As soon as i logged in i saw over 500 updates but loosing 2 operating systems was not enough Checking Sabayon website i found a new version, 4.2.
I decided to download the ISO before starting to update 500 packages because i was almost sure something will go wrong.

And it went!

As usual, the graphic card didn’t work and wireless was down with no chance to download ATI driver for the 2.6.29 kernel. Open source driver didn’t work either so, i was in front of a “dead” laptop.

After half an hour, Sabayon 4.2 was installed.

What did work?
Graphics.
Now, when i use Compiz, MPlayer is not flickering anymore and also, other OpenGL apps are working too.

Sound 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.
Microphone didn’t work either … still muted by default so, i had to use aslamixer to switch to “Front Mic” and raise the sliders.

After a friend gave me an UTP cable, i was able to fix the touchscreen and fix the wireless by installing the latest broadcom-sta driver. Unfortunately at work every minute i was disconnected from AP.

I installed wicd and … nothing. It was a problem with DHCP because wicd was stuck in “Obtaining IP address…”

After checking wicd website i found a new version of wicd, not available in Sabayon repository. I had nothing to loose so, i decided to install it:

maya ~ # /etc/init.d/wicd stop
maya ~ # killall wicd-client
maya ~ # equo remove wicd
maya ~ # equo install bzr
maya ~ # bzr branch lp:wicd
maya ~ # cd wicd
maya ~ # python setup.py configure
maya ~ # python setup.py install
maya ~ # /etc/init.d/wicd start
maya ~ # rc-update add wicd default

Reboot is not necessary. As user just start wicd-client and connect.
Everything worked after. At home & work.

Other thing that didn’t work was suspend. Unfortunately, the fix from this post didn’t work so, after digging on Internet i found the fix on Ubuntu forums. Just add “i8042.nomux i8042.reset” at the end of the line starting with “kernel” in your /boot/grub/menu.lst

title Sabayon Linux (kernel-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.29-sabayon)
	root (hd0,5)
	kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.29-sabayon
root=/dev/ram0 ramdisk=8192
real_root=UUID=f77ff3dc-6212-4294-a148-c39d4b87aab2
dolvm init=/linuxrc splash=silent,theme:sabayon vga=791
CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 quiet resume=swap:/dev/sda5
real_resume=swap:/dev/sda5
i8042.nomux i8042.reset
	initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.29-sabayon
	savedefault

Suspend is working with compiz activated too.

Soon Sabayon 5 will be out and i’ll have to start all over again as ~1000 packages to be upgraded will most likely break something

By the way, SSH FS is really awesome

First of all, Sabayon already have wacom kernel module included and wacom tools in repository so, i will split the tutorial in a few parts:

1. Using included driver.
2. Compile from source.
3. Configure X server.
4. OnScreen keyboard.

1. Using included driver.

As i said, Sabayon already have the kernel module included. Unfortunately it didn’t work for me but maybe you are lucky

Load the kernel module and check if touch and stylus are detected. If you get an error you are unlucky… just like me so, you have to compile it from source (step 2):

catalin@atlantis ~ $ sudo modprobe wacom
catalin@atlantis ~ $ dmesg | grep -i wacom
[   23.392334] wacom: probe of 7-2:1.0 failed with error -113
[   23.395185] input: Wacom ISDv4 93 as /class/input/input10
[   23.404521] usbcore: registered new interface driver wacom
[   23.404532] wacom: v1.49:USB Wacom Graphire and Wacom Intuos tablet driver
catalin@atlantis ~ $

