Gentoo Acer 803LCi support thread (discussion section)

preacher · Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2004 9:01 am Post subject:

Drivers for Intel 2100 are out.
However they still lack WEP-support, but that will probably be fixed soon.

But since I want 11g-support in my laptop, I'm wondering if it would be possible to exchange the Intel 2100 miniPCI with ANY miniPCI-card, not just the TrueMobile 1150?

There are apparently some good MiniPCI-cards supporting 11g that work fine with linux.[/url]

federico · Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2004 11:55 am Post subject:

Really Interesting. I have to try them to choos wich are better, those or the ndis ones..
Fede
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preacher · Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2004 11:44 am Post subject:

The 804LCi has, apart from a larger harddrive and 1.7ghz cpu, also a 11g wlan-card instead of only 11b.

Other than that, it seems identical to the 803LCi so I'm hoping this guide will work fine with it.

However, has anyone got any clue which chip provides the 11g wlan, and if it works in linux, be it native or using ndiswrapper?

fredrin · Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2004 4:51 pm Post subject:

From Rage3d.com

feffi · Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 1:24 pm Post subject: Update

ok, hello to all I'm back (I accidently removed this thread from my watch-list, stupid me, and I was wondering there is no update or post so far)... :roll:

I've updated the Graphics section and included pestilence's tutorial and mtrr-fix for the ATI-Radeon 9000
Furthermore I'm investigating into the Open-Source Intel Driver and a friend of mine is targeting the ATI-TV-Out problem.
So be patient, we currently have heavy workload on gentoo here (I just set up a Gentoo-Cluster

so applause and some 'horray' would be appreciated :lol:

)

P.S.: Yes, you can laugh! :lol:

feffi · Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 2:53 pm Post subject: emerge.log

Hi,
I've written a small parser in PHP for the emerge.log file which gives me the compilation times for all packages currently in the logfile.
Now I would like to ask you all, if you can bzip2 your emerge.log for me and send it to me via email? I would be very pleased about it, as I could provide some compilation times for the tutorial. Before you ask, SURELY I will release this parser script, but I just want to test/bugfix it a little bit before releasing...

Stay tuned

feffi · Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 7:18 pm Post subject: really busy today

OK, here comes another one

Added FN-Volume-Keys and XFree-OSD (really nice)
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|T5| · n00b Joined: 13 Dec 2003 Posts: 33

Hi, this Config should work for TV-OUT, using two different instances of XFree. So everything should work, except moving windows from one screen to the second.

HMM, maybe this files would need a cleanup

.

regards
xvlun

federico · Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 11:14 pm Post subject:

CLAP for the cluster

I have tried just now the xosd and it's really cool, that's another cool tool !
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federico · Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2004 11:58 pm Post subject:

I tried xbindkeys http://hocwp.free.fr/xbindkeys/xbindkeys.html for key binding and I discovered that I can use my P1 and P2 keys easily and I am really happy for that. It does not depend on the X system you are using so it's useful also if you use more than one X and so on...

You must set an .xbindkeysrc file like that for example (that's mine)

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I tried your .xbindkeysrc file, but no luck. I managed to make the mute-command work though. The problem is that my Linux-installation doesn't detect the keys at all. I ran 'xbindkeys -k', but it didn't detect any keycodes for my specialkeys.

federico wrote:

federico · Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2004 12:46 pm Post subject:

Two friends of mine reported today the same problem... Absurd.. I will experiment with other kernels, maybe that's the problem..
Here they works..

[EDIT]
Checked on 2.6.x kernels (from x=0 to 3) and xkeybinds works well
My test is done on a 291lmi TravelMate, gentoo ~x86 with and without xmodmap running (not on the same keys...)
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pjv · Guru Joined: 02 Jul 2003 Posts: 353 Location: Belgium

I believe the P1 and P2 keys for some non-800 Acer's were already working (they are just an extension of the keyboard). The 4 keys of the TM800 series however don't work yet, as they are sent through the BIOS or something. So it isn't that much a surprise that P1 and P2 work with a 29x whatever laptop.

federico · Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2004 4:07 pm Post subject:

I thought it was a nice idea.. Excuse me if it's not ... :oops:

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feffi · Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2004 10:51 pm Post subject: keycode

as the 80x series has some other hardware (look at a post of mine a little bit back in this discussion), it obvious that this xkeybinding thingy will work. Like 'xev' no tools whatsoever will definetly detect a keycode for those keys (althrough they are detected on 60x and 20x)...

So I think, we'll have to wait

P.S.: Please mail the makes of 'acerhk' and beg them for inclusion of the 80x series (as these guys have the most understanding how the keys work)
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jjc · Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2004 3:01 am Post subject: Making the extra keys work

On the 803 the keyboard controller firmware won't generate scan codes for the extra keys unless a special command is sent to it. Here's a little patch I wrote to do this. This is against 2.6.4.

feffi · Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2004 1:24 pm Post subject:

hell, THIS is really good news, I'll try that immediatly and if it works, I'll definetly include this into the tutorial!

BTW: Has anybody gotten the Modem to work via hfps or similar?? A little tutorial would be nice...
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tuxlover · Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2004 7:14 pm Post subject:

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LcMatrix · n00b Joined: 18 Mar 2004 Posts: 33

I'Ve tried the Code postet by jjc on my Travelmate 801 LCiB. The Browser and Mail Key work perfectly. After patching the kernel source etc. KDE recognized the keys and i could attach them to Konquerer and KMail. The P1 and P2 Keys don't work (yet). Don't know why. Maybe the Code is different on the LCiB for them or it interferes with some other keys. Will check that out.

Something else:
Has anyone tried the ndiswrapper 0.6 ? At home where i do not use a WEP key everything works perfectly but at my university where i have to use a WEP key it doesn't seem to work - althoug it is noted as fixed in the release notes for that release. Anyone has some deeper insights ?

Greetings,
Matrix

korban · Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2004 9:22 am Post subject:

also tried the code posted by jjc, same for me: Mail and Web key work great (thanks to jjc), the others are not recognized by xev.
(using love-sources 2.6.4-rc2, xfree-4.3.0-r5)

feffi · Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2004 2:05 pm Post subject: me too

on my alptop also only the MAIL and WWW buttons work
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preacher · Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2004 8:15 pm Post subject:

Dont know if this is the right thread to report this in, but latest CVS of ndiswrapper now works with the Intel 2200BG, which is the 802.11gb-chip in the Acer 804LCi

Got a wireless connection against my AP with WEP in just a few minutes fiddling.

Btw, nice work with the special keys patch. Will try it out and see if it works on the 804 aswell, which (I believe) has basically the same hardware except for some minor hardware upgrades.

But why work on the bluetooth and wlan-button?
On my computer both buttons work, bluetooth out of the box and wlan as soon as I installed the ndiswrapper-driver.
... Unless ofcourse you want to remap the buttons to do something else...

sonicwave · Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2004 8:46 pm Post subject:

Hey everybody,

I am a still a little new to gentoo, but got my laptop up and running yesterday. I am having a bit of difficulty getting the right performance out of my Radeon though.

Compiled the kernel (after the emerge gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.4-r1.ebuild) with DRM and the Radeon kernel options enabled as module. Followed the guide, and installed (emerge) ati-drivers 3.2.8, and ran fglrxconfig to set everything up.

X runs beautifly so thats pretty cool

but i am getting a little low results on glxgears.

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