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sledge
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 Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 12:25 am Post subject: Success Report - Gentoo GNU/Linux64 2003.4 on eMachines 6811 |
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I am typing this report from my eMachines M6811 Mobile Athlon64 laptop.
The installation was a breeze and it works so far, but I am somewhat disappointed of the graphics performance:
glxgears shows an average of 1330 fps. My P3-666 with a GeForce3 Ti500 gets about 3050 fps.
Anyways, here is some interesting stuff for you:
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$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 15
model : 4
model name : Mobile AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3400+
stepping : 10
cpu MHz : 801.835
cache size : 1024 KB
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 pni syscall nx mmxext lm 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips : 1578.82
TLB size : 1088 4K pages
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts fid vid ttp
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$ lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8385 [K8T800 AGP] Host Bridge (rev 01)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI bridge [K8T800 South]
0000:00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB1410 Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:0c.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
0000:00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
0000:00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
0000:00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82)
0000:00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
0000:00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
0000:00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
0000:00:11.6 Communication controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 80)
0000:00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 74)
0000:00:13.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 80)
0000:00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
0000:00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
0000:00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
0000:00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]
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$ emerge info
Portage 2.0.51-r15 (default-linux/amd64/2004.3, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0, 2.6.10-gentoo-r7 x86_64)
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System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r7 x86_64 Mobile AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3400+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.9
Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Feb 13 2005, 08:47:18)]
dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1
sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.8.5-r3, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.4_p6, 1.9.4
sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r2
sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4
virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -mtune=athlon64 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -mtune=athlon64 -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://cs.ubishops.ca/pub/gentoo ftp://gentoo.risq.qc.ca ftp://gentoo.agsn.ca http://gentoo.mirrored.ca http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.ca.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 X aac acpi alsa audiofile avi bitmap-fonts bzip2 caps cdparanoia crypt divx4linux dvd dvdr dvdread f77 fam flac gd gif gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 hal imlib2 java jp2 jpeg jpeg2k ldap lzw lzw-tiff mng mozilla mozsvg mp3 mpeg multilib ncurses oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia perl png povray python qt real rtc ruby samba sdl sndfile ssl tcpd tga theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb userlocales wifi xine xinerama xml2 xmms xpm xrandr xv xvid zlib"
Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
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$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
# $XdotOrg: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/xorgconf.cpp,v 1.2 2004/04/23 19:20:02 eich Exp $
#
Section "dri"
Group 27 #video
Mode 0660
EndSection
Section "Files"
# The location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally
# no need to change the default.
RgbPath "/usr/lib64/X11/rgb"
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (which are concatenated together),
# as well as specifying multiple comma-separated entries in one FontPath
# command (or a combination of both methods)
# For XFS, uncomment this and comment the others
# FontPath "unix/:-1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/local/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/CID/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Speedo/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
# ModulePath can be used to set a search path for the X server modules.
# The default path is shown here.
# ModulePath "/usr/lib64/modules"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
# This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables
# initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module.
SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga"
EndSubSection
# This loads the Type1 and FreeType font modules
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
# This loads the GLX module
Load "glx"
Load "dri"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
# Option "NoTrapSignals"
# Option "DontVTSwitch"
# Option "DontZap"
# Option "DontZoom"
# Option "DisableVidModeExtension"
# Option "AllowNonLocalXvidtune"
# Option "DisableModInDev"
# Option "AllowNonLocalModInDev"
Option "blank time" "10" # 10 minutes
Option "standby time" "20"
Option "suspend time" "30"
Option "off time" "60"
# Option "EstimateSizesAggresively" "0"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "kbd"
#Driver "keyboard"
# Option "Protocol" "Xqueue"
Option "AutoRepeat" "500 5"
# Option "Xleds" "1 2 3"
# Option "XkbDisable"
# Option "XkbModel" "pc102"
# Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
# Option "XkbModel" "microsoft"
# Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
Option "dpms"
# HorizSync 31.5 # typical for a single frequency fixed-sync monitor
# VertRefresh 60 # typical for a single frequency fixed-sync monitor
# Option "sync on green"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor1"
Option "dpms"
# HorizSync 31.5 # typical for a single frequency fixed-sync monitor
# VertRefresh 60 # typical for a single frequency fixed-sync monitor
# Option "sync on green"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Graphics Adapter"
Driver "fglrx"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen 0
Option "no_accel" "no"
Option "no_dri" "no"
Option "mtrr" "off"
Option "DesktopSetup" "0x00000100"
Option "MonitorLayout" "AUTO, AUTO"
Option "IgnoreEDID" "off"
#Option "HSync2" "31.5 - 80.5"
Option "VRefresh2" "20 - 60"
Option "ScreenOverlap" "0"
Option "NoTV" "no"
Option "TVStandard" "NTSC-M"
Option "TVHSizeAdj" "0"
Option "TVVSizeAdj" "0"
Option "TVHPosAdj" "0"
Option "TVVPosAdj" "0"
Option "TVHStartAdj" "0"
Option "TVColorAdj" "0"
Option "GammaCorrectionI" "0"
Option "GammaCorrectionII" "0"
Option "Capabilities" "0x00000000"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
Option "CenterMode" "off"
Option "PseudoColorVisuals" "off"
Option "Stereo" "off"
Option "StereoSyncEnable" "1"
Option "FSAAEnable" "no"
Option "UseFastTLS" "0"
Option "BlockSignalsOnLock" "on"
Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "no"
Option "ForceGenericCPU" "no"EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "ATI Graphics Adapter"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x800"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Server Layout"
Screen "Screen0"
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
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Any advice on improving the graphics perfomance and getting the wireless adapter to work is welcomed  |
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d0nju4n
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| Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 5:31 am Post subject: |
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Congratulations on a successful install.
Also, please be advised that glxgears is not an accurate benchmark. I've seen times where I get anwhere from 5-10k fps with the same programs running
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solitaire
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| Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 8:07 am Post subject: |
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| I have the gateway 7422 and both are arima built and pretty much identicle. The ndiswrapper worked for the existing wireless card. I just ordered a Prism GT mini-pci card to replace the broadcom that comes with these laptops and I'll let you know how that goes. From everything that i can find online, it appears the arima laptops do not have the bios whitelist that plagues the HP/Compaq laptops. From you're /proc/cpuinfo it looks like you have freq_scalling working, that was the biggest pain for me. Ok I can't lie the stupid ati card was the toughest part. |
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sledge
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| Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 11:34 pm Post subject: |
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| d0nju4n wrote: | | Congratulations on a successful install. |
Thanks, but I ran Gentoo64 on this machines before. I was surprised that ATI didn't have 64-bit drivers at that time, so I purged the install and went with Gentoo32. And then I had the breaking-hinges problem...
| solitaire wrote: | | From you're /proc/cpuinfo it looks like you have freq_scalling working, that was the biggest pain for me. Ok I can't lie the stupid ati card was the toughest part. |
Yeah, I followed the Power Management instructions and now it works pretty sweetly. |
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