Yes, i get another notebook on my desk. In fact, i buy a Sony Vaio K155S for a uncle. I won’t publish a long post about installing Linux on this, because he will use Windows XP. I spend some hours to install several things: OpenOffice, WinSCP, Mozilla etc etc ..
This notebook run really smoothly, it [...]
admin August 28th, 2004
Everybody hate binary kernel module: that’s clear, but sometimes that the only way to use some hardware.
This is really a bad news to all webcam users: USB kernel hackers decide to patch PWC kernel driver to avoid the use of the extended kernel module which is binary only. Check out this for more infos.
update: read [...]
admin August 26th, 2004
I always hated closed source drivers, and ATI is one of the big guy in video card. There is a petition online to ask ATI for specification or better drivers. I sign it because my ATI 9100IGP doesn’t have TVout support right now..
admin August 24th, 2004
This is quite easy, but the doc is too old.. so:
Download latest eagle-usb
Untar
make
make install
eagleconfig (to enter your config..)
rm /etc/init.d/eagle-usb (this doesn’t work on debian ..)
eaglectl -w (to load kernel modules and so on..)
startadsl
admin August 10th, 2004
Hardware
The Shuttle STK62K is a small XPC that use:
ATI IGP9100 video board
ATI IXP150 AC’97 Audio Controller
OHCI based USB 2
Realtek network card
As i run into different issue with that box, i decided to write a little howto. Look here for more infos
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5833 (rev 02)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies [...]
admin July 2nd, 2004
My K7S5A motherboard (w/ a Athlon on) burn on fire last week. I don’t know why, when i come back home (after work), i found a blanc screen, try to reboot but nothing.. Damm
I looked a this closer yesterday.. and yes some chipset on the motherboard have burn .. So i need to buy another [...]
admin June 27th, 2004
This is a quick introduction to the Linux suspend to disc on Dell Inspiron / Latitude. This tips should work on Inspiron 3800 to 8200, and Latitude C serie. (all phoenix bios shipped w/ a Dell computer in fact)
There is two kind of suspend in APM:
suspend to disc
suspend to RAM
Suspend to RAM:
This is the easier [...]
admin March 22nd, 2004
I run into trouble with my GeForce Ti 4000 (a Creative one). After doing a lot of noise, the ventillator decide to stop.
So i decided to hack it:
admin March 17th, 2004
Contents
Introduction
Latitude D400
Base Installation
Finishing the install
X / Sound / PCMCIA / ACPI
XFree
Sound
PCMCIA
ACPI
About
Introduction
At my work, some people have bought some D400 laptop to use Linux.
During the installation, we run into various issues. This short
document try to explain, how we managed to have a working Debian
on this.
For various reasons, we want to use a debian and this [...]
admin February 28th, 2004
Installing Alsa (as a lot of linux kernel module) on Debian (w/ debian package) can be a real pain. But this one is really simple:
- apt-get install alsa-base
- apt-get install alsa-source
Take care that alsa-base ask you which sound card you have. This is needed for building the init-script.
Next:
cd /usr/src/
tar xvfj alsa-driver.tar.bz2
cd modules/alsa-driver
./configure
make
make install
/etc/init.d/alsa start
Take [...]
admin January 21st, 2004