Re: SiS 305, does anyone know about this video chip?
Paulo Lopes wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a new laptop and found out one with a SiS305 video chipset, i've searched google and Thomas Winnishoffer site for sis driver and he never talks about SiS305, only 300 series and 315 chip. Can i assume that 305 is a 300 series? Or not? According to Thomas Winischhofer , 305 = 300. But DRI is slow on these, and it is not in 4.3. It is in 4.2 and will be in 4.4.
Re: Debian Linux on a Gericom A2
Some update information about the Gericom A2. Finally I found some time to dedicate to the installation of debian on my Gericom A2. Here the updated steps: - Resize the one XP partition using Partition Magic - Create two new partitions using Partition Magic (swap, ext3) - Create a new virtual machine using vmware that will the harddrive (no virtual drive) - But woody installer in vmware - Install Woody into this virtual machine - Install lilo (not MBR but on /dev/hda3) - Install bootpart (http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm) to add Debian to the Windows XP boot menu - Install/Unpack kernel-source-2.4.22 - Install/Unpack pcmcia source - Download acpi patch from acpi.sf.net - apply acpi patch on kernel - configure kernel sources to use acpi (apm disabled) - build and install kernel the debian way (http://tldp.org/HOWTO/ACPI-HOWTO/) - configure and run lilo (i have two images: the old one using 2.4.18* and the new one that uses the self-compiled kernel - shutdown linux in vmware - reboot into Debian From this point on everything worked fine (network, X, mouse, usb). There is a nice tool called wmlongrun. It shows the Transmeta processor speed. When idle this will drop to 366 Mhz. When compiling stuff it jumps up to 800 Mhz. Amazing! To Do: - create a boot cd image that has the kernel above so i will be able to install woody without the use of vmware and partition magic > - Installed lilo > - Copied the MRB lilo information into a file and copied this > information to the XP partition > - After this I was able to boot. > - But since the kernel didnt detect all of the devices and interrupts > the network interface, PCCARD slot and such were not detected Alexander Mueller wrote: nb wrote: Hi, Did you succeed in installing Debian Linux on your Gericom A2 ? If so please give me your lsmod results. I'm interesting in buying one. Any feedback about this machine is welcome. Regards I succeeded. But I would not go so far and call it a success. The native installer didnt work since the CD ROM is an external USB 2 drive. The standard installer (and the standard kernel) has not enough ACPI support built in to get the correct list of interrupts and such so from a point on it just hangs. My workaround: - Resize the one XP partition using Partition Magic - Create three new partitions using Partition Magic (ext3, swap, ext3) - Create a new virtual machine using vmware that will the harddrive (no virtual drive) - Installed Woody into this virtual machine - Installed lilo - Copied the MRB lilo information into a file and copied this information to the XP partition - After this I was able to boot. - But since the kernel didnt detect all of the devices and interrupts the network interface, PCCARD slot and such were not detected Thats it so far and I did not have the time to start another try using a custom kernel with the ACPIp patch applied (will be the next step). If I was to choose again I would not go for the Gericom again though it looks very nice. Instead, I would think about bying the small Dell notebook. Xela -- Mit freundlichen Grüssen aus Ravensburg Alexander Mueller = littleBLUE GmbH Untere Breite Strasse 15 88212 Ravensburg Telefon: 0751/55 777 65 Telefax: 0751/55 777 67 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.littleblue.de
Re: Trouble with NetGear FA511 NIC
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 08:17:14PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 05:05:43PM +0200, Joseph Fahey wrote: > > > I'm having problems getting a NetGear FA511 NIC to work on a ThinkPad > > 600. I am running as testing/unstable, but have compiled my kernel > > from the most recent kernel.org sources (2.4.22). There have been > > couple of threads on this list of the past couple of years that seem > > to be close to my problem, yet they don't quite answer it. > > I'm using the an NetGear FA511 NIC to write you this Email right now. > It's working perfectly here without any hazles. I cannot use the kernel > pcmcia driver because of system freeze as soon as i load yenta_socket.o. > Therefore I have to use the pcmcia drivers from pcmcia-cs. I would > suggest to use them as well. Compile the kernel as well as the pcmcia > modules with 2.95, because i've seen unexplainable kerneloops when > compiling with gcc-3.3. Thank you for the response. Very strange, because my exprience has been completely different: no problem loading yenta_socket.o (I'm using it right now with a different NIC). I have been compiling with gcc-3.3, but at least the kernel seems to be working, and the Tulip module seems to be at least trying to load... I remain confused. cheers, Joe -- Joseph Fahey http://www.ditl.info
Re: Compaq Presario
Bec Carey wrote: > Has anyone on this list installed debian on a Compaq Presario 907 ? > I tried to install Red Hat 9 on my machine, but after numerous > problems had to roll back to XP. Has anyone managed to get debian > running on the same machine as mine ? there is a mailing list of Linux users on Presario 900: http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/linuxpresario900 The key to get linux running on this laptop is a newer kernel - 2.4.22 works fine or 2.4.21 with ACPI patch. You can also get started booting with 2.2.x kernel and then building a custom one. Fedor.
Re: SiS 305, does anyone know about this video chip?
