Gentoo Acer 803LCi support thread (discussion section)

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Added 4.2.1 Acovea
Added 4.2.1.1 Pentium-M
Added 4.2.1.2 Pentium-4
Added 4.2.1.3 Pentium-3
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[pjv]

Added Pentium 3

Did forget to save the flags themselves though! A little bit stupid. Does acovea have a log anywhere?

Also _kev_, where did you get the config file for pentium-M for use with acovea?

[fatrix]

Ahh..... I see... it was just talk about splitting up the howto....

There are some talk about this:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/Talk:Gentoo_Acer_Travelmate_803LCi_Manual

That's good
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[fatrix]

i ment.... That's good... that it's not split up

It's great to have a howto for gentoo on this laptop, and that it's all placed in one howto.

Sorry for bringing this misunderstanding up at the first place.
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[pjv]

I'm posting my (long) findings about acovea here. This is my second (and first proper) benchmark. I think we shouldn't put discussions in the wiki, but here. And be careful, I'm not asking for flame wars. Au contrary, those should be in the CFLAGS central thread or something. Hope you don't mind this length!

I've made my own config, that I think is better fit than the standard ones for pentium-m. It's also for gcc 3.3. You can find it here: gcc33_mymachine.acovea. I used runacovea with the huffbench. I hope to do this all again when gcc 3.4 and 3.5 come out.

The config is based on my current CFLAGS, which are:

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[feffi]

@pjv: THIS is AWESOME !!! very good work. Shall i quote your post??
on the GCC there are some stress testing and benchmarking programms. Maybe I'll give them a try. I definetly will keep an eye on acovea, but I currently have no time to do all the research that's neccessary.

I currently sometime get this chirping sounds, when I scroll my console or ls a big dir, so I belive it either the HD or what I mostly believe in the ATI again. Strange, strange...

[matttions]

hi to everybody ...
today I've got an external monitor working with the ati-drivers [3.11.1] under Xorg.

It was a LG 795FT Flatron Plus.

I try to explaine how I get it and, of course, if your computer or your monitor explose when you follow the informations display below , well, don't blame me!!!

Well .. so the first thing you have to do is to

[kwaakie]

I added a little more info in the irda part of the guide since I wasn't able to get irda to work without the module parameters.

edit: Also added a line about 1400x1050 framebuffer.
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[thepi]

okay, sorry guys, i've been away for a while, so i didn't come to adding the udev section. in fact, i'll have to start over since i already forgot how to do it

anyway i just updated to kernel 2.6.8-gentoo-r3, and it runs well. still, i'd recommend to any of you to _not_ use vesafb-tng yet, as it seems not to support 1400x1050 mode. for me, the display was messed up (could see only blinking cursor at the top of the screen, no text whatsoever - blind typing, yay.
moreover, supermount is taken out , and i can't dbus etc. to work (doesn't compile, presumably "masked" although listed in packacke.unmask).
if anyone could help on those subjects, you're welcome to do so

regarding the "tm80x live cd", i put up some precompiled packages. let's see where we get.

pi~
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[feffi]

@matttions: thx, but I would like to ask you to put it into the Wiki-Howto
@kwaakie: thx too

@both: welcome to the community
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[den_RDC]

I am planning on buying an acer 8003LMib. I suppose it is a lot like the 803, except it has a radeon 9700, a cpu with 2m cache, a dvdwriter, bluetooth and some other stuff. Anybody any experience with this one? I am betting it will be much like the 803, but i'd like to be a little sure before i blow a lot off hard earned cache on this one
I don't wanna end up running *winxp* (the horror).
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[corey_s]

xorg-x11-6.8...

So anyone got it running yet? I'm emerge -f'ing it right now, but thought I'd hold up on the actual build until I see if braver souls have any troubles with it...

Actualy, I'm in the midst of emerging KDE-3.3, so I'm gonna wait until that's through first. I'll report my results soon as I'm able.

[julienp]

[corey_s]

xorg-6.8 didn't give me any troubles.

It's up and running with no hassle - however I'm yet to actualy try the Damage and drop-shadows and all that... I'll try those next and see what happens.

corey@scanner ~ $ X -version

X Window System Version 6.8.0
Release Date: 8 September 2004
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.8
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.9-rc1 i686 [ELF]
Current Operating System: Linux scanner 2.6.9-rc1 #1 Tue Sep 7 12:54:45 Local time zone must be set--see zic manua i686
Build Date: 09 September 2004
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present

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[|T5|]

hi everybody,

unfortunately i had to have my acer TM801LCiB repaired and the mainborad got changed. Now i got a different revision of the ATI Mobility 9000 graphics chip