Dell Inspiron 6000

[VinzC]

I don't see anything in the laptop_mode and laptop-mode.conf man pages about it. Even if there was, it's nothing more than a workaround- a fix would seem to require an ACPI kernel patch. It wouldn't be the first vendor-specific kernel option. Aesthetics aside, I'm quite happy not to have to do the Ctl+Alt+Fx finger dance anymore.

This is frightening . Would mean, if I understand correctly, fixing the DSDT?

[garris0n]

This is frightening . Would mean, if I understand correctly, fixing the DSDT?

I'm not certain, there is nothing at acpi4linux for the Inspiron 6000.

[VinzC]

I'm not certain, there is nothing at acpi4linux for the Inspiron 6000.

So just a kernel patch would be enough... It's becoming a lot of things to wait for: full i915 support, ACPI...

[garris0n]

So just a kernel patch would be enough... It's becoming a lot of things to wait for: full i915 support, ACPI...

I'm a bit more optimistic: the 2.6.11 kernel supports the 915 chipset, the 915GM graphics chip will supposedly be supported in the next x.org release, and aside from the lid bug ACPI works fine; I have laptop-mode-tools and cpufreq working and soon I'll even take a stab at suspend-to-disk. Compared to my last laptop, this is a dream come true.

Linux on laptops has come a long way. (or maybe I'm just getting old)

[lancealtar]

Okay, I'm posting because it took me a very long time to find the answers to these questions.
#1) I was having problems because my CDRW/DVD-ROM would not allow me to hdparm -d 1 /dev/hdc
I was getting this error

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/dev/hdc:
 setting using_dma to 1 (on)
 HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
 using_dma    =  0 (off)

So after a very long time searching a friend help me find http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-27 ... cdrom.html.
What I did was make sure that Device Drivers ---> ATA/ATAP/MFM/RLL support ---> ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL is NOT Selected
I don't have any PATA so why have it? then you have to do this

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in /usr/src/linux/include/linux/libata.h change
#undef ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI /* define to enable ATAPI support */
to
#define ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI /* define to enable ATAPI support */ 

Then do your make && make modules_install && make install
Make sure /boot is mounted (duh). Or use your genkernel, whatever you like.
Reboot and you shouldn't have any problem with your cdrom showing up as a SCSI device. You might have to change your /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 to point to /dev/sr0 but that's minimal.

#2) I have the ATi X300 and it was a pain to try to find out what needs to be done in order to get DRI/DRM working. Finally with a little googling I found
a document that stated that in order to get fglrx to load and functional you need to have agpgart and intel_agp loaded first. So what I did was this

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Device Drivers ---> Character device ---> <M> /dev/agpgart (AGP Support)
Device Drivers ---> Character device ---> <M> /dev/agpgart (AGP Support) ---> <M> Intel 440LX/BX/GX, I8xx and E7x05 chipset support

make && make modules_install
modules-update

# echo "agpgart" >> /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6
# echo "intel_agp" >> /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6
# echo "fglrx" >> /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6

After a nice reboot everything seemed to work just fine. I hope this helps some people.

[AlexCPU]

Audio
Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller
I use also and I just had this in my config and it worked perfectly:
CONFIG_SND_AC97_CODEC=y
CONFIG_SND_INTEL8X0=y

Does this support hardware mixing (e.g. playing with xmms and mplayer at same time) or do you still have to use some sort of software mixer (e.g. dmix)?

Thanks Alex

[lancealtar]

Audio
Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller
I use also and I just had this in my config and it worked perfectly:
CONFIG_SND_AC97_CODEC=y
CONFIG_SND_INTEL8X0=y

Does this support hardware mixing (e.g. playing with xmms and mplayer at same time) or do you still have to use some sort of software mixer (e.g. dmix)?

Thanks Alex

This is just a driver, you'll need to install media-sound/alsa-utils

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# emerge media-sound/alsa-utils
# rc-update add alsasound default

for your mixer to work properly and to unmute your card. The rc-update will make it so you don't have to unmute your card every reboot and it will save your last state of the cards volumes, etc.

