[ltp] Problems when installing RH7.0 in IBM ThinkPad 560Z

[tom]

I concurr with this schedule of things to try.

for apm/apmd..
I made a chart of all the options under the kernel APM section and
toggled them on/off and recorded the results over the course of
over a week.
Once I got one that was mostly working, I make that the production
kernel and then started playing from there.

but you MUST have a Test kernel in your lilo configuration.

If you do not know how to do that, read on...

edit /etc/lilo.conf
take you working lilo.conf section titled Linux and copy it so you
have two of them.
In the new one, change the Title from Linux to something ("Test").
In the new one, change the boot from /vmlinuz to /boot/vmlinuz.

edit /usr/src/linux/Makefile
There is a line that says INSTALL_PATH=/boot
Make sure that there is no comment preceding this line.
Now, everytime you build the new kernel, it will put the file into
/boot and not /.

Once you get the working kernel, you can do a 
cp -b /boot/vmlinuz /vmlinuz to update your Linux kernel from your
Test kernel.


"Bradley W. Langhorst" wrote:
> 
> adisudewa@id.ibm.com wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I installed RH7.0 in my ThinkPad 560Z.
> > I have experiences installing RH Linux in various desktop system without
> > trouble, but this time I encountered a lot of problems.
> >
> > Kindly please everyone with Linux ThinkPad experiences help me
> > solve the problems. Thanks.
> >
> > Here are list of problems :
> >
> > apmd can't resume
> >
> > apmd daemon run without any error reporting, but everytime I close the lid,
> > and
> > reopen it, the laptop not responding and I had to restart the system
> > not in a proper way. I guess the harddisk was the problem, but I am not
> > sure.
> Check the kernel configuration, I'm not certain but I think you may need
> to enable the option to allow interrupts during APM BIOS calls.
> >
> > processor and memory aren't correctly identified
> >
> > The thinpad have a mobile Pentium II processor 233 MHz and 96 megs of
> > memory.
> > But the information in /proc, are :
> >
> > $cat /proc/cpuinfo
> >
> > processor : 0
> > vendor_id : GenuineIntel
> > cpu family     : 6
> > model          : 5
> > model name     : Pentium II (Deschutes)
> > stepping  : 2
> > cpu MHz   : 58.775
> > cache size     : 512 KB
> > fdiv_bug  : no
> > hlt_bug   : no
> > sep_bug   : no
> > f00f_bug  : no
> > coma_bug  : no
> > fpu       : yes
> > fpu_exception  : yes
> > cpuid level    : 2
> > wp        : yes
> > flags          : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov
> > pat pse36 mmx fxsr
> > bogomips  : 124.11
> >
> > $cat /proc/meminfo
> >         total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
> > Mem:  65478656 23764992 41713664 11476992  1912832 11362304
> > Swap: 85114880        0 85114880
> > MemTotal:     63944 kB
> > MemFree:      40736 kB
> > MemShared:    11208 kB
> > Buffers:       1868 kB
> > Cached:       11096 kB
> > BigTotal:         0 kB
> > BigFree:          0 kB
> > SwapTotal:    83120 kB
> > SwapFree:     83120 kB
> The processor issue is a result of the power saving mode.  Try running
> your test with the laptop plugged in and after a reboot.
> To get the machine to recognize the proper amount of memory you need to
> watch during the POST for the exact amount of free memory and put the
> following line in your lilo.conf file.
>   append = "mem=95M"
> 
> Where you can optionally replace the 95M with the exact number from the
> POST followed by "K"
> Both will work - but the latter will give you a little bit of extra
> memory.  (I can't remember exactly how much is used by the BIOS...)
> >
> > PCMCIA doesn't work well with PC IDE Card
> >
> > cardmgr didn't report anything when I insert and eject PC IDE Card to
> > attach
> > my CDROM. All pcmcia_core, ds, and i86325 installed correctly. There
> > weren't
> > any beep either.
> I can only suggest getting the latest version
> of pcmcia card services from
> pcmcia-ca.sourceforge.net
> 
> good luck!
> 
> brad
> --
> Bradley W. Langhorst
> email: brad@langhorst.com
> tel:   603-773-0252
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