bneumeier :
You are absolutely right. I wish to apologise as i was suspecting a hardware flaw. Actually i might not be completely wrong, as the flaw is from the Phoenix Bios Note 4, as it looks like it cannot set DMA, on the disk, while our favorite OS does.
To all:
Here is what i use to set DMA on the disk in a bash script executed at boot.
#!/bin/bash
hdparm -c1d1X69 /dev/hda ;
hdparm -u1 -k1 /dev/hda ;
echo "Forcing DMA and 32bit transfert ......................done" ;
echo "Enabling ATA 100 Mode ................................done" ;
This could get better using statements as if etc, this is just quick and dirty hack.
I finally made the wireless work, unfortunately it is nowhere a reference. I am using a proprietary ATMEL 11mbits Wireless Cardbus PCMCIA card. This is not supported by kernel drivers. The company does suplly a linux tar ball, with the src for the modules, so you can build them. Only problems, where linux wireless tools expect it as a wlan0 interfaces, it get assigned an ethX one. So no iwconfig or other iw.
Had to edit /etc/pcmcia/config and add the card description, as well as binding it with the proprietary module previously built and inserted. Lots of errors, timed out but well, not a regular card, hope to get a 3com or LinkSys, even Dlink soon.
Here is the screenshot of it working :
As well, i have tried something interesting.
As i am running the ATI prop drivers on my desktop, and the latest cvs radeon DRI with X 4.3.0 on the sager, i copied the libGL.so.1.2 of the ati drivers, and replaced my original Mesa DRI libGL.so.1.2 with it, backing it up, off course. Here is the ls -lh of it, showing the size differences, as well as the backup one.
-rwxr-xr-x 1 laclasse laclasse 499K Mar 13 05:56 /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 396K Mar 10 09:22 /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2Mesa
The results, same 3D performance, but hey, more extensions to the drivers, so ut2k3 now runs
ATTN: This is higly experimental, and hasn't prooved stable yet. I will not advise trying it, and will assume no responsability if ya loose X and essential settings, perfs etc.
I have now Tactical OPs ( UT mod- original, not 2k3 ) running very well, at a good 40/50 av at 1400x1050 fulls screen.
Hopefully i will get a TV soon, then i will be able to investigate the TV out and other Xinerama extensions. Please Comment.
You are absolutely right. I wish to apologise as i was suspecting a hardware flaw. Actually i might not be completely wrong, as the flaw is from the Phoenix Bios Note 4, as it looks like it cannot set DMA, on the disk, while our favorite OS does.
To all:
Here is what i use to set DMA on the disk in a bash script executed at boot.
#!/bin/bash
hdparm -c1d1X69 /dev/hda ;
hdparm -u1 -k1 /dev/hda ;
echo "Forcing DMA and 32bit transfert ......................done" ;
echo "Enabling ATA 100 Mode ................................done" ;
This could get better using statements as if etc, this is just quick and dirty hack.
I finally made the wireless work, unfortunately it is nowhere a reference. I am using a proprietary ATMEL 11mbits Wireless Cardbus PCMCIA card. This is not supported by kernel drivers. The company does suplly a linux tar ball, with the src for the modules, so you can build them. Only problems, where linux wireless tools expect it as a wlan0 interfaces, it get assigned an ethX one. So no iwconfig or other iw.
Had to edit /etc/pcmcia/config and add the card description, as well as binding it with the proprietary module previously built and inserted. Lots of errors, timed out but well, not a regular card, hope to get a 3com or LinkSys, even Dlink soon.
Here is the screenshot of it working :
As well, i have tried something interesting.
As i am running the ATI prop drivers on my desktop, and the latest cvs radeon DRI with X 4.3.0 on the sager, i copied the libGL.so.1.2 of the ati drivers, and replaced my original Mesa DRI libGL.so.1.2 with it, backing it up, off course. Here is the ls -lh of it, showing the size differences, as well as the backup one.
-rwxr-xr-x 1 laclasse laclasse 499K Mar 13 05:56 /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 396K Mar 10 09:22 /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2Mesa
The results, same 3D performance, but hey, more extensions to the drivers, so ut2k3 now runs
ATTN: This is higly experimental, and hasn't prooved stable yet. I will not advise trying it, and will assume no responsability if ya loose X and essential settings, perfs etc.
I have now Tactical OPs ( UT mod- original, not 2k3 ) running very well, at a good 40/50 av at 1400x1050 fulls screen.
Hopefully i will get a TV soon, then i will be able to investigate the TV out and other Xinerama extensions. Please Comment.
which will be preconfigured for the sagers familly, anyhow the recents ones, the 56XX and 888X series. I use a lot of the knoppix stuff for it at it is really good for Hardware recognition scripts. I will have off course to get somehow my hands on a 888X as i haven't tested all of it really.
