Dear All,
I just bought an MSI S270 notebook (with a Turion MT 34, 1800MHz, 1Mb cache, 25W) to run Debian (only) on it. I even bought it without Windows! about this notebook http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/notebook/nb/pro_nb_selling.php?UID=608 I bought it with 1Gb RAM, an extra 8cell battery, the Wifi internal card, (no Windows!), for 1588 euros. (FWIW, I am fairly used to Debian, I did run Sid on x86 and on a PowerBook Apple 12" whose disk crashed) This notebook has a ATi RS480M + ATi SB400 chipset, meaning that graphic memory is shared with RAM (actually, the BIOS setup tells how much 32,64,128Mb of RAM is reserved for video). For curious, the lspci output is ################ 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5950 Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 0131 Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5a3f (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64 I/O behind bridge: 0000d000-0000dfff Memory behind bridge: fbe00000-fbefffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000f0000000-00000000faf00000 Capabilities: [44] #08 [a803] Capabilities: [b0] #0d [0000] 0000:00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4374 (prog-if 10 [OHCI]) Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4374 Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 193 Memory at fbdfd000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Capabilities: [d0] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable- 0000:00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4375 (prog-if 10 [OHCI]) Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4375 Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 193 Memory at fbdfe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Capabilities: [d0] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable- 0000:00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4373 (prog-if 20 [EHCI]) Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4373 Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 193 Memory at fbdff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [d0] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable- 0000:00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4372 (rev 10) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 0131 Flags: 66MHz, medium devsel I/O ports at c800 [size=16] Memory at fbdfc400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K] Capabilities: [b0] #08 [a802] 0000:00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4376 (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP]) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 0131 Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 185 I/O ports at <ignored> I/O ports at <ignored> I/O ports at <ignored> I/O ports at <ignored> I/O ports at ff00 [size=16] Capabilities: [70] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable- 0000:00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4377 Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0 0000:00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4371 (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode]) Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64 Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=04, sec-latency=64 I/O behind bridge: 0000e000-0000efff Memory behind bridge: fbf00000-fbffffff 0000:00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4370 (rev 01) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 0131 Flags: bus master, 66MHz, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 177 Memory at fbdfc800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Capabilities: [40] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable- 0000:00:14.6 Modem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4378 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [Generic]) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 0131 Flags: 66MHz, slow devsel, IRQ 177 Memory at fbdfcc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Capabilities: [40] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable- 0000:00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge Flags: fast devsel Capabilities: [80] #08 [2101] 0000:00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge Flags: fast devsel 0000:00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge Flags: fast devsel 0000:00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge Flags: fast devsel 0000:01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5955 (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 0131 Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10 Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M] I/O ports at d800 [size=256] Memory at fbef0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Expansion ROM at fbec0000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 0000:02:03.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 0131 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 209 I/O ports at e800 [size=256] Memory at fbfffc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Expansion ROM at fbfe0000 [disabled] [size=64K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 0000:02:04.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev ac) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 0131 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 193 Memory at 40000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Bus: primary=02, secondary=03, subordinate=06, sec-latency=176 Memory window 0: 40400000-407ff000 (prefetchable) Memory window 1: 40800000-40bff000 I/O window 0: 00004400-000044ff I/O window 1: 00004800-000048ff 16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001 0000:02:04.1 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev ac) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 0131 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 201 Memory at 40001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Bus: primary=02, secondary=07, subordinate=0a, sec-latency=176 Memory window 0: 40c00000-40fff000 (prefetchable) Memory window 1: 41000000-413ff000 I/O window 0: 00004c00-00004cff I/O window 1: 00005000-000050ff 16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001 0000:02:04.