Hope this helps!

[AlexCPU]

That wasn't quite what I was looking for the answer to. I'll try and clarify.

Does the hardware (and driver's given above) have the ability to play multiple sources at once, as in play audio from more that one program at a time without using a software mixer such as dmix or arts (which allow the cpu to mix the audio streams rather than the sound card)?

Alex

[lancealtar]

That wasn't quite what I was looking for the answer to. I'll try and clarify.

Does the hardware (and driver's given above) have the ability to play multiple sources at once, as in play audio from more that one program at a time without using a software mixer such as dmix or arts (which allow the cpu to mix the audio streams rather than the sound card)?

Alex

I just tried playing an mp3 with xmms and another with mplayer and it doesn't seem to like it. Guess the answer is no.

[hoschi]

Audio
Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller
I use also and I just had this in my config and it worked perfectly:
CONFIG_SND_AC97_CODEC=y
CONFIG_SND_INTEL8X0=y

Does this support hardware mixing (e.g. playing with xmms and mplayer at same time) or do you still have to use some sort of software mixer (e.g. dmix)?

Thanks Alex

No, you will need a Sound-Deamon like ESD oder ARTS.

[VinzC]

You might have to change your /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 to point to /dev/sr0 but that's minimal.

How do you do that with UDEV?

[lancealtar]

You might have to change your /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 to point to /dev/sr0 but that's minimal.

How do you do that with UDEV?

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# ln -sf /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /dev/sr0

[VinzC]

Just a symlink? I recall with devfs you had to tune devfsd.conf to create shortcuts that survived reboot. Are symlinks allowed now with udev?

[Sejam]

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-27 ... cdrom.html.
What I did was make sure that Device Drivers ---> ATA/ATAP/MFM/RLL support ---> ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL is NOT Selected
I don't have any PATA so why have it? then you have to do this

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in /usr/src/linux/include/linux/libata.h change
#undef ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI /* define to enable ATAPI support */
to
#define ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI /* define to enable ATAPI support */ 

Then do your make && make modules_install && make install

Let me just say, THANKS A LOT. I've been looking for this fix for a long time (actually, I read your post a while ago, but have been so busy that I haven't been able to try it now). I've confirmed that it does work perfectly.

[lancealtar]

Just a symlink? I recall with devfs you had to tune devfsd.conf to create shortcuts that survived reboot. Are symlinks allowed now with udev?

All you're doing is updating the symlinks created that udev created the first time you booted. Since /dev/hdc is no longer relevant you're just updating your /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 to the correct device /dev/sr0. Oh yes, and udev is pretty good about remembering what is done to the system devices, so you shouldn't have a problem after rebooting; at least I've never had a problem after updating the symlinks.

[PolarXL]

I'm attempting to get my touchpad fully functional, but after copying others' xorg.conf mouse info, all I've managed to do is tweak my mouse movement acceleration.

My goal is to get a fully functional touchpad - vertical and horizontal scrolling, single/double click tapping, 3rd button tapping (if possible)...

If any of you have this working, could you either post your xorg.conf, or tell me where mine's gone wrong?

Here's what I have.

(Also, I have
Load "synaptics"
in my Module section.

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Section "InputDevice"

# Identifier and driver

        Identifier  "Mouse1"
        Option      "Device"     "/dev/input/mice"
        Driver      "synaptics"
        Option	    "Protocol"   "auto-dev"
	
  	Option "MaxTapTime"  "180"
  	Option "MaxTapMove"  "110"
  	Option "EmulateMidButtonTime" "75"
  	Option "VertScrollDelta" "20"
  	Option "HorizScrollDelta" "20"
  	Option "MinSpeed"  "0.3"
  	Option "MaxSpeed"  "0.75"
  	Option "AccelFactor"  "0.015"
  	Option "EdgeMotionMinSpeed" "200"
  	Option "EdgeMotionMaxSpeed" "200"
  	Option "UpDownScrolling"       "1"
  	Option "LeftRightScrolling"	"1"
	

