[Cooker] !! 9.2 issues -- help
Hi I just installed 9.2 and I have a few problems. 1. I have a Logitech Quickcam for notebooks pro and I've been using it since 9.1. In 9.1 it recognized it and used the pwc module. I had to download the pwcx module to get more FPS out if it and get gnomemeeting to work so I tried to plug it in right now into 9.2 --- complete crash :( It says its loading the pwc module then the snd-usb-audio module b/c of the built in microphone but after that my laptop freezes I can't ssh into to it or anything... :( any ideas on what is going on? or how I might be able to provide more information to mandrake b/c I really do need my webcam working---talk to family and friends :-P 2. I'm not sure why this happened but I did a very minimal install the first time and then I installed loads of rpms once the system was running. Prior to installing the rpms I still had mandrake menus. After that my system menu changed to something containing "Applications" "Development" etc... only like 4 or 5 folders in the menu with hardly anything in them. It maybe had about 1 application or 2 per folder. Nothing crazy... I just loaded up menudrake and took care of it but that might be something to look at. 3. My Linksys WPC11 v3 wireless card does not get configured properly. It does recognize the orinoco_cs module that it needs and even make the ifcfg-eth1 script but I still had to do the hermes.conf hack to get it to work. ---> this step is on my website under tutorials. maybe take care of this for mdk 10? 4. I have an inspiron 4000 with a rage mobility 128 w/ 8MB or ram. It says i can choose X with 3d hardware acceleration but when i try playing a game it is slow...very slow so tuxracer and chromium or just not playable. i tried running other games like frozen bubble. Although they do play I'm not sure why they don't fullscreen correctly. I see the screen change modes but the game picture is in the center and not full screened. It happens with alot of applications that I fullscreen. Mplayer when I fullscreen does the same thing... screen changes modes but the picture is in the center still small. However... KMplayer uses mplayer and fullscreens correctly. any ideas about the 3d acceleration and fullscreening? any help would be great. thanx :) -- Adrian Rodriguez University of Southern California Computer Science http://www-scf.usc.edu/~sergior
Re: [Cooker] [HELP WANTED] "model name" of your /proc/cpuinfo
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 07:01 am, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > Hi, > > Could you please copy the "model name" line of the /proc/cpuinfo > of your laptop computer(s)? On dell inspiron 4000 model : 8 model name : Pentium III (Coppermine) On dell inspiron 8100 model : 11 model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Mobile CPU 1000MHz -- Adrian Rodriguez University of Southern California Computer Science http://www-scf.usc.edu/~sergior
[Cooker] More laptop support stuff
Hi. I've been using mandrake on laptops for a while now but every release there's always something i have to research online before i get it to work... Case 1: My Dell Inspiron 4000. I've only been using mandrake on this guy since 9.1 came out. I went through the install and in the end i looked at the lilo config dialog and everything looked ok. So i started the laptop and i didn't get any battery readings :( so ACPI wasn't working for this laptop. I don't know if its a hardware issue?? So i uninstalled ACPI and modified the lilo config and next time the computer was turned on i had battery readings with APM. So I'm happy with that but someone new to linux would never know how to do this. I'm still downloading cooker isos so i will test to see if things have changed but just in case someone else has an inspiron 4000, have you guys tested? Another thing that my girlfriend complained about was how there were so many games installed but alot of them weren't playable. She wanted to play tux racer and it was just really slow. I don't know if there's just now acceleration for the detected video card or the config is messed up. The detected card was: Description: Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2x Module: Card: ATI Rage 128 Mobility That's it for the issues on this laptop. Case 2: Dell inspiron 8100 I've been using mandrake on this guy since 8.2. After 8.2 everything was ok except battery meters again. Using ACPI never did anything. I kept check my logs and it kept saying something like "trying to allocate 0 bytes..." for acpid. So i gave up on that and tried apm... i managed to get it somewhat working. I was able to press Fn+F3 and go to the BIOS screen that reads the batteries but when i hit escape to come back to X the clock was wrong. everything else on that laptop works great including the radeon 7500. My girlfriend is very new to Linux and when the laptop is connected to the powercord she is very happy with it. She likes KDE alot more than her WinXP. The only thing that bothers her is that when she takes it to work or class and its running on battery she can't tell how much time she has left. I've done research on this problem and I can't figure it out. Does anyone know what the problem is? I think this issue really needs to get cleared up because a battery meter is very important. I have a friend with the same laptop and he just gave up... sad... but I can't blame him because he's always on the run... so he swaps batteries in and out... but 9.1 that he had on there never worked. -- Adrian Rodriguez University of Southern California Computer Science http://www-scf.usc.edu/~sergior
Re: [Cooker] More laptop support stuff
