Emachines M6807 Laptop

mankei · n00b Joined: 07 Feb 2004 Posts: 9

wow thanks v22! I tried the M6809 bios on my M6805 and it works like a charm! I'm using gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.7-r7, there's no more need for exotic patches or pci=noacpi or noapic, USB can be compiled as modules, cpufreq works, no more hangs when pressing Fn+Fx keys, brightness keys work perfectly, ACPID responds to power and sleep buttons and opening/closing lid, all multimedia keys can be captured by xev and gnome keyboard shortcuts, even swsusp works by echo 4 > /proc/acpi/sleep and appending resume=/dev/hda2 (my swap partition) to the kernel command line! It seems that the M6809 bios has all the bugs fixed! The only weird thing is that the screen would turn very dim once the kernel boots, but a dose of Fn+F8 will bring back the brightness.

scottymace · n00b Joined: 15 Feb 2004 Posts: 29

scottymace · n00b Joined: 15 Feb 2004 Posts: 29

needlern1 · Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2004 2:37 am Post subject:

Thanks v2! I'll second mankei's comments and add that I had just built the gentoo-dev-sources for 2.6.7-r7 and lost keyboard functionality! Ran the bios upgrade and all works as described. Bill

tcma · Apprentice Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 208

Do Windows XP still works with the new bios?
I apologize that I still need it though.

Vesentac · n00b Joined: 04 Mar 2004 Posts: 17

LordPhobos · n00b Joined: 22 May 2003 Posts: 15

randori · n00b Joined: 09 Jul 2004 Posts: 2 Location: d/fw - tx

I am new to Gentoo, after experiementing with slackware, mandrake, and suse. I switched over because of my new machine (m6805), and I must say, I am incredibly impressed with the gentoo community. I have been following this thread, and it has kept me out of the mud by the numerous suggestions offered by all.

Just wanted to express my thanks.

-randori

scottymace · n00b Joined: 15 Feb 2004 Posts: 29

Anybody have any luck getting the modem working from the slmodem 2.9.7-r2 ebuild? I keep getting "device busy" errors when I try to use it. The module loads ok, and the symlink is set up ok. 2.6.7-gentoo-r8 kernel with the intel alsa modem module compiled and loaded. I tried it without that first, and got the same error.
Scott

Dariush · n00b Joined: 17 Apr 2004 Posts: 15

Vesentac · n00b Joined: 04 Mar 2004 Posts: 17

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=762939

frohman · Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2004 1:22 pm Post subject:

I tryed to use portage to download xfree-4.3.99, but it only had ebuilds for 4.3.0-r6, 4.3.0-r7, and 4.3.0-r8 (hard masked). I went to XFree86's website to find the source for 4.3.99, but the only had source for 4.3.0 and 4.4.0. Does 4.4.0 work in Gentoo? Also, if it was released in February, why isn't there an ebuild for it five months later? If I compile xfree 4.4.0 on my own, will I break portage or the dependancies?

scottymace · n00b Joined: 15 Feb 2004 Posts: 29

tcma · Apprentice Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 208

How to mount the dvd drive?

This does not work:
# mount -rw -t iso9660 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom
mount: block device /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 is write-protected but explicit `-w' flag given
# ls /mnt/cdrom
# mount
/dev/hda5 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime)
none on /dev type devfs (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
none on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)

tcma · Apprentice Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 208

I used alsamixer v1.0.5 for the sound card VIA 8235 to turn volume up 100% for every controls which allow me to do that (e.g Master, Master M, PCM, ... ) but the sound is still not loud, is there a way to increase the volume or this is the way the sound is?

scottymace · n00b Joined: 15 Feb 2004 Posts: 29

frohman · Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2004 3:46 pm Post subject:

I am now running Xorg w/ KDE

To get the machine running with the 2.6.7 kernel, I flashed my BIOS as mentioned earlier in this thread. Now, the built in keyboard does not function once Gentoo starts booting. It works fine in grub, but only the brightness adjustments work after that.

Also, on a somewhat unrelated topic, my Logitec wireless mouse does not work correctly. (The mouse is part of a desktop setup that also has a wireless keyboard, which is what I am typing with right now.) It worked just right off of the live CD, but now it does strange things when I move it, like select random things without me pressing any buttons. If anyone knows what settings to put in my xorgconfig file, it would be greatly appreciated. The touchpad becomes annoying after about one minuite.

scottymace · n00b Joined: 15 Feb 2004 Posts: 29

Dariush · n00b Joined: 17 Apr 2004 Posts: 15

frohman · Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2004 10:12 pm Post subject:

Thanks. Now my mouse works

. For the keyboard, how do I enable evdev. I did not see an option for this in the kernel .config file.

scottymace · n00b Joined: 15 Feb 2004 Posts: 29

scottymace · n00b Joined: 15 Feb 2004 Posts: 29

tcma · Apprentice Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 208

I forgot to include these errors in my previous post when mounting a CD:

# mount -r -t auto /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0: Input/output error
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
# mount -r -t iso9660 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdroms/cdrom0,
or too many mounted file systems

# mount -rw -t iso9660 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom
mount: block device /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 is write-protected but explicit `-w' flag given

'ls' does not display anything:
# ls /mnt/cdrom

# umount /mnt/cdrom
umount: /mnt/cdrom: not mounted

Therefore still has a problem mount a CD.

mount -r -t udf /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom
works for mounting a DVD (but not a CD). Good!

scottymace · n00b Joined: 15 Feb 2004 Posts: 29

frohman · Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 6:19 pm Post subject:

I already had evdev set as a module, so I set it to compile in, but the keyboard still didn't work. Since so many packages fail to compile in 64-bit, I fave decided to start over with everything in 32-bit so the ATI drivers and the Broadcom drivers will work. See you in a few days.