ok im installing gentoo on a gateway laptop mx7515
ok im gona start with what works and how i started my install
i started install off of ubunto linux live cd (supported unboard net-work
card )im using no highmem support in 32bit build
net =after had gentoo installed i downloaded the network driver to patch
kernel from vendor so ehternet will work lspci of network card
0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8036 Fast
Ethernet Controller (rev 10)
video = use newest atidriver from www.ati.com install and compile manualy may
have to setup links for fglrx module so modprobe sees it enable agp support
so it works ( note laptop is pcie but driver dont build correct without agp )
i started my ati mess with trying to use emerge ati-drivers this will hard
lock system with current drivers inorder to get video do not compile agp
support i was only able to get 2d support (agp support with stable drivers
hard lock system ) note you can not use a gui login manager aswell it will
hard lock system whrn you exit to log in as another user soloution to this is
to use startx only ..... (note no frame buffer vesa or redaon is built in
kernel ) (please get nvdia based video card they work much bettter )
sound= works with ati-ixp driver must mute external amp switch to get sound
power management= the cpu power control works fine suspend
moving now to things that dont work or do yet dont .....
usb = usb 1.1 works but usb2 does not appear to work i really need help with
this problem . ok according to everything usb2.0 looks good and should work
at the bottomof this email is lspci dmesg and dmesg when hooking up a usb2
device and output . notice in the dmesg it says that there is 8 ports found
on usb2.0 hub and 4 port on usb 1.1 this laptop only has 4 usb ports
wireless = used ndiswrapper emerge ndiswrapper fails download and compile and
install from source works but complains that i should enable 16k stack kernel
i pulled the drivers from the first cd that you make in gateways crappy
backup program i got to the point that it sees the hardware loads and the
light lights up once changing the mode to ad-hoc i can see my wireless ap i
can sett the essid to the correct name but cant connect . this is something i
would like to resolve but usb is more important. this may also have something
todo with acpi not working the correct way unknown i dont know to much about
acpi to tell
acpi = acpi seems to work but computer has a MSFT acpi on it i have found a
page that recomends to fix it and it may help with some problems using intels
acpi compilier spitsout some errors and warings if someone would like to help
me fix this i would be willing to provide any information . i dont really
know how to make the changes to patch my acpi but if someone would help i
would give them any information the laptop procides
system time = the clock seems to become out of sync very fast i would like to
resolve this problem to with apic enabled the clocks supper fast ie screen
saver set for 40 mins came on in 5 mins etc
it seems this laptop uses ati's chipset for board related things and it seems
to be newly supported so maybe things will imporve
system stats
amd64 4000+ (32bit mode for now )
1gig memory (not using highmem)
100 gb hard drive
dvdrw cdrw drive
wireless (ndiswrapper only .... not working)
ethernet working with source from syskonects website
usb only 1.1 usb2 >?
media card slots = unknown
power management = unknown cpu throtaling works (k8 )
video works with bugs ati x600 pcie 1080x800 screen
sound works with mute /unmute of external amp channel
lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc ATI Radeon Xpress 200
(RS480/RS482/RX480/RX482) Chipset - Host bridge (rev 01)
0000:00:02.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI-X Root Port
0000:00:06.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5a38
0000:00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host
Controller
0000:00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host
Controller
0000:00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host
Controller
0000:00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller (rev 11)
0000:00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE
Controller ATI
0000:00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge
0000:00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge
0000:00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 AC'97
Audio Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:14.6 Modem: ATI Technologies Inc ATI SB400 - AC'97 Modem Controller
(rev 02)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M24 1P [Radeon
Mobility X600]
0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8036 Fast
Ethernet Controller (rev 10)
0000:03:05.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB1410 Cardbus Controller (rev
01)
0000:03:07.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One
54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
0000:03:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host
Controller (rev 80)
dmesg
Linux version 2.6.14-gentoo-r2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.5-20050130
(Gentoo 3.3.5.20050130-r1, ssp-3.3.5.20050130-1, pie-8.7.7.1)) #9 PREEMPT Thu
Dec 1 07:01:09 UTC 2005
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009e000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009e000 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000d2000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003fe90000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000003fe90000 - 000000003fea4000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000003fea4000 - 000000003ff00000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000003ff00000 - 0000000040000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
Warning only 896MB will be used.
Use a HIGHMEM enabled kernel.
896MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 229376
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Normal zone: 225280 pages, LIFO batch:31
HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 PTLTD ) @ 0x000f84e0
ACPI: RSDT (v001 PTLTD RSDT 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000000) @ 0x3fe9f0ce
ACPI: FADT (v001 GATEWA W730-K8x 0x06040000 ATI 0x000f4240) @ 0x3fea3d9c
ACPI: SSDT (v001 PTLTD POWERNOW 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000001) @ 0x3fea3e10
ACPI: MADT (v001 PTLTD APIC 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000000) @
0x3fea3f6a
ACPI: MCFG (v001 PTLTD MCFG 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000000) @ 0x3fea3fc4
ACPI: DSDT (v001 GATEWA W730-K8x 0x06040000 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x8008
Allocating PCI resources starting at 50000000 (gap: 40000000:a0000000)
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda5 noapic
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 65536 bytes)
Detected 2587.415 MHz processor.
Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Memory: 904560k/917504k available (3119k kernel code, 12488k reserved, 960k
data, 172k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 5181.78 BogoMIPS
(lpj=10363577)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 078bfbff e3d3fbff 00000000 00000000
00000001 00000000 00000001
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 078bfbff e3d3fbff 00000000 00000000 00000001
00000000 00000001
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 1024K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: After all inits, caps: 078bfbff e3d3fbff 00000000 00000010 00000001
00000000 00000001
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
CPU: AMD Mobile AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 4000+ stepping 02
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 0c80)
NET: Registered protocol family 16
ACPI: bus type pci registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd80b, last bus=4
PCI: Using MMCONFIG
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050902
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:14.1
Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0
PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:14.4
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PB2_._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PB6_._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs *10 11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 10 11) *7
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs *10 11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 10 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs *10 11), disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs *10 11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.P2P_._PRT]
ACPI: Embedded Controller [EC] (gpe 24)
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 9 devices
PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP
SCSI subsystem initialized
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report
pnp: 00:07: ioport range 0x1080-0x1080 has been reserved
pnp: 00:07: ioport range 0x200-0x20f has been reserved
pnp: 00:07: ioport range 0x87f-0x87f has been reserved
pnp: 00:07: ioport range 0x220-0x22f has been reserved
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:02.0
IO window: 9000-9fff
MEM window: c0000000-c00fffff
PREFETCH window: c8000000-cfffffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:06.0
IO window: a000-afff
MEM window: c0100000-c01fffff
PREFETCH window: disabled.
PCI: Bus 4, cardbus bridge: 0000:03:05.0
IO window: 0000b400-0000b4ff
IO window: 0000b800-0000b8ff
PREFETCH window: 50000000-51ffffff
MEM window: 52000000-53ffffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:14.4
IO window: b000-bfff
MEM window: c0200000-c02fffff
PREFETCH window: 50000000-51ffffff
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:02.0 to 64
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:06.0 to 64
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 11
PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:05.0[A] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 11 (level, low) ->
IRQ 11
Machine check exception polling timer started.
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1133525604.724:1): initialized
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED]).
Initializing Cryptographic API
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:02.0 to 64
pcie_portdrv_probe->Dev[5a34:1002] has invalid IRQ. Check vendor BIOS
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[pcie00]
Allocate Port Service[pcie01]
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:06.0 to 64
pcie_portdrv_probe->Dev[5a38:1002] has invalid IRQ. Check vendor BIOS
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[pcie00]
Allocate Port Service[pcie01]
lp: driver loaded but no devices found
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
ACPI: AC Adapter [AC] (on-line)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present)
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2] C3[C3])
ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports 8 throttling states)
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:KBC0,PNP0f13:MSE0] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.6[B] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 11 (level, low) ->
IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:14.6 disabled
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 5.9, id: 0x23aeb3, caps: 0xa04713/0x10008
input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad on isa0060/serio1
floppy0: no floppy controllers found
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ATIIXP: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:14.1
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 10
PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.1[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 10 (level, low) ->
IRQ 10
ATIIXP: chipset revision 0
ATIIXP: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x8410-0x8417, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x8418-0x841f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: HTS541010G9AT00, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: HL-DT-ST DVD-RW GWA-4082N, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 1024KiB
hda: 195371568 sectors (100030 MB) w/7539KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63,
UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes supported
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 < hda5 >
hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
libata version 1.12 loaded.
usbmon: debugfs is not available
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.2[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) ->
IRQ 11
ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: irq 11, io mem 0xc0502000
ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: USB 2.0 initialized, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
ohci_hcd: 2005 April 22 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) ->
IRQ 11
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: OHCI Host Controller
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: irq 11, io mem 0xc0500000
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 4 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.1[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) ->
IRQ 11
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: OHCI Host Controller
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: irq 11, io mem 0xc0501000
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 4 ports detected
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.10rc1 (Mon Sep 12
08:13:09 2005 UTC).
