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BewtsDaoc

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Registered: 2009-11-20

Posts: 8

Problems with my laptop.

I'm not really sure how Linux works with drivers.  All of Gateway's drivers that they give are windows only. So far I've gotten every driver done except for 3 on my laptop.

1. My sound card isnt working. The built in speakers on the laptop work, but when I use headphones or something it doesn't detect them.

2. My touchpad mouse built into the laptop isn't working, and the only drivers given are the ones on the Gateway website for Windows only.

3. Same problem, but with my DVD-ROM.

I'm not sure if there is a Linux universal driver for any of these that may work is there? I.E. I used the Linux mouse driver to get my Logitech mouse working instead of using the drivers that came with it that only work on Windows.

If anyone has had this problem and has solved it, or any suggestions on how to fix this problem, please get back to me. Thanks in advance

kazuo

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From: São Paulo/Brazil

Registered: 2008-03-18

Posts: 413

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Re: Problems with my laptop.

To help you need we some more information.

What is the model of your devices?

EDIT: you can get some of needed info from lspci, the touchpad is show in /proc/bus/input/devices

Last edited by kazuo (2009-11-20 22:39:30)

tavianator

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From: Waterloo, ON, Canada

Registered: 2007-08-21

Posts: 858

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Re: Problems with my laptop.

1: I'm not too sure what would cause that.  Maybe run alsamixer and see if your headphone channel is muted?
2: Check out http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Touchpad_Synaptics
3: That's also odd.  Check dmesg for lines containing CD (dmesg | grep CD).

Mardoct

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Registered: 2009-08-17

Posts: 208

Re: Problems with my laptop.

Sound Card:

pacman -S alsa-utils && alsaconf

That should do everything for you with minimal input.

Touchpad, as stated above:

pacman -S xf86-input-synaptics

Should work like magic with Hal. It may need a reboot/hal restart. You can restart hal with:

/etc/rc.d/hal restart

DVD ROM:
Hal running? I'm not sure if your optical drives are the domain of hal, but it's all I can think of.

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BewtsDaoc

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Registered: 2009-11-20

Posts: 8

Re: Problems with my laptop.

I set hal in the daemon list, it should autorun. I will try everything else listed though. I'm running OSS instead of ASLA, do i need ASLA to run everything else?

Edit: when I run pacman -S asla-mixer it says file not found in sync database

Last edited by BewtsDaoc (2009-11-21 02:15:28)

kgas

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From: Qatar

Registered: 2008-11-08

Posts: 718

Re: Problems with my laptop.

No you use either alsa or oss. Read the Beginers guide

BewtsDaoc

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Registered: 2009-11-20

Posts: 8

Re: Problems with my laptop.

Thanks, i got it all figured out. I just reformatted since i installed yesterday and i found a lot of stuff i just zoomed through instead of reading. All of it is working that i can tell so far. Thank you all for your help!