Slack on Lenovo R61i issues

koloth · 11-11-2007, 12:09 PM

Hi everyone,
I've just finished installing slack 12 on my newly purchased Lenovo R61i (Intel® Core 2 Duo T7250, 1GB RAM 160GB HD,Intel 9465GM). Installation went great and i have almost everything working (including wireless, which gave me some trouble, but it'ok now). Two issues remain, nothing major but i really want to ret rid of them.
The first one is using xine as a regular user, it works fine as root but as a regular user it simply hungs. Using the --verbose parameter it seems to hang after a

Quote:

main: probing <alsa> audio output plugin

which leads me to believe that it has something to do with my soundcard. My user is a member of the following groups :

Quote:

bash-3.1$ groups
users floppy audio video cdrom plugdev

The second problem is kind of weird. My laptop uses an Intel X3100 graphics card which xorgsetup identified correctly and Windowmaker now runs at 1200x800 without any problems. However if i start KDE or xfce, they use one a 1024x768 portion of the screen. Actually KDE reports that there are 2 screens running on my X server though i can't find anything relevant in my xorg.conf

This is my xorg.conf:

Quote:

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/OTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/local/share/fonts"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "xtrap"
Load "glx"
Load "dbe"
Load "record"
Load "extmod"
Load "dri"
Load "GLcore"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us,gr"
Option "XkbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
#DisplaySize 300 190 # mm
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "LEN"
ModelName "4031"
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "ColorKey" # <i>
#Option "CacheLines" # <i>
#Option "Dac6Bit" # [<bool>]
#Option "DRI" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoDDC" # [<bool>]
#Option "ShowCache" # [<bool>]
#Option "XvMCSurfaces" # <i>
#Option "PageFlip" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "intel"
VendorName "Intel Corporation"
BoardName "Mobile Integrated Graphics Controller"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

Any help would be appreciated....

H_TeXMeX_H · 11-11-2007, 12:21 PM

For the sound problem try running 'alsaconf'.

For the video card problem, I'm not sure, but you may want to add some sync rates to the 'monitor' section, like:

Code:

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Monitor Vendor"
    ModelName      "Monitor Model"
    DisplaySize     305    230
    HorizSync       29.000 - 65.000
    VertRefresh     60.000
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

and some display modes to the 'screen' section, like:

Code:

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Card0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
        Depth       1
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
        Depth       4
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
        Depth       8
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
        Depth       15
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
        Depth       16
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
        Depth       24
        Modes      "1024x768" "800x600"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Note that these are just examples from my xorg.conf.

koloth · 11-12-2007, 03:16 AM

Thanks for the answer, the sound problem is solved, it had to do with permissions. As for the second one, my display resolution is a fine 1200x800 and windowmaker works fine but the fact that both KDE and Xfce fail kind of worries me. Additionaly i realised that running xscreensaver locks my screen (it simply goes black... no way to restore it but a reboot). I don't know if it is relevant or not, but something is definately causing it...

koloth · 11-14-2007, 03:16 AM

I see that noone seems to have any idea about the screens issue. Anyone got any idea how i can force KDE or any application to use screen 1 instead of screen 0 ?

Thanks

J_W · 11-14-2007, 04:46 AM

Hi,

There are useful info on TP-R61 at thikwiki Category:R61.
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100

koloth · 11-16-2007, 05:05 AM

Well, apparently the screen issue is a X.org 1.3 bug and can be resolved by disabling the TV out port from the configuration file. Also the screensaver trouble saw solved after updating mesa using the slackware-current package.