[frgeek-michiana] Re: Slack 10.1 on Gateway Solo 9550
- From: Olin L Zuercher <olinzuercher@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:13:52 -0500
On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 09:31, Tom Brown wrote:
> Olin,
>
> I worked on the laptop again this weekend. Here are the issues I noted.
>
> 1. Battery operation fails
>
> The Solo completes boot up one time in three under battery power, and
> completes boots 100% under AC power. The failures tend to occur at the time
> the kernel is loading the power management modules. After boot, the kernel
> is instable under battery power, and the machine mysteriously reboots on
> its own. No problems under AC power. The kernel is stock 2.4.29.
>
> Did you have battery issues?
Tom
Yes
I did never did figure them out just always counted on being able to
find line voltage.
>
> 2. Whack irq assignments
>
> I couldn't believe it when I saw it! Gateway has 7 devices assigned to irq
> 10: cardbus (1), cardbus (2), ohci 1394 (firewire), internal modem,
> internal ethernet, usb (1) and usb (2). To Slackware's credit it recognized
> each device and assigned the irq. But that's way too many devices on one
> irq. The Linux kernel is usually fussy about irq assignments and doesn't
> really like multiple devices on a single irq. I'm surprised the laptop runs
> at all.
>
> I'll need to borrow some pcmcia cards to test the Solo. My guess is it
> won't work well with so many devices sharing irq 11. You said usb never
> worked for you with Mandrake, Suse or other distros. I'd like to separate
> the usb and ethernet ports. Since folks may use the internal modem, I'll
> putz with that when there is time. The firewire port may be useful for
> downloading photos from a digital camera, although usb seems more common
> these days.
>
> I plan to test irqs and the power module in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules. I don't
> want to recompile the kernel unless the power management issue forces it.
>
> Tom
Well sound like you are making some head way.
Olin
>
> At 03:53 PM 4/11/05 -0500, you wrote:
> >Good Work Tom
> >
> >It took Me about a year to get things working. I never did get USB to
> >work nor the internal modem either. An external modem worked fine.
> >
> >Olin
> >
> >On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 10:23, Tom Brown wrote:
> > > 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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