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ares (1997-2004)
My 430CDS ceased to function on May 2004, from board corrosion by leaking battery fluid by the internal clock batteries. It served me for 7 years, and was used daily until I bought its replacement, in May 2002.
0 System timer 6 Floppy Controller 12 PS/2 mouse 1 Keyboard 7 ECP parallel port 13 FPU 2 2nd Interrupt Controller 8 Clock 14 1st IDE interface 3 serial port 2 (IrDA) 9 15 2nd IDE interface 4 serial port 1 10 5 Sound card 11I recommend a change of interrupts for the Sound card from the factory default of irq 10 to irq 5, since many DOS games cannot use a Sound Card above irq 7. To do this, run TSETUP.EXE or press F1 during boot to change the BIOS settings.
XF86Config (excerpt)
Section "Pointer" Protocol "PS/2" Device "/dev/mouse" Emulate3Timeout 50 Emulate3Buttons EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Laptop Screen" VendorName "Toshiba" ModelName "DD-STN" HorizSync 31.5-43 VertRefresh 40-75 # VESA 800x600@60Hz Non-Interlaced mode Horizontal Sync = 37.9kHz Modeline "800x600" 40.00 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628 +hsync +vsync # VESA 640x480@72Hz Non-Interlaced mode Horizontal Sync = 37.9kHz Modeline "640x480" 31.50 640 664 704 832 480 489 492 520 EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Chips & Technologies CT65550" VendorName "Chips & Technologies" BoardName "CT65550" EndSection Section "Screen" Driver "SVGA" Device "Chips & Technologies CT65550" Monitor "Laptop Screen" BlankTime 2 SuspendTime 5 OffTime 10 DefaultColorDepth 16 SubSection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "800x600" ViewPort 0 0 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "800x600" ViewPort 0 0 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "800x600" ViewPort 0 0 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 32 Modes "800x600" ViewPort 0 0 EndSubSection EndSection
XFree Startup message
XFree86 Version 3.3 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300) Release Date: Jun 2 1997 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (see http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ) Operating System: Linux 2.0.30 i586 [ELF] Configured drivers: SVGA: server for SVGA graphics adaptors (Patchlevel 0): ..... cl6412, cl6420, cl6440, video7, ct65520, ct65525, ct65530, ct65535, ct65540, ct65545, ct65546, ct65548, ct65550, ct65554, ct64200, ct64300, ark1000vl, ark1000pv, ark2000pv, ark2000mt, mx, realtek, AP6422, AT24, s3_virge, generic (using VT number 7) XF86Config: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config (**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values XIE extension module for XFree86 3.3 (**) module xie.so successfully loaded from /usr/X11R6/lib/modules PEX extension module for XFree86 3.3 (**) module pex5.so successfully loaded from /usr/X11R6/lib/modules (**) XKB: rules: "xfree86" (**) XKB: model: "pc102" (**) XKB: layout: "pt" (**) Mouse: type: PS/2, device: /dev/mouse, baudrate: 1200, 3 button emulation (timeout: 50ms) (**) SVGA: Graphics device ID: "Chips & Technologies CT65550" (**) SVGA: Monitor ID: "Laptop Screen" (**) FontPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,/usr/X11..... (--) SVGA: CHIPS: chip revision: 69 (--) SVGA: Chipset: ct65550 (--) SVGA: CHIPS: no monitor detected. (--) SVGA: CHIPS: 2048 kB VRAM (--) SVGA: CHIPS: DD-STN probed. (--) SVGA: CHIPS: LCD (--) SVGA: CHIPS: Display Size: x=800; y=600 (--) SVGA: CHIPS: Frame Buffer used. (--) SVGA: CHIPS: Using embedded Frame Buffer. (--) SVGA: CHIPS: Frame Accelerator Enabled. (--) SVGA: CHIPS: VL Bus (--) SVGA: CHIPS: base address is set at 0x7000000. (--) SVGA: CHIPS: Linear addressing is enabled at 0x7000000. (**) SVGA: CHIPS: 16 bpp. (--) SVGA: CHIPS: Internal DAC disabled. (--) SVGA: CHIPS: using programmable clocks. (--) SVGA: chipset: ct65550 (--) SVGA: videoram: 2048k (**) SVGA: Using 16 bpp, Depth 16, Color weight: 565 (--) SVGA: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 80.000 MHz (**) SVGA: Mode "800x600": mode clock = 40.000 (--) SVGA: Virtual resolution set to 800x600 (--) SVGA: SpeedUp code selection modified because virtualX != 1024 (--) SVGA: CHIPS: 1002752 bytes off-screen memory available (--) SVGA: CHIPS: H/W cursor selected (--) SVGA: CHIPS: SpeedUps selected (Flags=0xF) (--) SVGA: CHIPS: Memory mapped I/O selected (--) SVGA: Using XAA (XFree86 Acceleration Architecture) (--) SVGA: XAA: Solid filled rectangles (--) SVGA: XAA: Screen-to-screen copy (--) SVGA: XAA: 8x8 pattern fill (--) SVGA: XAA: 8x8 color expand pattern fill (--) SVGA: XAA: CPU to screen color expansion (bitmap, TE/NonTE imagetext, TE/NonTE polytext) (--) SVGA: XAA: Using 6 128x128 areas for pixmap caching (--) SVGA: XAA: Caching tiles and stipples (--) SVGA: XAA: Horizontal and vertical lines and segments
APM kernel options (make menuconfig)
[*] Advanced Power Management BIOS support [ ] Ignore USER SUSPEND [*] Enable PM at boot time [*] Make CPU Idle calls when idle [ ] Enable console blanking using APM [*] Power off on shutdownI enabled PM at boot time and CPU idle calls, because the kernel help mentions power savings when these options are enabled. I disabled Console Blanking, since this causes some problems when switching to graphics mode (the screen stays blank until you press a key). The other two options seem to work with none of the problems described in the kernel compilation helpfile.
