Acer Ferrari 5000

[FSWolf]

Hi

I just bought an Acer Ferrari 5000 now earlyer i owned the 3000 model and had fedora core 5 dual booting with windows. i experenced no touble with my AIT hardware.
How ever i installed Core 6 on this lap top
I cant find working drivers for moble AIT X1600
or dirvers for my sound card witch would be part of the ATI XPress 1150 hardware im asuming.
I Do get sound once after rebooting a few times but most of the time it says my sound card is being blocked.
When it does work how ever the lap top speekers wont shut off when normal speekers are plugged into the audio jack.

If there is any one else who happenes to own one these lap tops please help me
Im a total linux noob lol

[FSWolf]

http://www.phoronix.com/redblog/?p=blog&i=NTU1MA

I read this artical on how to install these new drivers hassle free. Now being a linux noob.
I has this.sh file(fglrx-fc6-8296-generator.sh) and with that some how i turn this .run(ati-driver-installer-8.29.6) file i downloaded into a rpm file to install.

But i dont knw to run a .sh file :P
im burtaly lost here. So rather then buy a book im gonna ask if any one can help me out.
Maybe explain this more step by step for a noob like my self.

[chocobanana]

Hi

As for the sound, I presume you're using KDE. KDE is really annoying when you're trying to play two audio sources at the same time, for example amarok and a flash site. It will only play one at the time, I don't know why. I don't have this problem in Gnome though. As for the speaker, go to KMix (the speaker icon by the tray clock) and look for an option called "Headphone jack sense". Just enable it and it will mute the laptop speakers when you plug something to the headphone jack.

As for the ATI drivers, I suggest you avoid the solution above and try the one described in this forum:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showth...5&page=1&pp=15

[FSWolf]

No im not im using Gnome
and i have no sound at all.

[FSWolf]

Coud you just explain how run a .sh file? Maybe i can take er from there

[chocobanana]

you type in a console:

./nameoffile.sh

As for the sound, hmmm, I'm not so sure now. Without external speakers/headphones you still have no sound?

[FSWolf]

LOL ok ill try, thank you

so if the file is on my desk top that would be
./ home/Admin/Desktop/fglrx-fc6-8296-generator.sh

mm no thats not righe it tells me Bash: ./: is a directory

[chocobanana]

no, it's not like that

cd /home/Admin/Desktop
./fglrx-fc6-8296-generator.sh

But I recommend you try livna drivers

[FSWolf]

Ok in the way of sound i had gotten some sound when i rolled back my sound drivers. But the audio jack didnt switch between my desk top and lap top speekers. How ever right after reboot i was bck to no sound. So this proved to be a temporary sulution.

[FSWolf]

Thanks for your time btw

[chocobanana]

ok, go to menu "system > preferences >sound"

Then in the Devices tab change everything to ALSA

As for the speakers, double click the speaker icon by the clock; then menu "edit > preferences"; enable Headphone Jack Sense" press ok and then go to the tab interrupts or something like that and check the Headphone Jack sense option.

[FSWolf]

Ah thanks that was very helpfull
still dont know all the commands gonna hve to buy a book here i think.
mmmm it worked now i just find out my new rpm ended up lol

[chocobanana]

linux commands?

you can start here:
http://truehacker.blogspot.com/2006/...-newbbies.html

[FSWolf]

wow ok it makes rpms doesnt show any error but it puts them in sime mysteriose place.
then say u can install the resulting rpms using rpm -ivh

[chocobanana]

it probably puts the rpm in the same directory where the script is located