Arch on Eee PC

Robertek · 2008-08-14 08:42:37

djolk: echo 1 > /sys/class/platform/eeepc/camera
it depends on your kernel, because 2.6.26 has new module that replace the old which had settings in /proc/acpi/asus

For everyone, I will create new thread for asus eee 901, because its little bit annoying this 1000 post thread. And also 901 is also little bit different than 70x and 900 models. It depends on forum administrators if they mark the new thread as duplicated or not.
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 80#p406680

Last edited by Robertek (2008-08-14 08:52:19)

faelar · 2008-08-14 13:13:19

With the last toofishes' kernel I don't need to echo anything. Please show us the output of 'lsmod'. I use xf86-video-intel driver.

ighea · 2008-08-14 21:21:15

I have split the eee-kernel into two different series, now we have eee-kernel, which is meant for 700-series, and eee-kernel901 packages including all drivers needed for "optimal" use.

eee-kernel901 includes support for taking advantages of the hyperthreading.
both packages have the left over ath5k(does not yet support 70x's wlan chip) removed
eeepc_laptop driver builtin

To always get the latest upgrades you can use the following repository:

[edgy]
Server=http://www.ihku.biz/arch/edgy

and the packages for those who do not wan't use the repository or need them for fresh install:
901: http://www.ihku.biz/arch/edgy/eee-kerne … pkg.tar.gz
70x: http://www.ihku.biz/arch/edgy/eee-kerne … pkg.tar.gz

Jickel · 2008-08-15 00:17:51

VB on my 900 was a little quirky at first but seems ok now, running guest additions also. In Win2k, when I first tried to take it to max res (1024*600) in fullscreen by using the windows display properties, it would only let me use 256 colours. I was able to use 32-bit at 800*600 though, so I set that. By switching out of fullscreen and back to it again gave me 1024*600*32. Its a default virtualbox install except for some USB config I had to do. I'm using xf86-video-intel as my Xorg driver, and using the xorg.conf from the Wiki with just the modeline changed to suit the 900 (so no compositing).
How did you build your vboxdrv? I just downloaded a vanilla kernel and copied ighea's kernelconfig to .config, and ran make until it wrote the version headers.

I'm using the same intel driver, but my xorg.conf has compositing enabled. I had a lot of trouble building the vboxdrv, see earlier in this thread (I still keep seeing an error that one or two of two config files are missing, and running the two suggested make commands won't make the message go away. The driver gets compiled though).

In the end I simply used the src directory from when I compiled toofishes' latest kernel, which I copied to /usr/src/linux/ . I also tried using your method above, but with my own toofishes' based kernelconfig, but it didn't help (I used a stock kernel from kernel.org, I assume that's what you meant).

ighea · 2008-08-15 07:06:45

eee-kernel has now also the "eeepc-linux" module or so called eee.ko included, which allows overclocking on 700-series! Enjoy!

foobar · 2008-08-17 08:29:40

ighea, what did you change between eee-kernel-2.6.26.2-5-i686.pkg.tar.gz and eee-kernel-2.6.26.2-6-i686.pkg.tar.gz?

Using -6, vboxdrv crashes during modprobe when trying to allocate a page of memory using alloc_pages(GFP_USER,0);

Probably a vbox bug, but would be interested to know the difference between the two builds. I tried modifying it to alloc_page(GFP_USER|__GFP_NOFAIL) but no joy.

ighea · 2008-08-17 08:42:24

foobar wrote:

ighea, what did you change between eee-kernel-2.6.26.2-5-i686.pkg.tar.gz and eee-kernel-2.6.26.2-6-i686.pkg.tar.gz?
Using -6, vboxdrv crashes during modprobe when trying to allocate a page of memory using alloc_pages(GFP_USER,0);
Probably a vbox bug, but would be interested to know the difference between the two builds. I tried modifying it to alloc_page(GFP_USER|__GFP_NOFAIL) but no joy.

I changed from flat memory to sparse memory. That might be the cause of your problem, so you are using VirtualBox on EeePC.. 701?

Robertek · 2008-08-17 09:30:06

Hmm. I use sparse memory and wirtualbox w/o problem.

foobar · 2008-08-17 14:25:36

ighea wrote:

I changed from flat memory to sparse memory. That might be the cause of your problem, so you are using VirtualBox on EeePC.. 701?

Hmm that helps, thanks. Will have to investigate what is going on. Running on an EeePC 900.

olujicz · 2008-08-17 16:41:47

Hi, first thanks to all who participate in this topic and help me to setup my asus

Until now I don't have problem using the archlinux and asus eee 701, but there is one now.

