HOWTO: Gentoo 2005.1 on Dell 700m

jamesshuang · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 08 Aug 2002 Posts: 120

Has anyone tried getting suspend-to-ram to work yet? I've gotten so far as having it boot back up... there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with it, in fact.... the only thing that doesn't work is (surprise surprise) video. LCD doesn't get initialized, screen is black. Anyone try that yet?

Hauser · Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 6:24 pm Post subject:

Hauser · Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 7:11 pm Post subject:

Wireless problem
Well, wireless itself has no problem, I use ipw2200, which is pretty easy to set up.

The problem is: ever since I started using wireless, I can't use network cable directly anymore, ie if I connect my notebook with my cable modem through network cable, network won't work. I have tried disabling the wireless control in bios, but neither Gentoo nor XP can get online. The dmesg shows:

TheSoko · n00b Joined: 31 Dec 2003 Posts: 37 Location: Illinois

I'm having issues with the b44 driver. The wired networking works in Windows XP just fine. But when I try it in Gentoo, the connection seems to come up, until I actually try to visit a webpage.

I get this in dmesg:

MrStubby · n00b Joined: 29 Oct 2004 Posts: 3

Anyone else have issues using the framebuffer after exiting X?

Framebuffer works fine before entering X, upon exit I cannot access any consoles though. The screen appears to be a low rez version of a chunk of my X windows desktop and no matter which console doesn't display text. You can type commands but cannot see what you type or the output, unless you startx in which case X will come back.

jamesshuang · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 08 Aug 2002 Posts: 120

Hello everyone! I just got suspend to ram to work on the machine! Suspend to ram has always been working- it resumes from suspend properly, but as with all other laptops, the screen doesn't come back up. I founds this gem: http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mjg59/laptops/video-post_0.1.orig.tar.gz which brings the screen back up from a suspend. Good luck!

kbranch · n00b Joined: 17 Nov 2004 Posts: 40

duhblow7 · n00b Joined: 04 Sep 2004 Posts: 37

taskara · Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 12:57 am Post subject:

MysticPixel · n00b Joined: 30 Nov 2004 Posts: 16

wow, thanks for this thread! I figured out a lot of stuff on my own, enough to get a solid system working and 1280x800 res and things like that, got the wireless and wired cards and sound working ok.

I for some reason see 2 sound devices in my mixer - one of them seems to control things like the headphone jack and the other the speakers? I think one of them's labeled i810audio and the other might be an alsa configred card. (My grub needs to be reinstalled on the MBR so i can't boot in there and check now.)

I'll have to try these steps for swsuspend and speedstepping; it's a lovely laptop but it runs TOO HOT without speedstepping! (and way too loud, too!)

If I figure anything else out I'll report back.

Hauser · Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 5:26 am Post subject:

gentoo700m · n00b Joined: 23 Feb 2005 Posts: 2

anybody successfully used fbset to change the resolution for the framebuffer ?

lkehresman · n00b Joined: 07 Nov 2002 Posts: 13

What really annoys me about the wide screen is that apps that require the 4:3 aspect ratio (i.e. games, console, etc) are stretched. I just discovered by accident that the Intel driver for Windows lets you configure the card so that it doesn't go full screen on resolutions smaller than 1280x800. To my surprise, this change persisted when I rebooted back into Gentoo. I assume it changes something on the graphics card itself. In any case, console is now at the proper aspect ratio, and 1024x768 resolution is not stretched either. Makes me happy.

jrbriggs · n00b Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 4

mope · Apprentice Joined: 23 Feb 2003 Posts: 206

I emerged the latest masked baselayout.
Instead of configuring /etc/conf.d/wireless I emerged wpa_supplicant
I emerged ipw2200

That should get you closer, hopefully.
Let me know if you need anything specific, but the files configuration should be pretty straightforward.

ahh_dee · n00b Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 4

Hey i am new to linux and i am trying to get my resolution right for my 700m. i followed the instuctions from

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taskara · Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 10:44 am Post subject:

can you post the output of

ahh_dee · n00b Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 4

taskara · Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 11:38 pm Post subject:

ahh IC.. actually there is an ebuild you could use, get it here

put it in your portage overlay (ie /usr/local/portage)

ahh_dee · n00b Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 4

thanks for the instuctions. however i did run into some problems. My portage overlay was

Hauser · Posted: Sat May 14, 2005 2:54 am Post subject:

taskara · Posted: Wed May 18, 2005 4:37 am Post subject:

I noticed that xfree 4.5 has improved support for i810 driver, I wonder if this fixes the wavy effect when outputting to vga

TheSoko · n00b Joined: 31 Dec 2003 Posts: 37 Location: Illinois

I was able to get S-Video out as well as CRT out working today, with just some changes to my xorg.conf file. It's based off of http://www.celifornia.com/documents/dell700m.html#Video-out

Here's my xorg.conf. Just need to uncomment the desired layout.
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taskara · Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 1:37 am Post subject:

scylding · n00b Joined: 24 May 2005 Posts: 12 Location: Wichita, KS

I couldn't get 855resolution to have any effect on the resolution that X loaded until I used the mode "34", as in