# When using XQUEUE, comment out the above two lines, and uncomment
# the following line.

#    Option "Protocol"   "Xqueue"

# Baudrate and SampleRate are only for some Logitech mice. In
# almost every case these lines should be omitted.

#    Option "BaudRate"   "9600"
#    Option "SampleRate" "150"

# Emulate3Buttons is an option for 2-button Microsoft mice
# Emulate3Timeout is the timeout in milliseconds (default is 50ms)

#    Option "Emulate3Timeout"    "50"

# ChordMiddle is an option for some 3-button Logitech mice

#    Option "ChordMiddle"

EndSection

[VinzC]

I'm attempting to get my touchpad fully functional, but after copying others' xorg.conf mouse info, all I've managed to do is tweak my mouse movement acceleration.

My goal is to get a fully functional touchpad - vertical and horizontal scrolling, single/double click tapping, 3rd button tapping (if possible)...

If any of you have this working, could you either post your xorg.conf, or tell me where mine's gone wrong?

If you look at Xorg.0.log you'll probably see an error message like (I give it from from memory)

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Failed to load module synatics: no synaptics device found

This is what I have. That's what you probably have too. This is one of my next points in the list...

[VinzC]

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-27 ... cdrom.html.
What I did was make sure that Device Drivers ---> ATA/ATAP/MFM/RLL support ---> ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL is NOT Selected
I don't have any PATA so why have it? then you have to do this

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in /usr/src/linux/include/linux/libata.h change
#undef ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI /* define to enable ATAPI support */
to
#define ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI /* define to enable ATAPI support */ 

Then do your make && make modules_install && make install

Let me just say, THANKS A LOT. I've been looking for this fix for a long time (actually, I read your post a while ago, but have been so busy that I haven't been able to try it now). I've confirmed that it does work perfectly.

And good news this too works with Gentoo Sources 2.6.11-r7. With previous release (2.6.11-r6) it didn't.

<relief/>

[dschaus]

Hi,
I've been reading here quite a while and now I finally found the time to register and write maybe a few hints

First of all I'd like to thank lancealtar for his great hint on the DVD-Drive, maybe it's worth to add the note, that you need to have SCSI-CDRom-Support activated in the kernel. This was a five-minute-problem for me, because I was wondering, why there was no /dev/sr0 device. After including support everything worked just fine, so thanks lot !

Next @VinzC: Maybe you should have a look here:
http://wiki.splitbrain.org/lifebook-2.6
especially at the event-interface and mknod-part. I had the same problem with the touchpad not being recognized, after adding the nodes there was no problem at all. The only thing that didn't work after that was an USB-mouse, but that was due to my wrong xorg-configuration, but I had no time to fix it yet, so I can't supply you all with a working xorg.conf yet. When I find the time (and got it all to work, too), I'll do that of course. Also I had no udev running at that time, so I cannot tell you if there is any problem.

I also still have a question: Is there any tool for gentoo for undervolting the cpu ? For Windows (yes sorry, it's still on there ) I use
http://www.computerbase.de/downloads/so ... e_control/
explanation here, but you need the beta-version from above because of the sonoma-chipset in the Inspiron 6000
http://www.pbus-167.com/chc.htm
and achieved quite alot of battery savings, so it would really be nice to have something like that for linux, because even with cpufreq it takes up much more power (more than an hour of battery runtime) there than under windows.

So, I think that's it for now, maybe it already helped someone and maybe anyone also has an answer to my question.
CU
Dave

[VinzC]

Next @VinzC: Maybe you should have a look here:
http://wiki.splitbrain.org/lifebook-2.6
especially at the event-interface and mknod-part. I had the same problem with the touchpad not being recognized, after adding the nodes there was no problem at all. The only thing that didn't work after that was an USB-mouse, but that was due to my wrong xorg-configuration, but I had no time to fix it yet, so I can't supply you all with a working xorg.conf yet. When I find the time (and got it all to work, too), I'll do that of course. Also I had no udev running at that time, so I cannot tell you if there is any problem.

