Re: How many of you?
I'll try to explain what a did to get sound working on my presario.
OSS, It works with kernel 2.4.20 and later
#
# Sound
#
CONFIG_SOUND=y
CONFIG_SOUND_VIA82CXXX=y
CONFIG_MIDI_VIA82CXXX=y
CONFIG_SOUND_OSS=y
There is a patch from Santiago Nullo for kernel 2.4.18
I send it attached.
ALSA. I use alsa-source_0.9+0beta12-3 (Debian Woody) patching the file ac97.c
I send attached tha patch i made. It is based on the patch from Santiago Nullo
for kernel 2.4.18.
Replace the file
/usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/alsa-kernel/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c with the file
attached and compile them with:
./configure --with-cards=via82xx
make
then edit the /etc/modules.conf and add:
alias char-major-116 snd
options snd cards_limit=1
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-2 snd-seq-midi
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
I suppose sound will work with later versions of alsa.
If you have problems write me and i'll try to help you.
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diff -u --new-file --recursive linux-2.4.18/drivers/sound/ac97_codec.c
linux/drivers/sound/ac97_codec.c
--- linux-2.4.18/drivers/sound/ac97_codec.c Mon Nov 12 15:02:54 2001
+++ linux/drivers/sound/ac97_codec.cFri Apr 5 03:12:56 2002
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@
static int sigmatel_9708_init(struct ac97_codec *codec);
static int sigmatel_9721_init(struct ac97_codec *codec);
static int sigmatel_9744_init(struct ac97_codec *codec);
+static int ad1886_init(struct ac97_codec *codec);
static int eapd_control(struct ac97_codec *codec, int);
static int crystal_digital_control(struct ac97_codec *codec, int mode);
@@ -94,6 +95,7 @@
static struct ac97_ops sigmatel_9721_ops = { sigmatel_9721_init, NULL, NULL };
static struct ac97_ops sigmatel_9744_ops = { sigmatel_9744_init, NULL, NULL };
static struct ac97_ops crystal_digital_ops = { NULL, eapd_control,
crystal_digital_control };
+static struct ac97_ops ad1886_ops = { ad1886_init, eapd_control, NULL };
/* sorted by vendor/device id */
static const struct {
@@ -106,6 +108,7 @@
{0x41445348, "Analog Devices AD1881A", &null_ops},
{0x41445360, "Analog Devices AD1885", &default_ops},
{0x41445460, "Analog Devices AD1885", &default_ops},
+ {0x41445361, "Analog Devices AD1886", &ad1886_ops},
{0x414B4D00, "Asahi Kasei AK4540", &null_ops},
{0x414B4D01, "Asahi Kasei AK4542", &null_ops},
{0x414B4D02, "Asahi Kasei AK4543", &null_ops},
@@ -869,6 +872,26 @@
codec->codec_write(codec, 0x2C, 0X);
return 0;
}
+
+
+
+/*
+ * Presario700 workaround
+ * for Jack Sense/SPDIF Register misetting causing
+ * no audible output
+ * by Santiago Nullo 04/05/2002
+ */
+
+#define AC97_AD1886_JACK_SENSE 0x72
+
+static int ad1886_init(struct ac97_codec * codec)
+{
+ /* from AD1886 Specs */
+ codec->codec_write(codec, AC97_AD1886_JACK_SENSE, 0x0010);
+ return 0;
+}
+
+
/*
* Copyright (c) by Jaroslav Kysela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Universal interface for Audio Codec '97
*
* For more details look to AC '97 component specification revision 2.2
* by Intel Corporation (http://developer.intel.com).
*
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
* along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
* Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
*
*/
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include
MODULE_AUTHOR("Jaroslav Kysela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>");
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Universal interface for Audio Codec '97");
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
static int enable_loopback = 0;
MODULE_PARM(enable_loopback, "i");
MODULE_PARM_DESC(enable_loopback, "Enable AC97 ADC/DAC Loopback Control");
MODULE_PARM_SYNTAX(enable_loopback, SNDRV_BOOLEAN_FALSE_DESC);
#define chip_t ac97_t
/*
*/
static void snd_ac97_proc_init(snd_card_t * card, ac97_t * ac97);
static void snd_ac97_proc_done(ac97_t * ac97);
static int patch_wolfson(ac97_t * ac97);
Re: How many of you?
