[Laptoplinux-devel] Re: best distro for Averatec 5400

[Nathan O. <nat...@gm...>]

Tired and just want to know? That means the answer's probably going to
hit you in about 15 minutes! Many people, myself included, often make
breakthroughs when it's way past bedtime, or when it's the middle of
the day and you *just* *want* to get *off* the *computer*, but some
stupid problem's nagging you.

To keep current on Slack, it's usually enough to just install the
latest stable version. If you have a carnal lust for the bleeding
edge, I'm sure there are ways to automatically track -current. I've
never been interested in being THAT up to date, though, so I'll leave
that answer to someone else.

About sound: this is a problem on the 3150P as well. Actually, I think
that's the way it is in Slackware in general (you have to run alsaconf
or something like that and set up volumes), but the 3150P's AC97
requires that the kernel module for that device be inserted as a
module with certain parameters. Mine isn't working right now, as I
VERY rarely, if ever, use sound, but once you've got alsa set up with
volumes above zero, you just need to add a line to rc.modules (or like
I do, rc.local) inserting the module with the proper params.

Ah, ya twisted my arm. This might not be something you need, but I'll
post anyway, since it's something every slackware / 3150P user needs
to do:

modprobe snd-via82xx index=3D0 dxs-support=3D2

We should probably include this little fix in whatever packages we're
looking to make.


On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 18:22:52 -0500, walt <rac...@co...> wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 08:10 -0800, Nathan Olberding wrote:
> > I love my Slackware, but I don't like just advocating it blindly. I
> > would tell you to go ahead and seek another distro, but if you hang
> > around here, Slackware looks poised to be the most supported distro.
> > If you'd like to help, we'd love to have someone with a 5xxx model
> > around to help make our kernel compatible with that hardware.
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> I joined this list the same day I got this laptop, so I have been a
> member for a couple of months now. I just lurk mostly, learning more and
> more about this machine. I now have a 2.6 kernel on it and running
> slack. sound hasn't been found and I will work on that and wifi. I am
> use to Debian based distros. How do you upgrade slack to keep it
> current. I know I should be googling to find these answers, but I am
> tired and just want to know LOL
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> Walt
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