I have a Sony Vaio VX88 which is ACPI-only and requires a newer ACPI patch than that used by the stock 9.0 distribution. This is my work laptop so I do not use the full cooker distribution, but I also don't want to recreate every single Mandrake patch.
I've installed the 2.4.20-2mdk cooker kernel and had a moderate level of success: ACPI works, i810 sound works (albeit poppy). However, 3d doesn't work, swsusp doesn't work, and the kernel will crash on the occassional video context switch. I installed 2.4.21pre4-6mdk from cooker after reading the changelog and seeing improvements to ACPI, swsusp, and i810 Alsa modules. All I did was urpmi the new kernel, edit lilo.conf, run lilo, and reboot. ACPI still works, 3d works, swsusp kind of works (logs me out of X on resume, but better than the previous swap-partition corrupting crash-and-burn). However, sound doesn't work. /etc/modules.conf and lsmod look fine, but alsaplay shows: [jack@chupacabra jack]$ alsaplayer error on set_period_size (512) Unavailable hw params: ACCESS: RW_INTERLEAVED FORMAT: S16_LE SUBFORMAT: STD SAMPLE_BITS: 16 FRAME_BITS: 32 CHANNELS: 2 RATE: 44100 PERIOD_TIME: (166 341334) PERIOD_SIZE: (7 15053) PERIOD_BYTES: (28 60212) PERIODS: (0 2151) BUFFER_TIME: (158 341316) BUFFER_SIZE: [7 15052] BUFFER_BYTES: [28 60208] TICK_TIME: 10000 error on set_period_size (1024) Unavailable hw params: ACCESS: RW_INTERLEAVED FORMAT: S16_LE SUBFORMAT: STD SAMPLE_BITS: 16 FRAME_BITS: 32 CHANNELS: 2 RATE: 44100 PERIOD_TIME: (166 341334) PERIOD_SIZE: (7 15053) PERIOD_BYTES: (28 60212) PERIODS: (0 2151) BUFFER_TIME: (158 341316) BUFFER_SIZE: [7 15052] BUFFER_BYTES: [28 60208] TICK_TIME: 10000 failed to configure output device...trying OSS So, I rebooted to 2.4.20-2mdk... and sound still doesn't work, with the same symptoms. ??? This seems odd to me. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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