On Wednesday 28 July 2004 16:17, Sebastian Henschel wrote:

hi matt..

* "Matt T." <Matt@Boons.net> [2004-07-27 10:28 +0200]:

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On Monday 26 July 2004 22:03, Sebastian Henschel wrote:

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unfortunately, i could not get pcmcia to work on an ASUS L5800DF with mobile athlon64. when i insert any pcmcia-card, i get:

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This seems to be a kernel issue. I compiled vanilla 2.6.8-rc2, and now the device (here /dev/ttyxx) gets assigned to the pcmcia card.

2.6.7 might help also. BUT - you might loose your touchpad. SuSE has apparently included all to have notebooks with synaptics / alps touchpads working, but if you use the vanilla kernel, you need to patch it yourself. I can't tell yet how to do it, I'm still stuck in the middle of it.

i am already 2.6.7 running with the latest ACPI patch. no problem with the touchpad. although i could not compile 0.3.13 from source, due to some incompatibilities when linking with Xext. but the driver shipped with suse 9.1 seems to work fine with X11.

Yeah, this is a really nasty one, yesterday night I solved it though: - the makefile contains -X11 and -lXext -> ld tries to link it with the libraries libX11 and libXext in ../lib/ which is nonsense because there are the 32 bit versions, and we are compiling 64 bit, right! In order to change that to ../lib64/.. we need to give ld the correct search path. ldconfig seems to have the /lib64/ path's, but that does not help. But if you look in the makefile in the only line which has the -lX11 and -lXext, there is a -L(path) option given before. And this is taken the /lib/ value from the LIBDIRECTORY definition at the beginning of the makefile. And there - oops - is lib and not lib64. So just change that line to =lib64, and it will compile, and it will install correctly (in lib64 and not in lib). After installing it, and after adding the synaptics section to your XF86Config, it works really fine, even the scroll area, which emulates a mouse wheel, works. But before you go through that, what touchpad do you have in your notebook? Is it synaptics or Alps? As a downside the USB Mouse does not work anymore. I do not know yet why, it apparently does not even get recognized at all anymore. It seems o be a problem with USB in general. I'm working on that ... HTH, Matt

anyway, the user wants to have his machine, so he has to live with it for now. :)

thanks, sebastian