Hi,
Trying to get SuSE Professional 8.2 installed on an IBM X31 Centrino
laptop and I have run into a few problems. The most urgent ones are the
following.
For some reason I can not swith on the max speed of the harddrive in the
laptop. 'hdparm -d1 -X69 /dev/hda' tells me that it can't set UDMA5 mode
and DMA is not an option that can be switched on.
The other problem seems to be related to the ATI Radeon graphics card.
If X is started, and I restart the server (either Ctrl+Alt+Backspace or
/etc/init.d/xdm restart) I get a black screen. After having installed
the GATOS drivers (both X and drm) I instead get a hard lockup.
Both of these problems are sort of a showstopper. If anyone has any
details about this, I would very much like to hear them even if they
don't solve the problems directly. :-)
Regards,
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Anders Karlsson
On 01 May 2003 20:04:57 +0100
Anders Karlsson
Trying to get SuSE Professional 8.2 installed on an IBM X31 Centrino laptop and I have run into a few problems. The most urgent ones are the following.
For some reason I can not swith on the max speed of the harddrive in the laptop. 'hdparm -d1 -X69 /dev/hda' tells me that it can't set UDMA5 mode and DMA is not an option that can be switched on.
Is this a really fast advanced laptop? Maybe it dosn't have the right internal cabling/connectors for UDMA5. Also IBM has it's own hard drive utility, maybe you could try that?
The other problem seems to be related to the ATI Radeon graphics card. If X is started, and I restart the server (either Ctrl+Alt+Backspace or /etc/init.d/xdm restart) I get a black screen. After having installed the GATOS drivers (both X and drm) I instead get a hard lockup.
I have a similar problem on my desktop. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace just locks up the machine. You need to send a "Quit" to your window manager. On my fvwm2 setup, it's in the menus. So look thru the rc file for your window manager, and find the entry for "Exit" or "Quit" and rewrite your menu to put that entry in a visible place on the top of the menu. Then instead of the old ctrl-alt-backspace, you will get used to point and clicking "Exit". Also it might help to boot to runlevel 3 instead of 5, and startx manually. -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation
On Thu, 2003-05-01 at 21:32, zentara wrote:
On 01 May 2003 20:04:57 +0100 Anders Karlsson
wrote: Trying to get SuSE Professional 8.2 installed on an IBM X31 Centrino laptop and I have run into a few problems. The most urgent ones are the following.
For some reason I can not swith on the max speed of the harddrive in the laptop. 'hdparm -d1 -X69 /dev/hda' tells me that it can't set UDMA5 mode and DMA is not an option that can be switched on.
Is this a really fast advanced laptop? Maybe it dosn't have the right internal cabling/connectors for UDMA5. Also IBM has it's own hard drive utility, maybe you could try that?
Well, sort of anyway. It is IBM's new lightweight laptop with a Pentium-M CPU and the new Centrino chipset. It is quite possible that the chipset is so new that the kernel doesn't yet know about some of the chipset. I have just subscribed to LKML to try and pick their brains. As I can't use the laptop as is with SuSE Pro 8.2, I don't mind experimenting a bit with new kernels etc. If you are referring to tpctl I have not yet tried it. I should do I suppose, but from memory, that might not help me tweaking the speed of the IDE bus. The cabling should be alright, I could try with Win2k that it came with and check the speed of things there. At the moment in linux, I get 2.5MB/s from an ATA100 drive.. :-/
The other problem seems to be related to the ATI Radeon graphics card. If X is started, and I restart the server (either Ctrl+Alt+Backspace or /etc/init.d/xdm restart) I get a black screen. After having installed the GATOS drivers (both X and drm) I instead get a hard lockup.
I have a similar problem on my desktop. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace just locks up the machine. You need to send a "Quit" to your window manager. On my fvwm2 setup, it's in the menus. So look thru the rc file for your window manager, and find the entry for "Exit" or "Quit" and rewrite your menu to put that entry in a visible place on the top of the menu. Then instead of the old ctrl-alt-backspace, you will get used to point and clicking "Exit".
Also it might help to boot to runlevel 3 instead of 5, and startx manually.
I don't think I explained myself quite well here. On the GDM screen,
before even logging in, if I 'quit' X with Ctrl+Alt+Backspace (gdm will
restart it) I get a black screen. X appears to be running, but will not
show anything on the screen.
After updating the radeon.o agp driver in the kernel with the drm
drivers from the GATOS project, starting X will lock up the laptop.
Using the kernels own driver will only prolong the inevitable. The
laptop will lock up, but after a couple of hours rather than instantly.
Running things through startx didn't help either. Once X has run and
been exited, it can not be started again. It is a bit of a problem.
Thanks for replying with suggestions though, much appreciated. Keep them
coming people.
Regards,
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Anders Karlsson
On Thu May 1 2003 4:15 pm, Anders Karlsson wrote: <snip> Have you tried the acpi=off and apm=off during boot? You may also want to try turning off apm and/or acpi in the BIOS. The Centrino is probably too new for correct apm/acpi functionality in Linux at this time. Stan
On Thu, 2003-05-01 at 22:55, Stan Glasoe wrote:
On Thu May 1 2003 4:15 pm, Anders Karlsson wrote: <snip>
Have you tried the acpi=off and apm=off during boot? You may also want to try turning off apm and/or acpi in the BIOS. The Centrino is probably too new for correct apm/acpi functionality in Linux at this time.
When I installed, I chose to do the install with the acpi=off option and
that is the boot options after install completed as well. I have not
tried with apm=off as well though, so that is something I shall try
tonight when I am back home.
You are correct that the Centrino is too new for linux to have caught up
with it yet. I hope to be able to test patches out for the kernel and
have offered to do so on the LKML. I will keep the list posted in case
anyone else gets an X31 and would want to run linux on it. :)
What does people think of the 2.5 kernels then? Anyone reckon trying the
latest 2.5 would perhaps fix some of the problems?
Regards,
--
Anders Karlsson
Morning,
I said I'd post an update when I knew more about this, in case someone
else might get stuck on this as well..
I have been adviced to use XFree 4.3.0 (already in SLPro 8.2) for the
graphics card, no-one has adviced against the GATOS drivers, so I will
assume for now that grabbing them is alright.
I have also been adviced that there is a patch for centrino style
notebooks,
http://arctic.org/~dean/patches/linux-2.4.21-pre5-ac2-centrino.patch,
and I guess that is sufficently high priority to make it into 2.4.21-rc1
which I am trying to build now.
Someone else also suggested to disable both ACPI and APM, which I will
also be trying shortly.
The wireless card has no support so far. Intel is still mulling that one
over wether they will support it under linux or not.
Once I have the results of the testing, I'll make a small note of it on
here.
Regards,
--
Anders Karlsson
Hi there,
Update on the IBM X31 issue. I have a solution to the problems I was
seeing, might not cut it for everyone with an X31, but should get you
far enough.
Right, the answer to the IDE DMA problem is to grab kernel 2.4.21-rc1.
There is a fix in there that allows you to switch on the DMA. Makes a
HUGE diffrence.
Problem number two was the Radeon graphics card. The solution was
mentioned in passing by Linus Torvalds on the LKML. The answer (oh so
simple) is to put
Option "AGPMode" "1"
in the gfx card section in XF86Config. Problem solved.
Been using the X31 to send this message even. :)
Regards,
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Anders Karlsson
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