[ltp] Redhat 9.0 on A22p

[Richard Neill]

Dear Tim,

You say you have suspend working. I'd be curious to know what you did. I 
also have an A22p, and in various Mandrakes (8.0 -> 9.0), I've never had 
it work reliably. I find that apm -s or Fn-F4 works most of the time, 
but about 1 time in 10, it fails to resume - it seems as though the hard 
disc doesn't spin back up - and I have to reset the machine.

Do you have this problem? If not, can you send me a  copy of your 
/etc/sysconfig/apmd
or are you somehow using ACPI ?

Thanks a lot

Best wishes

Richard



Tim Turkington wrote:
> Last weekend I installed Redhat 9.0 on my A22p.  It went pretty well.
> 
> I had previously been using RH 7.2.  I did this installation very 
> cautiously, wanting to have ability to revert  to 7.2 if some key
> feature didn't work.  I freed up some space on the hard disk and let the 9.0
> installation use that space, rather than the old linux partitions, so I could
> easily revert if necessary, and also, so I could easily copy files from the
> old partitions to the new.  I also have Win98 on there.
> 
> "Everything" worked without any tweaking:
>  Display at 1600x1200
>  Hibernate
>  Suspend
>  Network
>  Sound
>  CDRW/DVD (this was a recent hardware upgrade)
>   (using xcdroast for CDRW, mplayer and ogle for DVD viewing)
>  USB mouse (I used to manually add an entry in XF86config; one appeared
>    magically this time, even though the USB mouse wasn't hooked up at
>    X configuration time.)
> 
> I removed lm_sensors first thing, not knowing whether or not it could
> be harmful for this hardware/software combo.
> 
> I did install the ati.2 driver from gatos.sourceforge.net, which
> was necessary to get Xvideo (and therefore decent movie playing)
> to work.  (Without it, the system thinks everything is okay, but
> movies are stretched out double-wide in the correct size frame,
> so you miss what's on the right half.)  They have binaries for RH9.0,
> although the first page you read doesn't indicate that.
> 
> As has been pointed out, you need to go to 16-bit graphics to
> get 3D for a 1600x1200 with 16 MB.  Not something I use much, though.
> 
> I also have working:
>   Syncing with Sony Clie T415 PDA (USB)
>   Wireless with Linksys WPC11 pcmcia card 
>     precompiled wlan-ng drivers RPMs for RH9.0 at
>     prism2.unixguru.raleigh.nc.us
>   USB memory mounted as "SCSI" drive
>   Win4Lin (software that allows Windows to run on top of linux)
>     They have instructions on keeping Windows stuff intact during a
>     Linux upgrade.
> 
> Curiosity:
>   When I first installed Linux, I lost the ability to hibernate and suspend
>   in Windows 98.  (Linux could do both.)  This didn't matter too much, and I
>   saw something on the IBM web indicating that there would be problems with
>   Windows 98 doing this if you were using a boot loader.  So I never worried
>   about it.   Now, hibernate and suspend work again in Windows 98!???
> 
> Still NOT working:
>   Running the display at something other than 1600x1200 or 1280x1024.
>     This machine does very nice display interpolation, so lower resolution
>     modes really don't look too bad, and running with an LCD projector
>     is more predictable when using 1024x768 resolution.
>     I could run at any resolution with XFree86 4.1, but then it went away with
>     4.2  I was hoping it would come back with 4.3
> 
> RedHat 9.0
>  Every time I install a new Redhat, the default window manager with
>  Gnome changes.  From enlightenment to sawfish was an improvement.  From
>  sawfish to metacity you loose a lot.  Even getting it to use something
>  other then metacity was tricky.
>