Arch on Eee PC

jochen · 2008-02-01 15:36:28

For suspend I replaced the file /etc/acpi/suspend2ram.sh provided by acpid_eee with the following lines:

#!/bin/bash
BRN=`cat /proc/acpi/asus/brn` 
/usr/sbin/s2ram -f --vbe_post --vbe_mode
sleep 1
echo -n "$BRN">/proc/acpi/asus/brn

Wifi connectivity is there immediate after resume.

You need to install uswsusp (from aur) for this to work.

dkite · 2008-02-01 16:04:33

faelar wrote:

Hum, I'm currently testing dual screen. On my monitor, it says "out of range" on LCD only mode, but I can clone the screen, it appears stretched but it works.
And no solution for the /etc/resolv.conf, but I'm not the only one who have problems with it.
What network manager are you using ? Maybe I should try a previous version of wicd, I'm on 1.4.1-4

There is an issue with dhclient not working with some routers. Mine does fine with a cheap Belkin, but doesnt' work with my Linksys.

There is a suggestion to put opendns server addresses in /etc/resolv.conf and change the attributes so it can't be changed. I'm going to test it today.

Another idea, haven't tried yet, is to rename dhclient, and create a link to dhcpcd so wicd uses it instead.

All too hackish for me. Maybe time to try netcfg2 and help get that working. I really dislike netmanager.

Derek

saten · 2008-02-02 18:31:00

faelar wrote:

Hum, I'm currently testing dual screen. On my monitor, it says "out of range" on LCD only mode, but I can clone the screen, it appears stretched but it works.
And no solution for the /etc/resolv.conf, but I'm not the only one who have problems with it.
What network manager are you using ? Maybe I should try a previous version of wicd, I'm on 1.4.1-4

try using the intel driver in xorg and use these settings :

Driver "intel"# "i810"
Option "LinearAlloc" "6144" #mplayer option
VendorName "Intel Corporation"
BoardName "Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"

SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "800x480"
Virtual 1440 900

faelar · 2008-02-03 15:18:37

It makes my screen "bigger" on the EEE, it moves when I put the cursor at the edges of the screen.

shrd · 2008-02-03 17:44:42

i have problem of brightness with intel driver in place of i810 driver.
i am interesting by the screen moving with cursor on edges of the screen. what option do that ? virtual ? it does nothing with fluxbox

faelar · 2008-02-03 17:51:22

Only this three lines differ from my xorg.conf (I don't use mplayer so I skipped the LinearAlloc)

Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
Modes "800x480"
Virtual 1440 900

IdoMcFly · 2008-02-03 18:46:06

Hi,

I've read everything here and the wiki page, but can't figure out if absolutely everything is working whithout a flaw?
suspend, resume with wifi, all the Fn keys, suspend on closing the screen, battery status etc... I plan to install Arch with xmonad on the SSD instead of Xandros.

Thank you for any information! (maybe is it a good idea to put the what's working, what's not working yet on the wiki page?)

Last edited by IdoMcFly (2008-02-03 18:50:56)

shrd · 2008-02-04 01:22:09

I can now scroll the screen up and down, it is very nice on the eee the vertical scroling, thx ( i set Virtual 800 800) => finish the problem of window too big and out of screen at launch
is there an option to display osd in the center of the screen in place of top left? or in the virtual area

else i have added in suspend2ram.sh for my sd card (else error occurs after suspend) :

umount -l /mnt/sd #(/mnt/sd is my sd card directory)
BRN=`cat /proc/acpi/asus/brn`
/usr/sbin/s2ram -f --vbe_post --vbe_mode
sleep 1
echo -n "$BRN">/proc/acpi/asus/brn
sleep 4 #(need 4 s)
mount /mnt/sd

Last edited by shrd (2008-02-04 01:49:35)

shrd · 2008-02-04 01:40:55

IdoMcFly wrote:

Hi,
I've read everything here and the wiki page, but can't figure out if absolutely everything is working whithout a flaw?
suspend, resume with wifi, all the Fn keys, suspend on closing the screen, battery status etc... I plan to install Arch with xmonad on the SSD instead of Xandros.
Thank you for any information! (maybe is it a good idea to put the what's working, what's not working yet on the wiki page?)

99% works now
the last problems for me :
- make a gui of 'cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state'
- sometimes wifi do not resume with fn key stop / start : wlan.sh must to be improved
- "loadind udev uevents" took too long time at boot with stock kernel (eee kernel in AUR is faster but i have some other problems with it)

wicd has problem with suspend / resume : dhclient is called very late after resume => solved with the last suspend2ram.sh with s2ram (no need of wlan.sh call include in original suspend2ram.sh)

Last edited by shrd (2008-02-04 01:45:02)

IdoMcFly · 2008-02-04 12:06:03

thank you for the info

What are the problems encountered with the kernel26eee ? (boot time is critical to me)

kant1 · 2008-02-04 17:38:22

A quick thought on acpid_eee. Wonderful! Thank you so much dkite!

However I noticed that the PKGBUILD installs everything to /usr/local, which I think is not really Arch-like. I went through my PKGBUILD and changed it to just use the /usr hierarchy for consistency's sake (and a couple sed commands).

