Installing on a Acer 5024 WLMi - Help / Suggestions

[chilax]

Anytime now my DVD with Fedora 5 x86_64 will arrive...

I have understood that I might be expecting some issues with my laptop (Acer 5024WLMi) as the WLAN-card and Ati X700 can be difficult to get to work? (especially the WLAN-card (a Broadcom 802.11b/g WLAN))

However, I hope I can get some help and suggestions from some experienced users here.
All experience I have from Linux at all, is from my Fedora Core 1 install today (and using around 5 minutes)...

So tomorrow (when my DVD probably have arrived), will be my real first experience :-)

I'm planning to burn a CD with drivers etc... Someone who might be able to suggest what to put on this CD (where to I find necessary drivers???)

All help will be useful so please post!

[Wishartz]

I have exactly the same laptop and it was a little bit of a pain to install fedora 5 on.

You will need the program acer_acpi for the wireless to work, you will need to use ndiswrapper and the drivers for the broadcom as well.

Have a look at this post for instructions

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showth...highlight=5024

If you get stuck, I should be able to help.

I had a couple of problems with the screen when installing Fedora and I had to install it in text mode, but overall I'm really happy with it.

If you have any problems give me a shout.

[chilax]

Thanks for being so helpful!

Well, I have already run into problems... I had to install in text mode as the screen turned black otherwise. The install is now complete and I have to install the ATI-driver... Without success so for as I have no idea what to do in shell-mode (or what it's called).

When, as directed by the forum you linked; I type in
rpm -Uvh fglrx64_6_8_0-8.24.8-1.x86_64.rpm (for my X.Org 6.8 downloaded from ATI); I get the following error message as direct response:
error: Failed dependencies:
libstdc++.so.5 is needed by fglrx64_6_8_0-8.24.8-1.x86_64.rpm
libstdc++.so.5(GLIBCPP_3.2) is needed by fglrx64_6_8_0-8.24.8-1.x86_64.rpm

I have located the file libstdc++.so.5 to /usr/lib64/.

That is as far as I've reached... This is, as said, my first Linux experience what so ever so I have no idea how to load these files the right way...

I'm eager to learn though!

[Wishartz]

Glad to help Chilax. So yo have only got access to the command line at the moment.

Here is a copy of my xorg.conf, with the ATI driver taken out, so you can get into X. This file is for your X settings i.e the desktop environment. If you see the part where it says Driver I have changed it to say radeon, when you have installed the correct driver you will need to change it from radeon to fglrx. If you cannot get my copy of the xorg to work properly, you can always try typing system-config-display at the comand prompt to get a basic configuration that will at least get you a basic windows environment, until you are able to get it working properly.

Once you are able to get into X (the desktop environment) follow this link to set up your yum repos and follow the instructions to install the ATI driver. The driver that you have tried to install is for xorg 6.8 fedora 5 uses xorg 7 the livna repo has an rpm package for xorg 7 fedora 5 that you will be able to install when you follow the instructions from the link below.

http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_cor...ion_notes.html

Take a copy of this and save it as /etc/X11/xorg.conf



# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Synaptics" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "AlwaysCore"
EndSection

Section "Files"

# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, a font server independent of the X server is
# used to render fonts.
FontPath "unix/:7100"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "fbdevhw"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
Load "synaptics"
Load "dri"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
# Option "Xleds" "1 2 3"
# To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
# Option "XkbDisable"
# To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
# lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S.
# keyboard, you will probably want to use:
# Option "XkbModel" "pc102"
# If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
# Option "XkbModel" "microsoft"
#
# Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
# For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# or:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
#
# If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
# control keys, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps"
# Or if you just want both to be control, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"
#
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"

### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
Identifier "Monitor0"
ModelName "LCD Panel 1280x800"
### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
HorizSync 31.5 - 90.0
VertRefresh 60.0 - 60.0
ModeLine "1280x800" 83.5 1280 1344 1480 1680 800 801 804 828 -hsync +vsync
Option "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"

