[frgeek-michiana] Slack 10.1 on Gateway Solo 9550
- From: Tom Brown <tbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: FreeGeek Michiana <frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 10:23:13 -0500
Olin donated a Gateway laptop to FGM so we can use it to make
presentations. Thank you, Olin.
Sunday afternoon I decided to put Slack 10.1 on it. The install was normal:
partition, format, chose groups of packages to install, make a cup of
coffee. I manually set up networking, printing and sound. Haven't tried to
setup the modem yet.
1. PCI detection
A command line utility called lspci displays the pci devices detected
during bootup. The list for the laptop appears to be correct.
2. Sound
The alsa package includes an ncurses setup utility called alsaconf. I ran
that as root. alsaconf detected the appropriate sound device and installed
the required drivers. The sound card it found matches the one in lspci. I
ran several CD players and they all worked. kmix adjusts the sound volume
and balance. However, I wiped out the Gateway install (Windows XP) and lost
the use of the speaker and CD control buttons on the laptop.
3. CUPS
Slack installs CUPS and lpd. During the install, I didn't select CUPS to
start on bootup so I manually enabled the CUPS printer daemon later: chmod
755 on /etc/rc.d/rc.cups; then: /etc/rc.d/rc.cups start.
You can setup CUPS manually, with a browser or using the KDE printing
manager. I chose the latter to test it. If you have a CUPS server running
anywhere on the network, the manager will scan for it. If you have a remote
lpd server running, tell the manager the host name/address and the queue
name and it finds the lpd server. The printing manager indeed detected a
CUPS server on one computer and a lpd server on another system on my LAN.
4. Network
Slack has an ncurses network setup utility called netconfig, which I use
frequently. Oddly, I had to reboot after running netconfig to make the
laptop detect the LAN -- this doesn't usually happen.
5. Hot Plug
I don't have any hotplug devices to test.
6. Modem
The alsa sound software apparently contains drivers for the Intel
82801CA/CAM soft-modem on the Gateway Solo. I haven't tried to set it up.
Tom
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