Emachines M6807 Laptop

needlern1 · Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2004 5:27 pm Post subject:

As I've mentioned in earlier pages of this thread, I too upgraded my bios. If you don't want to, there's nothing stopping you from using any kernel you've got that works for you. If the genkernel worked go back to it. I originally built mine with 2.6.3-gentoo-r2 and keep it and several other kernels on hand in case of emergency needs. I currently am using 2.6.7-gentoo-r9. HTH, Bill

thither · n00b Joined: 04 Feb 2004 Posts: 32

I also found that 2.6.3-r2 was the last gentoo-dev-sources that worked for me before I flashed my BIOS. Using v2's m6809 BIOS I've been running great on 2.6.7.

VMIfox · n00b Joined: 24 Jan 2004 Posts: 24 Location: Midwest

I'm currently using the newest gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.7-r12 in 32 bits, with the original m6805 BIOS - I considered flashing it, but just haven't gotten around to it. I am still passing the pci=noacpi kernel parameter though.

tcma · Apprentice Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 208

I am thinking of buying a USB keyboard and connect to the Emachines 6807.
It will work for windows and linux, won't it?

frohman · Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 6:58 pm Post subject:

You should have no problem.

I use the Logitech Wireless Duo Optical (I think that is its name) with no problems. Actually, they worked right out of the box, while I had to tinker some to get the laptop's keyboard to work.

tcma · Apprentice Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 208

Does anyone get the DVD burner on Emachines M6807 Laptop working on either 32 bit or 64 bit AMD linux?
What program do you use? dvd+rw-tools?

Do you use DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R or DVD+RW disks?

badcherry · n00b Joined: 29 Apr 2004 Posts: 8 Location: Medford, WI

Here is an email I've been tossing back and forth with Linux-support@smlink.com I don't know what to make of what I'm urged to do...use the windows driver? How & why?

quattrorally · n00b Joined: 14 Sep 2004 Posts: 4

tcma · Apprentice Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 208

How to make the onboard SD and CF readers work?

frohman · Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 10:01 pm Post subject:

Anyone having trouble with their hard drive? I have had at least one bad block show up on my root partition and now kde segfaults on start. I would replace the hard drive since the laptop is still under its service plan, but I don't have the time and also I am not sure that I will be able to copy the data off of my /home partition, which is vital since I have some important email that is stored there.

Hope things work out since this is the first time that I have had a hard drive actually start going bad on me.

tcma · Apprentice Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 208

I installed 32 bit x86 linux 2.4.26-r6 on emachines M6807. Inside kde, pressing the <Fn><F8> keys to increase the brightness of the screen will hang the computer.

My boot parameter in grub.conf file is:
pci=noacpi noapic

If these one or both two parameters are not used, same problem occurred.

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Edit:
The problem disappear when 2.6.7-gentoo-r11 is used.

frohman · Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 3:12 am Post subject:

Here's my xorg.conf:

frohman · Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 5:23 pm Post subject:

I lucked out. Instead of sending my laptop in for repairs, they replaced my m6805 with a m6810. All I got was a faster processor, but for free, who can complain.

Now, I have to go and reinstall Gentoo (two days for bootstrapping, system, Xorg, and KDE). I have decided to go with a 32-bit (x86) install since it quickly became frustrating when programs wouldn't compile because of the 64-bit environment. That, and now I have wireless and video drivers.

l00ph0le · n00b Joined: 06 Sep 2004 Posts: 4

I am trying to get gentoo on my emachines 6809. I have read this thread many times i tried, making my own kernel and that was a problem. Then i tried doing what is says in this post with with kernel 2.6.8-gentoo-r4. I am now having compiling problems. the kernel is not compiling properly. This is the post i am using.

OK
A lot of confusion has been going on, and people keep going
to muru.com, which definately has relevant information, but
that site is getting old, and no longer relevant to Gentoo/AMD64.

As long as you use gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.3-r2 or higher,
the kernel fully supports the emachines m680X laptops.
The kernel config you should be using is provided with new
'genkernel' releases. 'emerge genkernel' to install genkernel.
The kernel config is:
/usr/share/genkernel/x86_64/kernel-config-2.6-emachines

You must also pass 'pci=noacpi noapic' to the kernel, please
DO NOT reverse any of these letters. No typos are accepted here!
Look very very very closely! noacpi and noapic are different!

Ok, now that that rant is done with (you can tell too many people
have made this mistake), we can continue...

