[arch-general] Laptop Install - 2 questions remain, WPA and Compiz with Radeon Driver
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com
Sun May 3 06:11:04 EDT 2009
Listmates,
The laptop install (Toshiba 205D) went great accept where I am stuck with
video drivers for my ati card, and the last little nit of getting wifi to
start automatically. First the easy one, the wireless:
(1) My laptop has an Atheros card and is happily using the madwifi driver. The
only problem is that I'm starting it manually and need to know where to put
the pieces to have it start automatically. Basically, it takes 3 commands to
get my wifi going:
ESSID=${1:-skyline}
IFACE=${2:-wlan0}
iwconfig ${IFACE} essid "${ESSID}"
wpa_supplicant -i${IFACE} -Dwext -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -d -B
>> /var/log/wpa_start.log 2>&1
sleep 2 # This doesn't count as a command
dhcpcd wlan0
My question is "Where do I put this stuff to make it happen when I start
Arch??
(2) No Compiz with the radeon driver. I know there must be a trick or two that
will make this work. Heck, I even got compiz working on the intel card, so I
know the ATI card (X1200) will do it (it does it with the fglrx driver on
openSuSE). However, I don't know what the tricks are to getting it working on
the stock radeon driver. Any other ATI Arch users know any more about this??
Here is my current xorg.conf:
#
Section "Files"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/local"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/URW"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/speedo"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/artwiz-fonts"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/uni:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/local/share/fonts"
FontPath "/opt/kde3/share/fonts"
InputDevices "/dev/gpmdata"
InputDevices "/dev/input/mice"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "on"
Option "IgnoreABI" "on"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "extmod"
Load "glx"
Load "dri"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Driver "kbd"
Identifier "Keyboard[0]"
Option "Protocol" "Standard"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbModel" "microsoftpro"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Driver "mouse"
Identifier "Mouse[1]"
Option "Buttons" "5"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Name" "Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical"
Option "Protocol" "explorerps/2"
Option "Vendor" "Sysp"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse[3]"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
Option "Name" "Touchpad"
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
Option "Vendor" "Synaptics"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor[0]"
VendorName "TOSHIBA"
ModelName "TOSHIBA 17IN TRUEBRIGHT"
UseModes "Modes[0]"
DisplaySize 367 230
HorizSync 30.0 - 70.0
VertRefresh 43.0 - 60.0
Option "CalcAlgorithm" "XServerPool"
Option "DPMS"
Option "PreferredMode" "1440x900"
EndSection
Section "Modes"
Identifier "Modes[0]"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1440x900" "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1440x900" "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1440x900" "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1440x900" "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection
Device "Device[0]"
Identifier "Screen[0]"
Monitor "Monitor[0]"
EndSection
Section "Device"
BoardName "RV350 NP"
# BusID "1:5:0"
Driver "radeon"
Identifier "Device[0]"
# Option "GARTSize" "32"
VendorName "ATI"
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout[all]"
InputDevice "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Mouse[3]" "SendCoreEvents"
Option "Clone" "off"
Option "Xinerama" "off"
Screen 0 "Screen[0]" 0 0
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Group "video"
Mode 0660
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "true"
Option "DAMAGE" "true"
EndSection
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David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
Rankin Law Firm, PLLC
510 Ochiltree Street
Nacogdoches, Texas 75961
Telephone: (936) 715-9333
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