Re: Woody on Sony VAIO PCG-8A6M, GRX316G
Hi Charbel,
thanks very much for the detailed step by step guide. Together with
the information of Mattia I have been able to do almost all of the
described tasks. There is just one thing which I didn't get done
properly. I am talking about the finger crossing thing. Hmmh. That
didn't work out. I got a kernel panic when rebooting. Where can I look
for the reason of the panic? I grepped through /var/log for panic but
with no success. I found some stuff in /var/log/ksymoops (whatever that
is), but it didn't make any sense to me too.
Any ideas?
Btw. Sorry for coming back that late, but I didn't have the time to
try the described way before and was also thrown back when some of the
things didn't work as expected, but also learned a bit about debian
coming from SuSE, RedHat, Mandrake I am very impressed. Debian seems to
be exactly what I was looking for.
Mariano
On Mon, 2002-09-02 at 23:35, Charbel JACQUIN wrote:
> Hi again Mariano,
>
> > As I said .. This is the first time not using SuSE. So there is a newer
> > version of debian avaliable but woody? How do I get it? I had a look at
> > the site and found a "testing"/"unstable" version. So it is this one,
> > right?
> >
> > Would this mean I will get XDFree 4.2 and the patched kernel with it?
>
> Sorry, I was unclear and didn't pay attention to the fact that you where
> new to debian. I'll try to remember what I did, and give you some
> details.
> PLEASE! someone, correct me if i'm wrong somewhere in my explanations.
>
> I - XFree 4.2:
>
> you can get it by adding this line:
>
> deb http://iesc.trasno.net/xfree-4.2.debs sid/i386/
>
> to your /etc/apt/sources.list, and doing something like:
>
> % apt-get update
> % apt-get install xserver-xfree86
>
> You'll get a version labelled 4.2.0-0pre1v1 or something.
>
>
> II - Build kernel with necessary ACPI support for your Vaio.
>
> You need it or soundcard and maybe modem won't work (at least not
> together with your ethernet card).
>
> AFAK, you'll need to build your patched kernel yourself. Under debian,
> it's simple and easy.
>
> 1 - get kernel sources and debian kernel building utilities.
>
> % apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.18 kernel-package
>
> will give you both kernel sources tarball and the utilities used to
> build a kernel from source the debian way.
>
> 2 - download the ACPI patch. Choose the latest that match your kernel
> version:
>
> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/acpi/acpi-20020709-2.4.18.diff.gz?download
>
> 3 - patch the sources:
> Kernel sources where downloaded to /usr/src/kernel-image-2.4.18.tar.gz.
> Unpack sources, apply acpi patch:
>
> % cd kernel-source-2.4.18
> % zcat ../acpi-xx.diff.gz | patch -p1
>
> 4 - Configure and build your kernel:
> At top of kernel sources:
>
> % make-kpkg -rfakeroot -config=x --revision=myvaio.1 kernel_image
>
> This will bring the good old Tk interface to configure your kernel.
> - enable experimental features (in the first menu, general setup or
> something)
> - locate where ACPI features are (second or third menu I guess), enable
> them all.
> - configure other parts, exit and save. Wait for kernel to compile.
>
> If everything goes well, you'll end up with a home made debian
> kernel-image in /usr/src/kernel-image-2.4.18_myvaio.1_i386.deb.
>
>
> II - Ethernet.
> Download Intel's driver:
> http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df/Detail_Desc.asp?ProductID=407&DwnldID=2896
>
> % tar xfz e100-2.1.15.tar.gz
> % cd e100-2.1.15/src
> % make clean && make
>
> You end up with a new kernel module: e100.o
>
> III - Install It
>
> % sudo dpkg -i /usr/src/kernel-image-2.4.18_myvaio.1_i386.deb
> % sudo cp e100.o /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers/
>
> IV - Reboot and cross your fingers :-)
>
>
> Charbel.
>
>
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