We recommend using a 'genkernel' compiled kernel to get you
started, here would be your procedure:

Quote:

emerge gentoo-dev-sources
emerge genkernel
genkernel --kernel-config=/usr/share/genkernel/x86_64/kernel-config-2.6-emachines all

Once that finishes successfully, you should make a grub.conf
that looks like this:

Quote:

default 0
timeout 30
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

title=Emachines Kernel
root (hd0,0)
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/kernel-2.6.3-gentoo-r2 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc real_root=/dev/hda3 vga=0x317 splash=verbose pci=noacpi noapic
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd-2.6.3-gentoo-r2

Please NOTE that (hd0,0) is the harddrive, and parition of where
/boot resides in every instance! root (hd0,0) doesn't mean it
should point to /dev/hda3, as root refers to the root for grub,
not your root filesystem. Totally different! (again, you can see
too many people have made this mistake!)

Now, you should also emerge hotplug in order to have it
automatically detect your remaining hardware (e.g. NIC)
on startup.

Quote:

emerge hotplug
rc-update add hotplug default

Ok, now once you have it up and running, and if something
doesn't work, and you've re-read this 20x, then you can ask
for support!

tcma · Apprentice Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 208

#This is my working grub.conf for Emachines M6807.
#/dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2 : windows
#/dev/hda3 : linux boot
#/dev/hda6: linux root

# Boot automatically after 5 secs.
timeout 5

# By default, boot the first entry (which is Linux 2.6.7-r11).
default 0

splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz

# For booting GNU/Linux

#created by genkernel
title Gentoo Linux 2.6.7-r11
root (hd0,2)
kernel /kernel-2.6.7-gentoo-r11 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda6 vga=0x317 splash=verbose pci=noacpi noapic psmouse.proto=imps
initrd /initrd-2.6.7-gentoo-r11

#created by manual config: non-genkernel
title Gentoo Linux 2.4.26-manual
root (hd0,2)
kernel /kernel-2.4.26-manual-gentoo root=/dev/hda6 vga=0x317 splash=verbose pci=noacpi noapic psmouse.proto=imps

# For booting Windows
title Windows XP
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

davecorder · n00b Joined: 03 Sep 2004 Posts: 10

I got a M6810 laptop last weekend after my HP ze4610us died (while still covered by my Best Buy service plan).

Running 32-bit gentoo for now, since I'm not quite comfortable with Gentoo and various drivers (particularly ATI) to make the move to 64-bit at the moment.

My laptop is mostly up and running. Ran into a few glitches on the way:

I initially had firewire support compiled into the kernel and via-rhine compiled as a module. This was causing the firewire controller to grab eth0 on boot and the onboard Ethernet was getting eth1, confusing the startup scripts (and myself, until I figured that out). Right now they're both modules, but only via-rhine is loading on boot and everything is going smoothly.

I bought a PrismGT-based MiniPCI card (Xterasys XG-600) and replaced the built-in Broadcom-based card and have successfully got it up on running with the prism54 drivers. Had no problems swapping wireless cards (both cards even had two antenna connectors). (The Prism54 card also works great under Windows on this laptop.) I spent $40 on the card from http://www.store.yahoo.com/glob2000/xtxg80mipciw.html and I've got a friend who will buy the Broadcom card from me for $40, so it's basically a free upgrade and now I don't have to worry about ndiswrapper and can use Kismet with my onboard card.

Still need to get my Lucent/Orinoco card working in the PC Card slot so I can run Kismet with an external antenna. Can't seem to find a whole lot of definitive info on getting the orinoco card working with monitoring mode, pcmcia-cs, kismet, and kernel 2.6.x. Need to do some more digging.

About the only thing left to do is get X.org installed and working, which will be my weekend project.

Just my 2¢

Dave[/url]

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Louay · n00b Joined: 21 Oct 2004 Posts: 9 Location: Canada

I have got the emachine 6811 two week agoo, and I decide to get the gentoo x86-64 on it.
Here is my ashivments/issues:
1)Using the emachine kernel with the CD I could get running very quickly
2)using alsa I could get the sound card working via????? with so litle hassule
3)I still have problem with my mic when I try to use skype for example I hear a lot of noise.
4)I could bet my dvd cdrom up and running but not try the dvdburner yet
5) I could configure my xorg proporly with 1024X768 and 60hz

6)My problems start when I want to configure my broadcom wireless adapter:
1)after try all curently existing wrapper I discove that this is not going to work until boradcom
-publishise the datasheet and someone write a driver for linux
-give pure linux driver
-write a windows 64 bit driver and the driver wrapper software wrap it to linux
So I decide to buy my wireless card adapter,and here start new problem, after searching on the web I found that Dlink D-650 work fine,but when I try to install the driver I get to know that I have version B, wich have different cheapset than prism, so that is not supported yet.
Then I got the SMC2835W 54mbit and after a long hassule to get prism and frameware and hotplug and pcmcia support I could get this to run.

