Elive

HOWTO ELIVE AND IBM ThinkPad

NOT FOR GREENHORNS BUT FOR STRONG USERS ;)

I started with Elive 5.04 beta, but if U start with for example 6.1, it’ OK.. SO HERE IT IS:

1. Install Elive, in Gparted make twice big SWAP as is your ntb’s memory

2. after install : apt-get update apt-get upgrade

3. Download Kernel source 2.6.20-rc5 because from version 2.6.20 IBM_ACPI is included and works better with acpi functions of IBM machine, KVM is included too (if U want to run forexample WinXP for any reason under Elive ;) )

Falko’s howto is included in attachement, source can be found on www.kernel.org my .config of kernel made for IBM T30 is included too. What U have to check is if your SWAP partition has the same pointer- for me it is /dev/hda6.If not, U’ll have to rewrite it in ACPI settings in the menuconfig. In menuconfig load my .config and after that make deb file and install new rc-5 kernel (Falko’s manual). If U have newer version of kernel, rewrite paths in grub config (/boot/) menu.lst- also attached.Menu is set for 2.6.15 included with 5.04 elive-2.6.18 should be in 6.01. Edit menu in MC or other text editor. Also splash is mine,not standart - remove it or rewrite.

4. After reboot U should be in Elive with 2.6.20-rc5, fully supporting FAN speed, LID switch and suspend and hibernate. What has to be manually made is: power button, dimm button:

5. U’ll have to hack /etc/acpi events like I have in attachements. Compare what works for U and what not. Dimm button FN+F3 after hacking works,but to turn radeon light back up, U will have to add hotkey like CTRL+F3 as I did in menu in hotkey/bind key editing with this exec: /etc/acpi/standby.sh
So, ACPI is done!!

6. CPU frequency and policy works well - set up in .config for kernel..

7. xorg.conf - If U want to use,as I do, 2 screens (great thing to watch movies on my 24inch screen 1900×1024,have another modules settings and view and on LCD is running GAIM and flashing LED when message is coming ) my xorg.conf is attached - is set to switch between two keyboards and use 24inch sony 16:9 screen, so U’ll have to edit this file to input there your second screen. When the X server is starting and no external screen is detected, mouse will not go over the edge on LCD.
This best xorg.conf is called by myself dualhead (/xorg/dualhead). If U want DRI in two screens,U’ll have to use “xineramaDRI” with merged frame buffer-good for play some games (DRI on both screens),but not for work-both screens must have the same physical resolution which is 1024×768 (in my IBM case) - so why have 2 so small resolutions for work if U can get more? And standart settings in called “standart” - DRI fully working, second CRT/LCD only cloning the primary.

8. Joypad and buttons - If your middle button is not working as a scroll button on mouse, you will have to remove function to switch between screens by scroll button.After that, middle button is like a scroll button.

9. thinkpad buttons, audio mixer
To have quick acces to audio mixer is aesy: apt-get install wmix
and add eap and .order to startup settings in your home directory in /e/e/app... like in attachement.

apt-get install tpb

TPB is OSD nice reporting deamon - reporting all IBM hotkey actions on LCD screen.

To have tpb automatically running, edit /etc/sudoers and insert there your username (under root) - TPB can run only root, tpb -d to run it like a deamon

10. To be sure to run all modules we need to, edit /etc/modules as I did..

11. hotswap for IBM multibay:
when removing CD/DVD run command (I did it through made EAP menu and run this app with gksudo (sudo settings to run app like root) hotswap OR khotswap in GUI (apt-get install khotswap hotswap)

12. Unbelievable is that it is possible to remove running notebook from the docking station.. Thx to new kernel experimental function dock (including in .config) ;)

And that’s it! 4 months of digging and testing...

Good to have installed for IBM TP:

gaim-thinklight

What is STILL NOT WORKING :

USB ports in docking station
KVM support for P4 mobile (future?)

Sorry for attachements,no possibility to upload them here,but I’ve sent them to Thanatermesis,so he’ll (I hope) give this article where it should be and complete... ;)

.xsession-errors file of the home of the users, contains the logs of the X when they are running, this should be removed at every e17 startup

i have installed elive 1.9.51 on a acer aspire one A150L but i can’t write any symbol like @,# and any other symbol that needs ALT GR. the keyboard is italian and it’s well configured.

a strange thing is that i can write them only in the command launcher (alt+esc). in any other applications they don’t work.

Hello!

I’m running 1.9.29-Compiz.
The System HAS the file /dev/video0
And the webcam works well with “Cheese” (apt-get install cheese)

Now comes the weird Stuff:
When trying to use “Webcam-Viewer” it replies:

[alex ~]$ webcam-viewer
MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.3.2-DFSG-free (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ (Family: 6, Model: 10, Stepping: 0)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.

Playing tv://.
TV file format detected.
Selected driver: v4l2
 name: Video 4 Linux 2 input
 author: Martin Olschewski <olschewski@zpr.uni-koeln.de>
 comment: first try, more to come ;-)
v4l2: ioctl query capabilities failed: Unknown error 515
v4l2: ioctl set mute failed: Unknown error 515
v4l2: 0 frames successfully processed, 0 frames dropped.


Exiting... (End of file)

[polish] - ntfs directories which has polish national signs in their names are not visible after ntfs is mounted

[polish] - some polish national signs shows up as boxes on windows description and in aplication menu which is accesible after left click on desktop

I’d like to be able to select JFS for /boot

package oss-compat solves the issue, recommend to add in the default install

The fstab file is not good gererated by the system when is installed. The system detect extended partition and put it on the fstab. This procure a crash on fsdik on startup.