kernel messages
APM BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x02 (Driver version 1.2) Entry f000:dee3 cseg16 f000 dseg f000 cseg len ffff, dseg len ffff Connection version 1.1 AC on line, battery status charging, battery life 100% battery flag 0x09, battery life 184 minutes
/etc/sysconfig/pcmcia
PCMCIA=yes PCIC=i82365 PCIC_OPTS="irq_list=9,10,11 poll_interval=100" CORE_OPTS= CARDMGR_OPTS=
kernel messages
Linux PCMCIA Card Services 2.9.10 Intel PCIC probe: Intel i82365sl B step at 0x3e0 ofs 0x00, 2 sockets host opts: none irq list (scanned) = 9,10,11 polled status, interval = 1000 ms cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x03ff: excluding 0x1f8-0x1ff 0x220-0x22f 0x378-0x37f 0x388-0x38f 0x3f8-0x3ff cs: IO port probe 0x0a20-0x0a27: excluding 0xa20-0xa27 cs: memory probe 0x0c0000-0x0fffff: excluding 0xe4000-0xfffff eth0: NE2000 Compatible: port 0x300, irq 9, hw_addr 00:A0:0C:11:5C:86
Sound kernel options (make menuconfig)
<M> Sound card support Old configuration script (For: SM Wave, PSS & AudioTrix Pro) --> [ ] ProAudioSpectrum 16 support [*] Sound Blaster (SB, SBPro, SB16, clones) support [ ] Generic OPL2/OPL3 FM synthesizer support [ ] Gravis Ultrasound support [ ] MPU-401 support (NOT for SB16) [ ] 6850 UART Midi support [ ] PSS (ECHO-ADI2111) support [ ] 16 bit sampling option of GUS (_NOT_ GUS MAX) [ ] GUS MAX support [ ] Microsoft Sound System support [ ] Ensoniq SoundScape support [ ] MediaTrix AudioTrix Pro support [ ] Support for MAD16 and/or Mozart based cards [ ] Support for Crystal CS4232 based (PnP) cards [ ] Support for Turtle Beach Wave Front (Maui, Tropez) synthesizers [*] /dev/dsp and /dev/audio support [ ] MIDI interface support [*] FM synthesizer (YM3812/OPL-3) support (220) I/O base for SB Check from manual of the card (5) Sound Blaster IRQ Check from manual of the card (1) Sound Blaster DMA 0, 1 or 3 (5) Sound Blaster 16 bit DMA (_REQUIRED_for SB16, Jazz16, SMW) 5, 6 or 7 (use 1 for 8 bit cards) (330) MPU401 I/O base of SB16, Jazz16 and ES1688 Check from manual of the card (5) SB MPU401 IRQ (Jazz16, SM Wave and ES1688) Use -1 with SB16 (65536) Audio DMA buffer size 4096, 16384, 32768 or 65536 [ ] Additional low level drivers
/dev/sndstat
Sound Driver:3.5.4-960630 (Wed Aug 13 23:13:38 WET DST 1997 root, Linux localhost 2.0.30 #3 Mon May 26 00:00:04 WET DST 1997 i586 unknown) Kernel: Linux ares 2.0.30 #1 Wed Aug 13 23:15:39 WET DST 1997 i586 Config options: 0 Installed drivers: Type 1: OPL-2/OPL-3 FM Type 2: Sound Blaster Card config: Sound Blaster at 0x220 irq 5 drq 1,5 OPL-2/OPL-3 FM at 0x388 drq 0 Audio devices: 0: ESS ES1688 AudioDrive (rev 6) ( Synth devices: 0: Yamaha OPL-3 Midi devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG Timers: 0: System clock Mixers: 0: Sound Blaster
Many persons have reported problems with the mouse. Usually this is a interrupt conflict with the PCMCIA card services. If you have problems, check /proc/interrupts to see if irq 12 is being used by the mouse. If it is not, then the device that is using irq 12 is responsible for your problem. If it is the PCMCIA card services, refer to the PCMCIA section.
PS/2 kernel options (make menuconfig)
[*] Mouse Support (not serial mice) < > ATIXL busmouse support < > Logitech busmouse support < > Microsoft busmouse support <M> PS/2 mouse (aka "auxiliary device") support [ ] C&T 82C710 mouse port support (as on TI Travelmate)
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