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CeccoPierangioliEugenio

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Registered: 2008-09-10

Posts: 5

Re: Acer Aspire One

I recently encountered networking issues, which I posted over here http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=55523.
Has one of you encountered something similar?

Yes,
Sometimes in the init procedure of "r8169" module the ethernet controller will be disabled(shut off, unplugged, divorced from the pci bus, BOH!!! I don't know).
In this situation if you launch: "lspci -x"
you can have this output:

02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)
00: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
10: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
20: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
30: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff

(If you launch "lspci -H -M1" you dont see any ethernet controller)

Try this:
1) Don't load r8169 module during the booting process.
2) Type "lspci -x" and see if the ethernet controller is alive
3) "sudo modprobe r8169"
And see if you have the same behaviour.
Usually it happen if you compile r8169 inside the kernel.

Last edited by CeccoPierangioliEugenio (2008-09-22 12:53:19)

thomasd

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Registered: 2008-08-11

Posts: 114

Re: Acer Aspire One

Could you also concider applying [linux-PHC][https://www.dedigentoo.org/trac/linux-p … stVoltages] patch to allow undervolting to lower the cpu temperature

As I see it the temperature problem in the Atom platform is from the chipset (~20W), not the CPU (~2W), so lowering the voltage will probably not help much.

qylvaran

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Registered: 2006-07-27

Posts: 46

Re: Acer Aspire One

So I'm losing sound after a suspend.  Is there something wrong with my kernel line in grub?  I put it in this post for other reasons earlier, so I'll just quote myself here:

Here's my /boot/grub/menu.lst:

timeout 1
default 0
color light-blue/black light-cyan/blue

title Arch One
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-one root=/dev/sda1 ro snd-hda-intel.model=acer

Also, the 27 kernel failed to resume after suspend on more than one occasion, so I went back to 26.  Never ran into the wireless issues others are reporting (once I fixed my modules, at least), though.  The resume failure happened with both 'echo "mem"...' and pm-suspend.  Thanks for all the work on the streamlined kernels.

thomasd

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Registered: 2008-08-11

Posts: 114

Re: Acer Aspire One

I tried suspend only twice with the 27-rc6 kernel and saw none of your problems with the same kernel line. However, I use suspend very rarely, since boot-up time is so fast.

However, I have another problem with sound: With model=auto there were two channels "Front" and "Headphones" which could be muted separately to enable either the internal speakers or the headphone output. With model=acer this is not possible, as there are no separate channels. Does anyone have a workaround for muting only the internal speaker?

BTW: 2.6.27-rc7 is out at kernel.org.

Last edited by thomasd (2008-09-22 09:05:07)

jazz.arch

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From: Austria

Registered: 2008-09-20

Posts: 29

Re: Acer Aspire One

I recently encountered networking issues, which I posted over here http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=55523.
Has one of you encountered something similar?

Yes,
Sometimes in the init procedure of "ath_pci" module the ethernet controller will be disabled(shut off, unplugged, divorced from the pci bus, BOH!!! I don't know).
In this situation if you launch: "lspci -x"
you can have this output:

02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)
00: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
10: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
20: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
30: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff

(If you launch "lspci -H -M1" you dont see any ethernet controller)

Try this:
1) Don't load ath_pci module during the booting process.
2) Type "lspci -x" and see if the ethernet controller is alive
3) "sudo modprobe ath_pci"
And see if you have the same behaviour.
Usually it happen if you compile ath_pci inside the kernel.

Thank you for your answer. I'll try that as soon as I'm home!

I would like to mention that I have the Acer Aspire One 150L and experience the same behavior as mentioned by smallfry:

I tried the wiki example @ http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Acer_Aspire_One

MODULES=(!ath5k !memstick r8169 ath_pci acpi_cpufreq)

but I'm getting missing module errors when I boot up

r8169
ath_pci
acpi_cpufreq

another thing I noticed is sometimes I can grab and IP when the network is loading and sometimes it fails and gives me a 169.254.x.x ip

So I get the message that ath_pci is missing. Furthermore, I too sometimes get 169. ips but sometimes get valid ones.

