Arch on Eee PC

toofishes · 2008-04-25 12:01:08

punkeroso wrote:

toofishes wrote:
You probably used the trick on the wiki to ensure your system shuts down, and the rc.local.shutdown actions run before the alsa shutdown, so your soundcard is already gone as an accessible device by the time this shutdown script runs. But read on and the fix is documented there too.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ins … wn_problem
Yeah, I're right,
that solves the problem.
The last problem is that during boot, a daemons fails to start, but it shows too fast so I can't figured out which one is. There's a log somewhere that I can I read? I guess no. Can I redirect the boot output to a file?
Many Thanks

I always turn off the vc on tty1 just for this reason, so that the login prompt will not clear the bootup messages. Try commenting out the first agetty line in inittab for c1, even if only temporarily, and then you can switch back to this virtual terminal to see the end of the bootup process.

czar · 2008-04-25 15:47:22

[SOLVED]I have my disk LUKS encrypted. I forgot to generate a new initrd with the new kernel and coudlnt' boot my system. I reverted to the old kernel using a usb installer and got back up. Now i just re upgraded the kernel and am attempted to generate a new initrd however when it gets to the encrypt hook i get ERROR: module dm[-_]crypt not found. Is this because the new kernel is lacking this module or is it meaningless or what? I'm afraid to reboot and have to revert again.
Thanks to anyone who can give me some insight
[/SOLVED]

edit: can't spell
edit2: as it turns out... i was making the initrd against the old kernel instead of the new one

Last edited by czar (2008-04-25 17:10:53)

testube_babies · 2008-04-25 16:24:01

SD card solution (for me, at least):
For some reason, my SDHC card had 4MB of unallocated space at the start. Expanding the ext2 partition to encompass that unallocated space solved all of the udev problems.

toofishes · 2008-04-25 23:35:35

I just pushed an updated 2.6.25 with my accepted patch for the 40-wire cable, along with bumping all the drivers to their newest SVN revisions. Note that the madwifi package has changed names to reflect an upstream name change. Let me know if there are any problems. As usual, the changes can be seen in my git repository.

Kitty · 2008-04-26 06:50:07

all seems to be working, thanks

faelar · 2008-04-26 13:00:31

all seems to be working, thanks (yeah I'm feeling lazy today)

blixawillbargeld · 2008-04-26 15:53:07

here too...everything looks fine...thank u toofishes!

jensp · 2008-04-27 08:21:42

Works great here, too. But would you mind making uvesafb a module again? The problem is that for 800x480 resolution on the console you need to make that mode available with 915resolution before and than load the module with the correct options. I tried using fbset but it doesn't seem to work with uvesafb (yet?).

brncmp · 2008-04-27 12:36:37

So far everything works. However, I just tried to mount a hfsplus disk and it didn't work. Does the kernel include support for this file system (I never tried it before)?

Thanks
brncmp

jensp · 2008-04-27 12:48:56

# CONFIG_HFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_HFSPLUS_FS is not set

No it does not, just check out toofishes git repo and change the config.

toofishes · 2008-04-27 13:18:26

OK, looks like I can make these updates sometime and release a new verson. I haven't been following kernel stable releases too closely so I don't know if a 25.1 is going to come out soon, but I did discover one other important thing I haven't included in my kernel- alternative I/O schedulers. Apparently CFQ sucks for things like SSDs which don't have seek-time penalties, and I've been using the deadline scheduler locally for a day to see how that stacks up. Noop might even be a good choice. Either way, my next kernel will include uvesafb as a module (although there has to be a way to fix this the right way) and also support for HFS/HFSPLUS as a module. I didn't think anyone used these filesystems anymore.

