Acer Ferrari 4000 and Linux/Unix? Anyone try it? - Page 3

Kernel 2.6.12 patches for the ATI Driver

I just found kernel 2.6.12 patches for the ATI driver ....

I'll give them a shot... and report the results.... hopefully the 2.6.12 kernel cleans up some of the remaining problems with the 4005.

great howto, i'll try it as soon as i get my ferrari.
(monday i hope, the post is so slow here in austria )

but i have a question -> the inbuild wlan-card seem to
have poor linux support but instead of replacing it could you
just buy a pcmcia card?
for example a prism card -> for aircrack support...

would this be possible?

Has anyone put the Windows XP Proffesional x64 Edition on their computer, Acer has a link on their site linking you to a site you can update it too. I just was wondering if it made a difference, or was even worth the trouble. And I was also wondering if any of these downloads made a difference on the Ferrari http://csd.acer.com.tw/SI/Download2....7?OpenDocument

what does this have to do with linux?
use the search and you will find an answer...

does anybody know the exakt name of the
inbuild wlan card? because then you can search
here if it is supported under linux:
http://linux_wless.passys.nl/

and does anybody know an answer for my
previous question?

I would agree about the PCMCIA card but ... cost wise ...
... Intel 2915 with abg support ... $43 Canadian ...
... an abg supported PCMCIA card .... >$60 Canadian ...

( Call me cheap ... )

PCMCIA is definitely the "safer" way to go ... re-attaching the antenna clips on to the new Intel card was a delicate procedure ...

i just thought of the pcmcia-card
because i'm not really skilled and would probably break
my ferrari

but afaik the ferrari has only one pcmcia-slot
so your solution would be the better one.

does anybody know a good pcmcia-card that works with aircrack
(linux) and has a connection for an external antenna?

xp-64 drivers are now on acer's website.

http://www.acerpanam.com/synapse/for...d=3394#results

Perhaps these, along with the ndis wrapper, will allow the wireless to work.

Yes .... but for those that wish to use the wireless networking for "Other Activities" ... a non ndiswrapper solution is needed. ... ndiswrapper solutions do not permit raw-monitor mode ... and other nice settings ..

These "Other settings" are required to get ... how does one put it .... maximum flexibility out of ... the not so secure natural network infrastructure provided by people that can't even be bothered to change from from the defualt wep keys to something more secure ...

Nothing like having an "alternate" avenue to the internet when you ISP goes down ...

Fair enough. On a separate note, is it possible to change the ram frequency under linux? I would really like my ram to run at the 200MHz it is capable of.

Kernel 2.6.13-rc2 ... success

I loaded a kernel-2.6.13-rc2 kernel onto the system last night and was astonished when the system came up cleanly ....

I tracked down ATI driver patches for kernel 2.6.12 support ... which work nicely with kernel 2.6.13-rc2. ( their at www.rage3d.com website )

I still have one minor ACPI error to iron out .... but that's it.

No timer-hack required for 2.6.13-rc2 ... it's built in ... just pass
no_timer_check to the kernel as a parameter ... and your off...

The kernel is a kernel-of-the-day rpm off of the SuSE Mirrors.

Time for a

help!

Hi!
I'm not really new in Linux/Unix, but never touch kernel. Pls, help!
Where I can download kernel (from www.kernel.org ? ) And how I continue from there....

1st: Which kernel are you looking for ?
2nd: Have you recompiled and/or mucked about with kernels before ?
3rd: What exactly ... do you want to do with the kernel ?

If you want to get a 2.6.13-rc2 kernel up and running on a Ferrari 4000 under SuSE Linux;

• grab a kernel RPM off of the SuSE mirror site. It's under a staff directory in the /people directory of the mirror
• install the kernel
• grab the kernel 2.6.12 patches for the 8.14.13 ATI driver at the 3dRage website and applie them as 3dRage directions say.
• compile a new kernel from the source you just patched
• reboot to the new kenrel
• recompile the ati driver module
• grab a beer ... your done

Oh, yes!
Same kernel you've mantioned in previous post (just before beer)...
No "kernel" experience before.
Trying to install Suse 9.3 64b on Acer Ferrari 4000.

