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Tekel
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 Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 2:32 pm Post subject: |
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| grantonstar wrote: | Has anybody managed to get the XD card reader to work?
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I have successfully tesed it with SD cards, It was pretty much plug and play for me |
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grantonstar
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| Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 2:32 am Post subject: |
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Tekel,
The SD and XD readers are internally using different devices (lspci confirms this). SD is indeed plug and play if the right settings are enabled in the kernel but not XD 
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Tekel
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| Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 2:25 pm Post subject: |
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| grantonstar wrote: | Tekel,
The SD and XD readers are internally using different devices (lspci confirms this). SD is indeed plug and play if the right settings are enabled in the kernel but not XD
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Ohh well good luck with that I have never even heard of xD cards before, It is amazing that people can't agree on a small form factor memory device. |
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BillyBoy
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| Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 3:27 am Post subject: |
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Same for me with SD. As long as I had memory devices checked in the kernel, it was easy. My phone uses a micro sD card but I have an adapter that fits it. Easy way to transfer chunes to tele.
One thing I noticed tonight was the way the BIOS handles the WiFi/Bluetooth control. You can choose to have the hotkey control WiFi, or BT or both. You can also separately enable/disable each transceiver. I disabled BT and changed the hotkey to control WiFi. I could never get the WiFi to come up in this setting. The only way I could get it was to enable both transceivers and use WiFi/BT control on the hotkey.
One other question I started playing with last night was how to boot off an external USB drive. I got to the same place I've been many a time when the drive is incorrect. It tells me the root device is incorrect and to enter a valid device (I'm using lilo). I'll play more but it's obviously a software thing. |
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thespongeoflove
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| Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 1:46 am Post subject: |
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The card reader does not work. I have not tried to get it working.
I did get the sub working. I found a ticket on ALSA bug tracker that related to my issue: https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=2092
then Virtuous-Disturbance told me that he disabled all ALSA drivers and modules in the kernel then emerged alsa-driver and everything worked fine. I tried this and it did not solve my problem. I checked back with the people over at ALSA and saw someone ask if they had "tried model=ref". I edited /etc/modprobe.conf added the line "options snd-hda-intel model=ref". this basically tells the driver to ask the sound card what speakers it has.
Now the sub works. I have three mixer levels that i can control. Master, PCM, and LFE. PCM is the main two speakers in the front, and LFE is the sub. Master only controls PCM. Does anybody know how i can set the LFE to respond to the Master control?
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Tekel
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| Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 12:46 pm Post subject: |
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Well now with that handy subwoofer tip, almost everyhitng on my 1710 is working, Except I can't connect it to two monitors for a dual screen setup at my desk . It appears the Nvidia drivers recongnize both my monitors, but the one connected to hte DVI port will not work for the life of it, it just blanks out. Her eis the relevent seciton of Xorg.o.log if anyone can help
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(II) Setting vga for screen 0.
(==) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (==) framebuffer bpp 32
(==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888
(==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
(==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
(**) NVIDIA(0): Option "HWcursor"
(**) NVIDIA(0): Option "RenderAccel"
(**) NVIDIA(0): Option "TwinView"
(**) NVIDIA(0): Option "MetaModes" "1280x1024,1280x1024; 1024x768,1024x768 ; 800x600,800x600"
(**) NVIDIA(0): Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
(**) NVIDIA(0): Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
(**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling RENDER acceleration
(**) NVIDIA(0): TwinView enabled
(II) NVIDIA(0): Support for GLX with the Damage and Composite X extensions is
(II) NVIDIA(0): enabled.
