On 2019-03-09 23:14 +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Sat, Mar 09, 2019 at 05:58:11PM -0500, Mark wrote: > > Thanks for the reply Ken. > > > > Well I gave up to soon. I started looking more into the Fedora live image > > and saw the kernel it uses had the dell_laptop, dell_smbios and dcdbas > > modules loaded. > > > > I rebuilt my kernel with those modules and was surprised to see it fixed the > > problem. > > > > Great. The dependencies of modules on laptops are a black art.
ath9k needs no firmware so it's often used by the GNU guys building a computer w/o non-free software code completely. More annoying, Dell is reusing laptop design for some of its desktop computers. In our office I've been assigned a Dell computer and ran into several issues building LFS on it. For example, it has an "laptop display" and old desktop environments (in Ubuntu 16.04 used as host OS) use that nonexisting "display" as the main one! And recently we are assigned serveal SSDs. Then we found the ATX power source of these Dells is really limited and has no extra power slots for additional SATA devices... In China we jokely say Dell is "a company only stupid man with a lot of money will buy its product". And Lenovo is "a company only have a conscience in America" (because the price of its product is significantly higher in China and the difference can't be explained with taxes, transportation costs etc.) So we often choose to buy some parts and assemble a desktop PC "From Scratch" :). > > So I am back with LFS and now moving on to BLFS. > > > > But please don't top post if you post there ;-) A superhero named "Stackman" may like top posting :). And maybe my response should be in lfs-chat... -- Xi Ruoyao <[email protected]> School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
