Video

• XF86Config This is a working XF86config file (800x600 is the maximum resolution) for the GoBook with the XFCom Neomagic server
• The Video chipset is a "NeoMagic 2160 (MagicGraph128XD)"

  Instructions to install X Server

  glibc systems:-
          1) get the file to your system 
             cd /tmp
             ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/XFCom/XFCom-neomagic-glibc-2.0.0-1.i386.rpm
          2) install the files using RPM
             rpm -ivh XFCom-neomagic-glibc-2.0.0-1.i386.rpm
          3) after installing run (as root): 
             ln -sf /usr/X11R6/bin/XFCom_NeoMagic /etc/X11/X
             mv /etc/X11/XF86Config /etc/X11/XF86Config.old
             cp /etc/X11/XF86Config.neomagic /etc/X11/XF86Config
  
  libc5 systems:-
          1) get the file to your system  
             cd /tmp
             ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/XFCom/XFCom-neomagic-libc5-2.0.0-1.i386.rpm
          2) install the files using RPM
             rpm -ivh XFCom-neomagic-libc5-2.0.0-1.i386.rpm
          3) after installing run (as root):  
             ln -sf /usr/X11R6/bin/XFCom_NeoMagic /etc/X11/X
             chmod 4711 /usr/X11R6/bin/XFCom_NeoMagic
             mv /etc/X11/XF86Config /etc/X11/XF86Config.old
             cp /etc/X11/XF86Config.neomagic /etc/X11/XF86Config
  

• After you have finished that you need to edit your startx file to get the X server to do 24bpp (though Netscape looks like crap, i suggest that you use 16 bpp), like this:

  1). The startx file can be found in /usr/X11R6/bin directory, or you can do a 
      "locate startx"
  2). Change the reference ' serverargs="" ' to ' serverargs="-bpp 24" ' (about 24 lines
      from the top). 
  3). The next time you issue the startx command you will be running at the maximum
      resolution.
  

• You can do this to get this to work with xinit:

  1). Edit /etc/bashrc and put an alias in that file, on a line at the end of the file:
      'alias xinit="xinit -- -bpp 24"  '  (The extra "--" is not a mistatke by the way).
  2). The next time you log in and execute xinit you will be in the 24 bpp mode.
  

Sound

• You have to work your way around getting the sound to work. What I have done is booted dos and started ESS' driver to put the card in Sound Blaster compatibility mode. Then I can boot linux using loadlin. (i found a couple of places advertising that they were working on a driver for this specific chipset)
• Follow these steps and you will find yourself listening to Linus

  1). You will have to use loadlin to boot to linux (after booting up dos and the sound
      DOS driver has put the sound card in sbPRO compatible mode) get the driver and read the readme
      I am sorry if you happened upon my page before this update, if you got the file
      before 2/16/99 10:00am CST you need to get this new one (I put the wrong file here)
  
  2). Get this .config (2.0.34) for a base config of your kernel -or- just compile the
      kernel with these options enabled:
  
  (M) Sound card support
  Old configuration script  (For: SM Wave, PSS & AudioTrix Pro)
  [*] /dev/dsp and /dev/audio support
  [*] MIDI interface support
  (M) FM synthesizer (YM3812/OPL-3) support
  ( ) ProAudioSpectrum 16 support
  (M) Sound Blaster (SB, SBPro, SB16, clones) support
  (M) Generic OPL2/OPL3 FM synthesizer support
  
      If you dont want to fool with compiling the kernel get this file which containes 
  the kernel and module files (just put the "2.0.34" and the "preferred" dirs in your
  /lib/modules dir and you are ready to go)
  
  
  3). After compiling and installing the modules edit the /etc/conf.modules file
      to say:
  
  #options
  alias sound sb
  options -k sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1
  alias midi opl3
  options -k opl3 io=0x388
  
  4). Edit the /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit file to comment out the section that automatically
      checks for dependencies. this is because when booting linux does not have a copy of
      the kernel to check dependencies from and it makes a modules.dep file that is empty.
      What you are looking for starts out like:
  
       if [ -x /sbin/depmod -a -n "$USEMODULES" ]; then
  
      and continue commenting the lines out untill you reach the end of the if statement (fi)
  
  5). do a "depmod -a"
  
  6). Reboot (using loadlin after running the sound driver in DOS)
  
  7). Run "sndconfig" and select sb PRO and other settings like above and YOU HAVE SOUND!
      (this is a verification of setup)
  

Port Replicator

• There is a Ethernet port on the port replicator looks like it uses the same IRQ (11) as the sound, so if you are haveing problems getting it to work, you could go without sound. If you have got this to work (sound and the ethernet port on the port replicator) then let me know.
• Linux barfs when you suspend (write to disk) connected to the port replicator and then unsuspend with the port replicator connected. It is looking for that ethernet port that it was using just make a script for your suspend:

  
  ifconfig eth0 down
  rmmod tulip
  apm --suspend
  
  

  To restart the ethernet port just do a "/etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart"

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