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On 5/4/06, rainer <chimera@×××××.ca> wrote: |
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> 1. when i tried to emerge pcmcia-cs there was a problem with the |
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> genkernel, something about 'in kernel ...' |
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You almost certainly do _not_ need this. This is for old 16-bit |
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PCMCIA cards that barely supported hot-swapping. Running the 2.6 |
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kernel with modern 32-bit cardbus cards will not require the pcmcia-cs |
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package. |
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> 2. acpi seems to be flakey. hasn't froze yet though. the laptop seems |
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> slow. cpuinfo in /proc says 797 mhz? maybe it's throttled for battery |
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> when it's on ac power? it's a turion ml-37, 2ghz! |
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Did you enable the CPU frequency control options in the kernel? If |
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so, and as modules, have you loaded them? What default frequency |
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governor did you select? Have you merged cpufreqd (or equivalent)? |
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This might help: |
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http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Gentoo_on_laptops#CPU_frequency_scaling |
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> 3. really not getting this emerge thing. installing precompiled packages |
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> for amd64. updated emerge to look in /mnt/cdrom as per install |
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> instructions (networkless) did 'emerge alsa-lib' something happened for |
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> a long time. it looked like it installed alsa-utils as well but i get |
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> nothing for commands 'alsamixer' 'alsasetup' no asound dir in /dev??? |
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> after that i'm reluctant to go near anything related to X11. |
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A very useful utility to go with portage/emerge is "eix". You can get |
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it with "emerge eix". With this, you can do something like this: |
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carcharias rjf # eix alsa-utils |
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* media-sound/alsa-utils |
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Available versions: 1.0.9a 1.0.10 1.0.11 |
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Installed: 1.0.11 |
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Homepage: http://www.alsa-project.org/ |
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Description: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Utils |
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(alsactl, alsamixer, etc.) |
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The above tells me what versions of alsa-utils are available, and what |
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version I have merged. |
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As far as alsamixer, et al, they are part of alsa-utils. So if you |
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don't have them, then you probably don't have alsa-utils. |
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As far as no /dev entries, try adding alsasound to the default runlevel: |
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rc-update -a alsasound default |
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You may also need to configure the appropriate ALSA modules for your |
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kernel, either by merging alsa-driver (the default builds drivers for |
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all cards, if you know which specific driver you need, you can set |
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ALSA_CARDS in /etc/make.conf to build just that driver), or using the |
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in-kernel drivers. If they work for your card, I would recommend |
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using the in-kernel driver. "make menuconfig" is your friend here. |
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HTH, |
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-Richard |
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