If everything is ok and you you have to check if wacom tools are installed:

catalin@atlantis ~ $ sudo modprobe wacom
catalin@atlantis ~ $ dmesg | grep -i wacom
[   23.355233] input: Wacom ISDv4 93 as /class/input/input10
[   23.377350] input: Wacom ISDv4 93 as /class/input/input11
[   23.388137] usbcore: registered new interface driver wacom
[   23.388137] wacom: v1.49:USB Wacom Graphire and Wacom Intuos tablet driver
catalin@atlantis ~ $

cmc@atlantis ~ $ equo search wacom
>> @@ Searching...
>> #1 Sabayon Linux Official Repository
>> @@ Package: x11-drivers/linuxwacom-0.8.2 branch: 4
>> Category: x11-drivers
>> Name: linuxwacom
>> Masked: False
>> Available: version: 0.8.2 ~ tag: NoTag ~ revision: 0
>> Installed: version: Not installed ~ tag: N/A ~ revision: N/A
>> Slot: 0
>> Size: 0.2MB
>> Download: packages/amd64/4/x11-drivers:linuxwacom-0.8.2~0.tbz2
>> Checksum: 52f7516ac68e7b02ce24ac7fbb7247be
>> ## Dependencies:
>> ## sys-fs/udev
>> ## sys-libs/ncurses
>> ## x11-base/xorg-server
>> ## x11-proto/inputproto
>> ## virtual/modutils
>> Homepage: http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/
>> Description: Input driver for Wacom tablets
>> and drawing devices
>> USE flags: -elibc_glibc kernel_linux -userland_GNU
>> usb -amd64
>> Compiled with: -Os -march=x86-64 -pipe
>> Keywords: ~amd64 ~x86 ~ppc64 ~ppc
>> Created: 2008-12-18 14:19:58
>> License: GPL-2
>> Keyword: wacom
>> Found: 1 entries

If is not installed then use equo to install it

catalin@atlantis ~ $ sudo equo install linuxwacom

Load wacom module at startup:

catalin@atlantis ~ $ sudo echo "/sbin/modprobe wacom" >> /etc/conf.d/local.start
catalin@atlantis ~ $ sudo chmod +x /etc/conf.d/local.start

Reboot.
Go to step 3 to configure X.

2. Compile from source.

First, download the latest version of linuxwacom from http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/
In this moment, 0.8.2-2 is the last version and it supports kernels up to 2.6.28.

catalin@atlantis ~ $ mkdir wacom
catalin@atlantis ~ $ cd wacom
catalin@atlantis ~/wacom $ wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/linuxwacom/linuxwacom-0.8.2-2.tar.bz2
catalin@atlantis ~/wacom $ tar -xjf linuxwacom-0.8.2-2.tar.bz2
catalin@atlantis ~/wacom $ cd linuxwacom-0.8.2-2
catalin@atlantis ~/wacom/linuxwacom-0.8.2-2 $ ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-wacom
catalin@atlantis ~/wacom/linuxwacom-0.8.2-2 $ make
catalin@atlantis ~/wacom/linuxwacom-0.8.2-2 $ sudo make install

Now, backup the included kernel module and copy the new one:

catalin@atlantis ~/wacom/linuxwacom-0.8.2-2 $ sudo cp /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/input/tablet/wacom.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/input/tablet/wacom.ko.included
catalin@atlantis ~/wacom/linuxwacom-0.8.2-2 $ sudo cp src/2.6.27/wacom.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/input/tablet/wacom.ko
catalin@atlantis ~/wacom/linuxwacom-0.8.2-2 $ sudo depmod -a

Load wacom driver at startup:

catalin@atlantis ~ $ sudo echo "/sbin/modprobe wacom" >> /etc/conf.d/local.start
catalin@atlantis ~ $ sudo chmod +x /etc/conf.d/local.start

Reboot.
After reboot, check if the touchscreen and stylus were correctly detected:

catalin@atlantis ~ $ dmesg | grep -i wacom
[   23.355233] input: Wacom ISDv4 93 as /class/input/input10
[   23.377350] input: Wacom ISDv4 93 as /class/input/input11
[   23.388137] usbcore: registered new interface driver wacom
[   23.388137] wacom: v1.49:USB Wacom Graphire and Wacom Intuos tablet driver
catalin@atlantis ~ $

If you get an error again (touch or stylus not detected), i’m sorry, i can’t help you anymore.
For any other problems (download, compiling, installing, etc), post a comment here.
If everything is ok, go to next step, configure X server.

