Debian on Sotec 3120X / 3123X
As I could not find any references with respect to Linux and this laptop before I bought it, I thought I would drop a short note stating that Linux works fine on it. So here it goes, in semi-random order: * What is it? An inexpensive ($950), 4.4 pound heavy, 12" screen with a Celeron 1200, 256mb ram, dvd/cd-rw, and either a 20gb disk (3120X) or a 30gb disk (3123X). The latter is available at Sam's Club, the other one at Wal Mart, Office Max and Best Buy. See the link for specs: http://www.sotecglobal.com/us/products/?catid=11&subid=102&prodid=1002 * First things I dropped Knoppix 3.1 into the 3120X I found at a local Office Max. It works, but requires the boot line knoppix lang=us noscsi or it will hang on seeking the scsi modules. But x11, sound, ... all work immediately under Knoppix, which is good. The pre-Debian 3.0 cdrom I have needed linux video=vga16:off or the framebuffer would get confused, and the console get unusable. * Annoyances The laptop comes with M$ XP home preinstalled as well as on three Ghost disks. I did not succeed in resizing the disks using free software. Partition Magic 8.0 worked, and I was able to install Debian 3.0 without too much trouble. I pretty much used the Knoppix settings whenever something wasn't immediately working (as e.g. x11 or sound). Apm does not appear to be supported in the bios, which sucks. * Niceties The laptop is small and light but not miniscule, light and reasonably fast. Linux works fine. Haven't tried the dvd player yet for lack of a dvd. I intend to post some more notes at http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/linux/sotec3123x.html Dirk -- Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future. -- Niels Bohr
woody on T23
hello all! have v nice T23 which was running linux just fine... [apart from irda] untill I recompiled my kernel from the 2.4.18 source. Now i get major video corruption on resume from suspend which can only be solved by rebooting. This doesnt happen if i boot from the stock 2.4.18-bf24 kernel, any ideas as to what i need to set in my kernel config to sort this out? also, i have never got irda to work [want to use gnokki!] does anyone know which irda modules i need for the transciever in the t23, i cannot seem to identify it. thanks, hugh saunders
Re: Woody on ThinkPad A31
> > This is a mismatch in the kernel code somewhere. The later kernels know > > about the M7. On my T30 I get: > > So how shall I solve this mismatch? > Get and build a version of the kernel that is correct, I'm using 2.5.5x, but the latest 2.4.20's should work fine too. > well, when I am setting up X, I don't see a radeon driver, all i have is an > ati driver. > I don't know which utility you're using to configure X with, but there's definately a radeon driver in X4.2. Moreover, X should autodetect the card and the driver to use automatically. Mike
SMC2632W V.2
Hi, I hava here a SMC2632W version 2 wlan card and it simply doesn't work. I hear a beep (the low frequent one) when I insert it, but I can't find anything in any logfiles... I already tried the atmel-chipset driver that can be found on sourceforge, but it didn't work. I use the 2.4.19 kernel from kernel.org. Anyone any ideas? Thanks Max -- -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GIT(S) dx s: a--- C++ UL P+ L+++ E--- W+++ N+ o-- K- w-- O-- M- V- PS+ PE++ Y PGP++ t- 5-- X- R- tv b+(++) DI++ D+ G e* h! r y? --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- GnuPG key available on http://www.linuxforall.de Think about TCPA Don't let entertainment industry cut Your rights! FAQ: English: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html German: http://moon.hipjoint.de/tcpa-palladium-faq-de.html
Debian success on IBM X30
I just wanted to let people know that I had no trouble putting Debian on my new IBM X30. I had to use the linux-wlan prism2_pci driver (not supplied with Debian), as the Orinoco driver in 2.4.20 didn't work well, but everything else was just great. I put up more details at http://www.aigeek.com/laptop/ibm-x30/ which will get linked to from the linux laptops page eventually.
woody on T23
hello all! have v nice T23 which was running linux just fine... [apart from irda] untill I recompiled my kernel from the 2.4.18 source. Now i get major video corruption on resume from suspend which can only be solved by rebooting. This doesnt happen if i boot from the stock 2.4.18-bf24 kernel, any ideas as to what i need to set in my kernel config to sort this out? also, i have never got irda to work [want to use gnokki!] does anyone know which irda modules i need for the transciever in the t23, i cannot seem to identify it. thanks, hugh saunders -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Woody on ThinkPad A31
> > This is a mismatch in the kernel code somewhere. The later kernels know > > about the M7. On my T30 I get: > > So how shall I solve this mismatch? > Get and build a version of the kernel that is correct, I'm using 2.5.5x, but the latest 2.4.20's should work fine too. > well, when I am setting up X, I don't see a radeon driver, all i have is an > ati driver. > I don't know which utility you're using to configure X with, but there's definately a radeon driver in X4.2. Moreover, X should autodetect the card and the driver to use automatically. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SMC2632W V.2
Hi, I hava here a SMC2632W version 2 wlan card and it simply doesn't work. I hear a beep (the low frequent one) when I insert it, but I can't find anything in any logfiles... I already tried the atmel-chipset driver that can be found on sourceforge, but it didn't work. I use the 2.4.19 kernel from kernel.org. Anyone any ideas? Thanks Max -- -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GIT(S) dx s: a--- C++ UL P+ L+++ E--- W+++ N+ o-- K- w-- O-- M- V- PS+ PE++ Y PGP++ t- 5-- X- R- tv b+(++) DI++ D+ G e* h! r y? --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- GnuPG key available on http://www.linuxforall.de Think about TCPA Don't let entertainment industry cut Your rights! FAQ: English: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html German: http://moon.hipjoint.de/tcpa-palladium-faq-de.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian success on IBM X30
I just wanted to let people know that I had no trouble putting Debian on my new IBM X30. I had to use the linux-wlan prism2_pci driver (not supplied with Debian), as the Orinoco driver in 2.4.20 didn't work well, but everything else was just great. I put up more details at http://www.aigeek.com/laptop/ibm-x30/ which will get linked to from the linux laptops page eventually. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thinkpad S30 installation error.
Hello, This is first time to send message to this mailing list. I am facing an error when installing woody by USB-FDD to IBM ThinkPad S30. The procedure is below. 1 : boot from USB-FDD with rescue FDD. 2 : type below to boot prompt. linux floppy=ThinkPad then ENTER 3 : Then I insert root floppy when I see following message. VFS: Insert root floppy and press ENTER. 4 : But ThinkPad can not read the FDD. The message is below. VFS: Insert root floppy disk to be loaded into RAM disk and press ENTER request_module[block-major-2]: Root fs not mounted VFS: Insert root floppy and press ENTER. request_module[block-major-2]: Root fs not mounted VFS:Cannot open root device "fd0" or 02:00 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic:VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 02:00 I tried FDD image in "current" folder and "bf2.4" folder. But both of them did not work. Do you have any idea how this error should be resolved? Best regards, Yoshi
