Linux on FIVA MPC-206E, APM and other issues

Linux on FIVA MPC-206E, APM and other issues

[Joseph N. Hall]

(Not on list, please CC)

I am a happy new owner of a Casio FIVA MPC-206E (teensy 2.1 lb subnotebook)
with RH 7.1 and 2.4.7 installed.  I'm trying to get a variety of things
working, some of which may or may not be related to needed kernel tweaks.
I suspect some of these have been address already by Japanese users, but
alas I cannot read Japanese.

* APM broken

  $ cat /proc/apm
  1.14 1.2 0x03 0x01 0xff 0x80 -1% -1 ?

* 24 bit X support broken (an XFree86 issue, I suppose, will check there
shortly); there is something funny about 24 bit mode on this machine
anyway even in WIndowsMe mode

* sleep/hibernate either hangs the machine (must hit h/w reset switch
afaik) or does nothing useful (nothing at all, or seemingly tries to 
sleep and immediately revives)

* (soft) power switch and cover latch not detected

* no access to "P1 P2 P3" buttons that live to the right side of the LCD
screen

* Also I've been having no luck getting a DWL-650 (D-Link 802.11 card)
recognized and working ... was close with the wvlan_cs(? one of those)
driver but I'm operating on the assumption that the orinoco_cs driver is 
more current, and can't get it recognized at all

I'm not expecting to get everything going right away but I'd appreciate
any pointers etc.  I have relatively little experience mucking about in
the kernel but I'll be happy to try patches etc. and post my results.

  -joseph

Re: Linux on FIVA MPC-206E, APM and other issues

[Patrick Mochel]

> I am a happy new owner of a Casio FIVA MPC-206E (teensy 2.1 lb subnotebook)
> with RH 7.1 and 2.4.7 installed.  I'm trying to get a variety of things
> working, some of which may or may not be related to needed kernel tweaks.
> I suspect some of these have been address already by Japanese users, but
> alas I cannot read Japanese.

> * APM broken

It's likely that there is no APM support in the BIOS. Which would mean
that it is an ACPI-only BIOS, as far as power management would go. That
would explain your sleep/hibernate problems. And, it will likely account
for not being able to use the buttons.

Try enabling ACPI in the kernel and see what happens. 

> * 24 bit X support broken (an XFree86 issue, I suppose, will check there
> shortly); there is something funny about 24 bit mode on this machine
> anyway even in WIndowsMe mode

What version of X are you using? The chipset, I believe, is an SMI 721.
There is a native driver for it in X these days, and may have been updated
in 4.0.3 or 4.1.0 (I think RH 7.1 ships with 4.0.2).

That chipset should support 16 and 24 bit mode. 

> * Also I've been having no luck getting a DWL-650 (D-Link 802.11 card)
> recognized and working ... was close with the wvlan_cs(? one of those)
> driver but I'm operating on the assumption that the orinoco_cs driver is 
> more current, and can't get it recognized at all

I haven't actually tried to get this card to work, but I once saw a page
with relevant information about it:

http://www.focusresearch.com/dwl-650.html

(it recommends the wvlan_cs driver)

	-pat

Re: Linux on FIVA MPC-206E, APM and other issues

[Alan Cox]

> * sleep/hibernate either hangs the machine (must hit h/w reset switch
> afaik) or does nothing useful (nothing at all, or seemingly tries to 
> sleep and immediately revives)

The older fiva's used to need a kernel patch because they forgot to turn
the disk back on properly on a resume, you might want to search for fiva
patches

Re: Linux on FIVA MPC-206E, APM and other issues

[bvermeul]

> I haven't actually tried to get this card to work, but I once saw a page
> with relevant information about it:
>
> http://www.focusresearch.com/dwl-650.html
>
> (it recommends the wvlan_cs driver)

I've got it working with orinoco_cs as well. It contains a buggy CIS, so
if your PCMCIA controller only does 5V, there's a module param to tell it
to ignore that.

Bas Vermeulen

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