Toshiba L505D ACPI issue with 9.1/9.04

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Originally Posted by ivanmmj

Yes

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Thanks. That seems to have worked. Now I have a self-compiled 64-bit kernel running in its own partition.

Colin

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Originally Posted by Linux_Lurker

The removal process is:

cd into the kernel source directory
make oldconfig
make menuconfig

[go remove all of the stuff under "kernel hacking", then go into the various driver directories and remove drivers for devices not present in your hardware]

make-kpkg clean

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There is a step in Ivan's kerrnel compile instructions to "Load an Alternate Configuration File". I guess you do that BEFORE removing the kernel hacking stuff?

Colin

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Originally Posted by colinwhipple

There is a step in Ivan's kerrnel compile instructions to "Load an Alternate Configuration File". I guess you do that BEFORE removing the kernel hacking stuff?

Colin

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Correct. First you load up the configuration THEN you make the changes to it.

Thanks.

I get a lot of messages during the compilation. The most common one is about frame sizes exceeding 1024 bytes.

I have no idea how big a problem that is.

Colin

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Originally Posted by colinwhipple

Thanks.

I get a lot of messages during the compilation. The most common one is about frame sizes exceeding 1024 bytes.

I have no idea how big a problem that is.

Colin

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That's nothing to worry about, warnings aren't a big deal as long as they don't break something.

In regards to the configuration file: You can just do the steps as I said, "make oldconfig" copies the old configuration, then checks for any new items missing from the config file, you don't need any additional steps.


In other news: I just tried the latest Lucid daily build(made a Live USB disk), apparently they have the open source ATI driver working properly with 3d acceleration and Compiz on the Radeon 4100/4200 IGP. Furthermore, it has vastly superior 2d performance when scrolling webpages, etc... than the ATI Catalyst closed-source driver. It did still require acpi=off to boot, though. I think I'm going to try Ivan's kernel on a Lucid install, it performed so much better than Karmic...

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Originally Posted by Linux_Lurker

That's nothing to worry about, warnings aren't a big deal as long as they don't break something.

In regards to the configuration file: You can just do the steps as I said, "make oldconfig" copies the old configuration, then checks for any new items missing from the config file, you don't need any additional steps.

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Thanks for the clarification. I was assuming too much.

Colin

I tried installing Lucid64 on the spare partition of my laptop, and upon installing Ivan's kernel, it won't boot. I'd venture to guess that Ivan's kernel is now older than the kernel that I installed with the latest daily build(which for whatever reason, broke it), does anybody have the latest Lucid kernel source compiled with the patch?

Or for that matter, does anybody know where to get the latest kernel source for Lucid? I downloaded the linux-source package for Lucid, but it didn't dump anything in /usr/src when I installed it, unless it just moved the source tarball elsewhere

If not, I'll compile it on my desktop, but I'll have to do it from the Live CD, since my desktop isn't currently running 64 bit Ubuntu.

Nevermind, I got the source from GIT. I think I'm just going to install 32 bit, and compile on my Karmic desktop(assuming they haven't changed GCC so much that it won't compile on Karmic).

OK, I compiled my own kernel from the latest Lucid source, and still was unable to boot into the OS. I really don't understand why the kernel that comes with it will boot, but when I compile the same source with that patch, that it fails(unless the source file has changed enough to make the patch fail)... Of course, Lucid is pretty buggy ATM, it could be something pertaining to other problems...

Does anybody else have similar experiences with Lucid? Or a success story?

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Originally Posted by Linux_Lurker

OK, I compiled my own kernel from the latest Lucid source, and still was unable to boot into the OS. I really don't understand why the kernel that comes with it will boot, but when I compile the same source with that patch, that it fails(unless the source file has changed enough to make the patch fail)... Of course, Lucid is pretty buggy ATM, it could be something pertaining to other problems...

Does anybody else have similar experiences with Lucid? Or a success story?

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I had 64bit Lucid installed, and tried a compilation with the patch, but I had strange problems. I replaced the Lucid with 64bit Karmic, and am running on that now.

Colin