Auguste · 2008-04-28 07:51:36

Has anybody else had trouble with a popping sound at the beginning and end of audio playback on the Eee? I followed the directions in the ALSA article in the wiki to no avail. Anybody have some advice?

kiddyfurby · 2008-04-28 14:08:31

a big hello to everyone~ i m looking intoarch the first time, and i m a long time ubuntu user
i've been trying to get arch run on my eee, but the wiki is a little confusing to me

1. i think atl2 driver is already included in stock kernel as of 2008.03? mine seems to work OOTB, so instructions for atl2 can be removed?
2. toofishes's repository seems to be the simplest solution and i like the kernel very much, it boots so fast! more completed description of what the kernel does would be welcomed: does it include asus_acpi? does the wifi-on-off works? is manually downloading the source to add extra feature possible?
3. better organization of the wiki page would help. currently things are organized by feature: for network we have build from source, dkite, etc... then for acpi we have ighea and dkite, but it doesn't say anything about which goes with what. say for example, if i use toofishes's kernel with dkite's asusacpi will it work?

I will be very happy to help improving the wiki, but would someone please explain these a bit?

zodmaner · 2008-04-28 14:44:12

kiddyfurby wrote:

a big hello to everyone~ i m looking intoarch the first time, and i m a long time ubuntu user

Welcome to Arch! Hope you enjoy your stay.

kiddyfurby wrote:

1. i think atl2 driver is already included in stock kernel as of 2008.03? mine seems to work OOTB, so instructions for atl2 can be removed?

I haven't try the new iso yet, but if you can confirm that it is working fine, then you could edit the wiki to reflect this change.

kiddyfurby wrote:

2. toofishes's repository seems to be the simplest solution and i like the kernel very much, it boots so fast! more completed description of what the kernel does would be welcomed: does it include asus_acpi? does the wifi-on-off works? is manually downloading the source to add extra feature possible?

toofishes's kernel already include asus_acpi, so no need to manually load it. As for wifi-on-off, I think you also need to install either dkite or ighea acpi package. I recommend ighea's package, as it is more up to date and contain a lot of cool features.

For manually downloading source to add extra feature (I assume you're referring to the kernel, right?), you can download the kernel PKGBUILD and all the necessary files from toofishes's git repository here. Edit kernelconfig file to enable/disable modules/features that you want.

kiddyfurby wrote:

3. better organization of the wiki page would help. currently things are organized by feature: for network we have build from source, dkite, etc... then for acpi we have ighea and dkite, but it doesn't say anything about which goes with what. say for example, if i use toofishes's kernel with dkite's asusacpi will it work?

Well... I agreed with you on this. As is always the case, we could always use extra hands So if you have time and are willing to contribute, then please don't hesitate to do so. Maybe start small by doing some minor edit on the article and work your way up from there.

kiddyfurby wrote:

I will be very happy to help improving the wiki, but would someone please explain these a bit?

If you still have any question, don't hesitate to ask. We're all here to help.

Last edited by zodmaner (2008-04-28 15:23:08)

kiddyfurby · 2008-04-28 16:07:14

wow, that's a quick reply!! thanks very much.

i m trying to build a kernel with jfs, without understanding of ABS, I simply checkouted the stuffs, manually edited the kernelconfig to have JFS = y
and update the md5sum at the end of PKGBUILD.. can't wait to see what happens!!

zodmaner · 2008-04-28 16:19:56

kiddyfurby wrote:

wow, that's a quick reply!! thanks very much.
i m trying to build a kernel with jfs, without understanding of ABS, I simply checkouted the stuffs, manually edited the kernelconfig to have JFS = y
and update the md5sum at the end of PKGBUILD.. can't wait to see what happens!!

Well, you should take a look at wiki article on abs then, just to be sure that you won't commit any error.

Anyway, just make sure that you're compiling it with makepkg command and install your newly compiled kernel using pacman (pacman -U) and you should be fine.

Oh, and good luck.

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kiddyfurby · 2008-04-28 17:38:41

now booting my jfs root, yay~!
i notice there's a unset CFLAG in the PKGINFO, does that mean no optimization for the eee cpu?
http://code.toofishes.net/gitweb.cgi?p= … cb;hb=HEAD

one thing that confuses me is that... asus_acpi is included in toofishes's kernel, but then i still need ighea's package?
i noticed toofishes's git have a folder "acpi-eee", which is not available as package, o i can simply check it out and makepkg, but there must be a reason toofishes is not doing that (yet)

jensp · 2008-04-28 17:42:16

asus_acpi is a kernel driver which is in toofishes kernel. Ighea's package is a set of scripts for acpid.

ighea · 2008-04-28 17:42:57

kiddyfurby wrote:

one thing that confuses me is that... asus_acpi is included in toofishes's kernel, but then i still need ighea's package?
i noticed toofishes's git have a folder "acpi-eee", which is not available as package, o i can simply check it out and makepkg, but there must be a reason toofishes is not doing that (yet)

asus_acpi is kernel driver module and acpi-eee is just scripts to handle acpi-events and the asusosd seen in Eee's preinstalled Xandros.

punkeroso · 2008-04-28 17:43:40

Auguste wrote:

Has anybody else had trouble with a popping sound at the beginning and end of audio playback on the Eee? I followed the directions in the ALSA article in the wiki to no avail. Anybody have some advice?

I have your own same issue, but I didn't found a solution.

faelar · 2008-04-28 18:23:41

Will JFS not be bad for the SSD ?
It is a good FS but take care, I experienced data loss while rebooting violently (crashed desktop, hardware related, arch or hard drive are not to blame in this story).

Else I also hear the popping noise, I'm not sure it is an issue, someone should test the behavior of the speakers on xandros.

What do you people currently use on your eeepc ? It seems that many of us run toofishes kernel and ighea acpi package (that's what I'm doing too).

punkeroso · 2008-04-28 18:31:07

faelar wrote:

Will JFS not be bad for the SSD ?
It is a good FS but take care, I experienced data loss while rebooting violently (crashed desktop, hardware related, arch or hard drive are not to blame in this story).
Else I also hear the popping noise, I'm not sure it is an issue, someone should test the behavior of the speakers on xandros.
What do you people currently use on your eeepc ? It seems that many of us run toofishes kernel and ighea acpi package (that's what I'm doing too).

Same here, toofishes' kernel and ighea's acpi package.

toofishes · 2008-04-28 22:08:18

kiddyfurby wrote:

now booting my jfs root, yay~!
i notice there's a unset CFLAG in the PKGINFO, does that mean no optimization for the eee cpu?
http://code.toofishes.net/gitweb.cgi?p= … cb;hb=HEAD
one thing that confuses me is that... asus_acpi is included in toofishes's kernel, but then i still need ighea's package?
i noticed toofishes's git have a folder "acpi-eee", which is not available as package, o i can simply check it out and makepkg, but there must be a reason toofishes is not doing that (yet)

My next build will include JFS as a module, although that won't allow you to boot without a initrd. I'm not sure of the overhead of that filesystem if it was built in, but I am not against including it if it is not a huge driver.

I just haven't bothered to make an acpi package for everyone because I've tweaked mine a lot more than other people may want, and I don't really suspend so it wouldn't get much testing (since my kernel is so quick to boot up anyway).

The kernel sets its own CFLAGS when building, so you can always safely unset them as they are set by the CPU type you configure in the kernelconfig. I just wanted to make sure the host CFLAGS weren't overriding anything on the Eee (I don't build this kernel on the Eee, that might be painfully slow). My kernel will actually be better optimized than the stock i686 Arch kernel as it can use SSE/SSE2/MMX instructions.

Auguste · 2008-04-29 05:03:03

faelar wrote:

Else I also hear the popping noise, I'm not sure it is an issue, someone should test the behavior of the speakers on xandros.

There was no problem on Xandros. I had been using it for a couple of months before installing Arch. It's most noticeable in Pidgin, during the sounds that indicate somebody replying, etc. The sounds are cut much shorter than normal and sound pretty bad.

gash · 2008-04-29 20:07:37

hi all!! i''m italian and excuse me for my english

I am trying to install on arch eeepc and I followed the guide for usb stick but not work

modprobe usb-storage
FATAL: could not load /lib/modules/2.6.22-ARCH/modules.dep: No such file or directory

modprobe sd_mod
FATAL: could not load /lib/modules/2.6.22-ARCH/modules.dep: No such file or directory

[Arch Linux: /]# fdisk -l
[Arch Linux: /]#

[Arch Linux: /]# dmesg | grep sd
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).

you understand something?
Help me please

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