# Option "VRefresh2" "unspecified"

Identifier "vid_fglrx"
Driver "radeon"
BoardName "FGLRX - ATI Radeon Mobility X700"
Option "NoDDC"
Option "no_accel" "no"
Option "no_dri" "no"
Option "mtrr" "off"
Option "DesktopSetup" "0x00000100"
Option "MonitorLayout" "LVDS, TMDS"
Option "IgnoreEDID" "on"
Option "ScreenOverlap" "0"
Option "NoTV" "yes"
Option "TVStandard" "PAL-M"
Option "TVHSizeAdj" "0"
Option "TVVSizeAdj" "0"
Option "TVHPosAdj" "0"
Option "TVVPosAdj" "0"
Option "TVHStartAdj" "0"
Option "TVColorAdj" "0"
Option "GammaCorrectionI" "0x06419064"
Option "GammaCorrectionII" "0x06419064"
Option "Capabilities" "0x00008000"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "on"
Option "CenterMode" "off"
Option "PseudoColorVisuals" "off"
Option "Stereo" "off"
Option "StereoSyncEnable" "1"
Option "FSAAEnable" "yes"
Option "FSAAScale" "2"
Option "FSAADisableGamma" "no"
Option "FSAACustomizeMSPos" "no"
Option "FSAAMSPosX0" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosY0" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosX1" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosY1" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosX2" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosY2" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosX3" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosY3" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosX4" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosY4" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosX5" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosY5" "0.000000"
Option "UseFastTLS" "0"
Option "BlockSignalsOnLock" "on"
Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "yes"
Option "ForceGenericCPU" "no"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "vid_fglrx"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1280x800"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Group 0
Mode 0666
EndSection

Hope this helps. Any problems just let me know.

[krom]

Originally Posted by chilax

Anytime now my DVD with Fedora 5 x86_64 will arrive...

I have understood that I might be expecting some issues with my laptop (Acer 5024WLMi) as the WLAN-card and Ati X700 can be difficult to get to work? (especially the WLAN-card (a Broadcom 802.11b/g WLAN))

However, I hope I can get some help and suggestions from some experienced users here.
All experience I have from Linux at all, is from my Fedora Core 1 install today (and using around 5 minutes)...

So tomorrow (when my DVD probably have arrived), will be my real first experience :-)

I'm planning to burn a CD with drivers etc... Someone who might be able to suggest what to put on this CD (where to I find necessary drivers???)

All help will be useful so please post!

if you still have issues try this post for some usefull tips and solutions

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showth...highlight=x700

[chilax]

Thanks for helping me out guys!
Although I've been kind of idle lately, I've managed to get my graphic going!

The WLan is causing concern still. I'm having probems installing ndiswrapper. Somewhere in the forums linked above, it's said that I should yum install ndiswrapper. How do I do that?

Would be really happy with a mini-guide step-for-step (what commands to put in the terminal etc) on how to get my Wlan working. Preferably pedagogically explained so I learn and understand what I'm doing

As said, I'm totally new to Linux. I have experience from shell-OSing before, but in Linux I have no idea which commands to use and when... Happy to learn though, liked everything with Fedora so far *of what I managed to get working*

[mou_tyum]

Welcome to world of Linux on 5024 WLMI.
Realy it's not so hard as you think. But i don't understand why everybody talking about ndiswrapper. FC5 has builtin support of BCM43xx there small how-to http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=102697 and detailed http://fedoramobile.org/fc-wireless/bcm43xx-yum-livna/. I'm tried this driver stand and NIC detected by i dont test connectiuvity yet.
Also i have problems with acer_acpi and ndiswrapper. After loading acer_acpi syten freeze when you try to unload iptables (xt_state). For this reason i can't shutdown system normaly. I thin better to use BCM43xx if possible.
If you could get it work please tell me. If you need to make your modem work referer to http://doube.net/3023wlmi.html. But i still have problems with suspend and hibernation.
Also i recomend to think about memory increase if you have 512MiB. Because on 5024 WLmi memory is very slow and hdd too, and using virtual memory decreaese overall performance.
But in common cases system working fine.

[mou_tyum]

Originally Posted by Wishartz

Section "Device"

# Option "VRefresh2" "unspecified"

Identifier "vid_fglrx"
Driver "radeon"
BoardName "FGLRX - ATI Radeon Mobility X700"
Option "NoDDC"
Option "no_accel" "no"
Option "no_dri" "no"
Option "mtrr" "off"

but its not ati-fglrx driver. Its opensource driver which not support 3D acceleration for x700?
or i'm misunderstud something?