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echo6
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Excellent thanks 
Coudn't see it until I had set the option on in the make.conf file.
BTW what is the purpose of ~x86 ? and why is it necessary for the i8kutils. |
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shiftzero
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xr31Daisy
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echo6 : don't set the option in make.conf, or you'll be updating your laptop with all the unstable packages in portage.
IMO, it's a better idea to use it on the command line for specific packages like i8kutils ( unless you really like living on the bleeding edge )
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bLanark
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| Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2003 9:28 am Post subject: useful alias |
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https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=45249 has a useful alias for times like these.
I also use this unmask script https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=42845 otherwise things like opera get bumped back down when there is a stable version in portage. For i8kutils, there is no stable package so you never get the one you are running with downgraded automatically.
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echo6
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xr31Daisy: Thanks, you just reminded me to comment it out 
Thanks all some useful tips regarding masked e builds. |
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jmaltais
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| Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2003 4:36 pm Post subject: Re: Having trouble with alsa drivers? |
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| bLanark wrote: | | Does ACPI work on these muthas? I'm willing to waste an evening mucking around it there is hope .. I had s2d working on my old 8000 under red hat, but only got s2r working under gentoo (Heresey!!!!) |
I appears that they do: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=4779906
I have yet to get it to work. Using gentoo-sources, it simply kernel panics. I'm not sure if you need to install new patches or what.  [/url] |
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xr31Daisy
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jmaltais, let us know when you get it working.
I'm using APM, and the clock drift while checking the battery is a PITA.
I'd also really love to have S2D.
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shiftzero
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I have a inspiron8100 - geForce2go.
When building battery and ac of acpi as modules, they segfault when doing modprobe, and when compiled in the kernel, well, ... kernel panic. 
BTW, using gaming-sources-r3
if you get them working let us know.
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jmaltais
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| Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2003 3:21 pm Post subject: SWEEEET! |
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 Well ladies and gentlemen, ACPI works!!
On my Dell i8000, I just compiled the kernel ac-sources and it worked right out of the box. Cox uses the latest ACPI drivers so it works great. Gentoo-sources and deviants on the other hand, have old drivers from 2002. Enjoy!  |
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dmind
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ive "succesfully" gentoofied my brothers inspiron 8200 
i use linux-2.4.22_pre2-gss (gs-sources) and bios A10 was A00 but upgraded it (couldnt hurt)
apci works (battery checking), speedstep (emerge -s autospeedstep) sound, i8kutils and the i8kgkrellm-plugin works to.
regarding heat problems, there are none (i think). kernel handels it pretty well, temperature was at one time 65C but on a average around its 60C when it compiles. or do u thinks its to high?
what bios'es are you guys running?
havent tried apm yet. but does the time problem exist in bios v.A10 or is it fixed?
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bLanark
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| Quote: | | ve "succesfully" gentoofied my brothers inspiron 8200 |
Good on you!
| Quote: | apci works (battery checking), speedstep (emerge -s autospeedstep) sound, i8kutils and the i8kgkrellm-plugin works to.
regarding heat problems, there are none (i think). kernel handels it pretty well, temperature was at one time 65C but on a average around its 60C when it compiles. or do u thinks its to high? |
ACPI? Didn't think it worked well enough. jmaltis reported on the 8000, I imagined that for the 8200 everything would be different enough (I have both, and made several rash assumptions on the 8200 based on my 8000 experience). Did you download a new DSDT table as per http://acpi.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/FixedDsdts (and also see http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-dell-laptops/message/19926 for how I got there), or did it just *work*. DAK which kernels would support ACPI; I favour gentoo-sources but would consider -ac or vanilla - I don't know what gs sources are yet, btw.
Temp I've always found has been handled well - much better than my I8000. Generally, I think I'm about ~50 degrees with no fans, YMMV. Instead of fans coming in at max, as the 8000 did, they come on gradually, which is much better. I have had both fans going for it, once, on the 8200, but a much rarer occasion than the I8000.
I'll have to look into autospeedstep, but I'm happy with the performance anyway, no need to play if I don't need to, eh
| Quote: | what bios'es are you guys running?
havent tried apm yet. but does the time problem exist in bios v.A10 or is it fixed?
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I was shipped with A08 and upgraded to A10 to solve an alsa sound driver problem (the OSS one worked fine with Bios A08). I use apm. The battery problem still exists, AFAIK. I use kde all the time, and have to run ntpd - no big deal to me, really, I like an *accurate* clock anyway.
I'm not sure you can have both APM and ACPI at the same time 
Oh, have you got suspend and resume working  I *really* want that.
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dmind
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| Quote: | | Oh, have you got suspend and resume working I *really* want that. |
nope i havent got it to work... and me really want that to work to.
im compiling the ac kernel sources right now, so im gonna play around with it, especially apm and see what happends.
| Quote: | | Did you download a new DSDT table |
no i just compiled the gs sources and things seems to work, regarding acpi and stuff.
what does DSDT table, fix in the 8200 bios?
i read on the page of DSDT table that it works with bios version A08, what about A10 that i got?
btw there one option [*] CPU Frequency scaling in the ac kernel.
im gonna check this and see if it can save some power.
have anyone tried [*] CPU Frequency scaling before
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Jimbow
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On my i8200 I've got suspend working now with APM using the gs-sources and the modified 3123 nvidia driver and the A10 BIOS. I could not get suspend to work with with ACPI.
I've also found that my clock drift has drastically reduced. It is about 10 seconds/day now (with ntpd turned off). This is not great but acceptable.
I do have a couple of outstanding issues. The last time I suspended, when it woke up the time was off by about 5 hours (perhaps 5 exactly). Perhaps there was a local <-> utc conversion going on somewhere.
In addition, when I woke up the temperature reading from /proc/i8k was stuck on 85C even though the CPU was close to room temperature (the air coming out of the fans was cool).
And finally, the computer was acting really sluggish. I have a feeling that the CPU performance was completely throttled.
A reboot fixed the i8k problem and the CPU problem. I didn't have i8k installed as a module. If I run into this problem again, I'll recompile i8k as a module and then see if reloading it fixes the problem.
Is anyone else interested in working on a Gentoo I8K HOWTO page for the the Gentoo documentation?
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I am almost always able to suspend and reanimate with no problems. The time I did have problems was associated with closing the lid. For some strange reason closing the lid has started doing funny things. I think it goes into some weird suspend state that doesn't quite work.
In the BIOS I have the "display close" set to "active active" and have power management turned off.
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