Perhaps this would be a worthwhile change??

Last edited by kant1 (2008-02-04 19:39:38)

dkite · 2008-02-05 02:39:41

kant1 wrote:

A quick thought on acpid_eee. Wonderful! Thank you so much dkite!
However I noticed that the PKGBUILD installs everything to /usr/local, which I think is not really Arch-like. I went through my PKGBUILD and changed it to just use the /usr hierarchy for consistency's sake (and a couple sed commands).
Perhaps this would be a worthwhile change??

The asusosd code has hard coded paths into /usr/local. The .png images are stored there. My intention is to fix that, but haven't had time. Patches are welcome

Derek

dkite · 2008-02-05 02:41:37

shrd wrote:

99% works now
the last problems for me :
- make a gui of 'cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state'
- sometimes wifi do not resume with fn key stop / start : wlan.sh must to be improved
- "loadind udev uevents" took too long time at boot with stock kernel (eee kernel in AUR is faster but i have some other problems with it)
wicd has problem with suspend / resume : dhclient is called very late after resume => solved with the last suspend2ram.sh with s2ram (no need of wlan.sh call include in original suspend2ram.sh)

When you say wifi doesn't resume, do you mean that ath0 isn't created? All that wlan.sh does is remove the modules, turn the radio off/ turn radio on, load the modules.

Derek

kant1 · 2008-02-05 05:05:55

dkite wrote:

kant1 wrote:
A quick thought on acpid_eee. Wonderful! Thank you so much dkite!
However I noticed that the PKGBUILD installs everything to /usr/local, which I think is not really Arch-like. I went through my PKGBUILD and changed it to just use the /usr hierarchy for consistency's sake (and a couple sed commands).
Perhaps this would be a worthwhile change??
The asusosd code has hard coded paths into /usr/local. The .png images are stored there. My intention is to fix that, but haven't had time. Patches are welcome
Derek

With pleasure...

diff -Naur acpid_eee/Asusosd.desktop acpid_eee2/Asusosd.desktop
--- acpid_eee/Asusosd.desktop    2008-01-09 13:17:56.000000000 -0800
+++ acpid_eee2/Asusosd.desktop    2008-02-04 21:03:18.000000000 -0800
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 Comment=
 Comment[en_US]=
 Encoding=UTF-8
-Exec=/usr/local/bin/asusosd
+Exec=/usr/bin/asusosd
 GenericName=
 GenericName[en_US]=
 Icon=exec
diff -Naur acpid_eee/PKGBUILD acpid_eee2/PKGBUILD
--- acpid_eee/PKGBUILD    2008-01-09 13:32:16.000000000 -0800
+++ acpid_eee2/PKGBUILD    2008-02-04 21:03:18.000000000 -0800
@@ -27,8 +27,12 @@
     unrar e -y ASUS_ACPI_071126.rar
     tar -xzf asus_osd.tar.gz
     cd asus_osd
+
+    # Switch to /usr instead of /usr/local 2008.02.04 MWJ
+    sed -i 's|/usr/local|/usr|g' *
+
     make
-    /bin/install -D -m0755 asusosd $startdir/pkg/usr/local/bin/asusosd
+    /bin/install -D -m0755 asusosd $startdir/pkg/usr/bin/asusosd
     cd ${startdir}/src
     deb2targz asus-acpi_1.38-1xandros5_i386.deb
     tar -xzf asus-acpi_1.38-1xandros5_i386.tar.gz
@@ -38,8 +42,8 @@
     /bin/install -D -m0755 ../hotkey.sh $startdir/pkg/etc/acpi/hotkey.sh
     /bin/install -D -m0755 ../suspend2ram.sh $startdir/pkg/etc/acpi/suspend2ram.sh
     /bin/install -D -m0644 ../Asusosd.desktop $startdir/pkg/etc/xdg/autostart/Asusosd.desktop
-    cp usr/local/bin/*.sh ${startdir}/pkg/usr/local/bin
-    mkdir ${startdir}/pkg/usr/local/share
-    cp -r usr/local/share/* ${startdir}/pkg/usr/local/share
+    cp usr/local/bin/*.sh ${startdir}/pkg/usr/bin
+    mkdir ${startdir}/pkg/usr/share
+    cp -r usr/local/share/* ${startdir}/pkg/usr/share
 
 }
diff -Naur acpid_eee/suspend2ram.sh acpid_eee2/suspend2ram.sh
--- acpid_eee/suspend2ram.sh    2008-01-11 20:22:34.000000000 -0800
+++ acpid_eee2/suspend2ram.sh    2008-02-04 21:03:18.000000000 -0800
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
 
     # save system clock, if needed
     # reset numlock - system wakes with numlock off
-    su user -c "DISPLAY=:0.0 /usr/local/bin/numlockx off"
+    su user -c "DISPLAY=:0.0 /usr/bin/numlockx off"
 
     # flush the buffers to disk
     sync

dkite · 2008-02-05 16:01:40

Thanks for the patch. The asusosd code also has hard coded paths to /usr/local/share. The code is in asus_osd.tar.gz which is in the rar file from asus.