With last kernel from http://www.ihku.biz/arch/edgy I can't compile gspcav1 beacuse:

make *** /lib/modules/2.6.26.2eee/build: No such file or directory

What I need to to?

Thanks

rsambuca · 2008-08-25 03:58:47

Can someone please confirm exactly which madwifi driver we should be using? Depending on where you get your info, you get different suggestions:

madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007.tar.gz or
madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r3835-20080801.tar.gz or
madwifi-ng-r3556-20080421.tar.gz
or one of the bajillion others?????

toofishes · 2008-08-25 15:22:44

rsambuca wrote:

Can someone please confirm exactly which madwifi driver we should be using? Depending on where you get your info, you get different suggestions:
madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007.tar.gz or
madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r3835-20080801.tar.gz or
madwifi-ng-r3556-20080421.tar.gz
or one of the bajillion others?????

The version with the new HAL is your best bet because it is the most current code. It is also fairly painless to build as you don't need any patching- you can see my PKGBUILD for it (for my custom kernel) here:
http://code.toofishes.net/gitweb.cgi?p= … cc7aad6ccc

rsambuca · 2008-08-25 16:39:10

Thanks toofishes! I'll see if I can figure out how to build it now.

rsambuca · 2008-08-27 04:43:55

Fantastic! Wireless now works perfectly on my eeePC 900. All I did was install the madwifi-newhal-svn AUR package from mastercpp. I also had to disable the ath5k module from the rc.conf file.

kiddyfurby · 2008-08-27 15:18:18

hi guys, I used to have my 701 running arch, with e17-cvs happily.
One day i decided to do a clean install, afterthat, wifi doesn't seems to work.

I use toofishes' kernel, 2.6.26.3eee, i can see ath0 on iwconfig
iwlist also works, reporting found APs
but i couldn't connect to any AP
I use wicd, it always hang while "Obtaining IP Address..."

my ap is using WPA2, but i've also tried a open ap which doesn't work neither

any clues?

rsambuca · 2008-08-27 19:19:07

I am not sure about the open access troubles, but to connect to a WPA encrypted network, you will need wpa_supplicant installed.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wpa_supplicant

jensp · 2008-08-27 19:25:57

Hey there,
Somehow I can't get acpi-eee (9.6) to work, I think I am missing the handler.sh file, however it doesn't seem to be included in the package, did I miss some instructions or is the package wrong?

ighea · 2008-08-27 19:43:01

jensp wrote:

Hey there,
Somehow I can't get acpi-eee (9.6) to work, I think I am missing the handler.sh file, however it doesn't seem to be included in the package, did I miss some instructions or is the package wrong?

Duh, I'll really have to make it more self explaining. Yes, "handler.sh" is part of acpid -package and the messages printed after installing acpi-eee are meant to tell you that you should make sure that this "handler.sh" in /etc/acpi/ is never run. The easiest way to do so is to make the "action"-line in /etc/acpi/events/anything point somewhere that does not exist. Like handler-eee.sh or something.

jensp · 2008-08-27 20:51:59

So it doesn't really matter if it's there or not, if it's never supposed to be run, right?

tung · 2008-08-28 01:25:11

ighea wrote:

The easiest way to do so is to make the "action"-line in /etc/acpi/events/anything point somewhere that does not exist. Like handler-eee.sh or something.

It'd probably be easier if the message used something like i-dont-exist.sh. Or to say to change the event line to

event=Please do not match anything any more, I do not want you to run.

I'd be very surprised if a pattern like that showed up in events.

rsambuca · 2008-08-30 05:38:11

Finally got around to testing out Skype. Problem - internal microphone isn't working (it worked perfectly with the stock Xandros). Can anyone confirm that the mic does in fact work with the stock kernel, and if so, what did you do to get it to work?

Robertek · 2008-08-30 09:47:14

rsambuca: you have to use kernel with alsa xx.17 or xx.18rc, on previous alsa versions doesnt work internal mic

cat /proc/asound/version

rsambuca · 2008-08-30 17:28:55

Thank you for your response. I have version 16, so that would appear to be my problem. (Shouldn't things like this be in the Wiki?).

rsambuca · 2008-08-31 20:45:33

Well, as luck would have it, the new alsa-lib version 17 just moved from the testing repo into the extra repo today, so the microphone works without any effort.

eWoud · 2008-09-01 11:09:23

rsambuca wrote:

Well, as luck would have it, the new alsa-lib version 17 just moved from the testing repo into the extra repo today, so the microphone works without any effort.

I didn't notice any change after upgrading to alsa-lib 1.0.17a. I still get nothing but static from the microphone. How did you set up the mixers?

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