Hey-ya Paul, How's the weather down-under? It's cold here (San Francisco).
The only two things that don't work are the sound and the parallel printer. On the sound, the chipset is the ESS Maestro 3 which so new there are no drivers that work that are included in the distribution. However, there's a beta driver in the form of source code that I've been fiddling with, but I'm not that experiences with compiling modules so I don't have it working yet. Check it out at this url: http://www.zabbo.net/maestro3/ On the parport_pc, I know the port works because I can plug the floppy or cdrom drive into it and access either. At least I hope that's a good indicator. I use the standard SVGA xserver for Gnome X and it works nicely. I also have APM working quite nicely, the system suspends and resumes without trouble. I've found the power meter on gnome-panel to be fairly accurate. I've had to fiddle with the bios settings a little to tune, but that's been very receptive. I had some trouble running vmware but then realized I had compiled the kernel with symetric multi-processing turned on. I recompiled to uni-processor and that fixed it. PCMCIA services work fine, accept I've not been able to get this new Xircom RealPort Cardbus 10/100+56k Modem to work. It loads, without errors, but the IP interface doesn't work and the modem won't dial. My Intel 10/100 cards works great though and I suspect an older pcmcia modem would work too. Let me know if you have other questions. I know a guy whose building RedHat on the same pc and he's getting it working. jc On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 02:44:06PM +1030, Paul Schulz wrote: > Hi Jeffrey, > > > Anyone, > > > > I recently got the newest Dell Latitude CPx laptop and I've > > installed it with stable 2.2.18. I've got about everything worked out > > but the sound and the parallel printer port. I need help with the > > parport. It won't work. Here's everything I can think of to help: > > Did you manage to try out the irDA? I would like to know about how > you went, and any suggestions you might have, or things that you think > other people might find helpful about the Latitude CPx's. > > See: > http://www.foursticks.com.au/~pschulz/dell-latitude-cpx > > It's fairly 'solutionless' at the moment, but hopefully that will > change. (Unless I suddenly find that there already is a similar site > somewhere..) > > Please let me know hoe you get on... (I can see that you're getting > lots of suggestions). > > Paul > -- > Paul Schulz, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Foursticks Systems Pty Ltd, http://www.foursticks.com.au > 2/259 Glen Osmond Road, FREWVILLE South Australia 5063 > Phone +61 8 8338 5500, Fax +61 8 8338 5511, Mob +61 401 981 301 > > > - parport and parport_pc support are compiled into the kernel as modules > > - parallel printer is compiled as well with printer readback turned on. > > - modprobe shows the following: > > > > root-bash# modprobe -d parport > > ============================================= > > Module parport > > kname parport > > objkey parport > > names: parport > > mode: NORMAL > > Module matching parport: /lib/modules/2.2.18-3/misc/parport.o > > ============================================= > > > > - syslog has this to say: > > > > Jan 2 18:21:35 localhost kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) > > [SPP,ECP,ECPPS2] > > Jan 2 18:21:35 localhost kernel: parport_probe: failed > > Jan 2 18:21:35 localhost kernel: parport0: no IEEE-1284 device present. > > Jan 2 18:21:35 localhost kernel: lp0: using parport0 (polling). > > > > * I think that printer readback is the 1284 thing. > > > > any help is appreciated...jc > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- ********************************** Jeff Coppock Nortel Networks IP Services email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (408) 565-3848 :Office ESN: 655 (510) 703-5910 :Mobile (925) 292-1156 :Home Office
