Re: Lenovo T520i X11 Intel i810 "static display" issue
Hi Keith!
Please use proper quoting. Thanks. TOFU repaired.
Am Freitag, 26. August 2011 schrieb keitho@strucktower.com:
> > Am Donnerstag, 25. August 2011 schrieb keitho@strucktower.com:
> >> Hi Martin-
> >
> > Hi Keith,
> >
> >> Thanks for your reply.
> >>
> >> Can you tell me _how_ to "try exactly 3.0.0 from the debian
> >> package"? If I donwload the source for 3.0.3 (the most recent
> >> stable kernel on kernel.org) I will then need to build a .config
> >> file- and obviously my attempts so far have been wrong. I'm new to
> >> Linux, and guessing at the thousands of configuration lines in make
> >> menuconfig isn't working for me...
> >>
> >> The most recent debian distribution only uses 2.6.39 (or so), so I
> >> am not sure how you mean to try 3.0.0 from "the debian package".
> >>
> >> Can you explain further? Is there some way to get a 3.0.0 kernel
> >> with "default" or generic .config file that will work with debian
> >> on my T520?
> >
> > Get linux-image-3.0.0-1-amd64 3.0.0-2 from Debian Sid. No need to
> > build a kernel, just use the binary package.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > --
> > Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de
> > GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7
>
> Hi Martin-
>
> Thanks once again, I really appreciate your help.
>
> I downloaded the linux-image-3.0.0-1-amd64 deb file from Debian Sid as
> you suggested, but when I tried to install it I got this error message
> from the package instaler:
>
> "Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: linux-base (<=3~)
>
> Hmm... I thought at first that referred to the fact that I had booted
> into my 3.1.0-rc1 kernel, but I also tried it after booting into my
> old 2.6.32-5-amd64 kernel and still I get the same error message.
No, this is related some to a package dependency.
> Can you explain how to work around this?
I bet you need linux-base 3.3 from unstable as well.
> When I search inside Synaptic for linux-base I only see the one that's
> installed- 2.6.32-35, even though I am running the 3.1.0-rc1 kernel...
> so I am confused. Do I need to add a new/different repository to my
> sources.list file in order to install a later version?
You could do something like this:
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main non-free contrib
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ sid main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ sid main non-free contrib
and then in /etc/apt/preferences to avoid updating everything to Sid:
Explanation: lower priority than stable (500), 26.8.2011
Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 400
BTW when you used 2.6.32 before, are you using Squeeze completely? Then I
suggest upgrading to Wheezy. Squeeze is not recent enough for Sandybridge.
So some of your problems might just be related to using Squeeze. I just
run everything at Sid at the moment and it works marvellous. A bit more
conservative approach would be using Wheezy which should be recent enough
by now. At least 3.0 kernel already made it to Wheezy:
martin@merkaba:~> rmadison linux-image-3.0.0-1-amd64
linux-image-3.0.0-1-amd64 | 3.0.0-1 | wheezy | amd64, i386
linux-image-3.0.0-1-amd64 | 3.0.0-2 | sid | amd64, i386
Thanks,
--
Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de
GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7
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