Have you solved your problems yet, smallfry?

Thanks in advance!

gothicknight

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From: Portugal

Registered: 2006-04-08

Posts: 219

Re: Acer Aspire One

I think we should made clear the differences of kernels in the wiki, from the stock arch kernel and the specific ones from both me, carlocci and Andy so that people doesn't confuse them when reading the wiki and then the forum.

jazz.arch, If you're using my kernel is normal not to have those modules as they are compiled in-kernel not on a separated binary that need to be loaded.

CeccoPierangioliEugenio

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Registered: 2008-09-10

Posts: 5

Re: Acer Aspire One

So I get the message that ath_pci is missing. Furthermore, I too sometimes get 169. ips but sometimes get valid ones.

Have you solved your problems yet, smallfry?

OOOPSSS!!!
Sorry...
In My previous post I have written "ath_pci"(Atheros Wlan Driver) instead of "r8169"(Realtek ETH driver)...

Here is my rc.conf

MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"
MODULES=()

eth0="dhcp"
INTERFACES=(eth0)

Probably I've resolved this problem with kernel 2.6.26.5.
I don't know.
This strange (eth) behaviour never happen with this kernel release.

* ath_pci is a MadWifi Driver "http://snapshots.madwifi.org/madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6/"

If the dhcpcd daemon fail (network unreachable, cable unplugged) a default ip address is set, usually 169.254.x.x (You can find it inside /etc/avahi/*).

I suggest to use the latest gothicknight kernel or PKGBUILD.
(P.E. I've modified the .config for my purposes)

Last edited by CeccoPierangioliEugenio (2008-09-23 10:09:29)

jazz.arch

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From: Austria

Registered: 2008-09-20

Posts: 29

Re: Acer Aspire One

Thank you both for your help!

I think we should made clear the differences of kernels in the wiki, from the stock arch kernel and the specific ones from both me, carlocci and Andy so that people doesn't confuse them when reading the wiki and then the forum.

jazz.arch, If you're using my kernel is normal not to have those modules as they are compiled in-kernel not on a separated binary that need to be loaded.

As of right now, I am not using your kernel, because I am very new to Arch and have to learn how to compile your kernel in Arch first.
I will be very happy to provide feedback as soon as I have installed your kernel.

Probably I've resolved this problem with kernel 2.6.26.5.
I don't know.
This strange (eth) behaviour never happen with this kernel release.

* ath_pci is a MadWifi Driver "http://snapshots.madwifi.org/madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6/"

If the dhcpcd daemon fail (network unreachable, cable unplugged) a default ip address is set, usually 169.254.x.x (You can find it inside /etc/avahi/*).

I suggest to use the latest gothicknight kernel or PKGBUILD.
(P.E. I've modified the .config for my purposes)

Thank you, your suggestion in not loading the r8169 driver on boot and then manually adding it with modprobe worked.
I will try to install gothicknight's kernel as soon as possible.

Aperculum

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From: Finland

Registered: 2007-01-24

Posts: 16

Re: Acer Aspire One

As of right now, I am not using your kernel, because I am very new to Arch and have to learn how to compile your kernel in Arch first.

You don't actually have to compile gothicknight's kernels, you just download them and  install with

pacman -U <packagename>

Just remember that gothicknight's kernel is named vmlinuz-one so remember to update your grub's menu.lst

smallfry

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Registered: 2008-09-19

Posts: 6

Re: Acer Aspire One

after I got wireless working I have no need for the nic

Everything "seems" to be working, I still haven't checked the audio out other than watching some youtube videos and getting sound which was good

boot up time is impressive vs. ubuntu

arch rawkz

how_gauche

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Registered: 2008-09-05

Posts: 7

Re: Acer Aspire One

AUAGHAGAHGAHGAHAGHAGAHGAAHAAAA

Everything was working fine with this thing until today, when it started saying "mmc0: error -110 whilst initialising SD card". The /home partition was mounted there, so now the computer doesn't work. I've tried the "setpci" stuff, to no avail --- does anyone have any clue about this, before I chuck this bloody thing out the window?