On Wednesday 06 August 2003 06:04 am, OS wrote: > > Have you tried to update the BIOSes on those guys? ACPI is the > > replacement for APM. > > BIOS updates don't appear very common for `older' laptops. After all they > would much rather you bought a new one. The last BIOS update for my > Inspiron 7000 was about 2 years ago. I modded the processor, RAM and hard > disc but with no input or support from Dell who basically don't care about > systems this old. > OK i went through a few test runs for the inspiron 8100 and 4000. Here's how I got their battery meters working with APM. ACPI unfortunately does not work in either of them even with BIOS updates etc. The inspiron 4000: Although a BIOS update is not necessary the newest BIOS update wont hurt. By default Mandrake installs ACPI which will not work so all I did was removed acpi, acpid, and changed the lilo option acpi=yes to acpi=no. Restarted... and voila APM works and i can monitor my batteries, suspend, and standby. The Inspiron 8100: This one was a pain. A BIOS update IS required for this one. I had applied an update before but nothing... I got the latest update yesterday the A25 BIOS i think and went back into mandrake ACPI still doesn't work :( Kept saying something like "***Warning buffer created with 0 length in AML", "Dell Inspiron with Broken BIOS detected refusing to enable local APIC", "ACPI: using PIC for interrupt routing" i dunno if the last two message are relevant but they kept coming up and i finally just uninstalled acpi, acpid, and changed the lilo params to acpi=no. rebooted and voila APM was able to read the batteries. been waiting so long for this to work so it made my day. To Mandrake developers: Is there anyway that you could have a choice between ACPI, APM during install.. I'm no expert so I'm not sure if you can perhaps have a dialog that will say... "Testing ACPI..." and have a battery meter there if the user sees the meter working then the dialog can prompt "Did the meter work? Yes, No?" Then it tests APM etc I don't mind having to do what I did with uninstalling and configuring lilo but this kind of stuff is not trivial to a beginner. Also I found that /usr/bin/apm was not setuid root so you couldn't suspend or standby. That might be an installation option that goes along with the ACPI/APM tests so that a new user is able to suspend and standby the machine. It's obvious to me what to do when KLaptop said "/usr/bin/apm is not setuid root " but again not very trivial... my friend who also has the 8100 has been waiting to get the battery meters working for a long time as well and when he couldn't suspend/standby the machine he didn't know what to do. he called me and asked what setuid is and what /usr/bin/apm is... I can see him as a "new" user b/c all he's used before is windows so if possible i think mandrake would benefit from simplifying these procedures. thanx -- Adrian Rodriguez University of Southern California Computer Science http://www-scf.usc.edu/~sergior
[Cooker] Zaurus and 9.0
Has anyone gotten the sharp zaurus to sync under 9.0? if so how? -- Adrian
[Cooker] HOW DO I START KDM??
I just installed kde3 on 8.2 and everything is working fine but i tried to do a graphical login and it's not kdm.. it comes to graphical login with the host name and i thought it was xdm but it's not installed on my box... how would i go about getting the kde login manager to start instead of this one? -- Adrian Rodriguez University of Southern California Computer Science Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers IT Officer - Software Development -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8JO/4U3MccAWOfAMRAkikAJ4o4nLhkjS1wYFwtMwph5bPAbM9mwCePTxp LnasUqNef5jlzPhYYIUq7KE= =usSB -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[Cooker] Inspiron 8100 and Radeon 7500
Hi.. I have tried to do everything I could to get my dell inspiron 8100 to work with mandrake 8.1 FYI: cooker detected everything on the inspiron. except the video card (ATI Radeon mobility 7500 - 64MB) I upgraded X to Xfree86 4.2.0 and extracted the ati.2 binaries in /usr and I checked and the new radeon driver and some other stuff were put into /usr/X11R6 I try to test out X after configuring it and my display seems to change video modes.. And then locks up. I can't do anything. No ctrl+alt+bkspc So I have to hit the power button I installed cooker with X4.2 included.. And by default it installed and older version of X After it said congrats.. And rebooted. I logged in. extracted the ati.2 binaries in /usr and I checked and they were In their directory in /usr/X11R6 . So I ran XFDrake and I chose ATI radeon. prompted me for resolution. tested the dude out. worked and I was able to start X. I extracted the drm kernel from Gatos and I got 3dacceleration. Perfect. Could you please include the ati.2 binaries and drm kernel in 8.2? Unrelated but.. If someone can answer I would really appreciate it. What am I doing wrong. that I can't get X to start in 8.1? I installed 8.1.. uninstalled XFree86. Got the xfree86 4.2 rpms from cooker and installed them Unpacked the ati.2 binaries . configured with XFdrake tried to run X and lock up. I then uninstalled the rpm.. Tried to install the Xfree 4.2 using the Xinstall.sh Script.. Extracted my ati.2 binaries, ran XFdrake . configured..and same problem.. lock up when I try to test out or startx. Adrian Rodriguez University of Southern California Computer Science Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers IT Officer - Software Development
[Cooker] Re: Ogle / Gatos ATI drivers.
I agree... ati.2 drivers and the drm kernel should be included for support of radeons. I just got a new laptop with a radeon mobility. 8.2 installed ... and X worked but not too great. I extracted the ati.2 binaries inside /usr ... ran XFdrake again and chose the option for X4.1.0 but it installed 4.2.0 ..which is good... then everything was working flawlessly even GL and FYI: this was on a dell inspiron 8100 that radeon mobility 7500 is the only thing that does not get configured properly. On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 22:10, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 09:39:17PM -0800, Spencer wrote: > > > > Already there :-) > > > > [sda@spence sda]$ rpm -q gatos > > gatos-0.0.6-0.20010216.11mdk > > Uhm, well, not quite. The actual XFree86 "ati.2" driver is missing. > That is the _important_ part of gatos that needs to not be excluded. > > b. > > > -- > Brian J. Murrell > -- Adrian Rodriguez University of Southern California Information Services Division - Computer Consultant Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers IT Officer - Software -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8JO/4U3MccAWOfAMRAkikAJ4o4nLhkjS1wYFwtMwph5bPAbM9mwCePTxp LnasUqNef5jlzPhYYIUq7KE= =usSB -END PGP SIGNATURE-
