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simo91

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Re: Arch on Eee PC

The only problem is that everything is pretty slow. I think it's the display that's the problem, the whole thing is just very unresponsive. Even scrolling in xterm jumps horribly, and it's really bad in firefox.
I've already installed xf86-video-intel.

I'm a bit stuck now, can anyone help?

Thanks,
Fiona

Have you put your hostname in /etc/hosts ?

127.0.0.1    yourhostname.domain.org    localhost.localdomain    localhost yourhostname

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Hiperi0n

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Registered: 2008-06-17

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Re: Arch on Eee PC

I have an 1000H, I think it has the same wireless card as the 900 models. I have the standard 2.6.27-7 kernel on it. Ethernet runs fine but wifi isn't recognized. After this long thread I am not very clear about what to do. Do I have to install a custom kernel? Or can I get wifi to work with some adjustments?

thanks

Arkane

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From: Switzerland

Registered: 2008-02-18

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Re: Arch on Eee PC

Hi everyone,

I got an eee900 a few weeks ago, and looked around for a decent lightweight distro to put on it. So i decided on arch.
Everything is great so far, thanks to the guides on the wiki. I've set it up with X, awesome and SLiM.
The only problem is that everything is pretty slow. I think it's the display that's the problem, the whole thing is just very unresponsive. Even scrolling in xterm jumps horribly, and it's really bad in firefox.
I've already installed xf86-video-intel.

I'm a bit stuck now, can anyone help?

Thanks,
Fiona

First of all, if you're using compositing then you should turn it off completely; even with video acceleration it slows down things like scrolling to a crawl (and causes flicker in OpenGL applications because there's no way you can use a software cursor on this kind of hardware).

Also note that, at least on my 900, disk write speed is extremely irregular and slow. This causes programs like firefox which expect to be able to simply write 5mb to disk while loading a page to hang a lot, especially when another program is already writing to the disk.

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jensp

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Registered: 2008-02-12

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Re: Arch on Eee PC

I have an 1000H, I think it has the same wireless card as the 900 models. I have the standard 2.6.27-7 kernel on it. Ethernet runs fine but wifi isn't recognized. After this long thread I am not very clear about what to do. Do I have to install a custom kernel? Or can I get wifi to work with some adjustments?

thanks

I think you need the http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14557 rt2860 driver from AUR.

Also note that, at least on my 900, disk write speed is extremely irregular and slow. This causes programs like firefox which expect to be able to simply write 5mb to disk while loading a page to hang a lot, especially when another program is already writing to the disk.

I let firefox do it's caching on a tmpfs (I have 2GB RAM) browsing works very nice for me

Last edited by jensp (2008-11-12 16:26:39)

toofishes

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Re: Arch on Eee PC

Quick update for everyone- I know my kernel hasn't seen an update in a while, but I'm working on it. I can get a plain kernel built, but I'm attempting to get compat-wireless worked into it so the ath5k wireless driver can be a bit more robust, but I need to get a NULL pointer dereference worked out first.

I've taken a few suggestions from here and worked them into the config- ipv6 is now a module and I removed uvesafb from being an in-kernel driver.

toofishes

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Re: Arch on Eee PC

2.6.27.6 kernel has been built, finally. See http://toofishes.net/blog/updated-eee-kernel-26276/ for details on this build and let me know if you have questions or problems.

Edit: So the compat-wireless stuff didn't seem to work at all. I could connect to a wireless network, DHCP worked, but any other connections just died out (TCP only, perhaps?). I might investigate more, but for now, we'll just go with the shipped ath5k driver that comes with the kernel source.

Last edited by toofishes (2008-11-16 19:39:34)

faelar

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Registered: 2007-12-18

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Re: Arch on Eee PC

I'm attempting to get compat-wireless worked into it so the ath5k wireless driver can be a bit more robust

What do you mean by more robust ? I never experienced any unstability with the current ath5K driver, so what are the improvement ? Does the wireless have a better range or something like that ?

I know my kernel hasn't seen an update in a while

Nobody blames you for not updating at each new official kernel version, we are all very grateful for what you do !

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Jonlin

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Registered: 2008-11-18

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Re: Arch on Eee PC

Hey

I have been trying to build the new kernel with wine-support, just as I have done with the previous ones without problems. After getting the latest files with git, I run into problems since the wireless-testing-config.patch is missing. I've been looking around and can't find anything useful, so I thought I might ask here.

toofishes

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Re: Arch on Eee PC

Hey

I have been trying to build the new kernel with wine-support, just as I have done with the previous ones without problems. After getting the latest files with git, I run into problems since the wireless-testing-config.patch is missing. I've been looking around and can't find anything useful, so I thought I might ask here.

You can actually comment that piece of source out, as wireless testing isn't used for this latest build.

Jonlin

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Re: Arch on Eee PC

You can actually comment that piece of source out, as wireless testing isn't used for this latest build.

Aah, it was that easy.. It seems to have worked perfectly. Thanks a lot for your answer, and for all your work on the eee-kernel too of course!

faelar

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Re: Arch on Eee PC

kernel-eee 2.6.27.6-3 (eee)

When I boot the computer, ath5k isn't loaded (my MODULES array in rc.conf is empty, but it worked fine with the previous version). If I do "modprobe ath5k" wireless is enable again. Am I the only one with this issue ? Did you forget something with the kernel ? Or must I blame myself for a wrong configuration or something like that ?

