User talk:Gmetal - Revision history

Gmetal at 11:23, 20 January 2007

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Gmetal at 09:43, 19 January 2007

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Gmetal at 09:41, 19 January 2007

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Gmetal at 15:09, 17 January 2007

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Gmetal at 15:08, 17 January 2007

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Gmetal at 16:50, 16 January 2007

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Gmetal at 15:30, 16 January 2007

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Gmetal at 07:44, 16 January 2007

2007-01-16T07:44:04Z

Gmetal at 07:43, 16 January 2007

2007-01-16T07:43:42Z

Gmetal at 07:41, 16 January 2007

2007-01-16T07:41:07Z

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 The result of
-{{cmdroot|lspci}
+{{cmdroot|lspci}}
 is the following:

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 The installation was quite smooth and was done according to the Gentoo Handbook: [http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/index.xml]
-The only glitch the kernel that I built, which was done with a manual {{cmdroot|make menuconfig}} and not with Gentoo's genkernel.
+The only glitch the kernel that I built, which was done with a manual
 Once I restarted the laptop, my kernel booted fine but was unable to mount the root partition. Turns out that it needed the following
 .config entries:
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       * kde mp3 mpeg xv sdl quicktime nptl gtk gtk2 jpeg tiff nptlonly alsa qt qt3 qt4 dvd cdr dvdr aac ipv6 trutype emul-linux-x86 png X opengl
-The result of {{cmdroot|lspci} is the following:
+The result of
       * 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
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 This laptop also includes an integrated Bluetooth adapter. It is reported as a USB device with a Broadcom
-Bluetooth chip. More specifically {{cmdroot|lsusb -v}} is reporting the following:
+Bluetooth chip. More specifically
       * Bus 004 Device 004: ID 0a5c:2110 Broadcom Corp.
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 and emerged app-laptop/hdapsd, and it appears that IBM's HDD shock protection mechanism is working fine. You must also run:
-{{cmdroot|rc-update add hdapsd default} to make the hdapsd daemon start up at boot time.
+{{cmdroot|rc-update add hdapsd default}}
 == Hardware Partly working ==

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 [http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0610.0/1429.html] which solved my problems. After enabling the integrated
 modem from the BIOS, my problem went away.
 == Hardware Partly working ==

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 driver (export ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel"). However, I had to use version 1.0.14_rc1 to get it to compile. Eventually,
 everything was working fine, but I realised that I needed to run alsaconf or restart the alsasound script each time to
-get sound working, because the driver wasn't being loaded correctly. Eventually I came across this post [[http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0610.0/1429.html]] which solved my problems. After enabling the integrated
+get sound working, because the driver wasn't being loaded correctly. Eventually I came across this post
 modem from the BIOS, my problem went away.

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 So I created two root partitions and a separate home partition. Furthermore, I also placed the directory holding the distfiles and portage into two
 separate partitions. All in all this is how drive was partitioned:
       * /dev/sda1   Windows NTFS
       * /dev/sda2   IBM Rescue partition
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       * /dev/sda10  Gentoo32 root
       * /dev/sda11  /home partition
 Once this was finished I proceeded to reboot and use the Gentoo Linux 2006.1 installation cd for the AMD64 architecture (which is what should be used
 for a 64-bit installation on a Core 2 Duo).
 The installation was quite smooth and was done according to the Gentoo Handbook: [http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/index.xml]
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 Once I added these entries to my .config and rebuilt the kernel, everything went fine and I booted into Linux.
-= Hardware Configuration =
+== Hardware Configuration ==
 The flags used for compiling the 64-bit partition are the following:
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       * 15:00.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1510 PC card Cardbus Controller
-= Hardware working out of the box =
+== Hardware working out of the box ==
 The integrated gigabit ethernet controller works fine with the e1000 driver:
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 by using the laptop's Function key and F4.
-= Hardware Partly working =
+The audio part was a bit tricky to get it to work properly. The integrated audio chipset uses the snd_hda_intel ALSA
 = TODO =
 Finish the remaining sections

