Laptops :: dsl on my new laptop



thank you very much...

but there is another problem:

dsl boots from cd and everything looks just fine. but when x tries to start, i get the "fatal io error 104" and the message "cloop error 103 uncompressing block".

i think it has something to do with the laptops graphic... what can i do?
fatal error 104 usually means that you are trying to use the Xfbdev xwindows server, but you did not boot up with a valid framebuffer device.  Usually this is seen when you get the "You passed an undefined mode number" message at boot time.

You can either type "xsetup.sh" and try the Xvesa xwindows server, or you can press the F3 key at boot time and try some of the other framebuffer modes like "vga=771"

As for the cloop error message, it probably means that you have a bad CD-R disk or it means that your *.iso file was corrupted upon download.

You can check the integrity of your *.iso by using the md5sum program and comparing the checksum to the one that is contained inside the *.md5.txt file

Good Luck.
the cdr is ok, it works in every other computer i tested.

but how can i start X ? i tried every fb-mode, but it doesn't work.

i found this site http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/siemens.html .

the author describes how he made the display working and he uses debian, so there must be a way to solve this silly error.
ok it's working better with xvesa, but i still get this message:

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XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remainig


with some configs i got a white screen.

i searched the forums, but the most 104-error-threads are about fbserv and not xvesa.

edit: this are the modifications the guy who wrote the text i linked above made:

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4.6 Graphic chip

Chips and Technologies F85554 (ct65554) with 4 MByte RAM

This chip displays a resolution from "1024x768" with the Xserver "chips" from XFree86 4.1. Some hints form my 'XF86Config':

Section "Device"
       Identifier      "Generic Video Card"
       Driver          "chips"
       Chipset         "ct65554"
       BusID           "PCI:0:6:0"
       VideoRAM        4096
       Option          "LcdCenter"     "true"
       Option          "FixPanelSize"  "true"
       Option          "NoStretch"     "false"
       Option          "HwCursor"      "true"
TextClockFreq25.175
End Section

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier      "Generic Monitor"
        HorizSync       25.0 - 64.0
        VertRefresh     40.0 - 70.0
        Option          "DPMS"
        Mode            "640x480"
                DotClock        28.3
                HTimings        640 680 720 864
                VTimings        480 488 491 521
        EndMode
        Mode            "800x600"
                DotClock        28.3
                HTimings        800 816 856 920
                VTimings        600 603 605 618
        EndMode
        Mode            "1024x768"  
                DotClock        53.197
                HTimings        1024 1032 1176 1344
                VTimings         768  771  777  806
        EndMode
EndSection

It even performs well with the kernel's VESA driver and displays a resolution of 1024x768 with 65536 colors on text consoles. To make it work, the following steps are required:
The kernel needs some configuration options:

CONFIG_FB_VESA=y
CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y
CONFIG_FBCON_ADVANCED=y
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB8=y                                                                                                  
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB16=y                                                                                                
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB24=y                                                                                                
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB32=y
CONFIG_FONT_8x8=y                                                                                                    
CONFIG_FONT_8x16=y
The new compiled kernel needs to be booted with the append switch "vga=0x317".
perhaps it has something to do with this "BUS-ID". is there a way to change it?
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