(II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU GeForce Go 7900 GS at PCI:1:0:0 (GPU-0)
(--) NVIDIA(0): Memory: 262144 kBytes
(--) NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 05.71.22.16.13
(II) NVIDIA(0): Detected PCI Express Link width: 16X
(--) NVIDIA(0): Interlaced video modes are supported on this GPU
(--) NVIDIA(0): Connected display device(s) on GeForce Go 7900 GS at
(--) NVIDIA(0): PCI:1:0:0:
(--) NVIDIA(0): NEC LCD1860NX (CRT-0)
(--) NVIDIA(0): LPL (DFP-0)
(--) NVIDIA(0): NEC LCD1860NX (DFP-2)
(--) NVIDIA(0): NEC LCD1860NX (CRT-0): 400.0 MHz maximum pixel clock
(--) NVIDIA(0): LPL (DFP-0): 330.0 MHz maximum pixel clock
(--) NVIDIA(0): LPL (DFP-0): Internal Dual Link LVDS
(--) NVIDIA(0): NEC LCD1860NX (DFP-2): 165.0 MHz maximum pixel clock
(--) NVIDIA(0): NEC LCD1860NX (DFP-2): Internal Single Link TMDS
(II) NVIDIA(0): Assigned Display Devices: CRT-0, DFP-0
(II) NVIDIA(0): Validated modes:
(II) NVIDIA(0): "1280x1024,1280x1024"
(II) NVIDIA(0): "1024x768,1024x768"
(II) NVIDIA(0): "800x600,800x600"
(II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 2560 x 1024
(--) NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (90, 89); computed from "UseEdidDpi" X config
(--) NVIDIA(0): option
(--) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp
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any help would be much appreciated |
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BillyBoy
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| Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 5:20 am Post subject: |
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| thespongeoflove wrote: | | I edited /etc/modprobe.conf added the line "option snd-hda-intel model=ref". this basically tells the driver to ask the sound card what speakers it has. |
Shouldn't it be:
| Code: | | "options snd-hda-intel model=ref" |
Also, when I do this, my new device is called "IEC958". |
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thespongeoflove
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| Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 8:14 pm Post subject: |
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oops! sorry if i made your sound not work properly. My post has been changed.
I don't know what to say about your device name. mine stayed the same. |
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Tekel
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| Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 1:20 pm Post subject: |
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So after a little bit of playing with Gentoo I can know report I have
nvidia chip working with Compiz
Dual monitor with Docking Station
Subwoofer working
SD Card reader working
Smart Card Reader Working (using Coolkeys)
The current task however is getting lm_sensors to work
when i run sensors I see a few eeproms, but no sensors.
and lm_sensors was causing a kernel oops. Has anyone gotten the sensors to work ? |
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thespongeoflove
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| Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 1:04 am Post subject: |
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One thing you guys should try (if you have not allready) is Sabayon linux. It is a gentoo based distro, with very good hardware support. It is a VERY lazy way to get a fully functional and beautiful gentoo system. I actually installed it on my notebook because my job got very busy and i didn't have the time to tweak gentoo for my notebook and i really did not want to use windows or some other distro.
Sabayon has all the benefits of a distro that will get almost all your hardware working out of the box, and the power and flexibility of gentoo. Check it out. |
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Tekel
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| Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 4:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Has anyone runinto the issue of the Frame Buffer getting totally hosed once X starts ? |
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RichieB
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| Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 9:48 am Post subject: |
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Yes, today, in fact.
I disabled ipw3945d (/etc/init.d/ipw3945d stop) |
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Tekel
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| Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 12:20 pm Post subject: |
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| RichieB wrote: | Yes, today, in fact.
I disabled ipw3945d (/etc/init.d/ipw3945d stop) |
And that fixed the frame buffer ? |
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RichieB
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| Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 2:14 pm Post subject: |
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The bloody ipw driver has caused untold issues with my 2.6.21 kernel laptop.
I haven't bothered to regress to 2.6.20 - certainly with that kernel I had to remove the module and 'probe it again on numerous occasions. An abortion of a wireless driver.
If you've got kwirelessmanager starting on kde login, you might try removing that if you don't want to stop ipw. |
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BillyBoy
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| Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 6:16 am Post subject: |
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| RichieB wrote: | The bloody ipw driver has caused untold issues with my 2.6.21 kernel laptop.
I haven't bothered to regress to 2.6.20 - certainly with that kernel I had to remove the module and 'probe it again on numerous occasions. An abortion of a wireless driver.
If you've got kwirelessmanager starting on kde login, you might try removing that if you don't want to stop ipw. |
Well, I'm not convinced it's the ipw driver, though, Lord knows I"ve had my fair share of headaches with it. I'm more apt to say it's a problem with udev mucking things up. I had the same issue with a Linksys card. Any time udev got its mitts "helping" me load the drivers, it never got it right. Once I zapped the config files and wrote a script to handle it myself, all was rosey. Same with the 3945 driver. The stock standard one worked great as long as I hand crafted it. |
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Taniwha
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| Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 5:33 am Post subject: blinky lights .... |
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thanks everyone for the tips - I can't believe that no one here's explained how to control the blinky lights .... here's how to do it:
(it's under ~x86 but seems to work great)
The utility you want to try is:
I've written some goodies to use them - something to turn them off when running on batteries and a more general feature so I can get them to flash when mail comes in ..............