jazz.arch

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From: Austria

Registered: 2008-09-20

Posts: 29

Re: Acer Aspire One

You don't actually have to compile gothicknight's kernels, you just download them and  install with

pacman -U <packagename>

Just remember that gothicknight's kernel is named vmlinuz-one so remember to update your grub's menu.lst

Thank you! I will keep that in mind. It's impressive how easy this seems to be.

antis

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From: sweden

Registered: 2007-05-18

Posts: 108

Re: Acer Aspire One

I've been reading this thread occasionally and it seems that trying the customized kernel of gothicknight would be a good idea. However, being a "modified-kernel-newbie" I'm not sure what steps to take to get things going.

As the info in this thread is getting quite alot to grasp, may I suggest a paragraph in the wiki (just like gothicknight suggested) that lists the steps to take to install the kernel and what settings to change compared to the stock kernel.

edit: can't wait to try it..

Last edited by antis (2008-09-23 17:18:23)

jazz.arch

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From: Austria

Registered: 2008-09-20

Posts: 29

Re: Acer Aspire One

I've been reading this thread occasionally and it seems that trying the customized kernel of gothicknight would be a good idea.

Yes! It works perfectly. Keep up the good work, gothicknight!

As the info in this thread is getting quite alot to grasp, may I suggest a paragraph in the wiki (just like gothicknight suggested) that lists the steps to take to install the kernel and what settings to change compared to the stock kernel.

I agree. This thread provides a lot of information - but somewhat distributed. A structured paragraph of it in the wikipedia would help a lot!

AndyRTR

Developer

From: Magdeburg/Germany

Registered: 2005-10-07

Posts: 1,641

Re: Acer Aspire One

FYI: Running always my custom 2.6.26 kernel I had my sdhc card beeing unreadable once after a clean shutdown. The superblock was destroyed and the filesystem was unreceverable. So I lost /home   Recreated it and very soon had a hardfreeze. This time fsck.ext2 showed bad blocks but was able to recover the filesystem. The card is a 4gb Kingston one. I remember seeing sometimes weird entries in the syslogs (in tmpfs :S ).

Do you think this will be solved with a .27 kernel or is it just a bad card? Maybe I'll switch to an older slower 1gb sd card I still have around.

What experiences have you with fs crashes on the sd card?

gothicknight

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From: Portugal

Registered: 2006-04-08

Posts: 219

Re: Acer Aspire One

Most likely a bad card. I've gotten the same symptoms from a cheap 4G SDHC card.

gothicknight

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From: Portugal

Registered: 2006-04-08

Posts: 219

Re: Acer Aspire One

I agree. This thread provides a lot of information - but somewhat distributed. A structured paragraph of it in the wikipedia would help a lot!

I've already started on this on the wiki, but I'm eager to put direct links to my kernel as I think the users should read the squirks and known issues of this build as encourage them to change, improve, compile and discuss the building of a good Kconfig for this hardware

schuay

Package Maintainer (PM)

From: Austria

Registered: 2008-08-19

Posts: 564

Re: Acer Aspire One

Using the stock kernel, I've also had weird issues with the r8169 module for eth0. Like jazz.arch, eth0 would get tons of dropped packets with 0 getting through. Using the r8101 module compiled from the realtek site (http://www.realtek.com/downloads/downlo … TL8102E-GR) solves all eth0 problems but introduces some more strange behaviour.. If r8101 isn't unloaded during suspend/resume, I get a complete lock (blinking caps lock, no response at all), and I've also experienced this lock once without suspending.

