[lug] Problems with SuSe 8.0 on Toshiba Tecra 8100

[William Petty]

I have downloaded the files from your provided link and will try it out when
I get time.  The install description is for Red-Hat...I have looked at both
Red-Hat and SuSe, and like SuSe better, and besides Red-Hat does not
support dosemu which I need for some old parallel port prom programmers
and JTAG control of LSI chips.

As to your second comment, This is a fresh install on a blank drive.  I will
look for an ALSA source package on the CD's but will replace from the web
if they are old.   I have to swap out the hard drive to debug the new 
installation.
When I get It working, I will move it onto my main hard drive which dual-boots
Win2K / Linux.

Wish me luck.


At 12:39 PM 12/2/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, William Petty said:
>
> > I have been playing with Suse 7.1 on my Toshiba Tecra 8100 laptop for
> > a while with excellent results, but could never get the WiFi wireless
> > pcmcia card to work.  I am now trying SuSe 8.0 (Which fixed the
> > wireless problems) but I now have two issues I can't seem to resolve.
> > The sound, which worked OK in 7.1, is now just buzzing.
> >
> > The sound system is using snd-xxx.o modules which were installed with
> > the initial installation.  However, there seems to be no source files
> > in the src path with matching names.  The only sound source files use
> > the old naming style.  I have rebuilt the modules with make modules,
> > but none of the failing drivers were built and the SuSe web site is no
> > use either.  This laptop uses the yamaha chip set. and that is what is
> > being used, but the sound is clipped to what seems to be a single
> > binary level.
>
>The modules you refer to are part of the alsa sound pkg I believe.  Alsa
>can be difficult to set up depending on the hardware.  There is an alsa
>alternative - sound driver modules which are included in the kernel,
>which are available for a wide range of audio chips, but not all.
>
> > The second problem is with compact flash cards (used with my digital
> > camera) and ide_cs.o.  The file installed with initial installation
> > errors out with "kernel: ide_cs: Card Services release does not
> > match!"  I do not understand this one at all!  I cannot find an
> > ide_cs.o file but there is an ide-cs.o which doesn't seem to work
> > either.  The message log has many references to attempting to load the
> > ide_cs.o file after card insertion, but I don't know where the
> > dependancies are being set for this file.
> >
> > I live in Colorado Springs, but have been unable to turn up any local
> > experts for Suse. Any suggestions would be helpfull.
>
>Most people on this list use RH or one of it's derivatives.  I've been
>using SuSE since 1998 or so.
>
>Kernel module depencies are listed in /etc/modules.conf, which is the
>basis of the "modprobe" command.
>
>As of a couple of yrs ago, the pcmcia pkg was integrated into the kernel,
>but has some differences from the stand-alone pcmcia pkg.  It appears as
>if you may have the stand-alone pkg installed.  Did you install 8.0 as an
>update or from a freshly formatted hd?  If the former, perhaps the update
>somehow skipped the pcmcia pkg, and you're using the one from your
>previous 7.1 install.  Try running YaST to re-install the pcmcia pkg.
>
>In general, there are one or two sites which have extensive info regarding
>implementing Linux on laptops.  I have one bookmarked as:
>
>http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/
>
>which is somewhat dated - I think it has since been changed.  Googling for
>"laptops" or "kharker" should turn up something.  The site should provide
>some clues if not a solution.
>
>One trick is to DL a CD image of a distro which does a better job of
>detecting hardare (SuSE Live, and Knoppix are two that I tend to use)
>which you can burn to CD then boot from it.  It might be a good idea to
>try the SuSE CD 1st, as that's what you're using, and uses alsa.  After
>booting from the CD, login and use the 'lsmod' command to view the module
>configuration.
>
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>John Karns                                        jkarns at csd.net
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