Gentoo Archives: gentoo-laptop

From: Petr Sobotka <sobotkap@×××××××.cz>
To: gentoo-laptop@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-laptop] first gentoo install ...
Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 20:36:01
Message-Id: 200605042234.7099@centrum.cz
1 Hello,
2 Try this half-advices, maybe they can kick you to right direction :)
3
4 rainer pí¹e v Èt 04. 05. 2006 v 11:09 -0400:
5
6 > 1. when i tried to emerge pcmcia-cs there was a problem with the
7 > genkernel, something about 'in kernel ...'
8 >
9 May-be in your kernel you have checked some pcmsia support (not as
10 module). Emerged package can be kernel module also ...
11 But that's only first guess, it would help if you send here whole
12 message...
13
14 2. acpi seems to be flakey. hasn't froze yet though. the laptop seems
15 > slow. cpuinfo in /proc says 797 mhz? maybe it's throttled for battery
16 > when it's on ac power? it's a turion ml-37, 2ghz!
17 > Do you have cpufreqd runing?
18 Do you use the right kernel acpi configuration?
19 What about trying to look on "default governor"
20 --> try "performace"
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23 3. really not getting this emerge thing. installing precompiled packages
24 > for amd64. updated emerge to look in /mnt/cdrom as per install
25 > instructions (networkless) did 'emerge alsa-lib' something happened for
26 > a long time. it looked like it installed alsa-utils as well but i get
27 > nothing for commands 'alsamixer' 'alsasetup' no asound dir in /dev???
28 > after that i'm reluctant to go near anything related to X11.
29 >
30 You need to emerge alsa-utils ;)
31
32 Petr Sobotka aka Pietro
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