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    [title] => IBM T40 and multi-channel audio (ALSA)
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I’m finally getting around to setting up multi-channel audio. I’ve had this machine for awhile now, and most things are humming along.


 
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    [authorname] => Erin Schnabel
    [itime] => 2004-12-19 20:10:00
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References
	

	
intel8×0 – multichannel mixing [opensrc.org]
		
dmix plugin [alsa.opensrc.org]
		
T40 and ALSA, but no multichannel mixing [thread on gmane.org]
	


 
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    [title] => ACPI on IBM T40 with 2.6 kernel
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OK. getting ACPI to work properly needed to be revisited.

	
Suspend/Resume on T40 [bellet.info]

	
This guy originally used APM, but his update on 2004/07/15 makes some good notes, which I followed, notably:
	

	
Local APIC is required for USB to function properly, but it borks all over suspend/poweroff processing. There is a simple enough referenced patch to make it behave…
	


 
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    [title] => Gentoo on an IBM T40
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So, I have gentoo up and running on my T40, and thought I'd share the resources that helped me get there.

For those interested, here's the currently running kernel config.
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Preparation:

I wiped the predesktop area. I don't plan on running windows, and I'd rather have the disk space, thanks.

2.6 Kernel / Modules:



Power Management - I stuck with APM rather than ACPI. I may try ACPI later, but not yet.
Graphics Support - I went with framebuffer support this time, and so far, I like it.

Make sure you compile framebuffer console support INTO the kernel.
Sound Support - Alsa + snd_i8×0, as usual
Networking 

e1000 driver worked out of the box for the on-board Ethernet card 
There is a new SF project providing a driver for the onboard Intel Corp. PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 card. The driver seems to work fine, I've not been using it long enough to complain..  Also, there is a nice ebuild for centralizing wireless config. Sweet!

emerge wireless-tools
emerge wireless-config
tweak /etc/conf.d/net and /etc/conf.d/wireless as recommended by wireless-config package

Noteable: associate_test_eth1="MAC" was required to allow dhcp to finish initializing. I also provided wireless dhcp settings in /etc/conf.d/wireless rather than in /etc/conf.d/net.
/etc/init.d/net.eth1 start 









iwconfig  (before setting any wireless stuff up)
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

eth1      IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:""  Nickname:"ipw2100"
          Mode:Managed  Channel:1  Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00  
          Bit Rate=0kb/s   Tx-Power=32 dBm   
          Retry:on   RTS thr=2304 B   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:0/100  Signal level:-66 dBm  Noise level:-98 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

lspci

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB 2.0 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 81)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801DBM LPC Interface Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DBM (ICH4) Ultra ATA Storage Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 01)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 Lf [Radeon Mobility 9000 M9] (rev 02)
0000:02:00.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1520 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
0000:02:00.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1520 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
0000:02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82540EP Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Mobile) (rev 03)
0000:02:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corp. PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter (rev 04)

References:



Linux on the IBM Thinkpad T40
Gentoo linux on a Thinkpad T40p
Linux on the Thinkpad T40
Linux on the Thinkpad T40p - includes ACPI and Multihead X






Thinkpad Configuration Tools for Linux
thinkpad-linux archives
linux-on-laptops: IBM
Intel® PRO/Wireless 2100 Driver for Linux
wireless-config ebuild
Linux on IBM T41p




Other Notes:



Gentoo: The X Server Configuration HOWTO
Gentoo: Gentoo Linux ALSA Guide
console framebuffer [Solved]
radeon DRI howto
Gentoo: Howto APM Suspend
X.org: xorg.conf (5) manpage
Gentoo Forums: Linux Memory Management or 'Why is there no free RAM?' - also, why you may not see some of your RAM (i.e. amounts over ~800M)
And She Was: T23 and Dual Monitors




X Font Server and X11:

Finally, an email that concisely explains what the hell 'unix:/7100' actually DOES... 

X Font Problem

From: Nadav Har'El

On Mon, Jul 09, 2001, Alexander V. Karelin wrote about "Re: X font problem":

> 1. The unix/:-1 thing is very simple. unix stands for transport. / has to

> preceed the hostname. If the host is local, than the column follows the

> slash. And the last part is the number of the port, which for unix

> sockets, is -1. So - if You want to use Your font-server's resources -

> first check which transport/port does it serve on. And than add it to the

> fontpath.

...

Anyway, what I'm trying to say is that -1 isn't exactly a port number, but

rather a hint the X server and/or font server use to find this file.

For example, in my Redhat 7.1 installation, I have in XF86CONFIG

            FontPath   "unix/:7100"

This 7100 is not a port number, since unix-domain sockets do not have

port numbers (an example where this would have been a port is with the

tcp transport: tcp/somecomputer.com:7100 - see man X(7) for more info).

This 7100 tells X to use the local file:

# ls -l /tmp/.font-unix/fs7100

srwxrwxrwx    1 xfs      xfs             0 Jul  9 23:15 /tmp/.font-unix/fs7100

Which the font server (xfs) is listening on. Note the "s" in the beggining

of the ls -l line: this says this is a special unix-domain *s*ocket file.
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