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C552 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 04) (prog-if 10 [OHCI]) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 0131 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 169 Memory at fbfff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 0000:02:09.0 Ethernet controller: Linksys, A Division of Cisco Systems [AirConn] INPROCOMM IPN 2220 Wireless LAN Adapter (rev 01) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 6855 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5 I/O ports at e400 [size=32] Memory at fbfff800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32] Memory at fbffe800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2 ################ I don't have the exact specification of the LCD (internal) monitor, except that it is 12.1" TFT WXGA (1280x800). In particular, I don't know the frequency of the screen (I guess it is 50Hz) Some remarks: The notebook has 1Gb RAM (2*512Mb memory banks). Since 64Mb is reserved to video(my BIOS setting), the useful memory is 960Mb. The memory did pass a memtest86 test for 5 hours without any errors. But the vmlinuz-2.6.8-11-amd64-k8 Debian kernel is not very reliable. With it, many processes crash (or even kernel drivers). Rebooting with a mem=800M helps significantly, but even with that many errors happen (non-reproductible SEGV, ACPI 40(40) ..) I recompiled a kernel.org source 2.6.12.1 kernel with the config which you can find on http://starynkevitch.net/Basile/config-2.6.12-msi_s270 now it is much more reliable. I was able to compile under it the latest CVS Xorg tree. I might have some ACPI or thermal related problems (it was quite hot yesterday, about 32 degrees celsius). here is my /etc/X11/xorg.conf ################ Section "Files" FontPath "unix/:7100" # local font server # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi" EndSection Section "Module" Load "GLcore" Load "bitmap" Load "dbe" Load "ddc" Load "dri" Load "extmod" Load "freetype" # Load "glx" Load "int10" Load "record" Load "speedo" Load "type1" Load "vbe" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard" Driver "keyboard" Option "CoreKeyboard" Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "fr" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "ATI S270 internal" Driver "ati" BusID "PCI:1:5:0" Option "NoAccel" "true" Option "UseFBDev" "true" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "MSI S270 screen" UseModes "16:10" HorizSync 30-60 VertRefresh 50 Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Modes" Identifier "16:10" #-# 1280x800 @ 45.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 36.94 kHz; pclk: 60.29 MHz #-Modeline "1280x800" 60.29 1280 1328 1456 1632 800 801 804 821 -HSync +VSync #-# 1280x800 @ 50.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 41.20 kHz; pclk: 68.56 MHz #-Modeline "1280x800" 68.56 1280 1336 1472 1664 800 801 804 824 -HSync +Vsync # 1280x800 @ 60.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 49.68 kHz; pclk: 83.46 MHz Modeline "1280x800" 83.46 1280 1344 1480 1680 800 801 804 828 +HSync +Vsync EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Default Screen" Device "ATI S270 internal" Monitor "MSI S270 screen" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 1 Modes "1280x800" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 4 Modes "1280x800" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1280x800" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 15 Modes "1280x800" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1280x800" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1280x800" EndSubSection EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" Screen "Default Screen" InputDevice "Generic Keyboard" InputDevice "Configured Mouse" EndSection Section "DRI" Mode 0666 EndSection ################ The problem is that this is not really working. The Debian/Sid Xfree86 does not work at all. The Xorg shows something on the screen, but apparently with vertical strips (as if some overlapping is misdone). Nothing is readable, except when the bare X screen is shown with its X cursor. I'm seeking hints or advices to make Xorg working. The Xorg version is (latest CVS), ie /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg -version This is a pre-release version of the The X.Org Foundation X11. It is not supported in any way. Bugs may be filed in the bugzilla at http://bugs.freedesktop.org/. Select the "xorg" product for bugs you find in this release. Before reporting bugs in pre-release versions please check the latest version in the The X.Org Foundation "monolithic tree" CVS repository hosted at http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/xorg/ X Window System Version 6.8.99.13 Release Date: 26 June 2005 + cvs X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.8.99.13 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.12.1 x86_64 [ELF] Current Operating System: Linux maurice 2.6.12.1 #2 Wed Jun 29 20:45:28 CEST 2005 x86_64 Build Date: 29 June 2005 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present I suspect that video RAM & memory interact quite badly under Linux! Any clues, hints, advices are welcome! -- Basile STARYNKEVITCH http://starynkevitch.net/Basile/ email: basile(at)starynkevitch(dot)net 8, rue de la Faïencerie, 92340 Bourg La Reine, France -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