I have installed woody on a Compaq Armada 1750. Very smooth, everything supported but the sound, parallel to win98, which was present on the machine when bought secondhand. the bios/setup/F10 partition is only avalaible via windows. I bought a Intel Etherexpress100pro PCMCIA card which is nicely supported. I did not have the time to fully install (in parallel) dial-in networking, the card by itself is supported. Some configuration missing. Bernhard
Re: How many of you?
> Craig Genner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hello, > > Original poster here. > > > > I appear to have got the wrong impression from this list. Most people who > > replied don't have any problems installing on a laptop. > > Stands to reason, doesn't it. Mostly we just post about our problems :-(
Re: How many of you?
Hi Craig, Craig Genner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > Original poster here. > > I appear to have got the wrong impression from this list. Most people who > replied don't have any problems installing on a laptop. > Yes. Wonderfull, isn't it? I didn't have problems in installing Debian 2.2 (with updating to 3.0) on an i386 Lifetec (first model sold by Aldi in Germany). I neither had any problems in installing Debian Woody and upgrading to Sarge on a ppc Powerbook. (In fact, I used to have PPCLinux on it, first, but had lots of problems with sound, Powercontrol, ..., but with Debian, anything hardware-related worked from the beginning.) > The big sticking points seem to be APM/ACPI and (win)modems. I'm not going > to Thats right. I installed Debian Woody on an Acer Travelmate 212 TX. Installation went well, but I still have problems in using all functionallity like ACPI and the internal modem :-( I would not recommend those laptop. Bye Jan -- Dipl.-Ing. Jan Braun<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Assistent des Präsidenten http://www.tu-clausthal.de/leitung/ TU ClausthalSekr.: 0 53 23 / 72-30 17 Adolph-Roemer-Straße 2a Tel.: 0 53 23 / 72-30 00 38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld Fax.: 0 53 23 / 72-33 11
Re: How many of you?
MovI wrote: > I've installed Debian Woody on my Compaq Presario 706 and it works fine. > I have XFree, sound (OSS and ALSA), ACPI, winmodem working without > problems. You mean, that you got working ALSA just from Debian/woody packages? Could you please elaborate a little bit on how did you do it? After fighting with the mess of incompatible packages (alsa-base 0.9+0beta12-3 v. alsa-source 0.5.12a-2), I gave up and stick with kernel modules (which fortunately works with my VIA AC97 chip on Compaq Presario 1200). Have a nice day, Matej -- Matej Cepl, GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488
Re: How many of you?
I've installed Debian Woody on my Compaq Presario 706 and it works fine. I have XFree, sound (OSS and ALSA), ACPI, winmodem working without problems. El Fri, 02 de May de 2003, a las 13:35, Craig Genner comentaba: :> Reading this list with interest a thought occurs to me. :> :> How many of you have actually installed linux on a laptop and not had to :> configure more than one or two programs to get a working system. :> :> I'm not talking about configuring it to how you like it, I'm talking about it :> just working so that you can get the work done with no fuss. :> :> Craig :> :> :> -- :> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] :> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Fin de mensaje original -- -- -MovI-
Re: How many of you?
Hello, Original poster here. I appear to have got the wrong impression from this list. Most people who replied don't have any problems installing on a laptop. The big sticking points seem to be APM/ACPI and (win)modems. I'm not going to say any thing about (win)modems but the APM/ACPI, in most cases, is a buggy BIOS or some other stupid thing. Well it's great that most poeple can just install and it works. Keep up the good work all the developers and people who provide support in their spare time at no cost. Thanks Craig On Sunday 04 May 2003 12:46 pm, Andreas Gredler wrote: > On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 01:35:41PM +0100, Craig Genner wrote: > > Reading this list with interest a thought occurs to me. > > > > How many of you have actually installed linux on a laptop and not had to > > configure more than one or two programs to get a working system. > > > > I'm not talking about configuring it to how you like it, I'm talking > > about it just working so that you can get the work done with no fuss. > > I've installed Debian testing/unstable on my C-Series Lifebook (Fujitsu > Siemens). Only problem was with ALSA sound the first time. Seemed to be > a package bug. When I upgraded my kernel to 2.4.20 and ALSA too it > worked without any problems this time. > > greets Andreas "Jimmy" Gredler
Re: How many of you?
