Acer Aspire One

kaola_linux · 2009-01-02 04:34:00

Yup, the wind does have an atom cpu..It was said on the review that it has a function key that easily raises up the cpu's frequency..

Unfortunately, the bios does not have the option to raise the clock speed of the cpu on the AA1..:)

I did tried the networkmanager 0.7 from the testing but it had problems detecting my usb modem...

I need some benchmark or tests with regards to the performance of the SSD and an SDHC so that I can plan what to buy next...:D It's really annoying to have some pauses...Last night I did stress up my AA1, I had run alot of applications...Games, IDE, blah blah...I mean just alot that it reaches to 100% cpu usage...Honestly speaking it does the job pretty well!!!:D So no problem with multitasking... Just the heavy writing...And it sucks...:(

I'm running xfce, I had problems making the function keys get to work...

I added what's said on the guide about closing the lid and take you to standby....Now I had some strange issues after waking up from standby, audio is not working with all the volumes max...Tried this after closing the lid then Exaile nor Xfmedia doesn't produce sound anymore...:/

If I could save some money, I'm gonna trade my AA1 110 to an AA1 150...:)

thomasd · 2009-01-02 08:13:49

The overclocking feature was only present in preproduction models of the MSI Wind. In the production models you can only underclock with the button to save some battery, IIRC. But this is done by cpufreq in a more convenient way.

gothicknight · 2009-01-02 08:32:31

And I think overclocking something so small and with a even smaller cooler wouldn't be such a good idea.

I'll try to test the right SD slot today, I've left my camera in the car, when I can get off some work put aside I'll test it

kaola_linux · 2009-01-02 12:51:52

gothicknight: can you install arch on the left sd slot?
I tried it today but the system wont detect the left SDHC inserted...:)

I guess your right, no need to OC...Does anyone here using a conky on their AA1? Do you know how to show the temp of the cpu, mobo, and ssd?:)

I accidentally deleted my kernel26.preset (stock kernel), someone kind enough to show me? Or is there a way to restore it?

Thanks

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gothicknight · 2009-01-02 13:39:41

Sorry kaola_linux, I'm afraid I don't have the time for it

Now, the right SD won't hotplug (as usual...) but starting the AA1 with it inside the SD slot will, I know someone already post that pci hotplug module was needed does someone knows more about this?

AFAIK, there are no sensors available ATM, Kernel's coretemp module still doesn't have support for Atom

kaola_linux · 2009-01-02 14:34:46

It's alright gothicknight...:) Did you had some updates on your latest kernel build? If so, what are the changes?

gothicknight: Would it be possible for the arch installer to detect the what's inside the left slot?

Frankly speaking my dad's eeepc 701 with 4gb ssd performs faster than my AA1...It evens runs xp well!!!;) Too bad our AA1 has a very poor SSD and modding it is not an easy task...:P

gothicknight · 2009-01-02 14:57:19

Nothing *big*, only noticeable should be ext4 support, and the removal of madwifi drivers.

What do you mean by "detect"?

Well, the SSD isn't by far the greatest piece of HW in the AA1, you can always buy a **really** fast SDHC card and use it for /home, that would give you a boost

AndyRTR · 2009-01-02 17:22:12

gothicknight: please remove all the debugging options and readd nfs capability.

m_kylli · 2009-01-02 20:30:32

Unable to mount /home partition with ext4-fs. Got message:

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda3,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

dmesg says:

EXT4-fs: sda3: Filesystem with huge files cannot be mounted read-write without CONFIG_LSF

/home mounts without any problems on stock kernel 2.6.28 from Testing.

Edit: This concerns kernel26-one 2.6.28-1 from AUR.

Edit 2: mke2fs.conf seems to give ext4 huge_file support by default (Edit 3: Possibly because ext4 has a max file size of 16TB).

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kaola_linux · 2009-01-03 07:28:43

gothicknight wrote:

Nothing *big*, only noticeable should be ext4 support, and the removal of madwifi drivers.
What do you mean by "detect"?
Well, the SSD isn't by far the greatest piece of HW in the AA1, you can always buy a **really** fast SDHC card and use it for /home, that would give you a boost

Is making an sdhc on the left slot as your /home stop the pauses on heavy writes? For example doing

pacman -Syu

? Updating really makes my AA1 struggle or unusable...:(

Zom · 2009-01-03 10:22:28

kaola_linux wrote:

Is making an sdhc on the left slot as your /home stop the pauses on heavy writes? For example doing
pacman -Syu
? Updating really makes my AA1 struggle or unusable...:(

Nope, since it writes much of it's files to /var and /usr. I dunno, but I only notice it when I upgrade or install rather large packages. Just syncing and upgrading something like rxvt-unicode won't make me notice at all.

Which elevator are you using?

kaola_linux · 2009-01-03 10:35:04

Nope, since it writes much of it's files to /var and /usr. I dunno, but I only notice it when I upgrade or install rather large packages.

That's why I'm trying to install the /var or / itself on an SDHC for I have one now...But I don't know how, the device is not detected during installation ...:(

Which elevator are you using?

I'm using the

elevator=deadline

.

bulat · 2009-01-03 11:13:37

Can you add TuxOnIce patch to your kernel? Or it already has any normal support for suspend-to-disk?

revasser · 2009-01-03 12:04:33

Having some major issues with this new kernel, unfortunately.

It will not recognise the left SD-slot (with my home partition on it) regardless of whether I use the UUID or /dev/mmc... in my fstab. On top of this, it hangs at the "Loading PCIe Hotplug Driver" stage and will not allow me access to login via any virtual terminal.

Which leaves me with an unusable machine, since I can't login as root from GDM for some reason (probably a configuration oversight on my part) and trying to login as my user results in X collapsing because of the missing home directory (again, probably some problem on my part).