3. Configure X server.

First step, backup your xorg.conf file and .xinitrc:

catalin@atlantis ~ $ sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.working
catalin@atlantis ~ $ cp .xinitrc .xinitrc.working

Remove any “xsetwacom” settings from your .xinitrc and any old experiments for touch, stylus, eraser from xorg.conf file.
If you have any entries named “Touchpad” in your xorg.conf (i have: Identifier “Synaptics Touchad” and InputDevice “Synaptics Touchpad”) rename them to “Pad“. In my case: Identifier “Synaptics Pad” and InputDevice “Synaptics Pad”.

Open (using sudo) /etc/X11/xorg.conf in your preferred editor and add next lines to: Section “ServerLayout”:

Inputdevice "stylus"    "SendCoreEvents"
Inputdevice "touch"     "SendCoreEvents"
Inputdevice "eraser"    "SendCoreEvents"

Add next lines above Section “Screen”:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "stylus"
Driver "wacom"
Option "Type" "stylus"
Option "USB" "on"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/by-path/pci-0000:00:14.5-usb-0:2:1.0-wacom"
Option "Button2" "3" # make side-switch a right button
Option "TopX" "225"
Option "TopY" "225"
Option "BottomX" "26300"
Option "BottomY" "16375"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "eraser"
Driver "wacom"
Option "Type" "eraser"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/by-path/pci-0000:00:14.5-usb-0:2:1.0-wacom"
Option "USB" "on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "touch"
Driver "wacom"
Option "Type" "touch"
Option "USB" "on"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/by-path/pci-0000:00:14.5-usb-0:2:1.1-wacom"
Option "TopX" "200"
Option "TopY" "225"
Option "BottomX" "4000"
Option "BottomY" "3875"
EndSection

Now, run the following commands:

catalin@atlantis ~ $ dmesg | grep -i wacom
[   23.355233] input: Wacom ISDv4 93 as /class/input/input10
[   23.377350] input: Wacom ISDv4 93 as /class/input/input11
[   23.388137] usbcore: registered new interface driver wacom
[   23.388137] wacom: v1.49:USB Wacom Graphire and Wacom Intuos tablet driver

catalin@atlantis ~ $ ls -al /dev/input/by-path/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 240 2009-02-07 12:37 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 420 2009-02-07 12:37 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   9 2009-02-07 12:36 pci-0000:00:13.2-usb-0:2:1.0-event- -> ../event9
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  10 2009-02-07 12:36 pci-0000:00:14.5-usb-0:2:1.0-event-mouse -> ../event10
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   9 2009-02-07 12:36 pci-0000:00:14.5-usb-0:2:1.0-mouse -> ../mouse2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  10 2009-02-07 12:36 pci-0000:00:14.5-usb-0:2:1.0-wacom -> ../event10
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   9 2009-02-07 12:36 pci-0000:00:14.5-usb-0:2:1.1- -> ../mouse3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  10 2009-02-07 12:36 pci-0000:00:14.5-usb-0:2:1.1-event- -> ../event11
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  10 2009-02-07 12:36 pci-0000:00:14.5-usb-0:2:1.1-wacom -> ../event11
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   9 2009-02-07 12:36 platform-i8042-serio-0-event-kbd -> ../event5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   9 2009-02-07 12:36 platform-i8042-serio-1-event-mouse -> ../event6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   9 2009-02-07 12:36 platform-i8042-serio-1-mouse -> ../mouse1
catalin@atlantis ~ $

You have in “dmesg” output something like:
/class/input/input10 and /class/input/input11
The important part is input10 and input11.

Find in “ls -al” output the input devices pointing to event10 and event11 (in your case 10 and 11 may be different but you got the idea).

We have here pci-0000:00:14.5-usb-0:2:1.0-wacom for event10 and pci-0000:00:14.5-usb-0:2:1.1-wacom for event11.

