Arch x86_64 install on compaq 615

I have this funny compaq 615 laptop with amd x2 athlon 2.2 Ghz.At the time on the laptop is debian sid but im planing to install arch.
So has anyone this combination?Compaq 615 + Arch x86_64 and maybe awesome wm?
I tred to install awesome wm on my desktop but i couldn`t.It sayed that i dond have i686 proc and this is a 32bit software.

btw, during install i have installed the b43.framwarecutter. and now i foun this in aur http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=21690
so should i download this and install?will it work?and moste important how the hell should i do this?

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[SOLVED] Installing Arch x86_64 to HP Chromebook 14 Model 14-q013 4GB

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HP Compaq 615 | no pwm-capable sensor modules | fans at max speed

Hi,
I have installed archlinux on an old HP Compaq 615 laptop, everything is working fine, but I have problems with the fan speed. After installing lm_sensors, configuring the sensors with sensors_detect resulted in this:
Now follows a summary of the probes I have just done.
Just press ENTER to continue:
Driver `k10temp' (autoloaded):
* Chip `AMD Family 11h thermal sensors' (confidence: 9)
Driver `to-be-written':
* Bus `SMBus PIIX4 adapter at 0b00'
Busdriver `i2c_piix4', I2C address 0x4c
Chip `SMSC EMC1402' (confidence: 6)
Driver `adm1021':
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Busdriver `i2c_piix4', I2C address 0x4e
Chip `Maxim MAX1617' (confidence: 3)
Note: there is no driver for SMSC EMC1402 yet.
Check http://www.lm-sensors.org/wiki/Devices for updates.
Running pwmconfig leads to the error:
/usr/bin/pwmconfig: There are no pwm-capable sensor modules installed
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k10temp-pci-00c3
Adapter: PCI adapter
temp1: +51.4°C (high = +70.0°C)
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max1617-i2c-5-4e
Adapter: SMBus PIIX4 adapter at 0b00
temp1: +0.0°C (low = +0.0°C, high = +0.0°C)
temp2: +51.0°C (low = +45.0°C, high = +60.0°C)
The fans are blowing at max speed, and the sensors are not providing information on fanspeed. I have found multiple threads on this topic, and tried the following:
Turning OFF/ON the option "Fan always on while on AC power" .
Passing the parameter "acpi_enforce_resources=lax" to the kernel via GRUB.
That didn't help. If I list the modules and search for k10
lsmod | grep k10
k10temp 12588 0
hwmon 12930 3 k10temp,adm1021,radeon
It seems that k10temp is loaded and used to show the sensor temperatures. On the fancontrol page of the ArchWiki, there were tips on increasing fan_div, but the problem was for me to find the chipset name.
The reported chipset `adm-1021` is not available in `/etc/sensors3.conf`, only `adm-1025`. Also, what's up with
Driver `to-be-written':
result of `sensors-detect`? Is there any way to stop the fans from blowing at full speed for HP Compaq 615?

I just tried turning ACPI off, by passing `acpi=off` kernel parameter in the /etc/defaults/grub:
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GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
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GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="acpi=off"
The fans were dead afterwards, but as the warning on the Acpi Modules Wiki Site states
2. "Easy" Put acpi=off in the kernel line in your bootloader's configuration file, but that will kill all ACPI functionality like battery charging and power saving.
killing all ACPI functionality for HP Compaq has left me without the synaptics touchpad and the keyboard. I found on the Ubuntu Community Wiki - Boot Options that `noacpi` shuold be equivalent to `acpi=off`. That sounded weird, so I checked The Kernel Documentation:
acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86]
Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
Format: { force | off | strict | noirq | rsdt }
force -- enable ACPI if default was off
off -- disable ACPI if default was on
noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
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rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi
noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
or for PCI scanning.
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GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="noacpi"
I updated the grub.cfg with
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
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# vim:set ft=sh
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# in this array. For instance:
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/usr/bin/pwmconfig: There are no pwm-capable sensor modules installed
so I can only guess that for this specific laptop, there is an IRQ problem, and using `noacpi` solves it. This is the 6th time I've rebooted without hearing the fans at max, when I use the machine, the fan speed is adjusted for the tempereature, even without pwmconfig/fancontrol. My guess is that BIOS is doing it, if someone knows more about this stuff, I would like to hear abuot it. I'll use the machine for the next few days, if the fans behave properly, I'll mark the thread solved.

