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Gentoo Acer 803LCi support thread (discussion section)
This Manual is available at the Gentoo Wiki
If you wish to participate in the discussion around this thread just go ahead and use this thread or the Gentoo Wiki directly
Table of contents
- Updates
- About this Howto
- Important things to know about the ACER Travelmate 803 LCi
Specifications of the ACER Travelmate 803 LCi
General Handling
Battery Uptime
Falling down & Scratches
Output of 'lspci'
- Compiler Flags
Design of the Pentium-M
CFLAGS
USE-Variables
- Important Must-Have-Software
- GEP (Gentoo Emerge.log Parser)
Compile times for different applications
- ACPI
General ACPI
ACPI Event Handling
Enhanced Speedstepping
Software suspending w/wo XFree
Hardware Sensors
- Harddrive & 'hdparm' Optimization
- Networking LAN
Broadcom 4400
- Networking Tools
tcpdump
mtr
iptraf
tethereal
nessus
Backup and distribution solutions
SSH-Agent and Public-Key-Challange
- Networking WLAN
ipw2100
ndiswrapper
Exchanging the Intel Mini-PCI with a Dell Truemobile 1150
- Wireless Tools
Kismet
Airsnort
Wellenreiter
IPSEC & VPN
- Internal modem
- IRDA support
- PCMCIA
- Special Laptop-Keys aka FN-Keys
Windows Keys
System Help
ACPI Standy/Sleep
Video Out
External Display
Touchpad Activator
Mute Sound
Display Bightness
Volume FN-Keys
Volume Keys and XFree OSD
Other FN-Keys
Hints
- Acer Launchkeys & AcerHK
Installing
Testing & Mapping
Scripts
- Graphics
ATI Radeon 9000 Mobility & XFree
Alternate ATI Radeon 9000 Mobility Installation & MTRR fix
Console Framebuffer
TV-Out
Beamer & external devices
- Sound
Sound recording
- Universal Serial Bus (USB)
General Hotplug
General USB
USB-Mouse
USB-Mouse and XFree support
USB Tools
RootPlug
USB-Memory-Stick
User Authentification via pam_usb
- Synaptics Touchpad
- Firewire IEEE 1394
- Styleguide
Exchanging XFree Cursors
Bootsplash
Qingy
LILO Graphical Menu
- Link Graveyard
- Missing Items & later additions
About this Howto
Reference:
Gentoo Installation Documents
Gentoo Forum
This Howto is intended to provide a usefull overview and installation & configuration guide for Gentoo-Linux on a ACER Travelmate 80x/2xx/. This Howto doesn't cover the ultimate truth, it's merely a compilation of work-reports, own testing, redoing of other howtos always with focus on an optimal stability and relyability on an ACER Travelmate 803 LCi.
This howto doesn't cover the basic installation process of the Gentoo Linux distribution as this is exaustively covered by the Gentoo Installation Documents.
The Howto is structured upon the inside-out-concept. All sections are optimized for work progress optimization (e.g hdparm before software-installation). So if you do this tutorial from beginning to end, the result should be a optimized stable and working Gentoo-Linux on your ACER-Travelmate 803 LCi. Also this howto is based on kernel 2.6.
In special I would like to thank all those geeks in the Gentoo Forums for their help, suggestions, hints, tips, tricks and corrections for this tutorial as it would not be in this form without their help. Thank you !
Due to limitations of this board I had to move the really important parts to the Gentoo Wiki
This thread will mainly be used to discuss the contensts of the new manual, so go ahead and post here. I'll only update the table of contents here.
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| Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2003 1:01 pm Post subject: Re: Acer 803 LCi Notebook Config (maybe a sticky?) |
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| _kev_ wrote: | Pentium-M Steedstep
The Pentium-M processor is wether a P3 nor a P4 but I've successfully tested the following GCC settings:
| Code: | | -march=pentium3 -mcpu=pentium4 |
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You should use pentium3 as adding sse2 later will make it go bork on you if you use pentium4.
| _kev_ wrote: | ACPI
ACPI is working with all new ac-kernels. After installing the latest ac-kernel out of the Portage and enabling the ACPI-features you'll get
| Code: | | /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/performance |
which can be used for accessing the Speedstep features. Also the package "AutoSpeedStep" works with these settings. |
I would also recommend sys-apps/speedfreq if you use 2.6 with the new /sys interface.
It has a bug in a script but Ive posted a fix on bugs.gentoo.org so it will get in any day.
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Video and LCD
I have only got accelerated video with DRI working (on 2.6 kernel).
This works fine in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 for video and monitor.
