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PostPosted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 7:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Are you using APM or ACPI?
I'm working with kernel 2.6.8.1 and ACPI and shutdown doesn't work... :-(
Any ideas, what I can do?
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 7:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Using acpi.

just noticed (because forgot to patch) that shutdown works without it.

tried r10 --> this doesn't even boot, just shutsdown while booting (without any pathch applied)

and the newest 2.6.9-r1 has no swsusp in it, so I just use r9!

So try r9.

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 7:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I just updated to Kernel 2.6.9 and it works fine now. :-) Thanks für your help.
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 9:16 pm    Post subject: Fn F7 - switch to vga port does not work under X Reply with quote

Hi everybody,

at first the HW I am using: a IBM Thinkpad R50p with a FireGL (VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M10 NT [FireGL Mobility T2] )
My current SW:
->Gentoo Linux, gentoo-dev-sources 2.6.9
-> xorg-x11-6.8.0-r1, my video driver is the standard video driver from xorg for ati
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "ati"
VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc"
BoardName "Unknown Board"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"

Because i need to connect my laptop to an external monitor or a beamer, i need to use the vga port. Under the console, switching with Fn F7 works fine ( only laptop, both laptop and monitor, only monitor -> everthing works fine). As soon as i switch to X, the keys Fn F7 does not work any more. If I connect a monitor, the picture is directly shown on the external monitor without hitting the keys. But the picture flickers a lot, so its not usable.Any further hit of the keys has no impact. Any ideas ? perhaps some options in the xorg-config file ? I searched for quite a while, but didn't find a solution.

thx :P
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 16, 2005 10:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

looking for one but cant find any R5x models with anything other than the Radeon 7500 (which I gather is worse than pants)
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 16, 2005 10:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Get a Thinkpad T23!
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 16, 2005 10:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Where from?

Isn't that an old model?
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 16, 2005 10:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 16, 2005 10:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

i need to find a site like that in the UK :P
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 16, 2005 10:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

They will ship to the UK. Or try ebay. It shouldn't be hard to find.
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 16, 2005 11:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

gordon brown likes to take his cut with stuff like that coming into the country :evil:
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 16, 2005 11:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Heh, who is Gordon Brown?
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 30, 2005 11:47 am    Post subject: ACPI suspend to RAM Fn+F4 Reply with quote

I apparently got suspend to RAM to work in ACPI on my Thinkpad X31.

The problem was previously that the display backlight woudn't turn off.
Here's my /etc/acpid/default.sh

Code:

#!/bin/sh
# Default acpi script that takes an entry for all actions

set $*

group=${1/\/*/}
action=${1/*\//}

case "$group" in
        button)
                case "$action" in
                        power)  /usr/bin/chvt 7
                                radeontool light on
                                ;;
                        sleep)  sync && sync && sync
                                /usr/bin/chvt 1
                                radeontool light off
                                echo 3 > /proc/acpi/sleep
                                radeontool light off
                                ;;
                        lid)  sync && sync && sync
                                /usr/bin/chvt 1
                                radeontool light off
                                echo 3 > /proc/acpi/sleep
                                radeontool light off
                                ;;
                        *)      logger "ACPI action $action is not defined"
                                ;;
                esac
                ;;

        *)
                logger "ACPI group $group / action $action is not defined"
                ;;
esac



The key is to switch to a text console prior to use radeontool to turn off the display (the /usr/bin/chvt 1 line).

Obviously, you need to enable acpid in your startup scripts, and emerge radeontool...
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 8:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Evil, evil thinkpad!

After much searching online I'm hoping someone here might be able to help me...
When I first installed gentoo about a year ago, I couldn't get sleep (echo 3 > /proc/acpi/sleep) working and I didn't have time to fix it. It would successfully sleep, but there was no way to wake it up.

Now, I've just upgraded my kernel to the gentoo-dev-sources 2.6.10 r6 and sleep works better, in that it goes to sleep *and* hitting the function key seems to wake it up---sort of.

When it's waking up , the screen says "in" in yellow text for a while, then the sleep light goes out and the thing reboots.

Anyone else have this problem, or know what could be causing it?

I've tried a variety of kernel options (like acpi_sleep=s3_bios, hdx=stroke, nolapic...) but nothing seems to make any difference.

I don't really want to switch to APM but I cannot, for the life of me, get this thing working.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 5:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Do the recovery cd's re-instate the backup/pre-desktop partition? or once it's gone is it gone for good?