On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 01:35:41PM +0100, Craig Genner wrote: > Reading this list with interest a thought occurs to me. > > How many of you have actually installed linux on a laptop and not had to > configure more than one or two programs to get a working system. > > I'm not talking about configuring it to how you like it, I'm talking about it > just working so that you can get the work done with no fuss. I've installed Debian testing/unstable on my C-Series Lifebook (Fujitsu Siemens). Only problem was with ALSA sound the first time. Seemed to be a package bug. When I upgraded my kernel to 2.4.20 and ALSA too it worked without any problems this time. greets Andreas "Jimmy" Gredler
Re: How many of you?
Craig Genner wrote: > How many of you have actually installed linux on a laptop and not had to > configure more than one or two programs to get a working system. > > I'm not talking about configuring it to how you like it, I'm talking > about it just working so that you can get the work done with no > fuss. Compaq 1621, 233MHz K-6, 32 MB RAM, Neomagic graphics. No trouble at all. (Except it has a bad APM BIOS. I modified apmd to read the broken data so that it would print data correctly. But considering I used it that way for a long time before I noticed anything amiss I still consider it painless.) But I made sure it before I purchased it that there had been good reports from others on the net about it. Bob pgpbXSFl2i2jy.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: How many of you?
Craig Genner wrote: Reading this list with interest a thought occurs to me. How many of you have actually installed linux on a laptop and not had to configure more than one or two programs to get a working system. I'm not talking about configuring it to how you like it, I'm talking about it just working so that you can get the work done with no fuss. took me about two or three hours. but if you like to have special things working like winmodem, sound, bluetooth, wlan, vmware, suspend-to-whatever - you may spend pretty much time depending on your hardware. Greetings, EN
Re: How many of you?
Hi Craig, On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 01:35:41PM +0100, Craig Genner wrote: > Reading this list with interest a thought occurs to me. > > How many of you have actually installed linux on a laptop and not had to > configure more than one or two programs to get a working system. > > I'm not talking about configuring it to how you like it, I'm talking about it > just working so that you can get the work done with no fuss. I got Debian working on Armada 7792DMT, 7400 and E500. all of them worked nearly out of the box (with XFree 3.3 you had to configure a little bit more than now). Only suspend to disk wont work with the E500, but it doesn't work with Windows either, so not Debian fault (384 MB RAM are to much for the BIOS I supose, maybe a Problem with APM). Even the winmodem works fine, including faxing. KH -- GnuPG Public Key:http://www.eischer.net/gpg/public.key Fingerprint: B168 B53F AAF6 8A79 DDA7 A9A4 5E82 1AF6 581A 1B06 // In a world without walls and fences who needs Windows and Gates ? //
Re: How many of you?
--- Craig Genner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Reading this list with interest a thought occurs to me. > > How many of you have actually installed linux on a laptop and not had to > configure more than one or two programs to get a working system. > > I'm not talking about configuring it to how you like it, I'm talking about it > > just working so that you can get the work done with no fuss. > > Craig > I had great experiences with both Red Hat and Debian. Both installed quite easily. The only "extra" config I "had" to do was to track down and install the right modem drivers (Lucent winmodem), but that can hardly be blamed on the individual Linux distros, as it includes proprietary binary-olnly code. The only other problem I had was getting the printer working in Debian (over the network). Other than that, everything worked well. -Roberto ___ Yahoo! Messenger - Nueva versión GRATIS Super Webcam, voz, caritas animadas, y más... http://messenger.yahoo.es
Re: How many of you?