Modify the Option “Device” for stylus and eraser to point to the device identified for event10 (in my case: /dev/input/by-path/pci-0000:00:14.5-usb-0:2:1.0-wacom) and the Option “Device” for touch to point to the device identified for event11 (in my case: /dev/input/by-path/pci-0000:00:14.5-usb-0:2:1.1-wacom)

Save the file, close all applications and restart X server (Ctrl + Alt + Backspace).
My xorg.conf is available for download here.

If you don’t like the default calibration, use wacomcpl to calibrate:

catalin@atlantis ~ $ wacomcpl

After make your .xinitrc executable:

catalin@atlantis ~ $ chmod +x .xinitrc

And go to System->Preferences->Session (if you use Gnome… for KDE is probably different), click on Add and write in the command field: ~/.xinitrc

The calibration will be only for the current user.
If you want them system wide, use the values in .xinitrc to set TopX, TopY, BottomX, BottomY in xorg.conf

4. OnScreen keyboard.

I use cellwriter but is not included by default in Sabayon. Use equo to install it:

catalin@atlantis ~ $ sudo equo install cellwriter

After go to System->Preferences->Session click on Add and write in the command field: cellwriter –hide-window –window-y=600 –keyboard-only

To login using OnScreen keyboard in tablet mode, you need two things:
a) add cellwriter –window-y=600 –keyboard-only –read-only & to /etc/X11/gdm/Init/Default before “exit 0″

b) forget about fancy login themes

catalin@atlantis ~ $ sudo gdmsetup

Go to “Local” tab, select Style: “Plain with face browser” and Close.
I personally don’t use it due to security reasons…

Anyway, if you know how to use the OnScreen keyboard WITH login themes, let me know please.

If you have comments, questions, know tools to make all the job easier, etc. just leave me a comment here and i’ll answer.

Not a good idea. In fact, when i play with distro’s like Sabayon which include the latest packages i always expect something to go wrong after a big update. This time wasn’t different.

Next step, Wacom driver (tutorial will come soon). Super, working from first attempt.

After the first reboot (i wanted to see if everything works fine), my wireless stopped working. Somehow strange. I couldn’t connect to my wireless router but i was able to connect to other routers.

I decided to reinstall the wireless driver (using wired connection):

equo remove broadcom-sta
equo install broadcom-sta

Bingo!!! I asked for a new driver not a new kernel but as i like new things, i take the kernel too. Download, install, everything went fine.

Reboot… noo, not again!!!
Complete hang up this time.

Reboot in safe mode, check the logs, X didn’t start because of the ati driver was missing (of course, new kernel).

equo install ati-driver

Recompile && install Wacom driver, reboot … super, i have X now!

Wireless? I’m not that lucky.
The same problem like before.

Digging on forums i (finally) found the problem: some NetworkManager bugs.
Solution?

Wicd.

equo install wicd
equo remove nm-applet
rc-update del NetworkManager default
rc-update add wicd default
reboot

After reboot, wicd-client did a great job.
I have wireless now but not enough time to write the Wacom (touchscreen stylus and eraser) tutorial. For this one you will have to come back in a few days.

While looking for tutorials, tips, tricks to setup the Wacom digitizer i have to scroll a lot and every time i have huge problems. Because of scrolling, the entire system is freezing for a few seconds. This happens almost every minute and is pissing me off, really.

Watching the system load with top, i saw the Firefox and X using 100% of the CPU. After searching with google and checking tons of bug reports i found a few tips like: disabling smooth scrolling in firefox, adding “export MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1” in “/etc/profile“, adding:

Option "EnablePageFlip" "true"
Option "RenderAccel" "true"
Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
Option "AccelMethode" "EXA"
Option "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"

in “/etc/X11/xorg.conf” but unfortunately none of them worked for me.

Looks like the problem is related to Compiz and ATI drivers.
Not that firefox or xorg are working 100% fine.

The only workaround for me is to switch the window manager from Compiz to Metacity. Now, xorg and firefox are using under 40% of CPU when scrolling but at least the system is not freezing anymore.

If anyone have some tips how to fix this issue, please let me know.
Thank you!