Paulo Lopes wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a new laptop and found out one with a SiS305 video chipset, i've searched google and Thomas Winnishoffer site for sis driver and he never talks about SiS305, only 300 series and 315 chip. Can i assume that 305 is a 300 series? Or not? According to Thomas Winischhofer , 305 = 300. But DRI is slow on these, and it is not in 4.3. It is in 4.2 and will be in 4.4. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian Linux on a Gericom A2
Some update information about the Gericom A2. Finally I found some time to dedicate to the installation of debian on my Gericom A2. Here the updated steps: - Resize the one XP partition using Partition Magic - Create two new partitions using Partition Magic (swap, ext3) - Create a new virtual machine using vmware that will the harddrive (no virtual drive) - But woody installer in vmware - Install Woody into this virtual machine - Install lilo (not MBR but on /dev/hda3) - Install bootpart (http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm) to add Debian to the Windows XP boot menu - Install/Unpack kernel-source-2.4.22 - Install/Unpack pcmcia source - Download acpi patch from acpi.sf.net - apply acpi patch on kernel - configure kernel sources to use acpi (apm disabled) - build and install kernel the debian way (http://tldp.org/HOWTO/ACPI-HOWTO/) - configure and run lilo (i have two images: the old one using 2.4.18* and the new one that uses the self-compiled kernel - shutdown linux in vmware - reboot into Debian From this point on everything worked fine (network, X, mouse, usb). There is a nice tool called wmlongrun. It shows the Transmeta processor speed. When idle this will drop to 366 Mhz. When compiling stuff it jumps up to 800 Mhz. Amazing! To Do: - create a boot cd image that has the kernel above so i will be able to install woody without the use of vmware and partition magic > - Installed lilo > - Copied the MRB lilo information into a file and copied this > information to the XP partition > - After this I was able to boot. > - But since the kernel didnt detect all of the devices and interrupts > the network interface, PCCARD slot and such were not detected Alexander Mueller wrote: nb wrote: Hi, Did you succeed in installing Debian Linux on your Gericom A2 ? If so please give me your lsmod results. I'm interesting in buying one. Any feedback about this machine is welcome. Regards I succeeded. But I would not go so far and call it a success. The native installer didnt work since the CD ROM is an external USB 2 drive. The standard installer (and the standard kernel) has not enough ACPI support built in to get the correct list of interrupts and such so from a point on it just hangs. My workaround: - Resize the one XP partition using Partition Magic - Create three new partitions using Partition Magic (ext3, swap, ext3) - Create a new virtual machine using vmware that will the harddrive (no virtual drive) - Installed Woody into this virtual machine - Installed lilo - Copied the MRB lilo information into a file and copied this information to the XP partition - After this I was able to boot. - But since the kernel didnt detect all of the devices and interrupts the network interface, PCCARD slot and such were not detected Thats it so far and I did not have the time to start another try using a custom kernel with the ACPIp patch applied (will be the next step). If I was to choose again I would not go for the Gericom again though it looks very nice. Instead, I would think about bying the small Dell notebook. Xela -- Mit freundlichen Grüssen aus Ravensburg Alexander Mueller = littleBLUE GmbH Untere Breite Strasse 15 88212 Ravensburg Telefon: 0751/55 777 65 Telefax: 0751/55 777 67 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.littleblue.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Trouble with NetGear FA511 NIC
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 08:17:14PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 05:05:43PM +0200, Joseph Fahey wrote: > > > I'm having problems getting a NetGear FA511 NIC to work on a ThinkPad > > 600. I am running as testing/unstable, but have compiled my kernel > > from the most recent kernel.org sources (2.4.22). There have been > > couple of threads on this list of the past couple of years that seem > > to be close to my problem, yet they don't quite answer it. > > I'm using the an NetGear FA511 NIC to write you this Email right now. > It's working perfectly here without any hazles. I cannot use the kernel > pcmcia driver because of system freeze as soon as i load yenta_socket.o. > Therefore I have to use the pcmcia drivers from pcmcia-cs. I would > suggest to use them as well. Compile the kernel as well as the pcmcia > modules with 2.95, because i've seen unexplainable kerneloops when > compiling with gcc-3.3. Thank you for the response. Very strange, because my exprience has been completely different: no problem loading yenta_socket.o (I'm using it right now with a different NIC). I have been compiling with gcc-3.3, but at least the kernel seems to be working, and the Tulip module seems to be at least trying to load... I remain confused. cheers, Joe -- Joseph Fahey http://www.ditl.info -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Compaq Presario
Bec Carey wrote: > Has anyone on this list installed debian on a Compaq Presario 907 ? > I tried to install Red Hat 9 on my machine, but after numerous > problems had to roll back to XP. Has anyone managed to get debian > running on the same machine as mine ? there is a mailing list of Linux users on Presario 900: http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/linuxpresario900 The key to get linux running on this laptop is a newer kernel - 2.4.22 works fine or 2.4.21 with ACPI patch. You can also get started booting with 2.2.x kernel and then building a custom one. Fedor. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IBM Thinkapad T23 & soundcard problem
Hi! This notebook has Intel 82801CA/CAM AC'97 card according to lspci. I've read some article about how to configure the soundcard. Some says it works with oss driver (i810_audio), some says it only works with alsa (intel8x0). I've tried both, but the end was the same. The modules loaded successfully but I can't hear any sound. According to Red Hat articles sndconfig can set it. So I installed sndconfig and tried it. It detected the rigth card, loaded the modules, but no sound. What should I try next? -- Hubidubi ICQ 30501048 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
