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PostPosted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 3:29 pm    Post subject: Fujitsu Siemens Amilo L 7310 MCN laptop / stage 1 Reply with quote

Hello there,

I recently bought a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo L 7310 MCN laptop because it was so cheap.

I've just started a stage 1 and I'm planning on writing down the progress overhere so maybe someone can make use of it. I also expect to encounter some difficulties ;-).

Hardware

Quote:
--- lspci

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN400/PM880 Host Bridge
0000:00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN400/PM880 Host Bridge
0000:00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN400/PM880 Host Bridge
0000:00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN400/PM880 Host Bridge
0000:00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN400/PM880 Host Bridge
0000:00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN400/PM880 Host Bridge
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge
0000:00:06.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc.: Unknown device 0 01a (rev 01)
0000:00:09.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB1410 Cardbus Controller (rev 0 1)
0000:00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Contr oller (rev 80)
0000:00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Contr oller (rev 80)
0000:00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Contr oller (rev 80)
0000:00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82)
0000:00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
0000:00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT82 3x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
0000:00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8 237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
0000:00:11.6 Communication controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC'97 Modem Contro ller (rev 80)
0000:00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 74)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. S3 Unichrome Pro VGA Adapter (rev 02)


Code:
 --- /etc/make.conf
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -msse2 -O2 -ffast-math -pipe -fforce-addr -msse -mmmx -fomit-frame-pointer"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"


I'm using the install-x86-universal-2005.1 CD (has difficulties with USB memory sticks: controller is using the wrong IRQ, device not accepting address), DistCC and CCache. I use a modified installation guide.

Code:


--- install CD USB error

usb 1-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: Unlink after no-IRQ?  Controller is probably using the wrong IRQ.
usb 1-3: device not accepting address 4, error -110
usb 1-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
usb 1-3: device not accepting address 5, error -110
usb 1-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6
usb 1-3: device not accepting address 6, error -110
usb 1-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
usb 1-3: device not accepting address 7, error -110


Stage 1

Started at 16:00 and ended at 18:20 without errors.

Stage 2

Started at 18:22 after switching to:

Code:

CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -mtune=pentium-m -ffast-math -pipe -fforce-addr -msse -mmmx -fomit-frame-pointer"


Problem: binutils needs:

Code:
 --- /etc/make.conf
CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -msse2 -O2 -ffast-math -pipe -fforce-addr -msse -mmmx -fomit-frame-pointer"


Ended at 20:10.

Xorg-X11

I unmasked Xorg-7 and the emerge went fine although I can only use "driver=vesa" and I can not set the monitor resolution to 1280x800. I tried to use KDE but it sets the resolution to something like 1600x ... and becomes totally unusable ... If I try to use the KDE control centre to switch to 1024x768, KDE crashes.

0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. S3 Unichrome Pro VGA Adapter (rev 02) ...

The Synaptics pad works fine though.

Added 04-08-2006:

It turned out that all of the buggy ACPI BIOS related problems are gone by simply adding:

Code:

...
irqpoll


... to grub.conf!

I now have a fully working Amilo 7310 L laptop running Gentoo 2006.0 stage 1 with stable Xorg-7 (1280x800 through ModeLines + "via" driver). I am using madwifi-ng and wpa_supplicant and they work fine. The Synaptics touchpad works fine along with my USB mouse. Sound is working too and glxgears reports 700 fps!
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