Not that the grub recovery is hard but i didn’t have time until today.

Grub recovery is easy. Only a few steps to follow.

Use any Linux live distribution which have grub installed and run in command prompt:

sudo grub

At grub prompt run:

grub> find /boot/grub/stage1
grub> root (hdX,Y)
grub> setup (hd0)
grub> quit

Replace X,Y with the values found after “find” command.
Reboot.

If “find /boot/grub/stage1” fails with “Error 15: File not found” try “find /grub/stage1”

This should be all.

After reinstall, Scroll, Tap and DoubleTab worked by default no idea why first time didn’t work out of the box. Anyway, i found the solution for Suspend. The problem is because of compiz so, before suspend the window manager should be changed to metacity. The second problem, after resume keyboard and touchpad don’t work (you need a usb keyboard/mouse to restart X). Sabayon is using pm-utils so, 3 files are needed.

1. To fix the keyboard/touchpad after resume download /etc/pm/sleep.d/25i8042 and make the file executable:

chmod +x /etc/pm/sleep.d/25i8042 

No reboot is needed.

2. For Suspend two files are needed. Download /etc/pm/config.d/50compiz-fglrx-noclear and /etc/pm/sleep.d/00compiz-fglrx. Make both files executable:

chmod +x /etc/pm/sleep.d/50compiz-fglrx-noclear
chmod +x /etc/pm/sleep.d/00compiz-fglrx

No need to reboot, now, suspend should work.

I had problems with playing DVDs too. Kaffeine complained about win32 codecs and /dev/dvd. This time was easy:

sudo equo install libdvdcss
sudo equo install win32codecs
sudo ln -s /usr/lib32/win32 /usr/lib/win32

But with Kaffeine i have no sound so, i gave up. I use MPlayer… like many many more others

Something else i did’t like was the beep almost everytime i pressed TAB. To fix it, just blacklist: pcspkr module.

After checking blogs and forums trying to find a fix, doing a lot of changes in xorg.conf i decided to check the synaptics manual to find the correct options and values:

cmc@atlantis ~ $ man 4 synaptics

After a few hours of testing different things i came out with a small working tutorial.
Of course, if synaptics is already installed and X is already working, this tutorial should work on any Linux distro.

1. Find “Synaptics TouchPad” device.

   • cmc@atlantis ~ $ less /proc/bus/input/devices

   • Look for “Synaptics TouchPad” and bellow “Handlers”.
   • Write down the event value.
2. Modify (as root)

   /etc/X11/xorg.conf

   • Add

     Load "synaptics"

     to Module section.

   • Add

     InputDevice "Synaptics TouchPad"

     to ServerLayout section.

   • Create a new section InputDevice:

     Section "InputDevice"
     Identifier      "Synaptics Touchpad"
     Driver  "synaptics"
     Option  "SendCoreEvents"        "true"
     Option  "Device"                "/dev/input/EVENTX"
     Option  "Protocol"              "event"
     Option  "SHMConfig"             "on"
     EndSection

   
   
   • Replace EVENTX with the value from /proc/bus/input/devices.
   • Restart X (Ctrl + Alt + Backspace or

     sudo /etc/init.d/xdm restart

     ).

3. Use synclient to get different values from your touchpad.
   • In theory at least because for me didn’t work.
     Run in a terminal:

     cmc@atlantis ~ $ synclient -m 200
     

     and then tap, double tap, move your finger from left to right and top to bottom on all sides to get the value of the edges.

4. Modify (as root) /etc/X11/xorg.conf and add the final options to InputDevice section.
   • Use the values you already found using synclient.

     Option  "LeftEdge"              "LLLL"
     Option  "RightEdge"             "RRRR"
     Option  "TopEdge"               "TTTT"
     Option  "BottomEdge"            "BBBB"
     

   
   
   • Activate Horizontal and Vertical Scrolling.

     Option  "HorizEdgeScroll"       "true"
     Option  "VertEdgeScroll"        "true"
     

   
   
   • Enable edge scrolling to continue while the finger stays in an edge corner.

