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First of all I want to say that instalation is not problem at all, so I won't waste my time to descibe it. The main task is to setup peripherals. I'll cover only these, because these are making problems. And forgive me for my Inglish, I hope you'll understand.
As I mention above, there si no problem. You just need to enter the BIOS setup (by pressing F2) and set booting from DVD as prefered device. Installation process is same as of version 10, there are no magic tricks or unwanted surpprise. Choose what you want to install and except of this, you have to have installed these packages (which are not installed by default). If you forget to install them, don't worry, you can do it later
Based on your decision after installtion system should start into graphical mode (only if you allow during configuration stage). I personally don't recomend to do this, but if you do so and X server hangs, press Ctrl+Alt+F1 and then Ctrl+F7. Just for sure, set default runlevel to 3 in /etc/inittab. You can always change the value to 5, if you prefer start to X.
This is the tricky one just for warm up (perhaps the hardest step). Supplied driver has problem (as I mentioned above) don't try to start X. If you do so a and you see black screen, press Ctrl+Alt+F1 to get to text mode console. Login as root. Unpack graphic card driver downloaded from Intel and even if it's Intel, you have to modify it. Do this:
Change everything in dripkg/drm/Makefile.linux from *.o to *.ko (ie: gdg.o to gdg.ko; i810.o to i810.ko etc).
Comment out in a file dripkg/drm/drm_vm.h line begining with DRM_DEBUG (actually, this line is on 3 lines - before it put /* and after it put */).
The next step is compilation of 855resolution program (which enables 1400x1050 video mode - if you don't plan to use it, you can skip this step). It's enought to compile it by typing make and make install. Then append line into any startup file (I have used begining of /etc/rd.d/rc but the choice is yours).
855resolution 3c 1400 1050 > /dev/null
If you were lucky you've got working graphic and even accelerated (try glxgears command, it should report about 550 fps).
There is no problem. But I've get much more better result using OSS instead of ALSA. So if you want to change it, use harddrake, adjust sound card module and set i810_audio as your sound card module. Easy as I said ...
It's definitely hardest. Unfortunately at home I'm connected over GPRS and I don't want to buy cabel, so I'm using IrDA. I have to repeat that in case to make IrDA work you have to have installed irda-tools and setserial. Login as root and modify /etc/modprobe.conf as fellows:
alias irda0 nsc-ircc install nsc-ircc /bin/setserial /dev/ttyS1 uart none;/sbin/modprobe --ignore-install nsc-ircc;echo 1>/proc/sys/net/irda/discovery remove nsc-ircc /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove nsc-ircc;/sbin/modprobe -r ircomm_tty ircomm irda
Then edit /etc/sysconfig/irda to looks like this:
IRDA=yes DEVICE=irda0 #DONGLE=actisys+ DISCOVERY=yes ARGS=-s
After that append these lines to /etc/modprobe.preload
irda0 ircomm ircomm-tty
If everything went well, restart and IrDA should be active under /dev/ircomm0. You can check it by calling irdadump command - if you see strange letters it's OK (of course, some IrDA capable device must be in range). Good idea is to set symbolic link to /dev/ircomm0 named modem - just in case you want to adjust network connection over it (many programs doesn't recognize ircomm as valid communication device).
WLAN card is basically working. All you need to do is to download formware. MD10.1CE is using formware version 0.54 so go ahead and download it from here. Contant of package copy to directory /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware. Then type modprobe ipw2100 and watch the orange indicator. If is on, you have won and wifi is on-line. If not, check dmesg for error. Once again, the directory is /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware (sometimes someone point you to /etc/firmware but it doesn't work - trust me).
here is a list of files I recently modify in case to have my system running. Except for graphic card driver modification - source is not GPL and I don't want to spend time figuring out, when I can and can not do.
If you have any questions etc, don't hasitate to contact me at (defectus at seznam dot cz).
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