← Older revision		Revision as of 15:30, 16 January 2007
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	* CONFIG_ATA_PIIX		* CONFIG_ATA_PIIX
	* CONFIG_PATA_MPIIX		* CONFIG_PATA_MPIIX
		+
		+	This laptop also includes an integrated Bluetooth adapter. It is reported as a USB device with a Broadcom
		+	Bluetooth chip. More specifically {{cmdroot\|lsusb -v}} is reporting the following:
		+
		+	* Bus 004 Device 004: ID 0a5c:2110 Broadcom Corp.
		+	* Device Descriptor:
		+	* bLength 18
		+	* bDescriptorType 1
		+	* bcdUSB 2.00
		+	* bDeviceClass 224 Wireless
		+	* bDeviceSubClass 1 Radio Frequency
		+	* bDeviceProtocol 1 Bluetooth
		+	* bMaxPacketSize0 64
		+	* idVendor 0x0a5c Broadcom Corp.
		+	* idProduct 0x2110
		+	* bcdDevice 1.00
		+	* iManufacturer 1 Broadcom Corp
		+	* iProduct 2 BCM2045B
		+	* iSerial 0
		+	* bNumConfigurations 1
		+
		+	This device appears to be working fine by including Bluetooth support in the kernel, and using the hci_usb
		+	driver. It does not seem that for this device to work the BCM203x driver is required (it is not loaded by the kernel).
		+	To get it to work, I also needed to emerge bluez-libs and bluez-utils. I must also note that it can be turned on and off
		+	by using the laptop's Function key and F4.
		+
		+	= Hardware Partly working =
		+
		+	Audio, hda-intel
		+
		+	= TODO =
		+
		+	Finish the remaining sections

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      * Audio: AD1981HD
-     * 15'' TFT (1400 x 1050)
+     * 15in TFT (1400 x 1050)
      * Mobile Intel 945PM Express
      * Bluetooth

← Older revision		Revision as of 07:41, 16 January 2007
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	* CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION		* CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION
	Once I added these entries to my .config and rebuilt the kernel, everything went fine and I booted into Linux.		Once I added these entries to my .config and rebuilt the kernel, everything went fine and I booted into Linux.
		+
		+	== Hardware Configuration ==
		+
		+	The flags used for compiling the 64-bit partition are the following:
		+
		+	* kde mp3 mpeg xv sdl quicktime nptl gtk gtk2 jpeg tiff nptlonly alsa qt qt3 qt4 dvd cdr dvdr aac ipv6 trutype emul-linux-x86 png X opengl
		+
		+	The result of {{cmdroot\|lspci} is the following:
		+
		+	* 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
		+	* 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS/940GML and 945GT Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 03)
		+	* 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
		+	* 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
		+	* 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
		+	* 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02)
		+	* 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02)
		+	* 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 02)
		+	* 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 02)
		+	* 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 02)
		+	* 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 02)
		+	* 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
		+	* 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
		+	* 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
		+	* 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 02)
		+	* 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) Serial ATA Storage Controller AHCI (rev 02)
		+	* 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
		+	* 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility X1400
		+	* 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82573L Gigabit Ethernet Controller
		+	* 03:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. Unknown device 0024 (rev 01)
		+	* 15:00.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1510 PC card Cardbus Controller
		+
		+	== Hardware working out of the box ==
		+
		+	The integrated gigabit ethernet controller works fine with the e1000 driver:
		+
		+	* 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82573L Gigabit Ethernet Controller
		+
		+	The USB controllers also work fine with the ehci_hcd and uhci_hcd drivers found in the kernel:
		+
		+	* 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 02)
		+	* 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 02)
		+	* 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 02)
		+	* 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 02)
		+	* 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
		+
		+	This version of the laptop has an integrated SATA controller, and its HDD is also SATA. To get it working
		+	you need to use the AHCI driver:
		+
		+	* CONFIG_SATA_AHCI
		+
		+	I also added the following Kernel options (not sure if they are needed though):
		+
		+	* CONFIG_ATA_PIIX
		+	* CONFIG_PATA_MPIIX