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.5[B] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 11 (level, low) ->
IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.6[B] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 11 (level, low) ->
IRQ 11
atiixp-modem: no codec available
ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:14.6 disabled
ALSA device list:
#0: ATI IXP rev 2 with unknown codec at 0xc0503400, irq 11
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
TCP reno registered
ip_conntrack version 2.3 (7168 buckets, 57344 max) - 216 bytes per conntrack
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ipt_recent v0.3.1: Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
http://snowman.net/projects/ipt_recent/
arp_tables: (C) 2002 David S. Miller
TCP bic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon 64 / Opteron processors (version 1.50.4)
powernow-k8: 0 : fid 0x12 (2600 MHz), vid 0x8 (1350 mV)
powernow-k8: 1 : fid 0x10 (2400 MHz), vid 0xa (1300 mV)
powernow-k8: 2 : fid 0xe (2200 MHz), vid 0xc (1250 mV)
powernow-k8: 3 : fid 0xc (2000 MHz), vid 0xe (1200 mV)
powernow-k8: 4 : fid 0xa (1800 MHz), vid 0x10 (1150 mV)
powernow-k8: 5 : fid 0x8 (1600 MHz), vid 0x12 (1100 mV)
powernow-k8: 6 : fid 0x0 (800 MHz), vid 0x18 (950 mV)
cpu_init done, current fid 0x12, vid 0x8
Using IPI Shortcut mode
ACPI wakeup devices:
SLPB LID LAN0 MODM
ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5)
ReiserFS: hda5: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
ReiserFS: hda5: using ordered data mode
ReiserFS: hda5: journal params: device hda5, size 8192, journal first block
18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
ReiserFS: hda5: checking transaction log (hda5)
ReiserFS: hda5: Using r5 hash to sort names
VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 172k freed
Adding 1951856k swap on /dev/hda1. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1951856k
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 10 (level, low) ->
IRQ 10
sk98lin: Network Device Driver v8.28.1.3
(C)Copyright 1999-2005 Marvell(R).
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 10 (level, low) ->
IRQ 10
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:02:00.0 to 64
eth0: Marvell Yukon 88E8036 Fast Ethernet Controller
PrefPort:A RlmtMode:Check Link State
input: PC Speaker
spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
eth0: network connection up using port A
speed: 100
autonegotiation: yes
duplex mode: half
flowctrl: none
irq moderation: disabled
tcp offload: enabled
scatter-gather: enabled
tx-checksum: enabled
rx-checksum: enabled
eth0: SkYuk2RestartRxBmu failed.
eth0: SkYuk2RestartRxBmu failed.
fglrx: module license 'Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, Starnberg,
GERMANY' taints kernel.
[fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 803 MBytes.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 10 (level, low) ->
IRQ 10
[fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 8.19.10 [Nov 9 2005] on minor 0
[fglrx] ACPI power management is initialized.
[fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 803 MBytes.
[fglrx] free PCIe = 54804480
[fglrx] max PCIe = 54804480
[fglrx] free LFB = 48558080
[fglrx] max LFB = 48558080
[fglrx] free Inv = 0
[fglrx] max Inv = 0
[fglrx] total Inv = 0
[fglrx] total TIM = 0
[fglrx] total FB = 0
[fglrx] total PCIe = 16384
dmesg of (last part) input of new usb 2.0 device pretty much the same on any
of the 4 ports of the laptop notice that it says not using high speed mode
connect to high speed hub i really need to get usb 2.0 working i have alot of
backup data on usb hard drives . note usb2 may have worked in ubuntu /
kumbuntu
usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2
usb 2-2: not running at top speed; connect to a high speed hub
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 2
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
Vendor: Maxtor 6 Model: B200P0 Rev: 0 0
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
SCSI device sda: 398297088 512-byte hdwr sectors (203928 MB)
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sda: 398297088 512-byte hdwr sectors (203928 MB)
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
sda: sda1 sda2
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0
on another note i really miss my old laptop with nvidia chipset that bestbuy
sent to wrong address and i got this one to replace it ............
everything worked on that even the wireless card .....
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