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christophe

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Registered: 2011-04-17

Posts: 432

still trying to get my Dell C400 work with slitaz 3.0

I am curently hitting 2 problems

1- the wireless module will not work

here is what i get when i issue modprobe orinoco_cs

pcmcia_socket pcmci_socket1: cs: memory probe 0xf6000000-0xfdffffff: excluding 0xf6000000-0xf67fffff 0xfa800000-0xfaffffff

pcmciq 1.0: pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia1.0

orinoco_cs 1.0: firmware: requesting agere_sta_fw.bin

orinoco_cs 1.0: firmware: requesting agere_sta_fw.bin

eth1: cannot find firmware agere_sta_fw.bin

find / -name agere_sta_fw.bin returns:

/dev/.udev/firmware-missing/agere_sta_rw.bin

which i find pretty explicit, in a way...

I got it working earlier last year with slitaz, and i would swear this was with 3.0

Any idea ?

2- xorg issues

By default it will boot with the xvesa driver and 640x480

the graphic chip is an intel 830m

There is seemingly a "known difficultly" with it. It can share 48MB of memory, and my default will steal only about 1MB. I read a bit on google and ried the videoram=32k option then read that this is not required anymore and the driver should allocate enough memory, which does not work in my case.

I did run tazx, it installed a number of things, the linux driver, and also linux agp i believe, and generated an xorg.conf; i can see there that it sees there is a double screen possibilitéy (external vga and embedded panel); but the machine will start in text mode.

i did a grep (WW) and grep (EE) on the log Xorg.0.log, here is the output:

    (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.

(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/TTF/" does not exist.

(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/OTF" does not exist.

(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1/" does not exist.

(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/" does not exist.

(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/" does not exist.

(WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)

(WW) intel(0): libpciaccess reported 0 rom size, guessing 64kB

(WW) intel(1): libpciaccess reported 0 rom size, guessing 64kB

(WW) intel(1): libpciaccess failed to read 64kB video BIOS: Unknown error 4294967258

(WW) intel(1): VBIOS initialization failed.

.(WW) intel(0): VideoRam reduced to 888 KB (page aligned - was 891 KB)

    (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.

(EE) GARTInit: Unable to open /dev/agpgart (No such device)

(EE) intel(0): /dev/agpgart is either not available, or no memory is available

(EE) [drm] drmOpen failed.

(EE) intel(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed. Disabling DRI.

(EE) intel(0): AGP GART support is either not available or cannot be used.

(EE) intel(0): AGP GART support is either not available or cannot be used.

(EE) intel(0): Couldn't allocate video memory

also at boot time, i can see in the log printed on the screen that it prints

linux agpgart interface v0.103

after seeinf the agpgart message i went to rc.conf (or was it rcS.conf) and added the intruction to have agpgard loaded - and checked with the system box, that it was there.

Any clue ??

Thanks.

Christophe

gdesilva

Member

Registered: 2011-04-07

Posts: 419

Re: still trying to get my Dell C400 work with slitaz 3.0

I cannot recall all the details but I had a similar issue with an old Toshiba Portege laptop. Unfortunately, I do not have it with me now and cannot give you the details on how I got the wifi working - so the following may or may not be accurate!

I recall seeing the message 'cannot find firmware agere_sta_fw.bin'. The only way I was able to get it to work was by loading b43-firmware but then again could not use WPA encryption.

christophe

Member

Registered: 2011-04-17

Posts: 432

Re: still trying to get my Dell C400 work with slitaz 3.0

I tried but it did not work. Apparently, the Orinoco driver is not broadcom but prism-based.

It seems it is part of linux-wireless, which is a package maintained by Erjo. ErJo can you help on this ? Thanks.

Christophe

mojo

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Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: still trying to get my Dell C400 work with slitaz 3.0

Wireless:

This tazpkg installs agere_sta_fw.bin

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5197027/slitaz/firmware-agere-20110727-1.tazpkg

Xorg/Intel:

Rename or move xorg.conf to disable /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Disable kernel mode setting by adding to kernel boot line of /boot/grub/menu.lst

i915.modeset=0

or

i915.modeset=0 nomodeset

Info from here:

http://insidesocal.com/click/2010/02/intel-82830-cgc-830m-graphics.html

http://www.insidesocal.com/click/2009/11/are-your-graphics-dead-in-ubun.html

christophe

Member

Registered: 2011-04-17

Posts: 432

Re: still trying to get my Dell C400 work with slitaz 3.0

wifi -> ok, thanks.

Is this a place with additionnal drivers ?

xorg -> Thanks, i knew this site, and could make it work by doing this plus a few other tweaks

i915.modeset=0 i810.modeset=0

and removing the 2nd display and all definition i did not care for, hence leaving only 1024x768

There is something strange going on though.

I end up on a console login. I login as root and issue slim which then starts WITH AN QWERTY keyboart (i have an azerty keyboard)

Any idea why slim will not work until invoked manually, and how to get the right keyboard ?

also the battery indicator does not give the right indication, is there any known pb ?

tx

christophe

Member

Registered: 2011-04-17

Posts: 432

Re: still trying to get my Dell C400 work with slitaz 3.0

i found the answers

Slim was not in rcS.conf (gess it was removed when i defined screen=text, and not put back once it was removed)

and for the language issue i manually addedin xorg.conf

in the inputdevice section i believe

Option      "XkbLayout"    "fr"

which solved the problem.

So my C400 looks close to be functionnal, i just had to do some more tuning to check if anything else does not work.