[ltp] T60p + FireGL + Atheros Wireless Hardy Upgraded Failure

[Alex Deucher]

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 5:29 AM, Phil Shotton <phil@stairbridge.org.uk> wrote:
> Sounds like you've had bad luck there - my upgrade on exactly the same
> hardware went like a charm.
>  I suspect most of the problems are due to the proprietary ATI driver. If
> you can live with slow 3D performance (850 fps on glxgears) then I highly
> recommend the latest ati/radeon drivers from xorg.  This will give you fully
> working twinhead support and suspend-to-ram but won't allow compiz.
>  The ati/radeon drivers distributed with Hardy seem to work OK but I
> couldn't get suspend-to-ram to work, and there were artifacts around the
> cursor. The latest drivers from git cured that - thanks to Alex Deucher.
>

For those that are interested, 3D support for r5xx is progressing
nicely, although it's still alpha quality at the moment (mostly
missing FS setup).  It's available on the r500-support branch of mesa
git.  You'll need drm and xserver from git as well.
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/log/?h=r500-support

Alex

>  Good luck!
>  Phil
>
>
>
>  Bill Moseley wrote:
>
> > I need to do a fresh install of Hardy.  Anyone done this lately with
> > this machine?
> >
> > What I need pointers with is mostly how to best setup the wireless
> > and video.  I assume I'll just fetch the ATI driver from the ATI site.
> >
> >
> > I'm not set on staying with Ubuntu.  I started using it after using
> > Debian for many years to get more current packages.  So, I'm open to
> > suggestions.  Maybe Gentoo?
> >
> > Any reason not to use xfs instead of ext3?  IIRC, xfs doesn't require
> > fsck to run (fsck always seems to run when I need the laptop to start
> > *fast*, of course).
> >
> >
> >
> > I had a mostly working T60p with Gutsy.
> >
> > Network manager worked fine with wireless (although there were some
> > access points I could not get but those with Windows or Mac could),
> > XGL and Compiz worked perfectly (but could not run dual monitors with
> > XGL enabled).
> >
> > Sleep and Hibernate didn't work due to the ATI driver problem with the
> > newer kernel (SLUB allocator, IIRC).
> >
> > So, I've seen reports that some have working sleep with Hardy so I
> > attempted the upgrade to Hardy 8.04 LTS.  I made sure Gutsy was
> > up-to-date and ran fsck before starting.  fsck showed no problems.
> >
> > The upgrade failed miserably.
> >
> > The only package not to install was tzdata.  Didn't seem critical.  So
> > rebooted.  fsck ran and reported many bad blocks.  Very odd that I get
> > that right after running the upgrade.
> >
> > When it does boot I get:
> >
> > - I get a warning that can only run in low resolution mode.
> > - Can't log in without disabling xserver-xgl.
> > - xterm was removed.
> > - wireless is gone.
> > - None of the panel icons can be run.  Clicking on them just shows the
> > "move" icon.  Very odd.
> >
> > And probably other problems.
> >
> > So, seems pretty hosed.
> >
> >
> >
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