Thanks a lot, Dave. I'll try ASAP This is exactly what I was looking for. The remaining major item is getting the i915 chip working in non VESA mode in Xorg. I'm waiting for Xorg 6.9 or whatever is coming next.

Thanks again.

[dschaus]

np, always trying to help ppl

But I cannot help you with the i915 chipset, I have an ATI X300 in my Notebook, which is not making too much trouble though I cannot set VesaFB to WSXGA+ Resolutions in the console, but WXGA is sufficient there. In Xorg everything is working quite fine (though I had to do one thing which I still do not like, but this might be because I have not installed gentoo freshly, but copied (rsync -avd 'ed that is) the whole install from my Pentium4-Machine, I had to add "xhost +" in a file from a kdm (can't remember which one) so that this is done before kdm is started, otherwise I wasn't always able to login, the xserver just restarted after having typed in user/password, sometimes I could login though, but after restarting the xserver/logging out, it didn't work. For me this is not really a big problem as I have a firewall running here, and usually do not connect to unsecure networks, so nobody should be able to access my Xserver remotely... I hope )

So good luck with your Card / Touchpad !
CU
Dave

[seppelrockt]

Would be nice if anybody could post an updated kernel .config (for GM915, not x300 if possible). I exspecially wonder whether I need pcie enabled in .config ...

Thanks

[VinzC]

Next @VinzC: Maybe you should have a look here:
http://wiki.splitbrain.org/lifebook-2.6
especially at the event-interface and mknod-part. I had the same problem with the touchpad not being recognized, after adding the nodes there was no problem at all. The only thing that didn't work after that was an USB-mouse, but that was due to my wrong xorg-configuration, but I had no time to fix it yet, so I can't supply you all with a working xorg.conf yet. When I find the time (and got it all to work, too), I'll do that of course. Also I had no udev running at that time, so I cannot tell you if there is any problem.

It's weird: if I check the Event interface support in my kernel config, touchpad doesn't react in X. It happens with either gentoo-sources or vanilla-sources. There is no error message in Xorg.0.log. Kernel recognizes AlpsPS/2 Glidepoint touchpad.

I didn't have to create the /dev/input/eventX nodes as they were already there.

cat /dev/psaux gives no output
cat /dev/input/event[123] gives no output
cat /dev/input/mouse0 gives no output
cat /dev/input/mouse1 gives no output
cat /dev/input/mouse2 gives no output
cat /dev/input/mouse3 gives some outputwhen I move my USB mouse only...
cat /dev/input/mice gives some output when I move my USB mouse only...

[dschaus]

Well that's strange... Have you tried building a kernel without udev (or let's say with /dev filesystem and automounting of /dev enabled in the kernel) ? As I said, my last try was without udev, so I can't tell whether or not the touchpad works with udev at all...

The only thing I can tell you, I wasn't using (in xorg.conf) /dev/mice (had to change there when using udev) nor /dev/event[1..3] but I'm not 100% sure if I was using /dev/mouse/mouse0, but I think so, but /dev/psaux is also possible.

Maybe you should try booting without an external mouse and try if the touchpad works then, because (as I said before) I couldn't get the external mouse to work, but I had booted without it being connected...

Maybe I'll find some time later this day (or in the evening), so I can try this again, I'll tell you my results !

CU
Dave

[VinzC]

Maybe you should try booting without an external mouse and try if the touchpad works then, because (as I said before) I couldn't get the external mouse to work, but I had booted without it being connected...

Touchpad does work indeed but outside X. Both mice work on consoles together with GPM. I ran X from the command line. As soon as I left X I could see a message Synaptics DeviceOff called. When I get back to X, a message Synaptics DeviceOn called appears.