I just want to be sure that if I screw everything up, I can bang the recovery cd's in and have a working system as beautiful as it was when it arrived?
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 1:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi,

I've just bought a new hard drive for my thinkpad, but there's one big problem... Warranty ended one week ago and IBM now wants about 60€ for the recovery cd, what I really don't want to pay. So I would like to backup the predesktop, but I don't know why, on my R50 the IBM app for backupping doesn't exist (i can only backup the installed system)...
So I switched off the security function, so that I can see the part of the hard drive. But cfdisk tells me, that it is really "free space", so I don't know, how to backup it...
Any ideas, how I can do that?

thx,
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 9:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

nomad- wrote:
Get my ifplugd.action and put it in /usr/sbin. Now, test ifplugd.

Anyone has nomad-'s ifplug.action file? Because the link to his site is not working any more, and I really would like to have a look at it (noone should have to invent the wheel twice :wink: )
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 9:54 pm    Post subject: Thanks a lot Reply with quote

Just wanted to say thank you for this fine thread :-)
I'm off to get one of these R51, see you guys later ...
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 3:57 pm    Post subject: Nomad's ifplugd.action file Reply with quote

Or at least, my current version of it:

sunds@espoir>> more /usr/sbin/ifplugd.action
#!/bin/bash

logger ifplugd.action run $*

if [ -x ${rc_script} ]; then
case "$2" in
up)
/sbin/ifconfig $1 down &> /dev/null
/etc/init.d/net.eth0 --quiet start
/etc/init.d/net.eth1 stop
;;
down)
/etc/init.d/net.eth0 --quiet stop
/etc/init.d/net.eth1 start
;;
*)
echo "$0: wrong arguments"
echo "Call with <interface> <up|down>"
exit 1
;;
esac
else
echo "$0: init script ${rc_script} not found"
exit 2
fi

logger interface $1 changed to $2

exit 0
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 4:25 pm    Post subject: Re: Nomad's ifplugd.action file Reply with quote

objectswitch wrote:
Or at least, my current version of it: /usr/sbin/ifplugd.action

Thank's, but it was about nomad-'s more sophisticated version of that script. In the meanwhile I already worked out a solution by myself, please see this thread.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 5:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

all of this guys links are down.... anyone have these files up somewhere elsE?
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 1:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hey I have a general question, There seems to be several different types of R51 out there
can anyone tell me if this laptop
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=6754834826&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT

is the type that this howto refers to?

I had read somewhere that the centrino technology was not supported under linux, and I am not sure if this is the same Wi-Fi card as is indicated in this howto

thank you all for your time and have a good day
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 10:09 pm    Post subject: Sound problem Reply with quote

I have a R50 and got problems configuring sound... I compiled alsa with on the kernel but nothing works.

My lspci

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 81)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 01)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7LW [Radeon Mobility 7500]
0000:02:00.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI4520 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
0000:02:00.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments: Unknown device 802a (rev 01)
0000:02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82540EP Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Mobile) (rev 03)
0000:02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abgNIC (rev 01)

My lsmod

Module Size Used by
radeon 70784 1
drm 55188 2 radeon
ohci_hcd 18184 0
parport_pc 28740 0
parport 30408 1 parport_pc
ohci1394 28676 0
ieee1394 87860 1 ohci1394
usbhid 30016 0
ehci_hcd 27400 0
uhci_hcd 27664 0
intel_agp 18972 1
agpgart 27176 2 drm,intel_agp
usbcore 97400 5 ohci_hcd,usbhid,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
snd_intel8x0 27200 0
snd_ac97_codec 67576 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm 76040 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer 19460 1 snd_pcm
snd 44132 4 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
snd_page_alloc 7428 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
e1000 80180 0

I dunno if I am using the right module. I tryed snd_intel8x0 and snd_ac97_codec

my /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6

e1000
snd_intel8x0

Thanks in advance for the help !

Regards,
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 10:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

badgers wrote:
Hey I have a general question, There seems to be several different types of R51 out there
can anyone tell me if this laptop
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=6754834826&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT

is the type that this howto refers to?

The laptop at ebay has a lower screen resolution, another graphics chip etc. However, the howto may be useful. I used it to configure my R51 (yet another model).
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 12:36 pm    Post subject: Re: HOWTO: Linux on the IBM ThinkPad R51 (and compatible mod Reply with quote

nomad- wrote:

Code:
CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3


sorry, just a little question, because i am also planning to install gentoo linux on my r51.
in the doc of the gnu gcc, i found the option "-march=pentium-m" more appropriate.
http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.4.3/gcc/i386-and-x86_002d64-Options.html#i386-and-x86_002d64-Options
but i am really not a specialist. so maybe i overlook something.

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