Q: i845MP/P4-M laptop support? (specific problems listed)

Q: i845MP/P4-M laptop support? (specific problems listed)

[Simon Oosthoek]

Hi all

I've been following kernel-traffic and sometimes the web-archives in search
for some clues about support for my laptop (jewel jade 8060, specs(in dutch):
URL:http://www.jewelnotebooks.nl/index.php?page=jade-8060)

I've noticed some problems and I've seen some proposals for patches and
fixes, but I don't have a clear picture of which is fixed and by which
patch...

The problems I have seen:
- apm doesn't seem to work 
  output: 
  APM BIOS 1.2 (kernel driver 1.16)
  AC on-line, no system battery
  
  Q: will the ACPI patches help with this?

- the -ac2 patch wasn't able to boot at all (no messages), but I haven't
tried it more than once... the intel speedstep feature would be nice to have
though...

- resource collision on PCI 00:1f.1?
  bootmessages: PCI: Device 00:1f.1 not available because of resource collisions

  Q: any fixes available for this?

- missing driver for smartmedia slot
  (I guess this is a feature request, if it's not available)
from "lspci -v":
02:06.0 System peripheral: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0804
(rev 02)
        Subsystem: COMPAL Electronics Inc: Unknown device 0012
        Flags: slow devsel, IRQ 11
        Memory at e0000c00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=32]
        Capabilities: <available only to root>


Otherwise I'm quite satisfied with linux on the laptop...

BTW, I'm not on the list, but I do sometimes parse the archives and
kernel-traffic. If anyone wants more details or if there's something I can
do to gather more information, please cc me or ask directly...

Cheers

Simon

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excerpt from the boot messages:

Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=2420 ro root=301 devfs=mount pci=biosirq
No local APIC present or hardware disabled
...
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16)
Starting kswapd
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
ACPI: APM is already active, exiting
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xf0000000, mapped to 0xd0800000, size 32768k
vesafb: mode is 1024x768x32, linelength=4096, pages=1
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:e780
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: directcolor: size=8:8:8:8, shift=24:16:8:0
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ
SERIAL_PCI enabled
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:1f.6
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:1f.3
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:1f.5
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH3M: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev f9
PCI: Device 00:1f.1 not available because of resource collisions
PCI: Assigned IRQ 11 for device 00:1f.1
ICH3M: BIOS setup was incomplete.

(note: this is all before the nvidia driver is loaded into the kernel,
making it tainted...)

Re: Q: i845MP/P4-M laptop support? (specific problems listed)

[James H. Cloos Jr.]

>>>>> "Simon" == Simon Oosthoek <simon@margo.student.utwente.nl> writes:

Simon> - missing driver for smartmedia slot (I guess this is a feature
Simon> request, if it's not available) 

Simon> 02:06.0 System peripheral: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0804

For the benefit of the archives, that is in the 2.5 kernel's pci.ids as:

        0804  TC6371AF SmartMedia Controller

Docs at:

http://www.toshiba.com/taec/components/Datasheet/TC6371AF--020122E_R1.8.pdf
http://216.239.53.100/search?q=cache:www.toshiba.com/taec/components/Datasheet/TC6371AF--020122E_R1.8.pdf

Also, a post archvied at:

http://linux.toshiba-dme.co.jp/ML/tlinux-users/1700/1739.html

suggests someone had the TC6371AF's smart media support working on a
suse 7.2 box back in 2002/January, FWIW.

-JimC

Re: Q: i845MP/P4-M laptop support? (specific problems listed)

[Ducrot Bruno]

On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 11:06:10AM +0100, Simon Oosthoek wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I've been following kernel-traffic and sometimes the web-archives in search
> for some clues about support for my laptop (jewel jade 8060, specs(in dutch):
> URL:http://www.jewelnotebooks.nl/index.php?page=jade-8060)

It sound like to be actually the same as a Toshiba Satellite for me.
Interresting.  FYI, this model is made by Compal <http://www.compal.com>
which is the actual manufacturer.

> 
> I've noticed some problems and I've seen some proposals for patches and
> fixes, but I don't have a clear picture of which is fixed and by which
> patch...
> 
> The problems I have seen:
> - apm doesn't seem to work 
>   output: 
>   APM BIOS 1.2 (kernel driver 1.16)
>   AC on-line, no system battery

APM do not work with the Satellite too.  So, yes, it is very likely to be
the exact same model...

>   
>   Q: will the ACPI patches help with this?

Yes and no.  You will have to make a (little) workaround in order to get ACPI
working, due to a bug in the BIOS.

> 
> - the -ac2 patch wasn't able to boot at all (no messages), but I haven't
> tried it more than once... the intel speedstep feature would be nice to have
> though...

You could have that with ACPI.  Alternatively, you can try cpufreq.

> 
> - resource collision on PCI 00:1f.1?
>   bootmessages: PCI: Device 00:1f.1 not available because of resource collisions
> 
> - missing driver for smartmedia slot

In fact, the smartmedia slot is available as a USB device..
Just compile with SCSI support.  Under the USB menu, you have a
'USB Mass Storage support' entry.  You should then have a 
'Microtech CompactFlash/SmartMedia support'


> from "lspci -v":
> 02:06.0 System peripheral: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0804
> (rev 02)
>         Subsystem: COMPAL Electronics Inc: Unknown device 0012
>         Flags: slow devsel, IRQ 11
>         Memory at e0000c00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=32]
>         Capabilities: <available only to root>

This is the Firewire link.  You can try IEEE 1394, the correct driver
should be OHCI-1394.  Since I have no HW to play with that, I can not
promise anything..


A final word: if you want ACPI for this one, you should go to
http://sf.net/projects/acpi

Try the latest patch.  Alas, if your model is buggy in the BIOS, (and
I know already that it is the case, actually) you should
ask for help in acpi mailing list at acpi-devel (at) lists.sourceforge.net
or ask me privately (but at ducrot (at) poupinou.org with a subject
containing ACPI please).

Cheers,

-- 
Ducrot Bruno
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