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Installing Debian Lenny on Lenovo G530 4446-35U

Last updated: 10/4/2009

General Hardware Specifications of Lenovo G530 4446-35U:

Hardware Components	Status under Linux	Notes
Pentium Dual Core T4200 2Ghz	Works
15.4" display 1280x800	Works
Integrated video	Works
2GB ram	Works
160 GB Hard Drive	Works
Touchpad - Alps Glidepoint	Works	Worked out of the box Changed to Gsynaptics driver. Performance of the touchpad was much better.
Broadcom Integrated Network Card BCM4312 802.11b/g	Works	Ethernet worked fine out of the box. Wireless setup took a bit of tweaking. Had to download Linux STA driver source from www.broadcom.com site (9/15/2009 release date). Then STA driver had to be compiled and added to kernel. A bit tricky to get going but works great
Internal 56k Modem	Don't know if this works or not (probably won't ever need to use it)
DVD drive	Works
Webcam	Works	Works great. Did not have to do anything at all. Fired up "cheese" in debian and webcam worked right away
6 cell Lithium-Ion Battery	Works	around 2 hours battery life
Integrated audio	Works

This laptop is operating under Kernel version 2.6.26-2-686

Basic Installation of [Linux Distribution]:

Debian Lenny net installation worked fine

Setting up additional features for [Linux Distribution]

Suspend-to-Disk works
Suspend-to-ram works, but screen stays black on resume. Workaround is to hit ctrl-alt-F1 (terminal), followed ctrl-alt-F7 to get gnome desktop to come back to life on resume

Unresolved issues

Everything works great

Configuration Files

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Laptop came with Vista pre-installed. I immediately reformatted the drive and wiped out Vista. I did not even attempt to dual-boot this laptop since Vista is such a pig. This laptop was a great deal, probably because it is underpowered under Vista (only 2 GB ram). However, it runs extremely well under Debian. I peeled off the Vista sticker and threw it in the trash.

It took a couple of days of tweaking to get the wireless network card and the touchpad working perfectly in Debian.

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