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Section "Monitor"
Option "CalcAlgorithm" "CheckDesktopGeometry"
DisplaySize 320 240
HorizSync 27-90
Identifier "Monitor[0]"
ModelName "1400X1050@60HZ"
Option "DPMS" "true"
VendorName "--> LCD"
VertRefresh 40-60
UseModes "Modes[0]"
EndSection
Section "Modes"
Identifier "Modes[0]"
Modeline "1400x1050" 114.41 1400 1416 1704 1944 1050 1050 1060 1097
Modeline "1024x768" 61.19 1024 1040 1216 1400 768 768 775 802
Modeline "640x480" 23.96 640 656 720 864 480 480 484 501
EndSection
Section "Screen"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1400x1050" "1024x768"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1400x1050" "1024x768"
EndSubSection
Device "Device[0]"
Identifier "Screen[0]"
Monitor "Monitor[0]"
EndSection
Section "Device"
BoardName "RV250 Lf"
BusID "1:0:0"
Driver "radeon"
Identifier "Device[0]"
VendorName "ATI"
Option "AGPMode" "4"
Option "EnablePageFlip" "on"
Option "DPMS" "true"
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Note that DPMS is broken for the radeon driver in 4.3.0. Try 4.3.99.x if you want this feature (its usually a good idea since the backlight lifetime is limited).
Bluetooth & Firewire
Both these features loads fine in both 2.4 and 2.6 kernel but I dont have any hardware to test with but kernel reports working devices
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| Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2003 1:10 pm Post subject: |
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Have anyone had trouble with the broadcom? After I unplug cable and down the interface I cant get a new IP without rebooting.
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| Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2003 3:32 pm Post subject: |
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Broadcom Driver works fine, you'll need to restart/start "dhcpcd". this will get you a new IP.
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| Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2003 10:52 pm Post subject: Great!! Thanks so much! |
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This is a great resource for all of the Gentoo Travelmate 800 users out there.
| Quote: | Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Edges" "1900 5400 1800 3900"
Option "Finger" "25 30"
Option "MaxTapTime" "20"
Option "MaxTapMove" "220"
Option "VertScrollDelta" "100"
Option "MinSpeed" "0.02"
Option "MaxSpeed" "0.18"
Option "AccelFactor" "0.0007"
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
Option "UpDownScrolling" "on"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "CorePointer" ""
EndSection
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I was wondering how to get my touchpad scroll buttons working. Thanks so much!
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| Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2003 5:34 am Post subject: Woohooo, Dell Truemobile 1150 Mini-PCI Nic Works!!! |
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I replaced my Intel Mini-PCI with a Dell Truemobile 1150 that I bought off of Dell's small business site for $49.00.
After literally working for hours trying to get the thing working under the 2.4 kernel, I finally gave up and decided to try the 2.6 sources. I compiled the following things into the kernel:
Bus Options --> [*] PCMCIA Cardbus Support
--> [*]Cardbus yenta-compatible bridge support
--> [*]I82365 bridge support
Networking Support --> Wireless Lan (Non-Ham Radio) --> [*] Wireless LAN (Non...)
--> [*] Hermes Chipset 802.11b...
--> [*] Hermes PCMCIA Card Support
It worked right away! I had already emerged pcmcia-cs and setup my /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts file while working in the 2.4 kernel.
I do get an error during boot where PCMCIA complains that it cannot load ds. I can live with that for now but will work on it at a later date. The Truemobile 1150 does work with the 800 series laptops!!!
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| Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2003 7:00 am Post subject: |
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| _kev_ wrote: | | Broadcom Driver works fine, you'll need to restart/start "dhcpcd". this will get you a new IP. |
Nop I just start getting carrier errors as shown in ifconfig. Even setting a static IP after this seems nonworking. I guess this is a thing for the kernel developers.
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| Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2003 7:03 am Post subject: Re: Woohooo, Dell Truemobile 1150 Mini-PCI Nic Works!!! |
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| ScubaStreb wrote: | | I replaced my Intel Mini-PCI with a Dell Truemobile 1150 that I bought off of Dell's small business site for $49.00. |
Really cool? Ive checked inside my laptop an the antenna wires seems solderd onto the mini-pci board. Or are they removable after all? Can you provide some photos of this? I'll try and get some photos of my setup.
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| Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2003 3:13 pm Post subject: Antenna wires. |
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They do look like they are soldered, however they are not. They push down onto their ports so all you have to do is pull straight up and they will come off. The Truemobile has two antenna wire inputs and the connectors fit onto them perfectly. I'll try to take some photos today and post them.
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| Quote: | | Ive checked inside my laptop an the antenna wires seems solderd onto the mini-pci board. Or are they removable after all? Can you provide some photos of this? |
As requested, here ares some photos of the Truemobile 1150 in my Travelmate 800Xci.
This photo shows the installed card:
http://home.earthlink.net/~rob.strebler/images/Truemobile1150.jpg
This photo shows a closeup of the antenna connectors:
http://home.earthlink.net/~rob.strebler/images/1150Connector.jpg
To disconnect the wires, just pull straight up. To reconnect them, push straight down. I hope this helps.
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This looks really good! Thanks! I will try and get a hand of one of those NICs 
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| Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2003 1:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | I've also written a small script you could include in your /etc/init.d/ so you can add it to your init process with ...