What's stranger is that since installing this new kernel, even the stock kernel I have installed concurrently as a failsafe is now also presenting the same symptoms, so even that is no use. I have no idea what could have caused that, since as far as I know, they should be completely independent of each other.

Looks like a format and reinstall of OS now, unfortunately.

Any ideas on what I could do here?

Zom · 2009-01-03 15:35:28

revasser wrote:

Having some major issues with this new kernel, unfortunately.
It will not recognise the left SD-slot (with my home partition on it) regardless of whether I use the UUID or /dev/mmc... in my fstab. On top of this, it hangs at the "Loading PCIe Hotplug Driver" stage and will not allow me access to login via any virtual terminal.
Which leaves me with an unusable machine, since I can't login as root from GDM for some reason (probably a configuration oversight on my part) and trying to login as my user results in X collapsing because of the missing home directory (again, probably some problem on my part).
What's stranger is that since installing this new kernel, even the stock kernel I have installed concurrently as a failsafe is now also presenting the same symptoms, so even that is no use. I have no idea what could have caused that, since as far as I know, they should be completely independent of each other.
Looks like a format and reinstall of OS now, unfortunately.
Any ideas on what I could do here?

Add "single" to the kernel line in grub from the grub startup screen. Just press 'e' on the desired item, 'e' again on the kernel line and then just add it at the end. Without "" of course .

This should start arch with a bare minimal config and a loginprompt for root.

bnolsen · 2009-01-03 16:05:15

I got a 16GB card replacement since the first was giving me sector errors.
Plugged it in last night, formatted ext2 and moved /home to the card.
Everything was working fine until I went into and out of hibernate.
At that point new directories I created on the card gave "NFS stale file handle" errors.
When I rebooted the machine the partition table & the file system on the SDHC were missing and not recoverable.

I'm running stock arch linux kernel, no testing or anything. I looked through the wiki and didn't see anything about this type behavior. Anyone seen this problem?

revasser · 2009-01-03 16:38:54

Zom wrote:

Add "single" to the kernel line in grub from the grub startup screen. Just press 'e' on the desired item, 'e' again on the kernel line and then just add it at the end. Without "" of course .
This should start arch with a bare minimal config and a loginprompt for root.

I never knew about this! Thanks for the tip, that has allowed me to begin affecting repairs.

As it turns out, my entire ext2 filesystem on my SD card corrupted. Ugh, looks like I'm starting from scratch there. Think I'll go journalled this time.

alex_anthony · 2009-01-03 20:16:17

There was something on the wiki page about SD cards getting corrupted with ext2. I have XFS

Zom · 2009-01-03 20:33:14

revasser wrote:

I never knew about this! Thanks for the tip, that has allowed me to begin affecting repairs.
As it turns out, my entire ext2 filesystem on my SD card corrupted. Ugh, looks like I'm starting from scratch there. Think I'll go journalled this time.

Can't say I recommend a journaled filesystem on a flash-based device. You should try to conserve the writes somewhat.

bnolsen wrote:

I'm running stock arch linux kernel, no testing or anything. I looked through the wiki and didn't see anything about this type behavior. Anyone seen this problem?

The Wiki wrote:

CAUTION: Has been reported that the stock kernel is causing partition table corruption on the SD card when you resume from a suspend. Corrupted /home. Someone on the forum suggested that you need a kernel with CONFIG_MMC_UNSAFE_RESUME set to prevent this from happening. This solution did not work for some people, while using XFS instead of ext2 for /home worked just fine.

Perhaps you missed this part.

schuay · 2009-01-03 20:57:54

bnolsen wrote:

I got a 16GB card replacement since the first was giving me sector errors.
Plugged it in last night, formatted ext2 and moved /home to the card.
Everything was working fine until I went into and out of hibernate.[...]

Happened to me once. Didn't do any research on how to fix the cause - others have already posted some suggestions.
But.. after it happened, I used fdisk to redo the partition table as it was before, and I was able to mount it again with all files intact. Just in case you need to recover something from the card..

phabulosa · 2009-01-04 02:16:10

Hi!
I just submitted an AUR called kernel26-oneice
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22864
This AUR is specifically for an AAO model A150 (hard disk version).

It is a modification of kernel26-one with TuxOnIce and fbcondecor/fbsplash support.

I also added uvesa/915resolution/v86d stuff into initcpio, so if you just install this package, everthing should be working out of the box.

Hibernation (suspend2disk) with fbsplash has been tested today!

Further test on dm-crypt (built into the kernel) and ALSA is required.

Any comments are welcomed since this is my first serious AUR.

phabulosa · 2009-01-04 02:35:32

sample GRUB config for kernel26-oneice:

 
# (0) Kernel26-ONEICE
title  Kernel__ACER Aspire One with TuxOnIce
root   (hd0,4)
kernel /vmlinuz-kernel26-oneice root=/dev/sda7 ro resume=swap:/dev/sda3 video=uvesafb:ywrap,mtrr:3,1024x600-32@60  quiet elevator=deadline usbcore.autosuspend=1 splash=silent,theme:darch console=tty1
initrd /kernel26-oneice-working.img

kaola_linux · 2009-01-04 06:15:10

I'm having problems on my AA1 110 using kernel26-one after suspend...Sound doesn't work after suspend...Someone having similar problem as well?:(

bulat · 2009-01-04 10:31:26

I have a problem with arrow keys in X. They don't work anymore. How can I fix it?

Zom · 2009-01-04 11:24:36

kaola_linux wrote:

I'm having problems on my AA1 110 using kernel26-one after suspend...Sound doesn't work after suspend...Someone having similar problem as well?:(

Are you perhaps still using the 'snd-hda-intel.model=acer' in grub? If so, either remove it or change acer to acer-aspire.

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