Derek

shrd · 2008-02-05 18:10:38

dkite wrote:

When you say wifi doesn't resume, do you mean that ath0 isn't created? All that wlan.sh does is remove the modules, turn the radio off/ turn radio on, load the modules.
Derek

Yes ath0 is sometimes not created

kant1 · 2008-02-05 18:21:21

dkite, the patch i posted above does a 'sed -i' on all the files extracted from asus_osd. so it fixes all the /usr/local/share links too. all the graphics work great and asusosd works beautifully.

IdoMcFly · 2008-02-05 21:42:58

is the boot time slower than he xandros provided with the eeePC?

dkite · 2008-02-06 01:17:29

shrd wrote:

dkite wrote:
When you say wifi doesn't resume, do you mean that ath0 isn't created? All that wlan.sh does is remove the modules, turn the radio off/ turn radio on, load the modules.
Derek
Yes ath0 is sometimes not created

Is there any error in dmesg? I found that playing with the timing in wlan.sh made a difference, ie. giving time for the hardware to settle.

I've got the 701, do you have a different model?

Derek

elbecko · 2008-02-06 20:29:42

IdoMcFly wrote:

is the boot time slower than he xandros provided with the eeePC?

My EeePC (w/2G RAM) takes 40 secs to boot, timed from pushing power button to desktop showing up with all stuff loaded including compiz. Booting from SSD with kernel26eee, kdemod installed instead of kde, auto-login enabled, KDEWM=compiz-fusion, blah blah blah...

Arch stock kernel, kernel26, took more than two times longer if I remember right.

stylopath · 2008-02-06 21:10:57

You run compiz on the eee? I always thought the eee would be much to slow for that!

DanielW · 2008-02-06 21:40:23

Am I the only one with weird problems with kernel26eee?

I get dmesg output like this:

http://archlinux.pastebin.com/m57e09ccb

The problem are the ath modules. If i blacklist them, everything works fine. Also suspend2ram.

With the ath modules für wifi loaded suspend hangs at "rmmod ath-pci" and a get the buggy output at boot.

DanielW

dkite · 2008-02-06 23:59:27

DanielW wrote:

Am I the only one with weird problems with kernel26eee?
I get dmesg output like this:
http://archlinux.pastebin.com/m57e09ccb
The problem are the ath modules. If i blacklist them, everything works fine. Also suspend2ram.
With the ath modules für wifi loaded suspend hangs at "rmmod ath-pci" and a get the buggy output at boot.
DanielW

I get the messages when booting with kernel26eee, but wifi works fine.

Derek

kant1 · 2008-02-07 00:59:22

Anyone have external monitor working well?

I am using kernel26, eeemodules, acpid_eee. I went back to the intel driver since i810 didn't look promising. It's true there is a little brightness problem with intel (it seems to forget your last brightness setting), but other than that it is working fine.

I tried following some instructions on the eee forums with xrandr. I can get it to work (for instance xrandr --output VGA --auto), but xrandr restarts X every time, so it's not seamless. So, with an x restart each time I switch modes, it works. I can't get both of them to show up at the same time correctly (the laptop goes to the same size as the monitor and the screen scrolls).

So, if this is the best it gets, I'll just move on and post my configs to whomever is interested. But if someone has gotten this working better, I'm all ears...

saten · 2008-02-07 10:51:57

kant1 wrote:

Anyone have external monitor working well?
I am using kernel26, eeemodules, acpid_eee. I went back to the intel driver since i810 didn't look promising. It's true there is a little brightness problem with intel (it seems to forget your last brightness setting), but other than that it is working fine.
I tried following some instructions on the eee forums with xrandr. I can get it to work (for instance xrandr --output VGA --auto), but xrandr restarts X every time, so it's not seamless. So, with an x restart each time I switch modes, it works. I can't get both of them to show up at the same time correctly (the laptop goes to the same size as the monitor and the screen scrolls).
So, if this is the best it gets, I'll just move on and post my configs to whomever is interested. But if someone has gotten this working better, I'm all ears...

hi, i think my way is better.

use the intel driver and the external res is 1440x900:

xorg.conf says:

section device

Driver "intel"# "i810"
Option "LinearAlloc" "6144" #mplayer option
VendorName "Intel Corporation"
BoardName "Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
Option "AccelMethod" "exa"

section screen

SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "800x480"
# Virtual 1440 900
Virtual 1440 1380
EndSubSection

in this fashion, when x starts i can use:

xrandr --output LVDS --below VGA --mode 800x480

so i have the internal display as an extension of the external one, positioned below. with xfce4 you can configure multiple backgrounds for each display, at the time i've experienced some strange problems when using xfce built in composite extension, but i don't really need that.
you can otherwise choose to turn the interal display off using:

xrandr --output LVDS --off

note that the virtual res in xorg.conf is the maximum width of both screens (depending on the fact of placing them one above/below of the other rather than right/left) and the maximum height.
in my configuration i have them summed in height, so 1380 is 900+480

note that there are some restrictions to the maximum virtual res

saten

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