wizzleteet
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Posted: Nov. 18 2005,10:26 |
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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
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