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Configuring a Medion MD 96419 / MIM 2310

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Apologies in advance in case the question is stupid.

I got a Medion laptop, model MD 96419 / MIM 2310.

I searched a lot and I have not found anything on any websearch about how to download and install the drivers. Specially video and wireless. Don't know even hot to start.

I'm still using a terrible screen like 1024x768, which is not even the right proportion.

Can anybody help me?

Thanks.

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Re: Configuring a Medion MD 96419 / MIM 2310

Submitted by pinniped on Fri, 2008-08-22 01:11.

You can start by telling us more about this computer - like what is the best screen resolution and what is the aspect ratio. Also tell us what distribution + version are you installing (Debian Lenny, SID, etc).

You can also post a list of some of the hardware you need help with:
lspci (list PCI Bus ID + Vendor String)
lspci -n (list PCI Bus ID + VendorID:ProductID + version string)

The later versions of X.org require very little configuration information (they seem to get a lot of information from the EDID string and configure the screens properly), but you may need to edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf for the best results. If you have a graphics chip with no free driver, you will need to install the proprietary driver before you can get the best use of the GPU.

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Re: Configuring a Medion MD 96419 / MIM 2310

Submitted by leorolla on Tue, 2008-09-02 21:22.

Thank you both.

This laptop comes with Windows and only has drivers for Windows on the manufacturer's webpage.

I got fed up with Vista and decided to start building something more stable for me, but keeping Windows because I wanted something operating meanwhile.

I formated everything and partitioned the HD as

1 Windows NTFS
2 Data NTFS
3 Linux EXT3
4 Swap

Linux was done last so it manages the boot.

I installed Kubuntu 7.04. I had tried to install Ubuntu but the screen was going blank during installation.

Kubuntu is running well but it gets blank when I try to change screen resolution, and then I have to turn off the computer through the hardware. 1280x800 is also ideal for me.

Windows is going fine with the following:

ACPI x86-based PC
Generic PnP Monitor on VIA Crome9 HC IGP WDDM.
Adapter: VIA Crome9 HC IGP
Total Graphics Memory: 252MB
Dedicated Video M.: 128MB
System Video Memory: 0
Shared System Memory: 124MB
Resolution: 1280x800
Color: 32bit
Screen refresh rate: 60Hz

I have just tried configuring by myself and now it's not even starting with graphic interface, it crashes before. Do you know which file I should edit to go back to something that works?

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Re: Configuring a Medion MD 96419 / MIM 2310

Submitted by pinniped on Tue, 2008-09-02 22:58.

I'm still waiting for the information I requested. You can boot into the maintenance mode or else press [ctl][alt][F1] to get a virtual terminal and log in there; then use "sudo -i" to act as administrator.

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Re: Configuring a Medion MD 96419 / MIM 2310

Submitted by leorolla on Wed, 2008-09-03 10:45.

Sorry :-)

From the Kubuntu 7.04 Desktop CD I have run:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M900 Host Bridge (rev 80)
00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M900 Host Bridge
00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M900 Host Bridge
00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M900 Host Bridge
00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M900 Host Bridge
00:00.5 PIC: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M900 I/O APIC Interrupt Controller
00:00.6 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. Unknown device 6364
00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M900 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge
00:02.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M900 PCI to PCI Bridge Controller
00:03.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M900 PCI to PCI Bridge Controller (rev 80)
00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A SATA 2-Port Controller (rev 80)
00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 07)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0)
00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A PCI to ISA Bridge
00:11.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8251 Ultra VLINK Controller
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 7c)
00:13.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A Host Bridge
00:13.1 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A PCI to PCI Bridge
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. Unknown device 3371 (rev 01)
06:01.0 Audio device: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA High Definition Audio Controller (rev 10)
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo lspci -n
00:00.0 0600: 1106:0364 (rev 80)
00:00.1 0600: 1106:1364
00:00.2 0600: 1106:2364
00:00.3 0600: 1106:3364
00:00.4 0600: 1106:4364
00:00.5 0800: 1106:5364
00:00.6 0600: 1106:6364
00:00.7 0600: 1106:7364
00:01.0 0604: 1106:b198
00:02.0 0604: 1106:a364
00:03.0 0604: 1106:c364 (rev 80)
00:0f.0 0101: 1106:0591 (rev 80)
00:0f.1 0101: 1106:0571 (rev 07)
00:10.0 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev a0)
00:10.1 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev a0)
00:10.2 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev a0)
00:10.4 0c03: 1106:3104 (rev 86)
00:11.0 0601: 1106:3337
00:11.7 0600: 1106:287e
00:12.0 0200: 1106:3065 (rev 7c)
00:13.0 0604: 1106:337b
00:13.1 0604: 1106:337a
01:00.0 0300: 1106:3371 (rev 01)
06:01.0 0403: 1106:3288 (rev 10)
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$

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Re: Configuring a Medion MD 96419 / MIM 2310

Submitted by dozykraut on Wed, 2008-08-27 00:41.

