From akolasny at bme.jhu.edu Sun Oct 3 18:39:33 2004 From: akolasny at bme.jhu.edu (Anthony Kolasny) Date: Tue Dec 20 11:02:02 2005 Subject: Compaq R3140us vs R3240us In-Reply-To: <20040930171526.GB12490@mysza.eu.org> Message-ID: Greetings: I've been using the PLD LiveCD 1.0beta2 on a Compaq Presario R3140us for the last couple months with great success. The 3d graphics and wireless worked fine with a minute or two of minor updates. http://www.bme.jhu.edu/~akolasny/pld-r3140us.html have the steps. I've had trouble installing PLD LiveCD on the Compaq Persario R3240us. This machine has a newer graphics card and a 5in1 memory slot. When I boot the laptop with 'pld noapic acpi=off res=1280p pretty', it hangs after idenifying the 'nvidia' graphics. When I boot using 'pld noapic acpi=off res=1280p pretty driver=vesa', the machine boots and I'm able to install to the hard drive. The wireless works and 2d graphics work fine. However, I am unable to get 3d graphics to function. I downloaded the NVIDIA driver the GeForce 440 Go, added gcc and kernel source and tried to install it. It didn't work. Next, I ran 'poldek --upgrade-dist'. I still couldn't get the 3D driver to work. In the xorg.conf, I tried the driver 'nvidia' and 'nv'. The 'nvidia' driver locks up the machine on boot. I know the PLD group is focused on releasing the PLD 2.0 distribution. This may be a concern for that release as well. Attached is the 'lspci'. Any suggestions are greatly apprecitated. Thanks, Anthony -------------- next part -------------- 00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 Host Bridge (rev a4) 00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 LPC Bridge (rev a6) 00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce3 SMBus (rev a4) 00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 USB 1.1 (rev a5) 00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 USB 1.1 (rev a5) 00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 USB 2.0 (rev a2) 00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 Audio (rev a2) 00:06.1 Modem: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00d9 (rev a2) 00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce3 IDE (rev a5) 00:0a.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 PCI Bridge (rev a2) 00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 AGP Bridge (rev a4) 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 440 Go 64M] (rev a3) 02:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB21 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) 02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) 02:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94306 802.11g (rev 03) 02:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments: Unknown device ac54 (rev 01) 02:04.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments: Unknown device ac54 (rev 01) 02:04.2 System peripheral: Texas Instruments: Unknown device 8201 (rev 01) From havner at smtp.kamp.pl Sun Oct 3 18:57:07 2004 From: havner at smtp.kamp.pl (havner) Date: Tue Dec 20 11:02:02 2005 Subject: Compaq R3140us vs R3240us In-Reply-To: References: <20040930171526.GB12490@mysza.eu.org> Message-ID: <20041003165706.GA3267@pld-linux.org> On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 12:39:33PM -0400, Anthony Kolasny wrote: > Greetings: > > I've been using the PLD LiveCD 1.0beta2 on a Compaq Presario R3140us for > the last couple months with great success. The 3d graphics and wireless > worked fine with a minute or two of minor updates. > > http://www.bme.jhu.edu/~akolasny/pld-r3140us.html have the steps. > > I've had trouble installing PLD LiveCD on the Compaq Persario R3240us. Is this 64bit machine? Maybe nvidia drivers are too old for this nforce3, or there is some incompatibility and you need 64bit kernel with 64bit nvidia drivers (i'll check what chips are supported by latest nvidia driver and let you know) > This machine has a newer graphics card and a 5in1 memory slot. When I boot > the laptop with 'pld noapic acpi=off res=1280p pretty', it hangs after > idenifying the 'nvidia' graphics. When I boot using 'pld noapic acpi=off > res=1280p pretty driver=vesa', the machine boots and I'm able to install > to the hard drive. The wireless works and 2d graphics work fine. However, > I am unable to get 3d graphics to function. I downloaded the NVIDIA driver > the GeForce 440 Go, added gcc and kernel source and tried to install it. > It didn't work. Next, I ran 'poldek --upgrade-dist'. I still couldn't get > the 3D driver to work. In the xorg.conf, I tried the driver 'nvidia' and > 'nv'. The 'nvidia' driver locks up the machine on boot. -- Regards Havner http://livecd.pld-linux.org GG: 2846839 jid,mail: havner(at)pld-linux.org "We live as we dream, alone" - Joseph Conrad From akolasny at bme.jhu.edu Sun Oct 3 19:15:20 2004 From: akolasny at bme.jhu.edu (Anthony Kolasny) Date: Tue Dec 20 11:02:02 2005 Subject: Compaq R3140us vs R3240us In-Reply-To: <20041003165706.GA3267@pld-linux.org> Message-ID: On Sun, 3 Oct 2004, havner wrote: > On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 12:39:33PM -0400, Anthony Kolasny wrote: > > Greetings: > > > > I've been using the PLD LiveCD 1.0beta2 on a Compaq Presario R3140us for > > the last couple months with great success. The 3d graphics and wireless > > worked fine with a minute or two of minor updates. > > > > http://www.bme.jhu.edu/~akolasny/pld-r3140us.html have the steps. > > > > I've had trouble installing PLD LiveCD on the Compaq Persario R3240us. > > Is this 64bit machine? Yes, but I'm using the i386 PLD LiveCD. The R3240us and R3140us are both 'amd64'. The R3140us worked fine on the 32bit PLD LiveCD distribution. The R3140us has an Nvidia GeForce 420 Go. The R3240us has a Nvidia GeForce 440 Go. > Maybe nvidia drivers are too old for this nforce3, or there is some > incompatibility and you need 64bit kernel with 64bit nvidia drivers > (i'll check what chips are supported by latest nvidia driver and let you > know) How do you install a 64bit (em64t/amd64) PLD version? I haven't tried that. Are there English instructions somewhere. Using www.poltran.com to translate helps for the polish news groups, but I would want to trust this for a linux install. ;-) > > This machine has a newer graphics card and a 5in1 memory slot. When I boot > > the laptop with 'pld noapic acpi=off res=1280p pretty', it hangs after > > idenifying the 'nvidia' graphics. When I boot using 'pld noapic acpi=off > > res=1280p pretty driver=vesa', the machine boots and I'm able to install > > to the hard drive. The wireless works and 2d graphics work fine. However, > > I am unable to get 3d graphics to function. I downloaded the NVIDIA driver > > the GeForce 440 Go, added gcc and kernel source and tried to install it. > > It didn't work. Next, I ran 'poldek --upgrade-dist'. I still couldn't get > > the 3D driver to work. In the xorg.conf, I tried the driver 'nvidia' and > > 'nv'. The 'nvidia' driver locks up the machine on boot. From adamg at biomerieux.pl Sun Oct 3 19:48:05 2004 From: adamg at biomerieux.pl (Adam =?iso-8859-2?Q?Go=B3=EAbiowski?=) Date: Tue Dec 20 11:02:02 2005 Subject: Compaq R3140us vs R3240us In-Reply-To: References: <20041003165706.GA3267@pld-linux.org> Message-ID: <20041003174805.GD20951@mysza.eu.org> On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 01:15:20PM -0400, Anthony Kolasny wrote: > How do you install a 64bit (em64t/amd64) PLD version? I haven't tried > that. Are there English instructions somewhere. Using www.poltran.com to > translate helps for the polish news groups, but I would want to trust this > for a linux install. ;-) I guess best approach would be manual installation from LiveCD. http://docs.pld-linux.org/instalacjarc_intro.html has some instructions on that topic. Basically: - boot LiveCD - create partitions, set up filesystems and mount them somewhere (say, under /chroot) - substitute i586 in /etc/poldek.conf with amd64 - poldek --upa - poldek --root /chroot --mkdir And install packages you want. A good start is to install something nontrivial, say mc or elinks - it will pull all base requirements. After that, chroot into newly created system, set up root password and boot manager. -- http://www.mysza.eu.org/ | Everybody needs someone sure, someone true, PLD Linux developer | Everybody needs some solid rock, I know I do. From havner at smtp.kamp.pl Sun Oct 3 20:40:33 2004 From: havner at smtp.kamp.pl (havner) Date: Tue Dec 20 11:02:02 2005 Subject: Compaq R3140us vs R3240us In-Reply-To: <20041003174805.GD20951@mysza.eu.org> References: <20041003165706.GA3267@pld-linux.org> <20041003174805.GD20951@mysza.eu.org> Message-ID: <20041003184033.GA3464@pld-linux.org> On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 07:48:05PM +0200, Adam Go??biowski wrote: > On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 01:15:20PM -0400, Anthony Kolasny wrote: > > How do you install a 64bit (em64t/amd64) PLD version? I haven't tried > > that. Are there English instructions somewhere. Using www.poltran.com to > > translate helps for the polish news groups, but I would want to trust this > > for a linux install. ;-) > > I guess best approach would be manual installation from LiveCD. > http://docs.pld-linux.org/instalacjarc_intro.html has some instructions > on that topic. > > Basically: > - boot LiveCD > - create partitions, set up filesystems and mount them somewhere (say, > under /chroot) > - substitute i586 in /etc/poldek.conf with amd64 > - poldek --upa > - poldek --root /chroot --mkdir > > And install packages you want. A good start is to install something > nontrivial, say mc or elinks - it will pull all base requirements. > > After that, chroot into newly created system, set up root password and > boot manager. Forget it, Adam, you cannot chroot to 64bit enviroment using 32bit kernel. Also alls %postin scripts would fail. Anthony, you can use 64bit pld rescue cd and make steps described above. -- Regards Havner http://livecd.pld-linux.org GG: 2846839 jid,mail: havner(at)pld-linux.org "We live as we dream, alone" - Joseph Conrad