However I still prefer this way to using a r8169 which only loads correctly 50% of the time. And somehow using the official RTL8101E driver seems more appropriate for a 8101E card

Last edited by schuay (2008-09-25 21:14:08)

Shagbag

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Registered: 2006-10-25

Posts: 259

Re: Acer Aspire One

normal, I've PMed you with some advice as I think your query may be off topic (?)

schuay, I've switched to the r8101 driver as I was having problems with r8169 (sometimes it would work, other times it wouldn't - for no apparent reason).  I don't have those problems now.  I'm still running the stock kernel as I run Arch from USB pendrive and the kernel21-one doesn't support booting from USB devices (and I haven't gotten round to recompiling it myself yet).

Last edited by Shagbag (2008-09-25 21:08:29)

Julm

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Registered: 2008-09-27

Posts: 5

Re: Acer Aspire One

Hi, I just installed Archlinux using gothicknight's 2.6.27 kernel, but I can't seem to get the speakers working.

my menu.lst is

# (0) One Arch Linux
title One Arch LInux
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-one root=/dev/sda3 ro snd-hda-intel.model=acer

I followed all the instructions on installing Alsa (unmuting master and PCM), and I'm able to get sound when I plug in headphones, but no luck on the speakers. help?

qylvaran

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Registered: 2006-07-27

Posts: 46

Re: Acer Aspire One

I'm able to get sound when I plug in headphones, but no luck on the speakers.

Are you running Gnome?  Back when I used Gnome, it would assume that I was using an external amplifier for my internal speakers (???), which produced symptoms just like yours, with sound working in the headphones but not the internal speakers.  There's a checkbox in gnome's mixer applet (double-click the speaker icon in the tray), hidden in some advanced menu or somesuch, called "external amplifier".  This needs to be UNchecked.

If it's not that, then I 'unno.

Last edited by qylvaran (2008-09-27 02:04:02)

Julm

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Registered: 2008-09-27

Posts: 5

Re: Acer Aspire One

I haven't gotten a wm installed yet. lol That was the next thing on my list; I think I'll use xfce though.

I don't have to enable any modules do I? and I AM supposed to install alsa-utils and alsa-lib correct?

Last edited by Julm (2008-09-27 06:47:03)

schuay

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From: Austria

Registered: 2008-08-19

Posts: 564

Re: Acer Aspire One

I followed all the instructions on installing Alsa (unmuting master and PCM), and I'm able to get sound when I plug in headphones, but no luck on the speakers. help?

check the output of

amixer

.. in particular check for a setting "front" being either muted or at 0 volume

you modify the settings using

alsamixer

Last edited by schuay (2008-09-27 07:36:04)

Julm

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Registered: 2008-09-27

Posts: 5

Re: Acer Aspire One

I'm pretty sure everything's set fine?

Simple mixer control 'Master',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 64
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 36 [56%] [-28.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 36 [56%] [-28.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
  Capabilities: pvolume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 255
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 190 [75%] [-13.00dB]
  Front Right: Playback 190 [75%] [-13.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'Line In Boost',0
  Capabilities: volume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: 0 - 2
  Front Left: 0 [0%]
  Front Right: 0 [0%]
Simple mixer control 'Mic Boost',0
  Capabilities: volume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: 0 - 2
  Front Left: 0 [0%]
  Front Right: 0 [0%]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
  Capabilities: cvolume cswitch
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 31
  Front Left: Capture 0 [0%] [-15.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Capture 0 [0%] [-15.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Beep',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 12
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-24.00dB] [off]
  Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-24.00dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Input Source',0
  Capabilities: cenum
  Items: 'Mic' 'Internal Mic' 'Line'
  Item0: 'Mic'
Simple mixer control 'Internal Mic Boost',0
  Capabilities: volume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: 0 - 2
  Front Left: 0 [0%]
  Front Right: 0 [0%]

Julm

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Registered: 2008-09-27

Posts: 5

Re: Acer Aspire One

HUH. how odd. It magically fixed itself . It didnt work when i aplay'ed a file but it's working now that I'm using quodlibet under xfce. SooooOOooooo yeah.