What system did you install? I own a Medion MD 96360 and run Debian Lenny (testing) on it. Everything including RaLink onboard wireless and 16:10 screen at 1280x800 worked out of the box, to the point of being spookily easy.

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Re: Configuring a Medion MD 96419 / MIM 2310

Submitted by leorolla on Wed, 2008-09-03 10:47.

Kubuntu 7.04

How did you set your screen?

Thanks.

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Re: Configuring a Medion MD 96419 / MIM 2310

Submitted by pinniped on Thu, 2008-09-04 05:22.

Can you post your kernel version?
uname -r

Now if you go back into the text console as described before, and stop X:
/etc/init.d/kdm stop

You can try the following to see if you can get the display to work:
modprobe via

Then edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf -- look for the "device" section; it should look something like this:
Section "Device"
Identifier "my graphics card"
Driver "openchrome" (or you can try "via", but openchrome is preferred)
EndSection

Also check the "Module" section - it should have the following two lines somewhere in the list:
Load "glx"
Load "dri"

Then: /etc/init.d/kdm start (and hope it all works)
It *should* work with more recent kernels and xorg, but I have no idea what kernel and xorg comes with Kubuntu 7.04 so I can't say anything for sure.

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Re: Configuring a Medion MD 96419 / MIM 2310

Submitted by leorolla on Thu, 2008-09-04 11:53.

I re-installed linux from kubuntu-7.04-desktop-i386.iso

(yesterday, because of the last blank screen and, since I didn't have writing permission to other NTSF partitions, I didn't want to copy all the lspci by hand)

After my second rebooting another kernel appeared in the Grub menu, so now I have:

2.6.20-17-generic
2.6.20-15-generic

I'm running the first one.

My xorg.conf contains

Section "Device"
Identifier "Generic Video Card"
Driver "vesa"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
(...)
Section "Module"
Load "i2c"
Load "bitmap"
Load "ddc"
Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
Load "int10"
Load "vbe"
EndSection

So it has the two items you mentioned.

I edited xorg.conf several times with different combinations of Identifier and Driver and all of them resulted in crash.

Fortunately /etc/init.d/kdm stop and /etc/init.d/kdm start helped a lot. Thanks.

Finally I read the headings of the file and saw this:

# /etc/X11/xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf(5) manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

I have run
dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
and tried different combinations. When I chose "vesa" and checked the box "1280x800" it resulted in what I wanted.

I don't know if it's the "traditional" or "correct" way, but it is working.

May it cause problems?

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Re: Configuring a Medion MD 96419 / MIM 2310

Submitted by pinniped on Fri, 2008-09-05 04:09.

You will have no problems with 'vesa' but you will not have 2D and 3D acceleration. If the "via" kernel module exists (sudo modprobe via) then you should be able to use the "openchrome" or "via" driver in Xorg for better performance (preferably openchrome).

You can back up the xorg.conf file (make a copy with 'cp': cp xorg.conf xorg.conf.my_backup), edit the file to ask for the 'openchrome' driver, and then restart X. If X fails, just log in to virtual terminal #1 ([ctl][alt][F1]) and restore the xorg.conf from your backup.

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Re: Configuring a Medion MD 96419 / MIM 2310

Submitted by leorolla on Fri, 2008-09-05 18:44.

This is exactly how I had done it. But didn't work.

I also did "sudo modprobe via", and nothing happened.

Anyway I'm really happy :-)

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Re: Configuring a Medion MD 96419 / MIM 2310

Submitted by pinniped on Sat, 2008-09-06 02:08.

Does "sudo modprobe -v via" give you any messages about why the module is not loaded?

It is also possible that some incompatible drivers have loaded; can you post the output of "lsmod"?

Without 2D acceleration you can't play "planet penguin racer"!

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Re: Configuring a Medion MD 96419 / MIM 2310

Submitted by leorolla on Wed, 2008-09-10 10:37.

Now it gave me something!

<br />
root@LEO-PC-KUBUNTU:~# sudo modprobe -v via<br />
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.20-17-generic/kernel/drivers/char/agp/agpgart.ko<br />
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.20-17-generic/kernel/drivers/char/drm/drm.ko<br />
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.20-17-generic/kernel/drivers/char/drm/via.ko<br />
root@LEO-PC-KUBUNTU:~#<br />

Before I had:

<br />
root@LEO-PC-KUBUNTU:~# sudo modprobe via<br />
root@LEO-PC-KUBUNTU:~#<br />

I was missing the '- v' in the modprobe. I will see if it works and then edit this post.
Thanks!

