Hi, I've SuSE 8.2 pro installed on Asus L3000h laptop. Unfortunately there's no suse-laptop-e list, but i hope some of you can help me with this two questions. Since I've never used a laptop before; APM or ACPI meant nothing to me since today. KDE Control Center's power mng section which i couldn't figure out what to do. Currently i can't make my laptop suspend, or standby. The second question is about Sis650 graphics chipset. sis.com says it's a 'a high performance 2D/3D Graphic Engine', while Sax2 says 3d acceleration can't be enabled for it. So how can i play TuxRacer now? :-)
oguz eren wrote:
I've SuSE 8.2 pro installed on Asus L3000h laptop. Unfortunately there's no suse-laptop-e list, but i hope some of you can help me with this two questions.
Since I've never used a laptop before; APM or ACPI meant nothing to me since today. KDE Control Center's power mng section which i couldn't figure out what to do. Currently i can't make my laptop suspend, or standby.
APM - Advanced Power Management ACPI - Advanced Configuration & Power Interface http://acpi.sourceforge.net/ I don't know which you need for your laptop - if it's a fairly recent (post 2000) one, probably ACPI. The first thing you need to do is make sure acpid (the ACPI daemon) is started when you boot (for some reason it wasn't set to run on my laptop). To do this just type insserv acpid at the command line (as root). If you log out and in again (possibly reboot - not sure), you should then find your battery monitor works, but suspend/standby etc. still won't be set up in the KDE Control Panel. As far as suspend/standby goes, ACPI implementations tend to be rather patchy - I'm not sure if this is down to the hardware not comply with the standards or Linux not implementing them properly. Have a read of the following web pages and try it: http://acpi.sourceforge.net/documentation/sleep.html http://developer.intel.com/technology/iapc/acpi/faq.htm http://www.suse.de/en/private/products/suse_linux/i386/acpi.html
The second question is about Sis650 graphics chipset. sis.com says it's a 'a high performance 2D/3D Graphic Engine', while Sax2 says 3d acceleration can't be enabled for it. So how can i play TuxRacer now? :-)
Looks like you might be able to get acceleration working with a bit of effort: http://giray.devlet.cc/Linux/Laptop/HiGradeNotino3400s/#video Bear in mind, though, that a lot of own-brand on board graphics cards (I think this one falls in that category?) have pretty poor 3D acceleration anyway, so it might not be worth the trouble. If you have Windows on the machine as well, what's the graphic performance like under that? -- Geoff Beaumont Geoff@stormhammer.com
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