February 12, 2008
17:32
Thanks to Alex Hixon's work on the Ricoh r5u870 driver I have a working webcam. Another item that is now working is accelerated 3D using the NVidia Go7600GT card and the NVidia blob drivers, the only problem I have had is that KDE3 experiences the "White Cube of Death"
but
GNOME and KDE4 work fine.Three items that I would really like to get working to make it even more usable are:
*1. The Memory Card reader. The Memory Stick slot still doesn't work, when I plug a card in all I get is
kernel: tifm_core: MemoryStick card detected in socket 0:0
Funny, I went to compare the output from SD/MMC slot and that doesn't work either (I could have sworn it did!) it just spews the same as the MS slot bar the position change
kernel: tifm_core: MMC/SD card detected in socket 0:1
According to lspci -vvv the memory card reader is
0a:03.2 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD)
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Unknown device 81fd
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- SERR- Latency: 64 (1750ns min, 1000ns max), Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 17
Region 0: Memory at d2004000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
Anyone got a clue as to how to get the blessed thing to work properly?
*2. Power Management. It blows, and I mean blows goats in a big way. This is a DE agnostic issue as both GNOME and KDE suffer badly. This laptop doesn't have the best lifespan on the standard battery (about 90mins), but currently it is reported and treated as half that. When I boot into the bundled OS to update the firmware of various components it last almost the full match. Again, any ideas as to sharpen this aspect up?
*3. Digital/Analogue TV tuner. This I haven't looked into in great detail. Knowing people's experience would be really good. The hardware is
0a:04.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7133/SAA7135 Video Broadcast Decoder (rev d1)
Subsystem: Avermedia Technologies Inc Unknown device e836
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- SERR- Latency: 64
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 23
Region 0: Memory at d2006800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME
You can get the latest package for for 10.3 here and 11.0 here, make sure you install r5u870 and r5u870-kmp-. I know the package needs a bit more work, but I'll hopefully get that done by the end of the month FOSDEM may prove a good place to do that and once tidy I'll definately have 1Click and maybe I can get it into drivers:webcam. If not then it will to wait till the next Packaging Weekend