7)I try to create tun , so after compiling this in the kernel I still could not get /dev/net/tun
until I know about udev(or devfsd) things work better.

Current issue not solve yet:
-I still can't see my digital camera,in my redhat 9 I could just mount it as vfat, but I don't know were to mount in the /dev even udev did not help
-I still can't get my scroll in my touchpad to work
-flash macromedia does not support linux 64 bit yet.

I will think other issue will show up too, but slowly will be resolve with the 64 bit

If someone need help in what I could get going,or can help me with what I could not please pm me, or put the question in the forum.

Louay

Spoony · Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 5:07 pm Post subject: Refresh Rate

Does anyone know the exact refresh rate for the LCD screen running at 1280x800? Mine's set to 60Hz and it flickers every now and then....and I haven't googled anything usefull.
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Louay · n00b Joined: 21 Oct 2004 Posts: 9 Location: Canada

Here is my monitor setup: it works very good for me, try it

Section "Monitor"

Identifier "emachines"

# HorizSync is in kHz unless units are specified.
# HorizSync may be a comma separated list of discrete values, or a
# comma separated list of ranges of values.
# NOTE: THE VALUES HERE ARE EXAMPLES ONLY. REFER TO YOUR MONITOR'S
# USER MANUAL FOR THE CORRECT NUMBERS.

HorizSync 31.5 - 57.0

# HorizSync 30-64 # multisync
# HorizSync 31.5, 35.2 # multiple fixed sync frequencies
# HorizSync 15-25, 30-50 # multiple ranges of sync frequencies

# VertRefresh is in Hz unless units are specified.
# VertRefresh may be a comma separated list of discrete values, or a
# comma separated list of ranges of values.
# NOTE: THE VALUES HERE ARE EXAMPLES ONLY. REFER TO YOUR MONITOR'S
# USER MANUAL FOR THE CORRECT NUMBERS.

VertRefresh 31.5-70.0

EndSection

adrianpaendrag · n00b Joined: 08 Nov 2004 Posts: 1 Location: Rochester, NY

Hi everyone,

I'm new to these forums and pretty new to Linux, and I have some questions. I hope you will all bear with me.

I recently purchased a Gateway 7405GX notebook, which I believe to be an eMachines m6810 in a Gateway shell (and if I am mistaken, please feel free to correct me). I have installed Gentoo 2004.2 32-bit x86 and have spent the last week or so trying to make everything work properly. I'm running the 2.6.9-r1 kernel from Gentoo (gentoo-dev-sources). This was a stage-1 install.

There are two things that are still beyond my reach, and after reading through the forums and searching online, I now post these issues in the hopes that someone will be able to help me.

1) Suspend. I have ACPI compiled into the kernel and run acpid in my default runlevel. KLaptop recognizes the suspend setting and I can even get it to suspend using KLaptop's interface (Fn + F3 isn't working). The trouble is, when I try to wake the machine, it refuses. The lights come back on but the screen remains dark and the keyboard freezes to the point where I have to use the power button to shut down. Can anyone suggest a possible solution?

2) Sound. I am running ALSA and VIA82xx sound, both modular. ALSA starts up just fine, no hiccups that I can see. I can play MP3s using Xine and I can aplay sounds without any trouble, but the KDE internal sounds don't seem to work, Gaim sounds don't work (except when I'm aplaying them) and Kmplayer will play sounds from files on disk but not from DVDs. KsCD will say it's playing the disk, as will cdcd, but neither actually makes any sound. What am I missing?

As for the rest of the common problems, ndiswrapper appears to make the internal wireless card work ok (although it's touchy) and I have no trouble with running the display at 1280 x 800 using the X config files posted earlier. I haven't yet tried doing any CD burning.

Any assistance with these two problems would be greatly appreciated, as I have run out of ideas.

Regards,
Adrian

badcherry · n00b Joined: 29 Apr 2004 Posts: 8 Location: Medford, WI

I just reinstalled gentoo for x86 rather than amd64 and everything went very smooth, but had a terrible time with alsa. I ended up having to build all of alsa into the kernel, installing all o the alsa ebuilds, modifing many configs, and adding "-alsa" to my USE (thats "-alsa" not "+alsa"). It took me 2 days to get sound working again.