     Option  "CornerCoasting"        "true"
     Option  "CoastingSpeed"         "2"
     

   
   
   • Single tap and double tapping (use values reported by synclient if any, if not use trial and error).

     Option  "TapButton1"            "1"
     Option  "MaxTapTime"            "XXX"
     Option  "MaxDoubleTapTime"      "ZZZ"

   
   
   • Restart X (Ctrl + Alt + Backspace or

     sudo /etc/init.d/xdm restart

     ).

5. If synclient is not working for you either.
   • Look in

     /var/log/Xorg.0.log

     and find:

     (II) Synaptics touchpad driver version 0.99.3

   • Get the values of x-axis and y-axis.
   • Use them to define the edges in

     /etc/X11/xorg.conf

     .

   • If you want a bigger scrolling area just use a bit smaller value for “RightEdge” and “BottomEdge” (again, trial and error).
6. My InputDevice section.

   Section "InputDevice"
   Identifier      "Synaptics Touchpad"
   Driver  "synaptics"
   Option  "SendCoreEvents"        "true"
   Option  "Device"                "/dev/input/event6"
   Option  "Protocol"              "event"
   Option  "SHMConfig"             "on"
   Option  "LeftEdge"              "1472"
   Option  "RightEdge"             "5372"
   Option  "TopEdge"               "1408"
   Option  "BottomEdge"            "4428"
   Option  "HorizEdgeScroll"       "true"
   Option  "VertEdgeScroll"        "true"
   Option  "CornerCoasting"        "true"
   Option  "CoastingSpeed"         "2"
   Option  "TapButton1"            "1"
   Option  "MaxTapTime"            "220"
   Option  "MaxDoubleTapTime"      "220
   EndSection
   

1. CPU Usage
2. Processes
3. RAM, Swap, HDD IO
4. HDD space
5. Wireless
6. Battery/AC
7. Sabayon world
8. Weather
9. Gmail

Wallpaper + Conky

The fix: a small wrapper to start Conky after 10 seconds.

#!/bin/sh
sleep 10s
/usr/bin/conky

Save file in:

/usr/bin/conky.wrapper.sh

and modify the “Conky” entry in

System->Preferences->Sessions

to

/usr/bin/conky.wrapper.sh

This should fix the problem.

/etc/conf.d/local.start

echo "ondemand" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
echo "ondemand" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cpufreq/scaling_governor

Available options: conservative, ondemand, performance, powersave.

1. While playing movies the window is flickering.
2. From time to time the entire system is freezing for a few seconds and System Monitor show a CPU spike.

First problem affects every OpenGL application if Compiz is running.
There are a few workarounds but no fix yet. Everyone is waiting for the 9.01 closed source ATI drivers (fglrx).

Workarounds:

1. Switch from Compiz to Metacity (every time a movies is played or OpenGL application is running). Fusion Icon is included is Sabayon by default so 2 mouse clicks are enough.
2. In CCSM unredirect full screen windows
3. In CCSM “Extra WM Actions” should be activated and a keyboard shortcut should be defined for “Toggle Redirect”. Whenever a window is flickering, hit that keyboard shortcut and it will stop flickering.
4. In your player change the output from xv to x11.

Personally i use the 1st one.

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

Maybe i’ll write a new post… “Linux: making a choice” to explain why i made this choice.

Sabayon Linux version 4 was released on 31 December 2008.
Is a Live DVD based on the source-based distro Gentoo. Sabayon Linux is using Entropy as package manager. The best part, with Entropy, binary packages are provided so is not necessarily to compile every package you need (i know, i know, this is not Gentoo anymore). Emerge can be used too so, if the binary is not available you can still have it on your system.

My laptop is a HP Pavilion from tx2500 series. Is on the market only from a few months and after a search with Google i found lot forum threads with solved/unsolved problems, tips & ticks, questions, etc. I begin today my journey with Sabayon and i’ll write about every success, every problem i have, every piece of info i find until i will finally setup a fully functional Sabayon on my laptop.