boot a live CD to change it. however before i had an encrypted partion on it which is a PITA unlses you are using the gentoo live CDs to work with
the reason bieng this thing has AES-128 acceleration, so its free security, unfortunattly debian dosent give you a choice of encryption settings so it takes a performance hit during installation and dosent included the reqired module by default (old kernel)
sound is recignised however i havent tested it and the basic cat to dsp dosent work (write error, invalid arg)
a nice tidbit is /dev/input, there are 7 event devices (0 to 6), 3 mice and 3 touch screens (?), turns out the touch screens are generated by the mice devices, i assume to give a fixed rather than reletive value (config option for TS is in the kernel and hard coded). so it isnt a touch screen its just mouse emulation of a touch screen)
cant wait to check out those event devices once i have root
signing off