For the 'lsmod' output:

<br />
root@LEO-PC-KUBUNTU:~# lsmod<br />
Module                  Size  Used by<br />
via                    44160  0<br />
drm                    81044  1 via<br />
agpgart                35400  1 drm<br />
battery                10756  0<br />
ac                      6020  0<br />
thermal                14856  0<br />
fan                     5636  0<br />
button                  8720  0<br />
via_rhine              25608  0<br />
mii                     6528  1 via_rhine<br />
usbhid                 26592  0<br />
hid                    27392  1 usbhid<br />
ipv6                  269088  12<br />
rfcomm                 40856  0<br />
l2cap                  25856  5 rfcomm<br />
bluetooth              55908  4 rfcomm,l2cap<br />
ppdev                  10116  0<br />
acpi_cpufreq           10056  1<br />
cpufreq_powersave       2688  0<br />
cpufreq_ondemand        9228  1<br />
cpufreq_conservative     8200  0<br />
cpufreq_stats           7360  0<br />
freq_table              5792  3 acpi_cpufreq,cpufreq_ondemand,cpufreq_stats<br />
cpufreq_userspace       5408  0<br />
pcc_acpi               13184  0<br />
dev_acpi               12292  0<br />
tc1100_wmi              8068  0<br />
sony_acpi               6284  0<br />
dock                   10268  0<br />
video                  16388  0<br />
sbs                    15652  0<br />
container               5248  0<br />
i2c_ec                  6016  1 sbs<br />
asus_acpi              17308  0<br />
backlight               7040  1 asus_acpi<br />
parport_pc             36388  0<br />
lp                     12452  0<br />
parport                36936  3 ppdev,parport_pc,lp<br />
fuse                   46612  5<br />
joydev                 10816  0<br />
snd_hda_intel          21912  1<br />
snd_hda_codec         205056  1 snd_hda_intel<br />
snd_pcm_oss            44544  0<br />
snd_mixer_oss          17408  1 snd_pcm_oss<br />
snd_pcm                79876  3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss<br />
snd_seq_dummy           4740  0<br />
snd_seq_oss            32896  0<br />
snd_seq_midi            9600  0<br />
snd_rawmidi            25472  1 snd_seq_midi<br />
snd_seq_midi_event      8448  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi<br />
snd_seq                52592  6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event<br />
snd_timer              23684  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq<br />
snd_seq_device          9100  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq<br />
snd                    54020  12 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device<br />
soundcore               8672  1 snd<br />
snd_page_alloc         11272  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm<br />
zd1211rw               53124  0<br />
ieee80211softmac       31360  1 zd1211rw<br />
ieee80211              34760  2 zd1211rw,ieee80211softmac<br />
ieee80211_crypt         7040  1 ieee80211<br />
serio_raw               7940  0<br />
psmouse                38920  0<br />
i2c_viapro             10132  0<br />
pcspkr                  4224  0<br />
i2c_core               22656  2 i2c_ec,i2c_viapro<br />
shpchp                 34324  0<br />
pci_hotplug            32576  1 shpchp<br />
af_packet              23816  4<br />
tsdev                   8768  0<br />
evdev                  11008  3<br />
ext3                  133128  1<br />
jbd                    59816  1 ext3<br />
mbcache                 9604  1 ext3<br />
sg                     36252  0<br />
ide_cd                 32672  0<br />
cdrom                  37664  1 ide_cd<br />
sd_mod                 23428  5<br />
generic                 5124  0 [permanent]<br />
via82cxxx              10372  0 [permanent]<br />
uhci_hcd               25360  0<br />
ehci_hcd               34188  0<br />
usbcore               134280  5 usbhid,zd1211rw,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd<br />
sata_via               12548  4<br />
ata_generic             9092  0<br />
libata                125720  2 sata_via,ata_generic<br />
scsi_mod              142348  3 sg,sd_mod,libata<br />
processor              31048  2 thermal,acpi_cpufreq<br />
fbcon                  42656  0<br />
tileblit                3584  1 fbcon<br />
font                    9216  1 fbcon<br />
bitblit                 6912  1 fbcon<br />
softcursor              3200  1 bitblit<br />
vesafb                  9220  0<br />
capability              5896  0<br />
commoncap               8192  1 capability<br />
root@LEO-PC-KUBUNTU:~#<br />

(how should I format the outputs that you ask me so that they look good?)

By the way, since all my lspci and lsmod are here, can you help me making the system see my WiFi?

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