Hey all. I have this itty bitty VIAO pen computer. It is an old unit without cd/floppy/network. I yanked out the harddrive and immediately wiped out windoze. I installed SuSE to the harddrive with a separate machine. I replaced the hd into the laptop and the new hardware wizard ran. Shortly after, I discovered that when I copied the source CD's to the harddrive I used up every last bit of free space on the drive. I am getting allot of kernel messages (F11) that are looking for the old hardware. There was a serial IO board in an ISA slot. I don't believe this laptop has any ISA. It may have serial (for IO expansion piece, but no ports to speak of). Usually SuSE is excellent about noticing new hardware and what is missing. I believe that the wizard or whatever wasn't able to finish, nor write new config because of the lack of room on the drive. My questions are 2 fold. 1.) Will re-running the hardware wizard fix the problem now that I have fix the lack of room on the hd? a.) if so, how. 2.) This I believe is a pen computer because of the fold out stylus holder on the screen. a.) I have done touchscreen installs with elo and microtouch. Does anybody know what this may be using for touch? Straight mouse emulation? PS/2? serial? custom proprietary driver? Viao laptop pentium with mmx sticker designed for win98 sticker no other labels or model numbers. Thanks in advance. B-)
Update: I was able to get rid of the kernel messages. Seems like once I finally ran Sax2 to be able to boot to X, the hardware detection there removed offending hardware. (mostly, messages stopped but stuff from previous computer listed under unknown devices in SuSEPlugger). I was able to modprobe -r the usb stuff that was from before and on re-boot, looks like SuSE re-setup properly. My USB network adapter now works. If you bring up the suse plugger it show a device manager type interface. All the options are disabled (I assume because in user space). How do I bring up that tool from a root enabled place. I don't see the same thing in Yast or Control Center. Do I really have to boot to X and log in as root to be able to change? B-) On Friday 08 April 2005 11:53 am, Brad Bourn wrote:
My questions are 2 fold.
1.) Will re-running the hardware wizard fix the problem now that I have fix the lack of room on the hd? a.) if so, how.
2.) This I believe is a pen computer because of the fold out stylus holder on the screen. a.) I have done touchscreen installs with elo and microtouch. Does anybody know what this may be using for touch? Straight mouse emulation? PS/2? serial? custom proprietary driver?
I found out now that the exact model is pcg-505g. It does not have a touchscreen. It is a pen holder that I saw but apparently for the ?touchpad? referred to as a "versapad" for handwriting recognition. This must not have caught on to well. heheehe So back to just my original question(s)
1.) Will re-running the hardware wizard fix the problem now that I have fix the lack of room on the hd? a.) if so, how.
If you bring up the suse plugger it show a device manager type interface. All the options are disabled (I assume because in user space). How do I bring up that tool from a root enabled place. I don't see the same thing in Yast or Control Center. Do I really have to boot to X and log in as root to be able to change?
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