Will do.

Sorry for silly questions, as I wrote - no experience with kernel compilation at all .
Couldn't find the rpm. from which mirrow ? There is no "staff" directory in 'people". Same story with 3dRage.
Could you , pls, write links?

Thanks.

Thanks Lissimore for your guidlines.
One favor to ask though, if you found any DSDT table/hack for ACPI that works for Ferrari 4000 please let me know.
I;'m too dumb to make my own even though i've followed everything in the documentation.

DISCLAIMER:
If these instructions totally screw up your system don't come crying to me. These are use at your own risk. No warranty is implied of any kind.

Getting the rpms:
I won't put a direct link in because people will simply click on the link instead of using a SuSE mirror near them...

Go to the directory in people/mantel/next/x86_64/HEAD/

If it's not available on the mirror you selected .... look at other mirrors ...If you can't find it then your out of luck.

2.6.13-rc3 was put up today

Remember ... these RPMS are use at own risk ... don't expect anything from SuSE if an install fails using these things ...


Grab the source package ... the kernel package ... and the non-gpl package if you need it....

install the kernel rpms package

rpm -ivh kernel-default-2.6.13_rc3_git4-20050721142817.x86_64.rpm

rpm -ivh kernel-source-2.6.13_rc3_git4-20050721142817.x86_64.rpm

rpm -ivh kernel-default-nongpl-2.6.13_rc3_git4-20050721142817.x86_64.rpm

when installed ...
start a kernel recompile ... the 2.6.13 series being put up on the mirrors is compiled with gcc-4 ... odds are you only have gcc-3 installed ... so

cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.13-rc3-20050721142817
rm -f .config
make cloneconfig
make
make modules_install
make install

.... now the fun begins
..... Open up the grub menu file /boot/grub/menu.lst in vi

vi /boot/grub/menu.lst

.... you'll see a 2.6.13 kernel listed in your grub boot menu
... something akin to ... Linux-2.6.13-rc3-20050713072121-default
.... add a no_timer_check kernel parameter to the kernel line
.... ie. change

kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.13-rc3-20050713072121-default root=/dev/hda3

...TO

kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.13-rc3-20050713072121-default no_timer_check root=/dev/hda3

If you don't know even the basic vi commands ... rethink installing an unsupported kernel until you do know the commands.

.... save the file
..... reboot ...

When the system comes back up ...
time for ATI driver patching for 2.6.12+ kernels ...

Getting the Patches
Visit http://tux3d.org/fglrx/Patches/Kerne...2/good-tested/
and grab the patches

Next, visit,
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...5&pagenumber=1
and learn to read instructions ....

from those instructions you'll hopefully have a 2.6.13-rc3 kernel with a patched/compiled/installed ATI kernel module ... and fully functional accelerated X server running ...

If not ... Oh well ... reinstall time ...

Working on that one .... haven't stumbled across any yet ...
The 2.6.13-rc kernels solve some of the ACPI problems ...
At least I'm getting far fewer ACPI error messages in my logs now....

In fact the only recurring message I get now is ....

Jul 21 21:48:46 linux kernel: ACPI-0362: *** Error: Looking up [Z00I] in namespace, AE_NOT_FOUND
Jul 21 21:48:46 linux kernel: search_node ffff810037d32dc0 start_node ffff810037d32dc0 return_node 0000000000000000
Jul 21 21:48:46 linux kernel: ACPI-1172: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.BAT1._BST] (Node ffff810037d32c40), AE_ and that message is from a 2.6.13-rc3 rpm as described above ...

Or you could install the gcc-4.0 rpms that were somewhere or another on the SuSE mirror.... but for that you're on your own ....

Bingo, same ACPI message that i got.
I'll work on it too. Will keep you posted.

Thx

Ferrari 4000 without sse3?

Hi all,

Searching in this forum I've found a copy of /proc/cpuinfo of a Ferrari 4000 notebook. It doesn't show sse3 as one of the cpu flags (only sse, sse2). Do your Turions also lack sse3?