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