Hp compaq 615 strange behaviour

my compaq 615 is behavin strange in many ways
here are some examples
1: icon images dissapeared and where replaced by other images
after going in to safety mode this stopped
2: audio error
once when i started it the soun one of the sound channels was completely screwed up
when i had a headset connected, after a reboot this problem was fixed
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now i know its a long shot writing my problems on this forums since you people seem to think that just because im a noob im not worthy of your replies
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mrbondtheman wrote:
my compaq 615 is behavin strange in many ways
here are some examples
1: icon images dissapeared and where replaced by other images
after going in to safety mode this stopped
2: audio error
once when i started it the soun one of the sound channels was completely screwed up
when i had a headset connected, after a reboot this problem was fixed
3: screen tearing acours when im watching movies in mpc
and when i play some games
4: icons move around and dont stay where iplaced them in the folders
now i know its a long shot writing my problems on this forums since you people seem to think that just because im a noob im not worthy of your replies
but ill give it a shot
It sure would help if you had stated which OS is installed?
Questions with not enough information are sometime not responded to very quickly as none of us (AFAIK) have ESP.
Everyone started out as a noob, including hackers. So...here that is not an issue at all. We are here to help each other out.
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Error! Build of vmblock.ko failed for: 3.12.2-1-ARCH (x86_64)

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I'm very new to the world of arch linux. I see that there are patches for this but I don't have knowledge of using them.
Help please?
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cleaning build area....
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Then put the filename in the sources field of the PKGBUILD and put the file's md5sum in the respective field of the PKGBUILD as well.
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https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PKGBUILD
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Makepkg
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[SOLVED] Fail to boot Arch x86_64 live CD on a HP laptop

Hey, guys, what's up?
Well, here's the thing: I bought a new laptop a couple days ago and I'm kind of having some trouble. Its a HP Pavilion dm4-1063cl (this model: http://www.notebookcheck.info/HP-Pavili … 579.0.html, just in case).
I ran some tests in Windows 7 about the architecture of the processor and it clearly seems that it can support arch x86_64 bits. However, I tried to boot Arch x86_64 by a Net Installation CD and it doesn't work. The process fail in the "Loadin UDEV events" phase, something like that. PS: the i686 image boots perfectly.
Then, I thought that was the CD I burned the reason for trouble - I did not check md5sum and stuff like that. So, I burned another dual image (with boths i686 and x86_64) and tried to run again the 64bits kernel. It did not work in the same phase.
The only response I get is a dark screen that never seems to go away. It was a panic I've never seen before with Arch Linux.
The only alternative I can think right now is trying an older version of the live image CD and see what happens, but it doesn't seem like a very good option. Any ideas?
Hope someone of you can help me. Here in Brazil, most of computers we buy come with Windows installed and we don't have quite a chance of not getting - or paying for - it. I'm sure I'll have such a trouble installing dual boot with Arch Linux, but I really miss my Arch Linux...
And, damn, I worked too hard to get a new processor. I really dont wanna use Arch i686 on a pc with x86_64 architecture, it seems like an option, but a dumb one. =p
Cheers,
Wilson.
EDIT: It turns out that tt was not a kernel panic as I thought. The kernel changed the resolution of the display during this fase, and somehow it doesent work.
The trick I used to solve this was adding "nomodeset" to the kernel line in the Live CD booting. Btw, you can do it by selecting the booting option you want in the live CD and pressing TAB. Then, you can edit the kernel line. (:
Last edited by wilsaooo (2010-12-28 06:17:41)

