From: "Carl Gehr" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account carl.gehr@mcgcg.com HELO localhost) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.3) with ESMTPA id 1903967 for ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com; Fri, 30 May 2008 23:18:59 -0400 To: "eCS ThinkPad T60/61 Mailing List" Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 23:18:46 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: "Carl Gehr" Priority: Normal X-Mailer: PMMail 2.20.2382 for OS/2 Warp 4.5 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [eCS T60/T61] Installed eCS 2.0 RC4 on T61 (6465-CTO) withSUSE SLED 10 preloaded. Message-ID: First, I have a T60, not a T61. So there may be something different. On Fri, 30 May 2008 19:07:24 -0600, Chuck McKinnis wrote: >I am going to trim this up a little. > >madodel wrote: >> I just have the /smp /apic. What does /sap:0x20 do? Also I updated to >> 3.09 using the warpin package and it runs fine now. > >/SAP Set startup ACPI options > default value: 0 > /SAP:0x0 > > you can assemble this values: > ACPI_FULL_INITIALIZATION 0x00 > ACPI_NO_ADDRESS_SPACE_INIT 0x01 > ACPI_NO_HARDWARE_INIT 0x02 > ACPI_NO_EVENT_INIT 0x04 > ACPI_NO_HANDLER_INIT 0x08 > ACPI_NO_ACPI_ENABLE 0x10 > ACPI_NO_DEVICE_INIT 0x20 > ACPI_NO_OBJECT_INIT 0x40 > >I think it means that ACPI should not run around and try to play with >the devices. I am using the default of 0x00. No problems on my T60 with 3.09. > >> >> Per Roderick Klein's suggestion I switched to the Panorama driver (the >> last version I found on the BetaZone) and now window drag is fine. >> There is no listing of memory usage that I can find though. Anyone know >> what "Enable Shadow Buffer" does? I selected it but nothing seems >> different. > >I had some problems with Panorama and went back to SNAP. It is a bear >to kill the Panorama driver. Had to do a good old Alt+F1 and reset to >VGA (really ugly). I am also running SNAP. I've not tried Panorama, primarily due to hearing stories such as the above. >> >> I rarely ever use wired. Usually only when I'm at a hotel and that is >> all they have. I will have to give that a try when I get the rest >> >>> >>>> When I tried RC4's Uniaud it trapped. (ICH8 Family) HD Audio >>>> Controller. Chuck said he has sound working with Paul's latest Uniaud >>>> driver so I will try that. >>> Using UniAud on my [ICH0 Family] HD Audio. I am using the 1.9.2 level from Paul Smedley with the 1.16 level. Only a very rare hang, and even a few of those seem to release after just letting it sit for a minute or so. >> I installed the last FAT32 driver as well. I have a big FAT32 partition >> to share files with Linux if I ever decide to spend any time in it. > >I have found that Kubuntu can access my eCS JFS volumes without any >problem. Much easier than fiddling with FAT32. Using the 0.911 level of FAT32. I've not upgraded due to some reports of slower performance. It's already a bit slow; didn't want to make things worse. Nice to know that Ubuntu can handle JFS. I may try that at some point if I ever get around to installing Linux. >> >>> >>> It locks up w/ flash, sometimes it plays 1 time, it always locks up >>> on the 2nd time (at youtube site - haven't tried other views). FF >>> 2.0.0.11 w/ flash patch for v9.0.115. I need to install mplay and >>> see if that will work. I tried Z! on an mp3 online and it locked >>> up. Haven't tried an mp3 off of the drive. >> >> Installing UniAud 1.1.4 RC6 (a complete package >> ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/uniaud/uniaud114RC6.zip ) first then Paul's >> updated Uniaud16.sys ( http://download.smedley.info/uniaud16test2.zip ) >> and UniAud32.sys ( http://download.smedley.info/uniaud32-1.9.4.zip ). >> Now sound works works most of the time though the keyboard sound buttons >> don't work at all under eCS. Not sure if it is related, but I have had >> a lot of system hangs which only respond to power off. Or if its >> related to the Panorama driver. >> >> >>>> SD/xD/memory stick card slot though eCS doesn't seem to recognize it). >>> >>> Same here, no workie. If I plug in my card reader it works fine. >>> I have: xD photo cards, SD cards for my Palm Treo. Both work very nicely with both the Advanced Dock slots and a 12:1 SanDisk reader. I also use SanDisk flash drives on a regular basis with no issues. And, finally, I have a 250GB WD USB 2.0 external drive. The WD has HPFS and FAT32 partitions. I have allocated partions for, but not yet installed, Ubuntu 8.04. I hope to get that done next week. This said, the USBDOCK utility has not recognized any USB devices for a number of months. It worked when I first installed eCS 2.0 RC2, but not since. I have no idea what the problem is. As long as the devices work, I've not wasted time trying to diagnose/debug it. It would be nice if it worked, though. >> Doesn't seem to work in Linux either, unless one has to mount it before >> it can be used. I just have SD cards here. When I plug one into the >> slot a light briefly comes on then goes out. DFSee only shows the SATA >> drive. > >My only camera card is an XD. Reads fine in WinXP. Is not recognized >in eCS or Kubuntu. I did go out and download what is supposedly Linux >support for the Lenovo Smart Card reader, but it did not seem to help. See comments about xD photo card above. >> >> Since I've been playing with the T61 I've had a number of hard freezes >> requiring a power off, but not on boot since I got ACPI working. Have >> you tried Alt-F4 at the boot blob which steps through each device driver >> before it is run? The problem with Alt-F2 is it only shows the last >> driver that was loaded. > >Try the /SAP:0x20 parm The only other comment I have is that I do not use the /APIC switch for the PSD ACPI. It caused a hang early in the 3.0x process so I removed it; never had a need to try again. >> >> Mark Carl