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# LG R500

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## Hardware

- CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo T7300 (2.00GHz, 4MB cache L2, FSB 800MHz)
- Chipset: Mobile Intel® 965 PM Express Chipset + ICH8
- RAM: 2048MB
- Hard Disk: SATA 160GB 5400 rpm
- DVD Burner: DOUBLE LAYER
- Display:
  - TFT 15.4" WSXGA+ (1680x1050) FineBright TFT
- Video: NVIDIA GeForce Go 8600M GS
- Audio:
- Wi-Fi: 802.11a/b/g/n
- Bluetooth: Cambridge Silicon Radio
- Webcam: 1.3 Mpixel, Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd (Foxlink)
- Modem: 56 Kbps V.90
- LAN Gigabit Ethernet: 10/100/1000
- Connectors:
  - 1 x Microphone-in jack
  - 1 x Headphone-out jack (S/PDIF)
  - 1 x TypeII PCMCIA slot
  - 1 x Line-in jack
  - 1 x VGA port
  - 1 x HDMI port
  - 3 x USB 2.0 ports
  - 1 x IEEE 1394 port
  - 1 x RJ11 Modem jack for phone line
  - 1 x RJ45 LAN Jack for LAN insert
  - 1 x TV-out(S-Video)
- Card Reader: SD
- Fingerprint-Reader: AuthenTec AES1610
- Dimension and Weight:
  - 357mm * 260mm * 38 mm(W x D x H)
  - 2.8 Kg
- Pointer: Touch pad

## Configuration

### CPU

Works out of the box. For speed stepping follow this wiki site: SpeedStep

### Video

Works with the proprietary Nvidia driver in full display resolution.

TV-Out/DVI currently untested, but the graphics driver finds the interfaces, so they should be switchable with the nvidia-tools.

VGA-Out is working with nvidia-settings.

#### Xorg

Follow this guide: NVIDIA

No problems detected.

### Audio

Works out of the box.

Follow the official documentation: ALSA

### Wi-Fi

To enable wireless follow the official guide: Wireless Setup

Please note that the R500 needs the iwl4965 driver and firmware, so do a

    pacman -S iwlwifi iwlwifi-4965-ucode

and put iwl4965 in your MODULES-line in /etc/rc.conf

NetworkManager is also a cool option.

### Webcam

Use driver linux-uvc-svn for the webcam. You can get it from here: AUR

Put uvcvideo in the MODULES-line in /etc/rc.conf

Applications like Skype (since version 2) and Kopete (since KDE-version 3.5.8) can use the driver so you are able to make video conference calls.

### Bluetooth

Works out of the box, you just have to do:

    pacman -S bluez-libs bluez-utils

and put bluetooth in the DAEMONS-line in /etc/rc.conf

### Card Reader

Put this in the MODULES-section of /etc/rc.conf:

    tifm_sd mmc_block

### Pointer

To enable the pointer follow this guide: Touchpad Synaptics

A really cool utility is gsynaptics (available in the [community] repo).

If you want to disable the touch-function while you are writing, be sure to install synaptics with

    pacman -S synaptics

Then you can create a shell-script in ~/.kde/Autostart like this

    #! /bin/sh
    syndaemon -t -i 2 &

to disable the touch-function for 2 seconds after the last keystroke.

### Leds & ACPI upgrade

The WLAN-LED ist not working with the official iwl4965-driver, but only with ndiswrapper and XP-drivers. All the other LEDs are working.

### Function Keys

Not all of the function-keys are working right now.

If you can't adjust the brightness of your display, be sure to

    modprobe video

and put it in the MODULES-line in /etc/rc.conf

### Fingerprint-Reader

The built-in fingerprint-reader is an AuthenTec AES1610. You can use it if you install the following from AUR: LibFprint PAM_Fprint Fprint_Demo

After that you can follow this Wiki-guide to set up the device: Fprint-Wiki

### Custom DSDT

You may recompile the DSDT and load it from a file into the kernel, if you want. The pros specifically to this model (lg r500) are unknown, but generally a clean DSDT provides better ACPI comapbility, and require less quirks to get the kernel running cleanly. After following the steps provdided by the link above, you need to apply this patch to the "dsdt.dsl" by saving the text to lgr500-dsdt-dsl.patch and run

    patch dsdt.dsl < lgr500-dsdt-dsl.patch

The dsdt.dsl should now compile cleanly. The BIOS version used for the patched DSDT is "COLSSF10" (the patch may work well with other versions as well). You may check your BIOS version with

    dmidecode | head

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