When the hardware is not supported, this can get strange. I've done HP Omnibook 6000s and 500s, with the only real problems being unsupported winmodes. Omnibook 510s work okay now, but used to have problems with older versions of XFree86 -- and still have the winmodem problem. I've installed (or helped install) Debian (woody, testing and sid) on a couple hundred of these machines. For the machines with *fully* supported hardware, stuff seems to work fine with Debian. I had to provide info to debconf, but that's to be exected. I've installed Debian woody, testing and sid on Compaq Evo n400c's, n600c's, and n410c's. The last time I counted, it was somewhere around 20-30 machines. On Fri, 2003-05-02 at 06:35, Craig Genner wrote: > Reading this list with interest a thought occurs to me. > > How many of you have actually installed linux on a laptop and not had to > configure more than one or two programs to get a working system. > > I'm not talking about configuring it to how you like it, I'm talking about it > just working so that you can get the work done with no fuss. > > Craig > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Ciao, al Al Stone Linux & Open Source Lab Hewlett-Packard Company Phone: 970-898-0345 Telnet: 898-0345 Fax:970-898-3804 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How many of you?
On Friday 02 May 2003 06:53 am, matt zagrabelny wrote: > On Fri, 2003-05-02 at 07:35, Craig Genner wrote: > > Reading this list with interest a thought occurs to me. > > > > How many of you have actually installed linux on a laptop and not had to > > configure more than one or two programs to get a working system. > > > > I'm not talking about configuring it to how you like it, I'm talking > > about it just working so that you can get the work done with no fuss. > > > > Craig > > count me in too, thinkpad t21. still tweaking things, but sound works, > xfree 4.3 installed. very usable system, easy install. I did a Thinkpad A21e with no problems. As long as one knows the exact hardware, and the hardware is supported, there should be no major problems. It took me a while to get the winmodem working and also my Intel Pro/2011 wireless NIC. I tried Redhat 8 and Redhat 9 but they were so slooow. Debian rocks on my laptop. Love it. Andy
Re: How many of you?
Knoppix (debian linux booted and run from a CD) is great for evaluating a laptop for Linux compatibility. I bought a laptop that ran 99% fine when booted with Knoppix (X, USB mouse, PCMICA, wifi card and everything else.) When I started to install debian on my own I found out how much work was involved to get to same functionality. A real PITA. A friend showed me how to install debian from the Knoppix CD. It works great; Boot knoppix, run a root shell, and run knx-hdinstall. (I partitioned my disk first, with Partitin Magic.) Configure LILO as needed, reboot and do an apt-get upgrade to freshen up all the packages. You wind up with a _very_ complete user machine. Joao Pedro Clemente wrote: Reading this list with interest a thought occurs to me. How many of you have actually installed linux on a laptop and not had to configure more than one or two programs to get a working system. I'm not talking about configuring it to how you like it, I'm talking about it just working so that you can get the work done with no fuss. I found that installing my laptop was no easier or harder than the desktops I've setup before. If the hardware is well supported, I think the installer will give you a nice system to work with. I actually have done it the hard way, either on laptop or desktop systems: I've skipped the installer as soon as I could and choose the packages I wanted by "apt-gettting" them.. (Im my particular laptop install, I had to deal with xfree configuration, but just because xfree from woody would not run my ati 7500. Going to xfree from sarge worked it.)
Re: How many of you?
On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 09:53:00AM -0500, matt zagrabelny wrote: > On Fri, 2003-05-02 at 07:35, Craig Genner wrote: > > Reading this list with interest a thought occurs to me. > > > > How many of you have actually installed linux on a laptop and not had to > > configure more than one or two programs to get a working system. > > > > I'm not talking about configuring it to how you like it, I'm talking about > > it > > just working so that you can get the work done with no fuss. > > > > Craig > > > > count me in too, thinkpad t21. still tweaking things, but sound works, > xfree 4.3 installed. very usable system, easy install. > > -matt zagrabelny > > I've done a few Linux installs on IBMs, Dells, etc. My most recent experience is with a Dell Inspiron I4100 which overall has been okay but it has taken a bit of work to locate information like the highly commented "shutoff fan thingee here in the list of late". I finally located that tidbit in groups.google.comr in a Dell support forum a few months ago. Previous to this I had a Dell Latitude Ls superlight which is very nice. The one issue with that laptop was the sound card; which was shared with the video card. Oftentimes, the video would seize up if I tried to load the sound after X started. Regarding "fussing"... I have come to the conclusion if you use laptops, you have to fuss. There is no way to change things like sound or video which may require less fussing. But, in a way, fussing is learning and when you learn the correct answers, it ceases becoming fussing. When you can trade that knowledge for other pieces of knowledge like on this list, fussing changes to knowledge exchange :) -- Michael Perry | Do or do not. There is no try. -Master Yoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lnxpowered.org
Re: How many of you?
