230Cs-specific notes for configuration of Linux system

It's not difficult to install Linux on 230Cs, like other contemporary notePCs. Various distributions such as Slackware, RedHat LINUX, debian may work.

I use Slackware, because selecting each softwares manually to be installed or not is needed for constructing a minimum system comfortable for such a low-spec machines.

For building Japanese environment, see PJE (Project Japanese Environment) distribution add-ons.

Here I will wrote some 230Cs-specific notes for configuring Linux system.

Kernel Configuration

To enable the mouse device (TrackPointII), configure it as a PS/2 mouse.

       Mouse support (not serial mice) [Y]
       PS/2 mouse (aka "auxiliary device") support [Y]

APM BIOS settings:

       Advanced Power Management BIOS support [Y]
       Enable PM at boot time [Y]
       Make CPU Idle calls when idle [Y]
       Power off on shutdown [N]

The internal sound device is not supported, so far as I know.
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       Sound card support [N]
       
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Key Layout configuration

I always use ASCII-layout (Sun-5) keyboard in my laboratory, so the Japanese keymap is only a pain.
So I made a ascii psuedo-compatible keymap file for 230Cs. To use this, put the file in keytables directory ("/usr/lib/kbd/keytables" in Slackware) and do:

      % loadkeys defkeymap tp230-ascii-d.map

in /etc/rc.d/rc.local or so.
The top right keys will be remapped like this: む -> backquote ろ -> slash

return

Lee Akinobu <ri@kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp>

Last modified: Thu Oct 29 15:13:02 1998