Linux on Averatec 2300

These are some notes I have about getting Debian GNU/linux working with my Averatec 2300 series notebook.

Installer

• Debian testing (Etch) netinst CD for amd64 (official snapshot). Can be found here, I think.
• I had issues with some other installers. They kernel panicked or couldn't find the hard drive due to lack of the right SATA controller and stuff.

Hardware

Kernel

• Any (recent?) amd64-k8-smp flavour kernel should work great.

Graphics

• NVidia GeForce Go 6100
• The latest stable release from NVidia (8776) didn't work right, but the latest beta (9626) seems to work great
• See xorg.conf file

Sound

• Realtek ALC262 chip
• kernel driver: snd_hda_intel

Input devices

Trackpad

• Trackpad: synaptics driver
• See xorg.conf file

Wacom

• My Wacom Graphire finally worked after a lot of poking. There was an issue with different versions of xorg's drivers (including the wacom one), due to an issue in debian testing. I had to change to a new mirror to get the latest version of Etch and then update.
• See the Linx Wacom Project for more details
• See my xorg.conf file

Keyboard

• I made myself an international Latin + international Cyrillic keyboard. See my .xmodmap file.

Suspend / Hibernate

I'm still having issues with this. Suspend2Ram works out of the box with -f, but only once or twice before it either doesn't come up, or lots of stuff doesn't work when it does. Alsa has to be force-reloaded. I fixed my alsa init script and my /etc/powersave/sleep file to work together on this, but I still need to test it a little more rigourously.