Gentoo on Toshiba satellite pro 6100

[Pseud]

This whole migrating to XOrg from XFree is getting me excited. This long but edifying thread on the XFree86 licensing controversy was a very interesting read. Particularly, the healthy point-counterpoint-ish debate between Ian Goldby and sgtrock (Gentoo ids, btw). I realise, though, that I've been kind of late in keeping up with this issue. I shamefully admit that I got to know of the controversy only today

One enthused soul (bless him/her) has even put up a quick how-to to help people who wish to switch to XOrg.

I'm beginning to realise this thread is getting a blog-ish feel. Something has to be done soon or I might suffer an unprecedented kick-in-the-butt by some administrator or the other here. But then again, I'm only hoping to be useful, if only by being highly redundant
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[Falling_Icaro]

Hey there!

I have the same laptop you do! im quite happy with it, i really love the design. I think i have the "cheap" version: 14.1'' TFT 16MB Video RAM, no WiFi, no Bluethooth.

Now im in the process of switching from 2.4 kernel to 2.6. I spent almost 6 months with 2.4, however i never done much effort on a perfect installation: no ACPI working (and watchout with this, i almost burned my CPU out because a faulty ACPI configuration for about 5 months), no Modem working (dam dreaded software modem - i suspect it will never work in linux), no PCMCIA working, no SD Card Working, no Infrared working, no Dual head working, no TV-out working.. hell, this was a expensive laptop, too expensive for being happy with a minimal working system.

Cause that, 4 days ago i started a new 2.6 kernel install: thanks for your XFree86Config Files, for the first time in linux i have the USB and the pointer mice working on the same time. I can say my PCMCIA is working too, recently i bought the SMC2935W PCMCIA wireless card, i had just to build as modules the PCMCIA core driver, Hotplug drivers, Hotplug firmware driver and PrismGT driver in the kernel.

Alsa is working too, but i cant say im very happy with it: i dont have any sound problems with it, however i cant use Gnome CD Player to play CDs. Althouth i can play mp3, wav, UT2004demo (great benchmark aplication!) with sound and music, i can only play Audio CDs with XMMS and the CD Audio pluggin configured to "Digital Audio Extraction" (is like i havent the Analog cable conected from the DVDRom to the Audio Card - and no, i dont want to open the laptop case!!! - and yes i have all channels (PCM, Master, CDAudio) unmuted in the mixer). I can hear CD Audio in xmms, however i dont think the sound quality is the best it can do (however is quite good), and ill be quite disapointed if i cant use CD Player (like i used to do back in 2.4 kernel - one week ago with 2.2 Gnome).

Well, for the rest, now im struggling with suspend and other powersaving stuff, i wouldnt want to relly on ACPI for my bad experiences. All what i can do now is to scale the CPU frequence:
- In kernel 2.6
Power Management -> CPU Freq Scalling:
- Default Governour as "Performance"
- powersave and userspace Governours as modules
- Intel Pentium 4 clock modulation as module (CPUFreq processor Driver)

Now if i want to change speed all i do is to use /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq. Ex:

# echo userspace > scaling_governor
# echo 800000 > scaling_setspeed
# cat /proc/cpuinfo
(..)
cpu MHz : 797.686
(..)

The goal now is to suspend and change the brightness of the TFT. Do you ever try to do this withouth ACPI? (is it possible?) Do you had any sucessfull install of ACPI?

Thanks!

- josemf@portugal