Installing Slackware 10.1 on a PC110 - Revision history

Wehe: /* Miscellaneous */ added external sources section

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‎Miscellaneous: added external sources section

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‎X.Org 6.8.1

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‎Miscellaneous

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‎Kernel configuration

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‎Summary

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‎APM

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‎Miscellaneous

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‎Boot sequence

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‎X.Org 6.8.1

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‎X.Org 6.8.1

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 agpgart and ide-scsi. Neither are useful on the {{PC110}}, so comment both of them out to avoid a
 couple of error messages at boot time.
 ==APM==

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	makes a good addition to {{path\|~/.Xresources}}.		makes a good addition to {{path\|~/.Xresources}}.
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		+	==Miscellaneous==
		+
		+	Prevent <tt>syslogd</tt> from filling up the log with
		+	<pre>
		+	Mar 12 08:40:33 carrot -- MARK --
		+	Mar 12 09:00:36 carrot -- MARK --
		+	Mar 12 09:20:41 carrot -- MARK --
		+	Mar 12 09:40:43 carrot -- MARK --
		+	Mar 12 10:20:48 carrot -- MARK --
		+	Mar 12 10:56:35 carrot -- MARK --
		+	</pre>
		+	messages (and, more importantly, waking up the disk all the time and draining the battery
		+	without good reason) by editing {{path\|/etc/rc.d/rc.syslog}}: add <tt>-m 0</tt> to the
		+	invocation:
		+	<pre>
		+	echo -n "/usr/sbin/syslogd -m 0 "
		+	/usr/sbin/syslogd -m 0
		+	</pre>
		+
		+	{{path\|/etc/rc.d/rc.modules}} is mostly comment; it only loads two modules as installed --
		+	agpgart and ide-scsi. Neither are useful on the {{PC110}}, so comment both of them out to avoid a
		+	couple of error messages at boot time.

	==APM==		==APM==

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	</pre>		</pre>

−	~~==Miscellaneous==~~

−	~~Prevent <tt>syslogd</tt> from filling up the log with~~
−	~~<pre>~~
−	~~Mar 12 08:40:33 carrot -- MARK --~~
−	~~Mar 12 09:00:36 carrot -- MARK --~~
−	~~Mar 12 09:20:41 carrot -- MARK --~~
−	~~Mar 12 09:40:43 carrot -- MARK --~~
−	~~Mar 12 10:20:48 carrot -- MARK --~~
−	~~Mar 12 10:56:35 carrot -- MARK --~~
−	~~</pre>~~
−	~~messages (and, more importantly, waking up the disk all the time and draining the battery~~
−	~~without good reason) by editing {{path\|/etc/rc.d/rc.syslog}}: add <tt>-m 0</tt> to the~~
−	~~invocation:~~
−	~~<pre>~~
−	~~echo -n "/usr/sbin/syslogd -m 0 "~~
−	~~/usr/sbin/syslogd -m 0~~
−	~~</pre>~~
−
−	~~{{path\|/etc/rc.d/rc.modules}} is mostly comment; it only loads two modules as installed --~~
−	~~agpgart and ide-scsi. Neither are useful on the {{PC110}}, so comment both of them out to avoid a~~
−	~~couple of error messages at boot time.~~

	==APM==		==APM==

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 ==Kernel configuration==
-{{NOTE|These instructions are intended for use with Slackware 10.1 plus Linux kernel version [http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.29.tar.bz2 2.4.29], rather than with any of the kernels included with the Slackware 10.1 distribution.
+{{NOTE|These instructions are intended for use with Slackware 10.1 plus Linux kernel version [http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.29.tar.bz2 2.4.29], rather than with any of the kernels included with the Slackware 10.1 distribution.}}
 The stock 2.4.29 Linux kernel requires [http://www.mail-archive.com/kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg02111.html a patch] before {{cmduser|make config}} will produce a configuration appropriate for an i486. Alternatively, skip the {{cmduser|make config}} stage and use [[PC110Kernel2429Config|this configuration]].

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 == Summary ==
 === What works ===
-* 4GB Hitachi Microdrive in a PCMCIA slot
+* 4GB Hitachi Microdrive in a PCMCIA slot, from where the root filesystem is mounted
 * PCMCIA Network adapters (3Com 3c589, Linksys WPC11 11Mbps 802.11b WLAN Card)
 * Graphics adapter and accelerator ([[CT-65535]])
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 * Occasional video corruption when switching from X to console
-* Suspend to disk ({{key|Fn}}{{key|F12}} -- there is an appropriate symbol on the key, but it is unclear whether the PC110 can suspend to disk under any OS)
+* Suspend to disk ({{key|Fn}}{{key|F12}} -- there is an appropriate symbol on the key, but it is unknown whether the PC110 can suspend to disk at all)
 * Floppy drive
 <pre>

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 ==APM==
 {{NOTE|It's essential that the BIOS boot sequence doesn't include "PCMCIA", because if it does the BIOS will control the slot with the disk in, and <tt>pcmcia-cs</tt> will only control the one with the network card. The BIOS doesn't seem to be able to wake the disk up properly after a suspend/resume cycle, whereas the Linux IDE driver does.}}
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 fi
 </pre>
 ==X.Org 6.8.1==

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    /usr/sbin/syslogd -m 0
 </pre>
 {{path|/etc/rc.d/rc.modules}} is mostly comment; it only loads two modules as installed --

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 Set the [http://www.basterfield.com/pc110/bios/startup.htm BIOS startup
-sequence] to "FDD-1", "HDD-1", in that order. It's essential that the BIOS boot sequence doesn't include "PCMCIA", because if it does the BIOS will control the slot with the disk in, and <tt>pcmcia-cs</tt> will only control the one with the network card. The BIOS doesn't seem to be able to wake up the Hitachi 4MB Microdrive properly after a suspend/resume cycle, whereas the Linux IDE driver does.
+sequence] to "FDD-1", "HDD-1", in that order. It's essential that the BIOS boot sequence doesn't include "PCMCIA", because if it does the BIOS will control the slot with the disk in, and <tt>pcmcia-cs</tt> will only control the one with the network card. The BIOS doesn't seem to be able to wake up the 4GB Hitachi Microdrive properly after a suspend/resume cycle, whereas the Linux IDE driver does.
 {{path|/boot}} is mounted on {{path|/dev/hda1}}, the 4MB internal flash disk (Hard

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 Turn off "Font Window" in the BIOS memory settings.
-Here is a working <a href="xorg.conf.txt"><tt>xorg.conf</tt></a>. Note that
+[[CT-65535|Here]] is a working {{path|xorg.conf}}. Note that
-<tt>Option "SWCursor"</tt> is essential: configured to use the default hardware cursor, X
-will fail to start, and will just show a black screen and use 100% CPU until it's killed.
+<pre>
 Using [http://www.jfc.org.uk/software/lwm.html <tt>lwm</tt>] is a good way to make the most of the PC110's limited memory. Finding button 2 on the mouse is a bit tricky, and so is accurately moving the pointer to a window frame, so

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 fi
 </pre>
 ==APM==