My hd Install (report)Forum: HD Install Topic: My hd Install (report) started by: wizzleteet Posted by wizzleteet on Nov. 18 2005,10:26
Hi All,I'm using DSL as a basis for a desktop install on the hd on an ancient laptop. Here I plan to keep tabs on my discoveries. Laptop: toshiba 300cdt 166 MMX 80 mb RAM kobishi 54mbs wireless pcmcia Installs flawlessly to the HD, boots, problems: -no wireless connection: this is due to a missing firmware isl3890, which one needs to look really hard for nowadays, as it is no longer offered by prism54.org. I found an .rpm on rpmseek.org and I unpacked it on a debian box. Put this in /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/ And it still doesn't work ! Because... you also need firmware.agent in /etc/hotplug Peel this file out of the source distribution of hotplug on sourceforge (note to developers: might want to include firmware.agent in the distro) -No sound. It's an opl3-sa2 card, so I might try : modprobe opl3sa2 io=0x370 mss_io=0x530 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0 and modprobe opl3 io=0x388 And it works.... Quircks: -X screen is actually slightly larger than my 800x600 LCD Need to tweak it it somewhere.. using xvesa fixes it. -MyDSL mplayer installs fine, but mplayer doesn't work. I use xine instead, will compile my own mplayer .deb when I get around to it. Questions: -If I 'upgrade' to gnu-debian is there a speed penalty ? -How does MyDSL work exactly ? Where does it put the files ? Can I uninstall ? -More generally, when 'upgrading' to debian/apt, what is the status then of myDSL packages -More specifically, what gives with mplayer ? Tweaks I'm looking into but don't like to slow down the system: (help appreciated) -anti-aliased fonts -freedesktop.org eyecandy like dropshadow etc. UPDATE: Installed my own Software Suspend 2 enabled 2.4.32 kernel (made a nice .deb of it too) Took some time to figure out that I needed to stop the pcmcia service with pcmcia et al compiled as modules to avoid the suspend hanging at "atomic copy" For this to happen I made my own shortcutscripts (akin to bootlocal.sh) for suspending and resuming and called these in the 'misclaunch' section of the hibernate.conf script Suspend 2 RULES ! Need to find a way to call the script when the battery hits 5 %... kind regards, wzzl |