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Just a little note about starting hdparm at boot. There is already a script called hdparm in /etc/init.d/. You just have to | Code: | | rc-update add hdparm boot |
and modify /etc/conf.d/hdparm with you preferences. |
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You're right, updated that section.
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| Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2003 3:47 am Post subject: A quick and easy CD Burning Tip |
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K3b .9 works out of the box with ATAPI burning and the QSI CDRW/DVD drive that came with my Travelmate 800. If you go this route, you won't have to add any SCSI emulation to the kernel or make any changes to your GRUB/LILO configurations. A simple
| Code: | | ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge k3b |
is all that is needed. It detects the drive as an ATAPI writer.
Until .9 makes it to stable, you'll have to use the "ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" method" as I had no success working with .8.1 .
K3b is a KDE program, but it is reported to work well under Gnome.
The only caveat is that it complains that dao is not supported with the version of cdrdao that is on my system. However, I just checked the box to have K3b not show the message anymore and haven't experienced any negative effects. I've burned 4 full data cds with complete success.
K3b is also my favorite burning program in Linux. Good luck!
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| smiler.se wrote: |
Note that DPMS is broken for the radeon driver in 4.3.0. Try 4.3.99.x if you want this feature (its usually a good idea since the backlight lifetime is limited).
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smiler.se, were you able to get KDE working with 4.3.99.x? I have tried 4.3.99.9 and 4.3.99.11 and get a Signal 11 everytime while booting into KDE. However, KDE boots fine with 4.3.0.
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| ScubaStreb wrote: | | smiler.se wrote: |
Note that DPMS is broken for the radeon driver in 4.3.0. Try 4.3.99.x if you want this feature (its usually a good idea since the backlight lifetime is limited).
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smiler.se, were you able to get KDE working with 4.3.99.x? I have tried 4.3.99.9 and 4.3.99.11 and get a Signal 11 everytime while booting into KDE. However, KDE boots fine with 4.3.0. |
Ive never tried KDE on it so I cant say, sorry.
PS. For a great DE, try xfce4 
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| Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2003 3:08 pm Post subject: |
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Why wont my Kernel 2.6.0beta4 boot.
I just get a blank screen. Check out my config on http://www.mrblade.dk/files/DOTconfig
and plz tell me whats wrong.
and the computer is ofcourse a TM803LCi.
And btw, has anybody got tvout working for real, or is it just a crewl rumour. |
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| Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2003 4:49 pm Post subject: Need more info... |
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| Quote: | Why wont my Kernel 2.6.0beta4 boot.
I just get a blank screen. |
When do you get the blank screen, during boot, or when it tries to go into X? Can you use a virtual console?
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| Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2003 4:57 pm Post subject: More info coming up |
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Now i have narrowed my problem.
First of all when i boot with the VESA framebuffer. i cant use the vga=834 that i normally do (Blank screen). But it boot up fine without.
Also:
When i try to start gdm it is another blank screen, dont know if it will help to emerge xfree-drm again. But i guess thats a ATI driver problem. |
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I haven't been able to get the framebuffer working either. However, for the video, I use the built in kernel drivers and drm for acceleration. They work just fine in the new kernel.
My kernel settings are:
Character Devices-> [*] /dev/agpgart
-> <*> Intel 440lx/bx/gx...
-> [*] Direct Rendering Manger
-> <*> ATI Radeon
This gives me about 2500fps in GLXgears at 16
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| Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2003 7:05 pm Post subject: Some tips ! |
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Don't forget to activate the PageFlipping, it increases OpenGL performance dramaticly.
These options are defaulted off.
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Option "AGPMode" "4"
Option "EnablePageFlip" "on"
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I get like 1984 FPS in glxgears now, can anyone post his/her results so I know if I'm properly configured ? thanks...
If you use speedfreq for CPU adjust don't forget to set it to dynamic at boot, else you'll still be running at max speed.
Also, those blue cursors are SO kewl 
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| Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2003 8:39 am Post subject: Some additions... |
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When installing Gentoo on my Travelmate 803LCi , I had to enter 'gentoo nousb nodetect' at the boot prompt of the install CD for the following reasons:
1) The network card (Broadcom 4401, module bcm4400 in kernel 2.4 but renamed to b44 in the development/upcoming 2.6 kernel) wasn't detected correctly so networking didn't work. The 'nodetect'-option disables that. You can load the module with
# modprobe bcm4400
and it works.
2) The internal chipcard reader is detected as a usb storage device, but apparently kernel 2.4.21 on the install CD isn't too happy about it. It randomly crashes (kernel oops) and locks up the install process. Getting rid of USB did the trick for me. I haven't had any troubles with the chipcard reader after the install, using kernel 2.6-testX.
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What KERNEL cpu to use? Pentium 3 or pentium 4.
Do we loose any features with using pentium 3?
We need a more complete kernel config for bouth 2.4.xx and 2.6. |
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| Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 2:11 pm Post subject: kernel config |
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It's already on it's way. Only need to determine a few things...
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