udoseidel@gmx.de
This document covers the installation of RedHat
Fedora
Core 2/3/4/5/6 on the
Dell Precision M60. The installation is
straightforward, just follow the instructions of the installation wizard.
Therefore, I concentrated on special things not mentioned
in official documents or already existing web sites (i.e., ACPI).
This notebook was shipped with preinstalled MS Windows XP, therefore
I used a dual boot configuration.
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller (rev 03) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 81) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 01) 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01) 00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 01) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NVIDIA Quadro FX Go700 (rev a1) 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5705M Gigabit Ethernet (rev 01) 02:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI7510 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01) 02:01.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI7510,7610 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01) 02:01.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCI7410,7510,7610 OHCI-Lynx Controller 02:01.3 System peripheral: Texas Instruments PCI7410,7510,7610 PCI Firmware Loading Function 02:03.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter (rev 04)
Modeline "1680x1050" 147.85 1680 1744 1936 2240 1050 1051 1054 1100 +hsync +vsyncand modified the screen section to use this resolution. The configuration file can be downloaded here.
If you want to use the binary driver from Nvidia, no
problems should occur except if you want to use ACPI. This issue is discussed below.
Update regarding Fedora Core 5
Unfortunately, the release kernel of Fedora Core 5
breaks the loading of binary only driver from Nvidia (and ATI). If you want to use this driver you have to use another kernel. :-(
Plus, since Fedora Core 5 is shipped with Xorg 7, the current binary driver from Nvidia will not work out of the box anyway. This is due to the changed directory structure - the files for X are now located in /usr not /usr/X11R6.
I address this issue with the following patch.
To apply this patch and install the driver go ahead with the following instructions.
$ ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8178-pkg1.run --extract-only $ cd NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8178-pkg1 $ patch -p0 < /path/to/Makefile.nvidia.patch $ ./nvidia-installer
$ ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8178-pkg1.run --x-prefix=/usr --x-module-path=/usr/lib/xorg/modulesBe sure you have the package xorg-x11-server-sdk installed to do the compilation.
Update of the update regarding Fedora Core 6
If you wanna use a self-compiled Nvidia driver you need to patch the driver. The discussion can be read in
the nvidia forum.
The patch is very simple and can be donwloaded here.
# set keycode directly (here control + f with my keyboard)
# use xbindkeys -mk to find the definition
#Vol -5% #
"aumix -v -5"
c:174
# m:0x0 + c:174 # <- also possible
# XF86AudioLowerVolume
#Vol +5% #
"aumix -v +5"
c:176
# XF86AudioRaiseVolume
#Vol 0% #
"aumix -v 0"
c:160
# XF86AudioMute
setserial /dev/ttyS1 uart noneto free the hardware driver binding from the SIR-UART
...
/*
* There are 4 important states driver can be in:
* ON -- driver is working
* FREEZE -- stop operations and apply whatever policy is applicable to a
* suspended driver of that class, freeze queues for block like IDE
* does, drop packets for ethernet, etc... stop DMA engine too etc...
* so a consistent image can be saved; but do not power any hardware
* down.
* SUSPEND - like FREEZE, but hardware is doing as much powersaving as
* possible. Roughly pci D3.
*
* Unfortunately, current drivers only recognize numeric values 0 (ON) and 3
* (SUSPEND). We'll need to fix the drivers. So yes, putting 3 to all different
* defines is intentional, and will go away as soon as drivers are fixed. Also
* note that typedef is neccessary, we'll probably want to switch to
* typedef struct pm_message_t { int event; int flags; } pm_message_t
* or something similar soon.
*/
...
Since I normally use suspend to disk instead of shutdown and reboot my system, the S4 ACPI mode is
very important for me. I found a patch for the nvidia driver, which reenables the S4 mode (not S3 -
didn't test one of the
recent patches
for the nvidia driver addressing this issue).
--- usr/src/nv/nv.c.ORIG 2005-12-05 20:35:14.000000000 +0100
+++ usr/src/nv/nv.c 2005-12-05 20:35:22.000000000 +0100
@@ -3851,12 +3851,13 @@
switch (state)
{
- case PM_SUSPEND_MEM:
+ case PM_EVENT_SUSPEND:
+ case PM_EVENT_FREEZE:
nv_printf(NV_DBG_INFO, "NVRM: ACPI: received suspend event\n");
status = rm_power_management(nv, 0, NV_PM_ACPI_STANDBY);
break;
- case PM_SUSPEND_ON:
+ case PM_EVENT_ON:
nv_printf(NV_DBG_INFO, "NVRM: ACPI: received resume event\n");
status = rm_power_management(nv, 0, NV_PM_ACPI_RESUME);
break;
This patch works ok for me. Hopefully it will not be necessary to apply this patch in forthcoming releases of the
nvidia driver.
default=1
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Fedora Core (2.6.15-1.1833_FC4)
root (hd0,2)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.1833_FC4 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb
initrd /initrd-2.6.15-1.1833_FC4.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.15.4)
root (hd0,2)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.15.4 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb
initrd /initrd-2.6.15.4.img
title Other
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
chainloader +1
Well, I think I should also post the output of /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hda for better
reading of the "grub.conf"
Platte /dev/hda: 60.0 GByte, 60011642880 Byte 255 Köpfe, 63 Sektoren/Spuren, 7296 Zylinder Einheiten = Zylinder von 16065 × 512 = 8225280 Bytes Gerät boot. Anfang Ende Blöcke Id System /dev/hda1 1 7 56196 de Dell Utility /dev/hda2 * 8 1052 8393962+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda3 1053 1083 249007+ 83 Linux /dev/hda4 1084 7296 49905922+ f W95 Erw. (LBA) /dev/hda5 1084 3172 16779861 83 Linux /dev/hda6 3173 7034 31021483+ 83 Linux /dev/hda7 7035 7296 2104483+ 82 Linux Swap / Solariswhere /dev/hda3 is mounted at "/boot" and /dev/hda5 is mounted at "/".
Last Modified: 29 October 2006