My partition schema

{—–sda1—–}{—–sda2—–} {—–sda3—–} {—–sda4(extended)—–[—–sda5(logic)—-][——swap(logic)—-][—-FREE(logic)—]—–}

The auto generated fstab

/dev/sda2 / xfs defaults 0 0
/dev/sda6 none swap sw 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
/dev/sda5 /boot ext3 defaults 0 0
/dev/sda3 /home ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 auto defaults,auto 0 2
/dev/sda4 /mnt/sda4 ext3 defaults,auto 0 2 #This is a extended partition don’t mount it!
sys /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 * The correct fstab **

/dev/sda2 / xfs defaults 0 0
/dev/sda6 none swap sw 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
/dev/sda5 /boot ext3 defaults 0 0
/dev/sda3 /home ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 auto defaults,auto 0 2
sys /sys sysfs defaults 0 0

after updating to unstable, /home/myuseraccount is gone, creating a new user works and after reboot new user is gone and old account is back

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Elive 0.53 unstable using fglrx driver option....fails and the screen rest black and any key or combination works.
Just after choosing between ati driver options.
With 0.51 unstable works well.
My pc: AMD 1000, ATI-9550 and Compaq 17” monitor.
Help
Jose

I noticed twice that my eeepc becames unresponsive after a few wifi disconnections, this happens using wicd or exalt.
Wicd stops telling it is trying to clean the routing table, exalt instead doesn’t show any particular message
From then every keyboard event is ignored, all the hotkey combination are not working
Could be a kernel panic since is not possible to do anything else than an hard reboot, the system appears freezed at the maximum CPU speed.

Hello i tested the 1.8.5 installed on my eeepc and found a bunch of bugs:

• exalt doesn’t recognizes interfaces, so is not possible to connect to anything

• during bootup i had a loop where messages ran very fast on the screen, to fix i had to hard reboot, didn’t happen again yet...this was happening also in 1.8.4

• thunar doesn’t mount devices, no usb pen, nor the usb SD card reader of the eeepc, they are not even seen by thunar

• trying to disable then re-enable exalt results in E17 segfault

• the cpufreq module is unable to change the governor

Beside that the system seems stable, however i can’t test it since no connection to internet.

I have burned two 1.9.17 cd’s from two different mirrors and they will not boot, I get this, Error-25- Disk read error

i tried to upgrade my 1.9.16 install on the eeepc, with unetbootin and an sd card i tried as usual to install elive. this time the installer doesnt detect my installed system and doesnt offer to upgrade it.
thus proceeding as a fresh install.
installation was aborted by me to prevent overwriting my hdd.

new installation of 1.9.21, the machine has a matrox card, seems that it keeps double clicking.

I’m using 1.9.26.
From time to time it simply “looses” the resolution-settings of xorg.conf
Manually rewriting it does not help a thing.
The only way to solve this is to completely overwrite it with a backupfile.

1.9.42 compiz live cd cant boot up, the machine get frizzed with this error msg on screen:

Network device wlan0 detected, DHCP broadcasting for ip. [ 40.783723] Kernel panic - not syncing: HwthreeWire() CmdReg: 0XFF RE|WE bits are not clear!!
[40.783727]

I have to say that on 1.0 this realtek (RTL-8185) pci wifi board didnt work (the system did not recognized it), but livecd have been loaded ok, the instalation was ok, and the system was full working
On 1.9.50 / 51 the wifiboard works perfectly

Many applications, such as aTunes, OpenOffice, and Audacious have different screen corruption issues. Audacious has problems scaling and the player window shows elements of last application used.

Openoffice sometimes displays documents off-center with no scrollbars to re-center.

aTunes song info window remains on desktop with off-center information.

After installing 1.9.54 I found that Synaptic is missing!
I simply installed it via “apt-get install synaptic”. But I really wonder why Synaptic isn’t installed by default. All elive-dev Versions before came with Synaptic installed by default.

Instale la ultima version de elive estable 6.0 (23/dic/2006), detecto mi tarjeta pcmcia wifi, pero cuando reinicie mi laptop, no volvio a detectar la tarjeta extraible wireless. En la particion winxp trabaja de maravilla la tarjeta

laptop viejita: Compaq Presario P3

Wireless: 2 Wire 802.11b
drivers: http://www.2wire.com/pages/drvrs/twwpc_78638623.exe

espero que puedas ayudarme, compre esta laptop para usarla con elive

Version 2.0 new kernel Topaz

laptop Dell Vostro13, touchpad synaptics, gsynaptics 0.9.14-6 installed

No scrolling at all with the touchpad (vertical, horizontal...)

tap is ok (double tap= 1 click)

It seems that’s it doesn’t work at all, when I try to load the touchpad menu, I get :
“Synaptics couldn’t initialize.
You have to set ‘SHMConfig’ ‘true’ in xorg.conf or XF86Config to use GSynaptics”

I’ve added these lines to the xorg.conf file, and also a shmconfif in hal (like in this doc : http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/touchpad ...in french), reloaded the system and nothing (the ibar only disappear the 1st time...)

saw on some boards it could be a problem with the kernel (?)

Please include chilian ISP ENTEL in the list of 3G phone options.

[Dialer Defaults]
Carrier Check = off
Init1 = ATZ
Init2 = ATQ V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
Init5 = ATZ+cgdcont=1,”IP”,”imovil.entelpcs.cl” Password = entelpcs
Ask Password = 0
Check Def Route = 1
Phone = *99#
Idle Seconds = 0
Modem Type = Analog Modem
Stupid Mode = 1
Compuserve = 0
Baud = 460800
Auto DNS = off
Dial Command = ATDT
Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0
ISDN = 0
Username = entelpcs

[Dialer entelpcs]
Stupid Mode = on
Password = entelpcs
Auto Reconnect = off
Username = entelpcs
Phone = *99#

:)