Jeff Carr wrote:
I don't know any more than the output of lspci. I've not tried to open up the case to see the full board. I've still not been able to get power management to work after re-installing it with debian. (sound, USB 2.0 and ethernet work ok.)
Jeff
FYI: The portable came without any sources. I sent a inquiry about how to get them on the website of the people that sold the machine to me, but no one responded. (A HUGE GPL violation.) When I re-installed with debian, I found the power management(and several other drivers) were only in the lindows kernel and I not been able to get them to work since. It doens't look like they drivers from the lindows kernel are in any of the kernel sources I can find. So, in that regard, angry about how "linux support" was provided for this portable would be too light of a description.
Not surprising on the loss of power management when you dropped Lindows. They are probably using a laptop super I/O with a keyboard controller (8051 micro with lots of GPIO) by SMSC or a micro by Renasas or Fujitsu to handle the keyboard scan and power management.
Some descriptions of the firmware and what they use these micros for:
http://www.insydesw.com/solutions/pc/keyboard.htm
http://www.phoenix.com/en/products/phoenix+cme+firstbios/system+firmware/tec...
-Bari
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Bari Ari