Hi Charbel, thanks very much for the detailed step by step guide. Together with the information of Mattia I have been able to do almost all of the described tasks. There is just one thing which I didn't get done properly. I am talking about the finger crossing thing. Hmmh. That didn't work out. I got a kernel panic when rebooting. Where can I look for the reason of the panic? I grepped through /var/log for panic but with no success. I found some stuff in /var/log/ksymoops (whatever that is), but it didn't make any sense to me too.
Any ideas? Btw. Sorry for coming back that late, but I didn't have the time to try the described way before and was also thrown back when some of the things didn't work as expected, but also learned a bit about debian coming from SuSE, RedHat, Mandrake I am very impressed. Debian seems to be exactly what I was looking for. Mariano On Mon, 2002-09-02 at 23:35, Charbel JACQUIN wrote: > Hi again Mariano, > > > As I said .. This is the first time not using SuSE. So there is a newer > > version of debian avaliable but woody? How do I get it? I had a look at > > the site and found a "testing"/"unstable" version. So it is this one, > > right? > > > > Would this mean I will get XDFree 4.2 and the patched kernel with it? > > Sorry, I was unclear and didn't pay attention to the fact that you where > new to debian. I'll try to remember what I did, and give you some > details. > PLEASE! someone, correct me if i'm wrong somewhere in my explanations. > > I - XFree 4.2: > > you can get it by adding this line: > > deb http://iesc.trasno.net/xfree-4.2.debs sid/i386/ > > to your /etc/apt/sources.list, and doing something like: > > % apt-get update > % apt-get install xserver-xfree86 > > You'll get a version labelled 4.2.0-0pre1v1 or something. > > > II - Build kernel with necessary ACPI support for your Vaio. > > You need it or soundcard and maybe modem won't work (at least not > together with your ethernet card). > > AFAK, you'll need to build your patched kernel yourself. Under debian, > it's simple and easy. > > 1 - get kernel sources and debian kernel building utilities. > > % apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.18 kernel-package > > will give you both kernel sources tarball and the utilities used to > build a kernel from source the debian way. > > 2 - download the ACPI patch. Choose the latest that match your kernel > version: > > http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/acpi/acpi-20020709-2.4.18.diff.gz?download > > 3 - patch the sources: > Kernel sources where downloaded to /usr/src/kernel-image-2.4.18.tar.gz. > Unpack sources, apply acpi patch: > > % cd kernel-source-2.4.18 > % zcat ../acpi-xx.diff.gz | patch -p1 > > 4 - Configure and build your kernel: > At top of kernel sources: > > % make-kpkg -rfakeroot -config=x --revision=myvaio.1 kernel_image > > This will bring the good old Tk interface to configure your kernel. > - enable experimental features (in the first menu, general setup or > something) > - locate where ACPI features are (second or third menu I guess), enable > them all. > - configure other parts, exit and save. Wait for kernel to compile. > > If everything goes well, you'll end up with a home made debian > kernel-image in /usr/src/kernel-image-2.4.18_myvaio.1_i386.deb. > > > II - Ethernet. > Download Intel's driver: > http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df/Detail_Desc.asp?ProductID=407&DwnldID=2896 > > % tar xfz e100-2.1.15.tar.gz > % cd e100-2.1.15/src > % make clean && make > > You end up with a new kernel module: e100.o > > III - Install It > > % sudo dpkg -i /usr/src/kernel-image-2.4.18_myvaio.1_i386.deb > % sudo cp e100.o /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers/ > > IV - Reboot and cross your fingers :-) > > > Charbel. > >
