Sabayon: after install

Yesterday i managed to install Sabayon v4-r1 x86-64 and, as i expected, i have a lot of problems.

What worked out of the box?

1. Wired network (RTL8111/8168B)
2. Accelerated graphics (ATI Radeon HD 3200)
3. CPU Scaling (AMD Turion X2 64, RM-70)

What didn’t? Long list!!!

1. Suspend/Hibernate
2. Digitizer (Wacom Penabled – touchscreen and pen)
3. Sound (ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia – Intel HDA)
4. Microphone
5. Wireless (Broadcom BCM4322 rev 01)
6. Screen rotation
7. Remote control
8. All the keys around the screen (multimedia, DVD, Q)
9. … and, probably many more things i coudn’t find in one day.

I started to dig on internet and Ubuntu forums are a gold mine.
I found fast the fix for Audio and Wireless.

Audio

Modify

/etc/modprobe.d/alsa

and add the following lines:

options snd-cmipci mpu_port=0x330 fm_port=0x3888
options snd-hda-intel index=0 model=toshiba position_fix=1

After run this command:

update-modules

and reboot or you can wait and reboot after you fix wireless.

Wireless

Ndiswrapper didn’t work, opensource driver didn’t work, b43-fwcutter didn’t work.
Lucky, Broadcom released some time ago a proprietary driver for my chipset so, here we are. Posting using wireless.

Install proprietary driver:

equo install broadcom-sta

Modify/create /etc/conf.d/local.start and add:

/sbin/modprobe wl 

and make local.start executable with chmod +x /etc/conf.d/local.start

Reboot after.

With wireless network working i will search for other fixes. Most important, the microphone followed by the touchscreen. Until then the first step is Desktop customization: a better conky script, AWN, a new theme or at least a new background.

A few screenshots.

Fresh Sabayon install with a few customizations and already a bug: conky doesn’t recognize all variables. Anyway i have to modify the script so, hopefully i will find a fix.

CPU Scaling applet and conky running

Fresh install

51 updates, 820Mb to download one week after release

51 updates, 820Mb download

9 Responses to 'Sabayon: after install'

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1. how did you get the wacom to work?

   

   namakemono

   20 Jan 09 at 10:05 AM

    

2. I didn’t.
   I’m still working on this issue.

   Wacom probably will work but not everything related to the touch screen rotation.
   I had something else to work but next week, i will try to finish the installation next week.

   

   Catalin

   30 Jan 09 at 10:52 PM

    

3. Greatings,
   everything dynamic and very positively

   Have a nice day
   Joker

   

   Joker

   4 Feb 09 at 10:51 PM

    

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   Interesting, I`ll quote it on my site later.

   Have a nice day
   Eremeeff

   

   Eremeeff

   23 Mar 09 at 1:17 AM

    

5. Well, thank you.

   Unfortunately with Spring coming i have less and less time for computers … is time for photography

   

   Catalin

   23 Mar 09 at 8:20 AM

    

6. Hi, good post. I have been wondering about this issue,so thanks for posting.

   

   KrisBelucci

   2 Jun 09 at 9:12 AM

    

7. da best. Keep it going! Thank you

   

   AndrewBoldman

   4 Jun 09 at 9:13 PM

    

8. Interesting website, i have bookmarked your site for future referrence

   

   teksty z linkiem

   6 Jun 09 at 1:40 PM

    

9. [...] didn’t work but the fix from this post worked. CPU wasn’t set to “ondemand” so i had to apply the fix from this post. [...]

   

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   27 Jul 09 at 9:48 PM

    

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