First you need git core installed

sudo aptitude install git-core


Next you checkout the module

git clone git://git.myrix.net/pana_acpi

The next step is compiling and loading the module

cd ./pana_acpi
make
make install
modprobe panasonic_acpi

At this point you can already check if the brightness buttons are working.
Next copy ./pana_acpi/acpi/* to /etc/acpi
and restart the acpid daemon.

/etc/init.d/acpid restart

This module should work on all the 7-Series from Panasonic. I only tried it out with my CF-R7.

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo U7500 @ 1.06GHz
Memory: 1GB 533MHz
Graphics: Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller
Chipset: 82801H (ICH8 Family)
Network: 88E8055 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller vendor: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.
WiFi: PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN Network Connection vendor: Intel Corporation
SATA-Controller: 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller
HDD: TOSHIBA MK8037GS 80GB
PCMCIA: RL5c476 II Ricoh Co Ltd
SDHC: R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter Ricoh Co Ltd
Battery: Lithium Ion Battery 41760mWh @7.2V

In Ubuntu nearly everything works out of the box:

Graphics: needs some tricks to work with compiz -> driver is blacklisted

WiFi: works out of the box

Ethernet: not tried yet

SDHC: works out of the box (never worked for me on the r3)

Hotkeys: Recognized by Gnome but are not working (need to try to find a fix)

Displaybrightness: Doesn’t work at all. Tried pcc_acpi driver on kernel  2.6.22 and 2.6.24 without any luck. Both are also not working with xbacklight.

Suspend to Ram: works out of the box

Frequency Management: works out of the box

The first thing I realized is, that they added a small fan on the back. I was not that happy at first, but I realized by the time that it is very silent.
Since I am no Vista user I installed Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon.

Everything worked quite out of the box even the sdhc card reader in the front. The only thing which is not working is the feature to change the display brightness with the hotkeys. I tried everything sofar but no luck at all.

After some days of working with it I can say that I am very happy with this machine. Its small, fast, light, not easy to break and runs quite long on the battery.

Seems to be a much cheaper alternative (~275euro) to the MacBook Air. I haven’t seen the Air in real yet, but I think the Mebius is as thin as the Air.

A solution I am using is, simply kill the process and restart it again. How to do this?
Just run the two following commands.

sudo killall -9 NetworkManager
sudo /etc/dbus-1/event.d/25NetworkManager start

After a short time the Network Manager starts searching for the Network connection and you are ready to roll.

Actually by the time I had the feeling it sucks. Well it is faster even you have a lot of eyecandy enabled, but on the other side I didn’t really like it when the shadows around that window for example don’t look nice. Or when other things are looking bad only because of the screen depth. I was playing around changing the depth to 24 but it only resulted in the white screen of death, or yes Beryl only showed me a white cube.

So I found a solution for it when I was searching for something very different.

Anyway reinstalling unstable intel drivers did the trick. Everything now works like a charm and in 24bit depth

If you want the unstable intel drivers installed just give your terminal some:

sudo aptitude xserver-xorg-video-intel/unstable
and restart the Xserver
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart
and you are done.

Can enhancing my Ubuntu desktop with Beryl help me pass the 350-001 exam? Maybe the flaming effects applied to the window displaying my VCP-310 study guide or my Cisco 640-802 questions and answers would help motivate me to study? It could just be that nothing will help you pass the actual tests that go with the Microsoft 70-290 exam than actual hard work and determination.

In the last release I don’t remember exactly if I installed this hotkey driver or if it worked out of the box.

To make the hotkeys work again I got this archive which fixes the problem. The readme tells you where to put the files. This bugreport deals with the problem. The readme says that the files from the archive will not work if you didn’t install the hotkey drivers.

The other good thing which will be fixed is that you now have 10 brightness levels available. Before there were just very bright and very dark, now I can go through the different levels which I really missed before.

If only there were hot keys for disabling ppc links and email marketing spam that hit our email boxes. A one-click solution to slow adsl speeds and redundant domain names would be an instant success. The marketing should get right on that.