First create the file /etc/lightsfx/setlights.sh
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#!/bin/sh
if [ "$1" = "restore" ]; then
i=`grep "Current intensity" /etc/lightsfx/saved|awk '{ print $3 }'`
z1=`grep "Current zone 1" /etc/lightsfx/saved|awk '{ print $4 }'`
z2=`grep "Current zone 2" /etc/lightsfx/saved|awk '{ print $4 }'`
z3=`grep "Current zone 3" /etc/lightsfx/saved|awk '{ print $4 }'`
z4=`grep "Current zone 4" /etc/lightsfx/saved|awk '{ print $4 }'`
/usr/bin/dellLEDCtl -l $i -z1 $z1 -z2 $z2 -z3 $z3 -z4 $z4
else
if [ "$1" = "alert" ]; then
/usr/bin/dellLEDCtl -i >/tmp/lfx_saved
if [ "$2" == "strobe" ]; then
/usr/bin/dellLEDCtl -s
fi
if [ "$2" == "traffic" ]; then
/usr/bin/dellLEDCtl -l 7 -z2 2
/usr/bin/dellLEDCtl -l 7 -z2 3
/usr/bin/dellLEDCtl -l 7 -z2 5
/usr/bin/dellLEDCtl -l 7 -z2 3
/usr/bin/dellLEDCtl -l 7 -z2 2
/usr/bin/dellLEDCtl -l 7 -z2 1
/usr/bin/dellLEDCtl -l 7 -z2 2
/usr/bin/dellLEDCtl -l 7 -z2 3
/usr/bin/dellLEDCtl -l 7 -z2 5
/usr/bin/dellLEDCtl -l 7 -z2 3
/usr/bin/dellLEDCtl -l 7 -z2 2
/usr/bin/dellLEDCtl -l 7 -z2 1
fi
if [ "$2" == "pulse" ]; then
if [ -n "$3" ] ; then
/usr/bin/dellLEDCtl -z2 $3
fi
for j in 0 1 2 ; do
for i in 2 4 6 7 ; do
/usr/bin/dellLEDCtl -l $i
done
for i in 6 4 2 0 ; do
/usr/bin/dellLEDCtl -l $i
done
done
fi
if [ "$2" == "flash" ]; then
if [ -n "$3" ] ; then
/usr/bin/dellLEDCtl -z2 $3
fi
for j in 0 1 2 3 ; do
/usr/bin/dellLEDCtl -l 0
/usr/bin/dellLEDCtl -l 7
done
fi
i=`grep "Current intensity" /tmp/lfx_saved|awk '{ print $3 }'`
z1=`grep "Current zone 1" /tmp/lfx_saved|awk '{ print $4 }'`
z2=`grep "Current zone 2" /tmp/lfx_saved|awk '{ print $4 }'`
z3=`grep "Current zone 3" /tmp/lfx_saved|awk '{ print $4 }'`
z4=`grep "Current zone 4" /tmp/lfx_saved|awk '{ print $4 }'`
/usr/bin/dellLEDCtl -l $i -z1 $z1 -z2 $z2 -z3 $z3 -z4 $z4
else
if [ "$1" = "save" ]; then
/usr/bin/dellLEDCtl -i >/etc/lightsfx/saved
shift
fi
if [ "$1" = "off" ]; then
/usr/bin/dellLEDCtl -l 0 -z1 off -z2 off -z3 off -z4 off
else
/usr/bin/dellLEDCtl -l $1 -z1 $2 -z2 $3 -z3 $4 -z4 $5
fi
fi
fi
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next edit /etc/acpi/default.sh, after the 'button) .... ;;' section just beofre the matching '*)' add:
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ac_adapter)
case "$event" in
AC)
if [ "`cat /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/AC/state`" = "state: on-line" ]; then
/etc/lightsfx/setlights.sh restore
else
/etc/lightsfx/setlights.sh save off
fi
;;
*)
logger "ACPI group $1 / action $2 is not defined"
;;
esac
;;
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finally if you want to get told when mail arrives from kmail you need to make the light changing app setuid - as root:
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chmod +s /usr/bin/dellLEDCtl
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and in kmail go to setting->Configure Kmail->Accounts->Other Actions->Advanced check 'Run a program' and entry
| Code: | | /etc/lightsfx/setlights.sh alert flash emerald& |
or something similar - after the alert you can type 'flash' 'pulse' 'strobe' and 'traffic' for different pattern, the first two also optionally get a color |
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eusanpe
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| Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 6:51 pm Post subject: |
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Hello all:
Is your bass speaker working ok? It used to work great until I upgraded to kernel 2.6.22 and now it is gone.
I still have the following in modules.conf
# Set this to the correct number of cards.
options snd cards_limit=1
options snd-hda-intel model=ref
Thanks,
Tony |
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