On 02 May 2003 09:53:00 -0500 matt zagrabelny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2003-05-02 at 07:35, Craig Genner wrote: > > Reading this list with interest a thought occurs to me. > > How many of you have actually installed linux on a laptop and not had to > > configure more than one or two programs to get a working system. I'm not > > talking about configuring it to how you like it, I'm talking about it > > just working so that you can get the work done with no fuss. Inspiron 8000, I just needed to exclude one series of addresses from the PCMCIA probe. In Woodyr1 I could even use X with my NVIDIA hardware (via the XFree86 nv driver). Kevin
Re: How many of you?
On Fri, 2003-05-02 at 07:35, Craig Genner wrote: > Reading this list with interest a thought occurs to me. > > How many of you have actually installed linux on a laptop and not had to > configure more than one or two programs to get a working system. > > I'm not talking about configuring it to how you like it, I'm talking about it > just working so that you can get the work done with no fuss. > > Craig > count me in too, thinkpad t21. still tweaking things, but sound works, xfree 4.3 installed. very usable system, easy install. -matt zagrabelny
Re: How many of you?
Hi Craig, it took me a bit more than two hours to set up a IPC/Archtec Powernote M (AMD Athlon mobile Processor) with woody and get ist working. For setting up video and sound it took the experience of setting up Debian on many different PCs. This was all to make it ready for the work, it was purchased for. It took an other hour to install a new kernel with ACPI support. This was all to reduce fan noise to an acceptable level. FireWire, Infrared, WinModem and CD-Writer have actually not been tested. Cu Hugo -- Hugo Wau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
RE: How many of you?
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 13:35:41 +0100 > >> How many of you have actually installed linux on a laptop and not >> had to configure more than one or two programs to get a working >> system. "Not I," said the pig. I'm still waiting on a response to my last query about getting my Netgear FA511 to actually work under GNU/Linux on an IBM ThinkPad i1400. So, for now, I'm still running Windows 98 SE on the thing. -- aster
Re: How many of you?
On Fri, 2 May 2003, Craig Genner wrote: > Reading this list with interest a thought occurs to me. > > How many of you have actually installed linux on a laptop and not had to > configure more than one or two programs to get a working system. > > I'm not talking about configuring it to how you like it, I'm talking about it > just working so that you can get the work done with no fuss. > > Craig Most I've ever had trouble with on my Omnibook 5500 or 5700 is the sound card. The sound card is quirky, and it's a known issue with the chipset that is in there. The onboard IDE controller doesn't support DMA, even though it allows you to set it for DMA. My docking station works fine, the onboard scsi and pci/ide slots work great. X setup was fairly easy, just a matter of googling what someone else used for modelines. Granted, this 5500/5700 hybrid of mine is very old. The laptop was made in about 1998, and the screen was made in 1996(I'm using the screen off my old 5500, and the bottom off a 5700. Swapped the screen and video card out) Mike
Re: How many of you?
> Reading this list with interest a thought occurs to me. > > How many of you have actually installed linux on a laptop and not had to > configure more than one or two programs to get a working system. > > I'm not talking about configuring it to how you like it, I'm talking about it > just working so that you can get the work done with no fuss. I found that installing my laptop was no easier or harder than the desktops I've setup before. If the hardware is well supported, I think the installer will give you a nice system to work with. I actually have done it the hard way, either on laptop or desktop systems: I've skipped the installer as soon as I could and choose the packages I wanted by "apt-gettting" them.. (Im my particular laptop install, I had to deal with xfree configuration, but just because xfree from woody would not run my ati 7500. Going to xfree from sarge worked it.)
Re: How many of you?