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toofishes

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Re: Arch on Eee PC

kernel-eee 2.6.27.6-3 (eee)

When I boot the computer, ath5k isn't loaded (my MODULES array in rc.conf is empty, but it worked fine with the previous version). If I do "modprobe ath5k" wireless is enable again. Am I the only one with this issue ? Did you forget something with the kernel ? Or must I blame myself for a wrong configuration or something like that ?

It loads fine here. Any chance you have module autoloading disabled in rc.conf? I would also ensure the madwifi package is uninstalled, you have updated any wireless settings you have to point at wlan0 instead of ath0, and perhaps even issue a "sudo depmod".

Jonlin

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Re: Arch on Eee PC

I commented out the lines about wireless testing in the PKGBUILD, the kernel built without problems and I could reboot and start the few Wine applications I need. I couldn't get the Wlan to work though, so I tested the kernel-eee from your repo, and it worked perfectly. I switched back to my own once again, but no wireless.. It doesn't matter if I include ath5k in the modules in rc.conf or not, the module just wont load.

If anyone has had similar problems I'd love to know, since I don't want to choose between Wlan and Wine-support.

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I got it working. I recompiled the kernel and it just worked.. no idea why though.

Last edited by Jonlin (2008-11-19 09:46:59)

faelar

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From: Amiens (FR)

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Re: Arch on Eee PC

Any chance you have module autoloading disabled in rc.conf?

Yes it is, and I know I can add ath5k to the array. But with the previous test version of your kernel, this wasn't needed. In fact it is not really an "issue", sorry my English is far from perfect. I just would like to know, is modprobe ath5k or adding ath5k to MODULES the "normal" behavior here (and will always behave like this in future), or is it related to your tweaking with compat-wireless ?

Else you missed my previous question :

What do you mean by more robust ? I never experienced any unstability with the current ath5K driver, so what are the improvement ? Does the wireless have a better range or something like that ?

But I don't intend to bother you with that, it is just a bit of curiosity

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chillamba

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Registered: 2008-11-21

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Re: Arch on Eee PC

Hi all,

I'm using Arch on my EEE-701 4G, installed according to http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ins … sus_EEE_PC

I have only 1 question right now: does cpu fan control work with toofishes kernel?  And how it can be checked or enabled?

shrd

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Registered: 2008-01-23

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Re: Arch on Eee PC

hello toofishes,
do you have a wlan.sh file (for acpi) that work with ath5k
i cant unload wifi and reload wifi with the ath5k driver

barthelemy

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Registered: 2008-11-26

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Re: Arch on Eee PC

I posted this, but I'm not sure it's in the right place. So I'm really sorry if it inconvenient to post it again...

Hi everyone.
I'm a new user of archlinux on my Desktop computer, and I decided to install it on my brand new eeepc. But it seems it doesn't like me !
I followed strictly the tutorial on the wiki, added the [eee] repository and all, but it says to me that "init is not found", and I've got a beautiful kernel panic.
I don't understand, because on the several wikis I saw, it was said that this kernel-eee didn't need an initrd.
Can someone help me with that ?

By the way, archlinux works just fine with the original kernel, which have an initrd of course...

Thank you !

Sorry again for my english...

jensp

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Registered: 2008-02-12

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Re: Arch on Eee PC

could you post your menu.lst?

barthelemy

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Registered: 2008-11-26

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Re: Arch on Eee PC

Of course, I'll copy it right now.
Here are the uncommented lines :

title Archlinux
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/* ro
initrd /kernel26.img

title Archlinux Fallback
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/* ro
initrd /kernel26-fallback.img

title Archlinux EEE kernel
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26eee root=/dev/sda1 ro

I tried also by adding an initrd line (with kernel26 or fallback, even with one created with mkinitcpio, but I'm not sure I did it right)
That's all I've done on my PC.

Thank you !

jensp

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Registered: 2008-02-12

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Re: Arch on Eee PC

Are you sure sda1 is the correct partition? Quite often you will get the panic because the root device isn't mounted correctly.

Nightshroud

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Re: Arch on Eee PC

I have only two partition: one for Boot Booster and the root. And I've got the same problem.

Last edited by Nightshroud (2008-11-26 18:49:08)

barthelemy

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Registered: 2008-11-26

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Re: Arch on Eee PC

Yes it is the right one. I'm happy I'm not alone ! But unhappy it doesn't work !
Hope you'll help me find out.

barthelemy

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Registered: 2008-11-26

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Re: Arch on Eee PC

Plus, my pc seems to boot the root device quite well.. But thank you !

gajo

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Re: Arch on Eee PC

not currently on my EEE PC, but if i recall correctly, the default name of the vmlinuz is vmlinuzeee, not vmlinuz26ee as you have, if i were you, i'd double check if i have that line correct (just do ls /boot/)

barthelemy

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Re: Arch on Eee PC

Unfortunately it's just my mistake... I bad copied ! It's actually vmlinuzeee, as it should be.
Thanks !