HP Armada 7400 Software Installation Manual page 14

Installation of Linux on Compaq Armada 7400/7800 Portables
12. Comment out all the lines beginning with Modeline
13. Add the following Modeline entries:
14. Save XF86Config.
15. Assuming the above installation and X configuration, X-Windows should now function properly and start
in 1024x768 mode.
Activating APM
Caution - modifying and installing a new Linux kernel can result in a system that will not boot. Please create and retain
a Linux boot diskette in case of problems. Please, read the ' Building a Custom Kernel' in the RedHat 5.2 manual.
1. Aquire a later PCMCIA package, in this example we downloaded pcmcia-cs-3.0.7.tar.gz
2. Log in as root
3. Change directory to /usr/src/Linux
4. Execute tar xzvf /pathwhereyouputfile/pcmcia-cs-3.0.7.tar.gz
5. There now should be a directory /usr/src/Linux/pcmcia-cs-3.0.7
6. Configuration of PCMCIA checks for the presence of the xforms library. This library is not included in
RedHat 5.2 but it is available on the web.
7. Very important! RedHat modifies the script file /etc/pcmcia/network. Backup this file to another location.
The new PCMCIA package will copy new files into /etc/pcmcia during its make install.
8. The apmd package is required. Check by using ' rpm –q apmd' . If the package is not installed then mount
the RedHat CD #1, change to /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS, execute ' rpm –Uvh apmd-2.4-6.i386.rpm' or the
version of apmd on your CD. Then umount the CD and remove it from the drive.
9. Tell Linux to load the APM daemon at boot time by using Linuxconf. The apmd enable setting is in
Control->ControlPanel->ControlServiceActivity->apmd
10. Change directories to /usr/src/Linux
11. Execute make mrproper
12. There are three ways to choose the kernel options
' make config' Pure command line tool, if you make a mistake then you must restart from the
beginning. The next two are much nicer.
' make menuconfig' Text mode menu interface
' make xconfig' X-Windows interface
13. In X-Windows open an xterm and type make xconfig
14. Choose the character device catagory
15. Choose ' y' for Advance Power Management
16. Under APM check ' y' for ' Make CPU Idle calls when idle' and ' Power off on shutdown' . Compaq does
not recommend any other options.
17. Go to Code maturity level and disable Prompt for development...
18. Go to general setup and change Processor type to PPro(closest to PII)
19. Go to CD-ROM drivers (not for SCSI or IDE/ATAPI drives) and disable the first item. The Armada only
uses IDE/ATAPI.
20. Return to the main menu and click ' Save and Exit'
21. From the command line execute ' make dep; make clean' Remember you must execute this command from
the /usr/src/Linux directory
22. Execute ' make boot' and wait
23. Execute ' make modules' and wait
24. Execute ' make modules_install'
25. The new modules are placed in /lib/modules/2.0.36 Change the symlink /lib/modules/preferred to point to
/lib/modules/2.0.36
Upgrading PCMCIA and enabling other kernel features
26. Change directory to /usr/src/Linux/pcmcia-cs-3.0.7
27. Execute ' make config' and answer the prompts as follows:
0206-0799-A
Modeline "1024x768" 79.95 1024 1040 1216 1328 768 768 777 802
Modeline "640x480" 35.36 640 656 720 832 480 480 486 501
Modeline "800x600" 55.33 800 816 928 1040 600 600 608 626
Linux source directory: enter: /usr/src/Linux
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