Laptop Install report: Compaq Armada 7380 DMT

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 07:05:51PM -0600, Craig Bladow wrote:

> NTP:
> 
> I get a "Synchronizing clock to pool.ntp.org  [fail]
> *ror Temporary failure in name resolution" error during every boot.  
> 
> I see PCMCIA services start later.  Is the computer attempting to update
> the time before the wireless network card is working?
> 
> The graphical time and date setting application will not let one select
> a server
> "Please run NTP support in the system to enable synchronization with
> internet time servers"
> 
> Manually running 'ntpdate pool.ntp.org' from the command line works.

https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1261

> Modem:
> 
> The laptop has built-in modem that may or may not be a winmodem.  No
> modem was found by wvdialconf.  I tried winmodem drivers for Lucent to
> no avail as there are lucent dsp chips on the internal modem/audio
> card.  The modem is enabled and configured to Com2 via Compaq's setup
> program.

Software modems are a tricky situation for Warty; this may be something to
look into for Hoary or later.

> X:
> 
> I had to edit /etc/X11/XFree86Config to change the default depth to 16
> as the installation set it to 24 which won't work with the amount of
> video memory (2mb) and the resolution (1024x768) on this laptop.  

The autoconfiguration currently doesn't attempt to probe the amount of video
memory, I don't think, and bases its choices on the supported sync
frequencies.  Whether we should do something differently here is a question
for Fabio.

> Sound:
> 
> The sound chip is an ESS 1878.  No sound drivers were loaded.  
> I can get it to work by typing:
> 
>  sudo modprobe snd-es18xx
>  sudo modprobe snd-mixer-oss
>  sudo modprobe snd-pcm-oss

Please send the output of:

lspci
lspci -v

and we'll arrange for it to be autoloaded.

> ACPI: I don't believe this is working, I've attached my dmesg output
> below.

Does the laptop support ACPI at all?  If not, load the 'apm' module and use
APM instead.

-- 
 - mdz