On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 01:35:41PM +0100, Craig Genner wrote: > Reading this list with interest a thought occurs to me. > > How many of you have actually installed linux on a laptop and not had to > configure more than one or two programs to get a working system. > > I'm not talking about configuring it to how you like it, I'm talking about it > just working so that you can get the work done with no fuss. > > Craig > My experience: DELL Inspiron 8200 + woody I installed woody (and X with NVidia drivers) in about three hours. I'm able to use all hardware but: 1) full duplex sound 2) winmodem to send and receive fax 3) suspend to disk Marco
Re: How many of you?
Three thinkpads; the first with RedHat 5.2 (a while ago!), and the others with Debian. No problems getting the basic system up and running. X configuration has usually involved a visit to the linux-laptop web page (www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop, I think). Network configuration took some head-scratching the first time through. Haven't bothered with sound (the first laptop didn't have sound), or with internal modems. On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 01:35:41PM +0100, Craig Genner wrote: > Reading this list with interest a thought occurs to me. > > How many of you have actually installed linux on a laptop and not had to > configure more than one or two programs to get a working system. > > I'm not talking about configuring it to how you like it, I'm talking about it > just working so that you can get the work done with no fuss. > > Craig > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Mark R. Barnes, AICP beautiful, sunny, downtown Astoria, OR 97103
Re: How many of you?
On Friday 02 May 2003 14:35, Craig Genner wrote: > How many of you have actually installed linux on a laptop and not had to > configure more than one or two programs to get a working system. I think you can count me in. I have an ASUS A1300. It's a bit tricky to install because of various issues with the framebuffer driver. I run SID and it works very good. Anders -- This email was generated using KMail from KDE 3.1.1 on Debian GNU/Linux
Re: How many of you?
> > How many of you have actually installed linux on a laptop and not had to > > configure more than one or two programs to get a working system. > I have. Dell Latitude Cpi w/ Xircom Cardbus Ether. > Not Debian, but ... I just installed Slackware 9 on a Dell Inspiron 4100 & the only thing I had to futz much with was fetchmail. I'm still futzing toward total happiness, but the system works. Glenn Becker +-+ This is not a signature +-+
Re: How many of you?
On Fri, 02 May 2003, Craig Genner wrote: > Reading this list with interest a thought occurs to me. > > How many of you have actually installed linux on a laptop and not had to > configure more than one or two programs to get a working system. > > I'm not talking about configuring it to how you like it, I'm talking about it > just working so that you can get the work done with no fuss. I suppose that depends on where you draw the line between "how you like it" and "get the work done" - I don't think there's a clean division. I'm writing this on a Thinkpad 570 running Debian exclusively. When I set it up, the only thing I had trouble with was Alsa, arguably not realy needed for Getting Work Done. I've never tried to get the winmodem working, as I've never had a need for it. Setup of everything else went great. I've spent a lot of time tweaking things, as this machine is a little old and with only 128M of RAM, it took a while to get a work environment that doesn't start swapping horribly. That's the machine's fault, not Debian's. Also, I always end up playing with things, tweaking things, and generally fiddling around, because that's just the way I am. Anyway, just a datapoint. -j -- Jamie Lawrence[EMAIL PROTECTED] "... in making the freedom-for-safety swap, we haven't just dishonored the dead of 9/11. We've helped something else die too." - Nick Gillespie
Re: How many of you?
On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 01:35:41PM +0100, Craig Genner wrote: > Reading this list with interest a thought occurs to me. > > How many of you have actually installed linux on a laptop and not had to > configure more than one or two programs to get a working system. I have. Dell Latitude Cpi w/ Xircom Cardbus Ether. Stock woody install. All I did was remove nvi, and install vim and less. A.
Re: How many of you?
Me, three separate laptops, no significant glitches! ap -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu On Fri, 2 May 2003, Craig Genner wrote: > Reading this list with interest a thought occurs to me. > > How many of you have actually installed linux on a laptop and not had to > configure more than one or two programs to get a working system. > > I'm not talking about configuring it to how you like it, I'm talking about it > just working so that you can get the work done with no fuss. > > Craig > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
