Vaio R505 w/ Slimdock

revresxunil · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2003 11:27 pm Post subject:

rsjog is awesome, and kde is the bomb for laptops... it has an acpi power moniter.. hats off to kde!

for any user to edit the brightness, go into /etc/devfsd.conf and add:

serial. · n00b Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 16

Hey, I know this thread has been quiet for awhile, but I was wondering if anyone could help me get the CD drive in my docking station going. I've got a fresh Gentoo install, with kernel 2.4.22_pre2-gss (the Gentoo Stable kernel). I believe this has fairly recent ACPI patches, as my wi-fi card is properly enabled (which didn't happen with the vanilla 2.4.22). I believe I have all the relevant bits compiled directly in the kernel (SCSI emulation, SBP-2, many more), my question is really just what device I should be trying to mount.
/dev/hda is my hard drive
/dev/sda1 is the memory stick
I see no other useful devices to mount. /dev/ieee1394 is empty.

PS- I just got rsjog working, and it is in fact the bomb. A note for anyone having weird errors when they try to use the scroll wheel: you have to put Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" in /etc/X11/XF86Config, just like a scroll mouse.

revresxunil · Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2003 8:31 pm Post subject:

I just updated everything on my laptop, but can sadly say i havent tried my cdrom drive for a loooong time.

considering it is firewire, make sure you have firewire and all the relevant modules installed in the kernel (like storage devices and stuff).

Take a look at the links in this post, there should be a section that says where in /dev the cdrom is.

If you cant figure it out/ or find it, i will boot into linux on my laptop and take a look.

serial. · n00b Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 16

So I figured it out. The kernel was correctly detecting the SBP-2 device, but for some reason it didn't get assigned a SCSI device number (i.e. sdb). I was able to get it working by using a script called rescan-scsi-bus.sh. After running this, /dev/cdrom immediately picked up the drive.

This is kind of a kludge, does anyone know of a more elegant way of doing it (at boot)? I've attached the relevant portion of my dmesg, note how the device is detected but SCSI doesn't do anything about it...

peddie · n00b Joined: 02 Nov 2004 Posts: 9 Location: Toronto, ON

Just a quick note, the latest Knoppix CD boots from the CD just fine. You can then install Gentoo from a knoppix shell, and browse the forums at the same time

You might want to try the latest 2005.1-rc1 live-cd. It says there's support for usb-cdroms so maybe they fixed the firewire bug as well.

If you're going the knoppix way (I recommend it) then make sure you check out the alt. install guide in the docs.