Chapter 5 - Hardware Discovery and Audit < ^ >

Before attempting to boot the LiveCD or install Linux, it's wise to get as detailed a list as possible of the hardware in your system. The Dialogue website contains some useful info, as does the System Information app in Windows XP. From these two sources, the following list was built:

Device Class Device Detail Interface
Audio ALi 5451 PCI
Video ATI Radeon Mobility M6 16 MB PCI
IDE ALi M5229 Bus Mastering Controller PCI
Firewire Texas Instruments PCI4510 OHCI IEEE1394 PCI
Winmodem ALi M5457 AC'97 Winmodem PCI
Ethernet RealTek RTL-8139 PCI
PCMCIA Bridge Texas Instruments PCI4510 PC Card Controller PCI
PCI-ISA Bridge ALi M1533 (Aladdin IV) PCI
PMU ALi M7101 Power Management Controller PCI
PCI Chipset ALi 1535+ Motherboard
CPU Transmeta Crusoe TM5800 1 GHz Motherboard
Wifi Prism3 chipset USB
Bluetooth Appears to be generic USB BT module USB
GSM / GPRS Phone Siemens MC45 GPRS USB
Touchscreen PenMount - odd interface PCI/ISA bridge

There also appears to be a 'Flybook System Controller' device in Windows, which presumably is responsible for responding to / activating the 'special' function key controls (e.g. speaker volume control, hibernation, turning Wifi / Bluetooth / GPRS on/off). Linux doesn't seem to see this.

The Dialogue spec sheet claims the motherboard is ACPI compliant for power and suspend to RAM or disk.