Unicode by default and soundcard not detected

dextermagnific · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 16 Apr 2005 Posts: 113

Hi everybody,

i've just bought a sony vaio FS115M and compiled gentoo. i'm very happy with that distrib. However i have some troubles

1. i compiled my kernel with support for the sony vaio programmable contoller (module sonypi built into the kernel), but nothing works, i can't adjust the LCD brightness using spicctrl
when i call spicctrl -B, it returns zero
here is what is in /var/log/messages :

Sony Vaio Jogdial input method installed.
Sony Vaio Keys input method installed.
sonypi command failed at drivers/char/sonypi.c : sonypi_call1 (line 589)
sonypi command failed at drivers/char/sonypi.c : sonypi_call2 (line 600)
sonypi command failed at drivers/char/sonypi.c : sonypi_call2 (line 602)
sonypi command failed at drivers/char/sonypi.c : sonypi_call1 (line 589)
sonypi: Sony Programmable I/O Controller Driverv1.26.
sonypi: detected type2 model, verbose = 0, fnkeyinit = off, camera = off, compat = off, mask = 0xffffffff, useinput = on, acpi = on
sonypi: enabled at irq=11, port1=0x1080, port2=0x1084
sonypi: device allocated minor is 62

2. my soundcard has not been detected and i don't know even which soundcard it is, here is what lspci gives

0000:00:1b.0 Class 0403: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
Subsystem: Sony Corporation: Unknown device 81bb
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
Memory at 80000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable)
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [60] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
Capabilities: [70] #10 [0091]

Has anyone a workaround for these ?
These are very annoying problems : i can't have sound, and can't adjust the brightness, the sound volume.

3. I want gentoo to use unicode by default. start_unicode does nothing. How to setup that ?

Thanks a lot

gian · Apprentice Joined: 26 Jul 2004 Posts: 212 Location: Europe

I have a similar problem (on a sony vaio s3xp), and it seems the solution is in this forum thread (hope I have pasted the address correctly, else just search for ich6..)

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-315544-highlight-ich6.html

pianosaurus · l33t Joined: 19 Apr 2004 Posts: 944 Location: Bash$

About 3:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/utf-8.xml
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Make_your_system_use_unicode/utf-8

Edit: Added the first link.
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dextermagnific · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 16 Apr 2005 Posts: 113

Yes ! Thanks a lot !
Now i can make my sound work and have support for utf8 ! These forums are very useful !

I have another question : in the portage tree i see kde-3.4 ebuild, but when i compiled kde with emerge kde, it compiled the 3.3.2 version.
How can i make emerge download and compile kde 3.4 ?

pianosaurus · l33t Joined: 19 Apr 2004 Posts: 944 Location: Bash$

KDE 3.4 is marked as unstable. If you want it anyways, simply add

dextermagnific · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 16 Apr 2005 Posts: 113

another question (not related to gentoo)

I downloaded the lastest stable kernel and the lastest prepatch to have support for my soundcard. But it's the first time i apply a patch.*Can you telle me how to do this after unbzipping it ?

Thanks.

pianosaurus · l33t Joined: 19 Apr 2004 Posts: 944 Location: Bash$

dextermagnific · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 16 Apr 2005 Posts: 113

Hello again,

i compiled the kernel and the sound works now
but i have some troubles with utf 8. utf8 works well in virtual consoles (ctrl+alt+Fx), but KDE still uses iso8859-1. when i open konsole or xterm, and save a document wih emacs, it says that the document is iso-latin1

this didn't happen with my SuSE, which has support for utf8 by default

Thanks

pianosaurus · l33t Joined: 19 Apr 2004 Posts: 944 Location: Bash$

Did you stop KDE and X and log out and back in again after setting the environment variables? If not, KDE probably still runs with LC_ALL="".
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dextermagnific · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 16 Apr 2005 Posts: 113

Yes of course. Shutdown KDE, X, and even the computer. It is very important for me to setup utf8. I know i can convert files to utf 8 using 'recode', but i don't want to do it each time.

when i launch 'xterm -u8', emacs saves documents in utf8 format. but this should be done without adding the -u8. I also noted in the gentoo-wiki that bash 3 is required to support utf8. but i have bash 2.05. note that utf8 works in xterm -u8 with that same version of bash.

pianosaurus · l33t Joined: 19 Apr 2004 Posts: 944 Location: Bash$

I don't get emacs to save utf-8 no matter how I start xterm. I could probably fix it by using the instructions listed here, but that doesn't seem to be your problem. I don't think I can help you with that.
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