ross549 Posted April 2, 2005 Posted April 2, 2005 Well, it has been mentioned in another thread that I was looking at a laptop. I finally came into some money on Friday, and found a great deal on an Averatec 3250. So far it works well with linux, with a couple noteable exceptions.First, the S3 Unichrome graphics cause X to crash. I am now using the framebuffer driver, which seems to work well. There is a Sourceforge project for the Unichrome graphics x driver, but I am not sure if I want to tackle that at this point since the framebuffer driver seems to be working fine. Is there a benefit to using a specific driver instead of framebuffer? Secondly, wireless does not work.... big surprise. Wireless is on my back burner right now.Third, ACPI. My fan runs all the time. I have no idea how to make it slow down, as it does in Windows.Fourth, USB. I am not sure what is happeneing there. In any case, I cannot access my USB memory sticks at all.I think that is it for now...... I will do a follow-up post for number 4. Quote
ross549 Posted April 2, 2005 Author Posted April 2, 2005 OK, this is what I am getting during boot up: Apr 1 10:07:05 localhost mount: mount: mount point /proc/bus/usb does not exist Now, when I modprobe usb-storagefrom the command line, I get no errors, but dmesg shows nothing. Where do I start? Quote
teacher Posted April 2, 2005 Posted April 2, 2005 There is a special version of the ndiswrapper.ko.gz file that you need to make ndiswrapper work now in Mandrake or PCLos. It is located here. Good luck. Quote
ross549 Posted April 2, 2005 Author Posted April 2, 2005 v[root@localhost adam]# modprobe ndiswrapperFATAL: Error inserting ndiswrapper (/lib/modules/2.6.7-2.tmb.6mdk/kernel/3rdparty/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper.ko.gz): Operation not permitted This is with the new file that you linked. Quote
teacher Posted April 2, 2005 Posted April 2, 2005 I was afraid of that. That is suppose to work. Tex indicated it should. He also suggested modprobe -a. I will tell you that after I did that I continued to hose my system. Did you consider trying Suse? Quote
ross549 Posted April 2, 2005 Author Posted April 2, 2005 Well......I could, but I do like PCLos better. I wonder if using the livecd would do any good? Quote
teacher Posted April 3, 2005 Posted April 3, 2005 AdamGive a try of the ndiswrapper link in this post. Maybe that one will work for you. Quote
ross549 Posted April 3, 2005 Author Posted April 3, 2005 (edited) 00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6202 [USB 2.0 controller] (rev80)00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6202 [USB 2.0 controller] (rev80)00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6202 [USB 2.0 controller] (rev80)00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82) usb-uhci : VIA Technologies|VT82C586B USB [SERIAL_USB]usb-uhci : VIA Technologies|VT82C586B USB [SERIAL_USB]usb-uhci : VIA Technologies|VT82C586B USB [SERIAL_USB]ehci-hcd : VIA Technologies Inc|VT8235 USB Enhanced Controller [SERIAL_USB] Here are my USB controllers...... Edited April 3, 2005 by ross549 Quote
ross549 Posted April 3, 2005 Author Posted April 3, 2005 Many thanks to ikereks, who pointed out in IRC that I should change acpi=ht to acpi=on. The fans have slowed! Quote
Peachy Posted April 3, 2005 Posted April 3, 2005 00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6202 [USB 2.0 controller] (rev80)00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6202 [USB 2.0 controller] (rev80)00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6202 [USB 2.0 controller] (rev80)00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82) usb-uhci : VIA Technologies|VT82C586B USB [SERIAL_USB]usb-uhci : VIA Technologies|VT82C586B USB [SERIAL_USB]usb-uhci : VIA Technologies|VT82C586B USB [SERIAL_USB]ehci-hcd : VIA Technologies Inc|VT8235 USB Enhanced Controller [SERIAL_USB] Here are my USB controllers...... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Ugh! Methinks the Linux kernel hates the VIA USB controller. It likes Intel, though! Is this an AMD CPU notebook? Quote
ikerekes Posted April 3, 2005 Posted April 3, 2005 Yes it is. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I have via usb and I don't have any problem with itAdamdo you have none /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults 0 0in your /etc/fstab? Quote
