I revived an old Panasonic CF-T2 laptop for my wife to use as a Netbook by putting in a new hard disk and installing Mint 8 Main Edition over the weekend.
So far I'm really liking Mint, but there are 3 major problems that I need to fix before the laptop can be considered usable.
1) No Sound
The CF-T2 has Intel 82801DB-ICH4 sound. According to the manual it's 'SigmaTelTM STAC9753 AC-97 v.2.1 compliant'.
Everything is unmuted and turned up in alsamixer, the card is detected and pulse audio peak meters shows sound being played back, but I don't hear anything through either headphones or speakers. Sound worked fine on this laptop when it used to run Windows XP.
I've tried all the solutions I could find on the forum, including the Intel HDA Audio SOLUTION (using 'auto' and 'laptop' since I couldn't find a matching model here) but still no joy.
2) No Power Up After Shutdown
After shutting down the computer and trying to turn it back on, the power switch has no effect. I have to unplug the adapter and battery, wait a few seconds and reinsert, then the power light comes back on and I can hit the power switch and the computer starts up as usual. Searching hasn't turned up any fixes so far. Restart, suspend and hibernate are working just fine, by the way.
3) No SD Card Reader
The built in SD Card reader is not working at all. Cards don't show up when inserted.
I tried this driver for Ricoh card readers I found at the Ubuntu forums but it had no effect.
Going round in Google circles trying to fix these problems and it's getting quite frustrating. Any help much appreciated!
lspci
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00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:00.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:00.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 83)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
01:01.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
01:05.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c475 (rev 88)
01:05.1 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C575 SD Bus Host Adapter
02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
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Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0458:0047 KYE Systems Corp. (Mouse Systems)
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub