Arch on Eee PC

vomix · 2008-05-14 23:44:56

There's a bad hack ('cause you have to modify /etc/rc.shutdown script, that's not sane) about the unclean unmount of SDHC here:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 45#p333845

That was working for unmounting an /home partition on sdhc, but I don't know if it'll work with a root partition on it, so handle with care!

Last edited by vomix (2008-05-14 23:47:09)

BoySka · 2008-05-23 13:40:51

I was trying to use powertop tu improve battery life, but powertop says that the kernel doesn't have CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL; would you please add this option to kernel-eee? It'd be very useful!

toofishes · 2008-05-23 14:13:23

BoySka wrote:

I was trying to use powertop tu improve battery life, but powertop says that the kernel doesn't have CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL; would you please add this option to kernel-eee? It'd be very useful!

I don't plan on adding this because I wanted to keep all of the debugging stuff out of this kernel. I believe the stock Arch kernel has it enabled, so you can easily run powertop with that kernel if necessary, although you may not have access to things like the wireless interface.

BoySka · 2008-05-23 14:20:30

toofishes wrote:

BoySka wrote:
I was trying to use powertop tu improve battery life, but powertop says that the kernel doesn't have CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL; would you please add this option to kernel-eee? It'd be very useful!
I don't plan on adding this because I wanted to keep all of the debugging stuff out of this kernel.

that's fine.
I'll try to compile it by myself, then

elbecko · 2008-05-24 01:15:31

Hi guys, this is a brief report about Archeee 900 (kernel-eee 2.6.25.3-1 / acpi-eee 9-4 / EeePC 900).

After walking through default Xandros, I installed Archeee onto 900 using 701's disk image as is. With some modifications to xorg.conf, it worked. Although there're some problems, not bad overall.

touchpad: Mouse and tap functioin works. No edge-scroll nor multi-tap. Not recognized as Synaptics. (Actually it's Elantech?)
sound: OK on boot, but no sound after suspend/resume. "hda_codec unknown" error in dmesg. (And doesn't work with kernel-eee 2.6.24?)
wifi: OK
lan: OK
webcam: OK (checked using luvcview only)
fn+f1: OK
fn+f2: OK (except for a retry)
fn+f3-f4: OK
fn+f5: OK
fn+f6: OK
fn+f7-f9: OK, with modifications to scripts. (amixer shows different control names on 900.)
power: OK

Here's link to some logs and confs:
http://archeee.depot.googlepages.com/eeepc900-info

Revised: Read my post below for sound workaround.
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 45#p371745
Revised: Edge-scroll works now!!
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 71#p375971
Revised: Volumu-mute doesn't work actually.
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 39#p380439

Last edited by elbecko (2008-06-13 05:41:00)

User1279 · 2008-05-24 10:50:03

Ighea:

Just returned from a holiday trip where i put the eee to good use. Back home, after updating all packages wlan does not work anymore. The blue LED keeps switching on and off when pressing Fn-F2. Also acpi seems to crash, only screen brightness can be adjusted, but there is no OSD. After reboot, the blue LED is on and can be switched off via acpi. But even when it is on, I can see no wlan network in wicd.

Any ideas/suggestions?

ighea · 2008-05-24 17:23:01

User1279 wrote:

Ighea:
Just returned from a holiday trip where i put the eee to good use. Back home, after updating all packages wlan does not work anymore. The blue LED keeps switching on and off when pressing Fn-F2. Also acpi seems to crash, only screen brightness can be adjusted, but there is no OSD. After reboot, the blue LED is on and can be switched off via acpi. But even when it is on, I can see no wlan network in wicd.
Any ideas/suggestions?

Your current installation seems to be somehow totaly broken, any idea of the upgraded packages and so on?

elbecko · 2008-05-24 21:20:58

elbecko wrote:

sound: OK on boot, but no sound after suspend/resume.

I think I found the solution to this. Some Ubuntu guys are reporting similar issue at eeeuser and only solution at this time is to reload sound module. To do this with Archeee, rebuilding kernel-eee is required. But I found another workaround (based on toofishes's trick).

Create following script and execute it (as root) after resume. This worked for me.

#!/bin/sh
/etc/rc.d/alsa stop
echo -n "0000:00:1b.0" > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/HDA\ Intel/unbind
sleep 1
echo -n "0000:00:1b.0" > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/HDA\ Intel/bind
/etc/rc.d/alsa start
exit 0

It's possible to call this from wakeup sequence in /etc/acpi/suspend2ram.sh if you wish. However, note that it *stucks* if some processes use sound. For example, amarok keeps opening sound device while it's running even if it's not playing, and causes this. To prevent it, such processes must be killed (before executing script) by hand or by using another code like Ubuntu's "/sbin/alsa" script.

edit: With kernel-eee 2.6.26-1, no need to use this trick.
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 70#p394070

Last edited by elbecko (2008-07-16 18:00:52)

Auguste · 2008-05-25 05:03:10

Hi guys,

After upgrading to kernel version 2.6.25-ARCH, I haven't been able to recompile the madwifi driver to get wi-fi going. I get an error after running the Make command.

I'm using madwifi-ng-r2756-20071018.tar.gz and patching it with madwifi-ng-0933.ar2425.20071130.i386.patch, as per the installation guide in the wiki.

Any advice?

ighea · 2008-05-25 05:04:47

Auguste wrote:

Hi guys,
After upgrading to kernel version 2.6.25-ARCH, I haven't been able to recompile the madwifi driver to get wi-fi going. I get an error after running the Make command.
I'm using madwifi-ng-r2756-20071018.tar.gz and patching it with madwifi-ng-0933.ar2425.20071130.i386.patch, as per the installation guide in the wiki.
Any advice?

How about trying a bit newer madwifi snapshot? That should do the trick.

http://snapshots.madwifi.org/madwifi-tr … 525.tar.gz
http://madwifi.org/attachment/ticket/16 … format=raw

Last edited by ighea (2008-05-25 05:17:47)

Auguste · 2008-05-25 05:38:58

Ah, thanks for the quick reply. I did notice that madwifi-ng* was no longer available at snapshots.madwifi.org, but I didn't think to try any of the alternatives like madwifi-trunk*. Unfortunately, I'm still getting the same errors. Is there a command to copy the contents of a terminal session to a text file so I can paste it here? I don't quite understand exactly what's going wrong.

Cheers for the help.

ighea · 2008-05-25 05:49:54

Auguste wrote:

Ah, thanks for the quick reply. I did notice that madwifi-ng* was no longer available at snapshots.madwifi.org, but I didn't think to try any of the alternatives like madwifi-trunk*. Unfortunately, I'm still getting the same errors. Is there a command to copy the contents of a terminal session to a text file so I can paste it here? I don't quite understand exactly what's going wrong.
Cheers for the help.

I wonder if you could provide the error messages.
Procedure should be just plainly unpacking the trunk snapshot, patching it and executing make.

Auguste · 2008-05-25 06:08:41

I had trouble copying any more than a single screen at once, but here's what I got. I hope it's enough.

make[1]: Leaving directory `/media/usb/madwifi-trunk-r3679-20080525/ath_rate'
make[1]: Entering directory `/media/usb/madwifi-trunk-r3679-20080525/net80211'
rm -f *~ *.o *.ko *.mod.c
rm -f .depend .version .*.o.flags .*.o.d .*.o.cmd .*.ko.cmd
rm -rf .tmp_versions
make[1]: Leaving directory `/media/usb/madwifi-trunk-r3679-20080525/net80211'
make -C ./tools  clean
make[1]: Entering directory `/media/usb/madwifi-trunk-r3679-20080525/tools'
rm -f athstats 80211stats athkey athchans athctrl athdebug 80211debug wlanconfig core a.out
make[1]: Leaving directory `/media/usb/madwifi-trunk-r3679-20080525/tools'
rm -rf .tmp_versions
rm -f *.symvers svnversion.h
[root@Jericho madwifi-trunk-r3679-20080525]# make
Checking requirements... ok.
Checking kernel configuration... ok.
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.25-ARCH/build SUBDIRS=/media/usb/madwifi-trunk-r3679-20080525 modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.25-ARCH'
  CC [M]  /media/usb/madwifi-trunk-r3679-20080525/ath/if_ath.o
  CC [M]  /media/usb/madwifi-trunk-r3679-20080525/ath/if_ath_radar.o
  CC [M]  /media/usb/madwifi-trunk-r3679-20080525/ath/if_ath_hal_extensions.o
  CC [M]  /media/usb/madwifi-trunk-r3679-20080525/ath/if_ath_pci.o
  LD [M]  /media/usb/madwifi-trunk-r3679-20080525/ath/ath_pci.o
  CC [M]  /media/usb/madwifi-trunk-r3679-20080525/ath_hal/ah_os.o
  HOSTCC  /media/usb/madwifi-trunk-r3679-20080525/ath_hal/uudecode
  UUDECODE /media/usb/madwifi-trunk-r3679-20080525/ath_hal/i386-elf.hal.o
/bin/sh: /media/usb/madwifi-trunk-r3679-20080525/ath_hal/uudecode: Permission denied
make[3]: *** [/media/usb/madwifi-trunk-r3679-20080525/ath_hal/i386-elf.hal.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/media/usb/madwifi-trunk-r3679-20080525/ath_hal] Error 2
make[1]: *** [_module_/media/usb/madwifi-trunk-r3679-20080525] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.25-ARCH'
make: *** [modules] Error 2
[root@Jericho madwifi-trunk-r3679-20080525]#

ighea · 2008-05-25 06:17:04

Auguste wrote:

I had trouble copying any more than a single screen at once, but here's what I got. I hope it's enough.

  HOSTCC  /media/usb/madwifi-trunk-r3679-20080525/ath_hal/uudecode
  UUDECODE /media/usb/madwifi-trunk-r3679-20080525/ath_hal/i386-elf.hal.o
/bin/sh: /media/usb/madwifi-trunk-r3679-20080525/ath_hal/uudecode: Permission denied
make[3]: *** [/media/usb/madwifi-trunk-r3679-20080525/ath_hal/i386-elf.hal.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/media/usb/madwifi-trunk-r3679-20080525/ath_hal] Error 2
make[1]: *** [_module_/media/usb/madwifi-trunk-r3679-20080525] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.25-ARCH'
make: *** [modules] Error 2
[root@Jericho madwifi-trunk-r3679-20080525]#

I suggest that you try to compile it on some other place than usb mass storage device.

Last edited by ighea (2008-05-25 06:17:46)

Auguste · 2008-05-25 06:28:23

Ah! That's done the trick. Thanks for the help, it's much appreciated. Now to compile and install the remaining drivers.

Also, as a general rule, should packages never be compiled on a USB Mass Storage Device?

Cheers again for the help.

ighea · 2008-05-25 06:32:12

Auguste wrote:

Also, as a general rule, should packages never be compiled on a USB Mass Storage Device?

That depends on the mount options used. noexec, nosuid and friends can be sometimes nasty. If errors occur try different mount options or use HD.

Last edited by ighea (2008-05-25 08:00:09)

ighea · 2008-05-25 07:59:08

Minor update for acpi-eee
v. 9-5

* "Fixed" wlan.sh not to loop forever if wlan fails continuously also added some more verbose messages.

Fetch it from AUR
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15796

User1279 · 2008-05-25 18:02:30

ighea wrote:

User1279 wrote:
Ighea:
Just returned from a holiday trip where i put the eee to good use. Back home, after updating all packages wlan does not work anymore. The blue LED keeps switching on and off when pressing Fn-F2. Also acpi seems to crash, only screen brightness can be adjusted, but there is no OSD. After reboot, the blue LED is on and can be switched off via acpi. But even when it is on, I can see no wlan network in wicd.
Any ideas/suggestions?
Your current installation seems to be somehow totaly broken, any idea of the upgraded packages and so on?

Unfortunately not. Just did pacman -Syu. And I was so clever to use tmpfs for /var/log, so there is no pacman.log. I tried your version 9.5, the blue led stops flashing after a while, but wlan still does not work.

Output from ./wlan.sh poweron:

Loading wlan modules...
FATAL: Module ath_pci not found.
FATAL: Module wlan_wep not found.
FATAL: Module wlan_tkip not found.
FATAL: Module wlan_ccmp not found.
Creating wlan interface
wlanconfig: ioctl: No such device
ath0: unknown interface: No such device
ath0: error fetching interface information: Device not found
./wlan.sh: line 40: /tmp/eeewlanfailcounter: No such file or directory
Current fail count is 0
Removing wlan interface and unloading modules
ath0: unknown interface: No such device
wlanconfig: ioctl: No such device
Turning wlan device power off
Running network down command

..going for a fresh install.

Thanks a lot for your efforts and good work.

ighea · 2008-05-25 18:06:53

User1279 wrote:

Unfortunately not. Just did pacman -Syu. And I was so clever to use tmpfs for /var/log, so there is no pacman.log. I tried your version 9.5, the blue led stops flashing after a while, but wlan still does not work.
Output from ./wlan.sh poweron:
Loading wlan modules...
FATAL: Module ath_pci not found.
FATAL: Module wlan_wep not found.
FATAL: Module wlan_tkip not found.
FATAL: Module wlan_ccmp not found.
Creating wlan interface
wlanconfig: ioctl: No such device
ath0: unknown interface: No such device
ath0: error fetching interface information: Device not found
./wlan.sh: line 40: /tmp/eeewlanfailcounter: No such file or directory
Current fail count is 0
Removing wlan interface and unloading modules
ath0: unknown interface: No such device
wlanconfig: ioctl: No such device
Turning wlan device power off
Running network down command

..going for a fresh install.
Thanks a lot for your efforts and good work.

You could still try to reinstall acpid and make sure that you have the kernel modules installed! The output above shows that everything is not fine with your current kernel installation. To be spesific: all atheros stuff might be missing. Which kernel you are running?

User1279 · 2008-05-25 19:55:42

Using toofishes repository.
I got it now. After the last update madwifi-eee-svn somehow got lost (I swear I did not deinstall it knowingly). Installed it and everything works fine again.

Thanks for the encouragement to give it another try.

ighea · 2008-05-25 20:05:50

User1279 wrote:

Using toofishes repository.
I got it now. After the last update madwifi-eee-svn somehow got lost (I swear I did not deinstall it knowingly). Installed it and everything works fine again.
Thanks for the encouragement to give it another try.

Good to hear that I was able to reply before you could do anything "fatal".
Perhaps the madwifi package's name change had something to do with this. Oh well, who knows. :I

berkus · 2008-05-27 11:13:00

User1279 wrote:

Using toofishes repository.
I got it now. After the last update madwifi-eee-svn somehow got lost (I swear I did not deinstall it knowingly). Installed it and everything works fine again.

This happened to me while upgrading as well. pacman shown the madwifi-eee-svn in the list of packages to install (it was actually replacing an old package with different name with this one), and after installation it simply vanished. Reinstalling it manually afterwards did the trick.

Might be a bug in pacman or in madwifi-eee-svn.

jensp · 2008-05-27 12:58:54

Hey there,
I want to run wine on the eeepc, what vmsplit do I have to choose for both full 2GB memory support and running wine?

elbecko · 2008-05-27 18:49:32

jensp wrote:

Hey there,
I want to run wine on the eeepc, what vmsplit do I have to choose for both full 2GB memory support and running wine?

In kernel config menu:
Processor type and features ->
High Memory Support: 4GB
Memory Split: 3G/1G user/kernel split

djolk · 2008-05-28 12:36:47

I recently updated my eee and now I can't seem to get wireless to work.
I am using network manager and I get this error:

** (nm-applet:1954): WARNING **: <WARN> hal_net_physdev_cb(): dbus returned an error.
(org.freedesktop.Hal.NoSuchProperty) No property net.physical_device on device with id /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_1e_8c_7f_42_50

I am imagining this is more to do with dbus/hal then anything else as the card looks like its working in dmesg

dbus hal and everything is up to date, except acpi_eee which is still dkites original.

I'm using the toofishes kernel

not sure where to look...

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