lamegaptop wrote:
Resurrecting this post because I may help you or someone else.
HP DM4-1265, Intel Corei5, Intel Graphics. (Two days old, windoze wiped, Arch installed)
At boot the brightness is, for some unexplained reason, set all the way down to 0 on these intel based DM4 laptops. A few simple <Fn>+<F3> turns the brightness back up.
To solve this I had to put this in rc.local -
echo 6 > /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness
you can enter it manually to test first (as root). Try to turn your brightness up and down with it to make sure it works.
My fan ran like crazy too. HP chose to default a BIOS setting that keeps the fan running constantly. I disabled that and all is well. Fan only comes on when needed and lm_sensors shows my temps, right now, at 43C. Ambient is at 77F right now (I'm in Florida) and this kick butt Arch laptop is, in fact, on my lap.....
Don't give up man.
First of all: thanks for replying.
I installed manually the "coretemp" kernel modules and lm-sensors now give some different response. The script "sensors-detect" does not find any answer.
Looks like the temperature run in a regular level (50º-60º), which I consider a good sign. However, sometimes when I use arch for 24h+, it shuts down suddenly and does not let me boot my computer again - I believe it is a overheating problem. Happened a couple times, big no big deal.
On the other hand, in Windows 7 I have no trouble at all. The temperature goes around 40º with some daily activities. It worries me out because I used - and I do use - largely and successfully Arch i686 version in crappy notebooks with no heating at all.
I tried some tweaks in the rc.local, but none of them seemed to really work. With cpufreq, I could slow down the processors and maintain a regular temperature. Looks like I can list some of the fans speed in the /sys/ files, but much of them do not seem to have any change at all. Some of them looks like to have some "max_state" set to low values like 1, but most do have a limit like 10.
I will keep trying. If there's anything new, I'll post here
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Wilson

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Loading ../vmlinuz-linux... ok
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It's an Intel Core 2 Quad processor. Are there any more diagnostic commands that would be helpful? I didn't see anything else in util-linux that might help...
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Byte Order: Little Endian
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Socket(s): 1
NUMA node(s): 1
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L1d cache: 32K
L1i cache: 32K
L2 cache: 2048K
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obsrv wrote:Yes does skype will be fully 64bit? That would be great. I imagine days when whole world would use 64bit software, and 32bit would be deprecated like now 16bit
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Tom's got a point - if you find a package missing x86_64 as a supported arch, and you can build and run it fine on your system, let the package maintainer know so they can add it into the PKGBUILD.
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Here's a juicy hamburger:
.' o '.
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Arch X86_64 - Logmein Plugin

Hi
Hope you can help me with this one:
I have a 64Bits arch installation, i'm tryng to use firefox and logmein, i have tried to put the plugin manually on /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and compile from AUR that despite give me an error on the architecture, i was able to edit pkgbuild and add the line arch=("x86_64") and install it anyway...
But when i try to remote to a computer...i can't....it stuck on connect network...and then error message as disconnected....
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Sniffer wrote:
Hi
Hope you can help me with this one:
I have a 64Bits arch installation, i'm tryng to use firefox and logmein, i have tried to put the plugin manually on /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and compile from AUR that despite give me an error on the architecture, i was able to edit pkgbuild and add the line arch=("x86_64") and install it anyway...
But when i try to remote to a computer...i can't....it stuck on connect network...and then error message as disconnected....
Any ideas or someone in the same situation.
Thanks
Sniff
Reply to myself..
This S###y plugin only works on X86. Period.

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I have Hp Compaq 615 laptop ( I know it's been 8 years so far and my baby still running like a champ. I just can't give up on it) Lately I upgraded my RAM and all went great. I decided to upgrade my processor too but I know it is more complicated process, so Im here to get the best advice. What is the compatible processor that can fit my laptop.
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Pleaes guys help me out.
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Aloha,
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Compaq 615 notebook

I have owned a Compaq 615 for a week now and the cooling fan constantly varies in speed and is very noisey. The noise is louder than my desktop PC Worst noise is like a CD / DVD spinning up to speed with a typical 'rush' sound. My previous HP 6715 was very quite. Can anybody advise me if the fan noise on this model is normal? It is also the first laptop I have ever seen that does not have a hard drive activity light!
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Also a nice way to keep down the fan noise is to put something beneath the back of the Compaq when using it on a desk, which will improve the air circulation and will keep the temp down. You could do it in one of two ways - A) you fork out some cash for notebook stand or b)roll an old newspaper (like my "stand" made from a Sunday Times supplement), tape it so it doesn't unroll and stick it beneath the 'lappy!
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