ross549 Posted April 3, 2005 Author Posted April 3, 2005 Yep, it is there. :)I will be trying the p81a version of pclos, since it has the newer kernel. Maybe things will be different. Thanks for the tip on that, ikerekes. Quote
ross549 Posted April 3, 2005 Author Posted April 3, 2005 (edited) ikerekes, the p81a results in no change. :(EDIT: fat fingers...... Edited April 3, 2005 by ross549 Quote
Bruno Posted April 3, 2005 Posted April 3, 2005 Hi AdamDid you get all the updates ? There are a few for hardware detection, hal and hotplug maybe that will cure the USB issue . . Bruno Quote
ross549 Posted April 3, 2005 Author Posted April 3, 2005 Bruno,It is fully up to date. I will be back this afternoon, so we can dig further then. Quote
ross549 Posted April 4, 2005 Author Posted April 4, 2005 Well, I would like to report partial success! :)With some help from LilBambi's husband Jim (Thanks, Jim!), we checked the output of /var/log/messages when I plugged the usb memory key in. Surprise, surprise, nothing happened. We checked the output of lsmod for anything related to usb. Nothing :(Well, after modprobe usbcore and usb-uhci, it is up and running! :w00t:Now the question is- why are these modules not loading on bootup, and what about the message: Apr 1 10:07:05 localhost mount: mount: mount point /proc/bus/usb does not exist Quote
teacher Posted April 4, 2005 Posted April 4, 2005 Did you check your services in the control center to make sureyou have it selected to start on boot? Quote
ross549 Posted April 4, 2005 Author Posted April 4, 2005 What services are you referring to? I checked in the services section, and there are no USB options. Quote
ross549 Posted April 4, 2005 Author Posted April 4, 2005 Well, setting hotplug to start on boot now shows usbcore starting at boot (using lsmod), but no other changes. I still get the error, and I still must manually load usb-uhci. Quote
Bruno Posted April 4, 2005 Posted April 4, 2005 I suspect you need another update of udev . . . but until then put the modprobe for the USB in /etc/rc.d/rc.local so you do not have to give that command after every reboot ;)Just put a line at the bottom of the fileB) Bruno Quote
ross549 Posted April 4, 2005 Author Posted April 4, 2005 (edited) I am fully up to date.........Well, adding the line did the trick, but I am still getting the message on bootup. Any ideas? :)Adam Edited April 4, 2005 by ross549 Quote
Bruno Posted April 4, 2005 Posted April 4, 2005 Any ideas?<{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yep: . . ignoring the error-message :DB) Bruno Quote
ross549 Posted April 4, 2005 Author Posted April 4, 2005 But..... but but but but but..... I CAN"T! :lol:I just can't let my beautiful new laptop be spoiled with the red FAILED coming up during boot. I am going to e-mail the PCLos mailing list... maybe they can give me some ideas..... What does it do anyway? :PAdam Quote
Bruno Posted April 4, 2005 Posted April 4, 2005 What does it do anyway? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Well I think it tries to load the USB to early and that if the initscritps would load the USB modules a tiny bit later in the process you would not get that error and would not need that line in rc.local . . . . Now you can try to puzzle when the USB gets loaded and change the S-Number to a higher value so the script to load it runs a few seconds later . . . . . but remember then that if you get the message OK instead of FAILED . . .you have to remove the line in rc.local because it will then do just the opposite ( remove the module ) . . . . . . get it ? Bruno Quote
ross549 Posted April 4, 2005 Author Posted April 4, 2005 Interesting... I like a good challenge! :)However, the message stems from the system attempting to load this from the fstab: none /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults 0 0 which really confuses me, because I have no idea why it is there. Quote
Bruno Posted April 4, 2005 Posted April 4, 2005 Yep I have that line in PCLos too . . . . . . and only in PCLos . . . . have been wondering about that one as well . . ;)Anyway if it comes from that angle . . maybe the init scipts are not to blame but udev is ( like I initially thought ) . . and that makes it the more complicated ;) Bruno Quote
teacher Posted April 4, 2005 Posted April 4, 2005 Go ahead AdamTear your udev apart. Let us know how you put it back together again! Quote
Bruno Posted April 4, 2005 Posted April 4, 2005 What about "splash=silent" ?? . . . and you will never see the FAILED again :PB) Bruno Quote
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