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Revision as of 15:52, 30 June 2007

Opening Notes:

1) This is written for Tribe 2, as development moves forward many of the items listed here will (hopefully) no longer be necessary or no longer apply.

2) Use the Alternative Installer, the Desktop installer installs but fails to boot

3) The system is not incredibly stable, things crash at least once per session so if you are look for stability stay with Feisty.

Hard Disk Controller

When the system boots hit F1 to enter the Bios, select Config->Serial ATA (SATA) and set the SATA Controller mode option to "Compatibility".

Video:

Intel:

Must install using the alternate CD or the regular CD and hit F4 to change VGA settings to 1024x768x32 and use regular install.

Status of intel driver unknown.

Nvidia:

X will fail to start for users running Nvidia cards. Boot into recovery mode and type:

# dkpg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

Accept all the defaults except change the driver from NV to VESA

Type # telinit 3 to boot into a GUI and use Synaptic to install Build-Essentials

Go to Nvidia.com and download the latest Nvidia Drivers to your desktop

When the download completes hit Ctrl-F1 to drop to a console. Login and type:

# sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop

Then type:

# cd Desktop

# sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-100.14.11-pkg1.run

If the file you download is newer that 100.14.11 make sure you modify the command appropriately

Reboot: # sudo shutdown -r now

After Rebooting Gnome should start normally


ATTENTION!
After a couple of reboots X won't start until I reinstall the drivers, I am investgating
NOTE!
With each new Kernel release this process must be repeated

Wireless:

The Atheros card should be supported by the drivers built into Gutsy.

Help needed
Can someone with an Atheros card confirm this?

The Intel a/b/g/n (IPW4965) card requires the iwlwifi drivers from Intel:

NOTE!
As the release process moves forward the Kernel will be updated so make sure to update the paths below?
NOTE!
With each new Kernel release this process must be repeated

# mkdir wireless # cd wireless

# wget http://intellinuxwireless.org/mac80211/downloads/mac80211-8.0.1.tgz

# tar xzf mac80211-8.0.1.tgz

# cd mac80211-8.0.1.tgz # sudo ln -s /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.22-7 /lib/modules/2.6.22-7-generic/source # sudo make patch_kernel

# wget http://intellinuxwireless.org/iwlwifi/downloads/iwlwifi-0.0.34.tgz # tar xzf iwlwifi-0.0.34.tgz # cd ../iwlwifi-0.0.34/ # make # sudo make install

# wget http://intellinuxwireless.org/iwlwifi/downloads/iwlwifi-4965-ucode-4.44.15.tgz # tar xzf iwlwifi-4965-ucode-4.44.15.tgz # sudo cp ../iwlwifi-4965-ucode-4.44.15/iwlwifi-4965.ucode # /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-4965.ucode

# sudo modprobe iwl4965

Audio:

Audio does not work out of the box, download and install the latest version of Alsa from CVS using the instructions here: https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/wiki/wikka.php?wakka=SourceCodeRepository


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