Acer Aspire One

AndyRTR · 2008-07-29 05:18:26

I've saved all Linpus' /etc so I'll be able to post the original xorg.conf when I get back home. I'm using it. I think we can improve it more. Some desktop rendering (e.g. Xfce terminal) isn't that fast as it should be.

Yes. Write accesses are slow. But once everything is installed ssd reading is fast.

Starting a Wiki page... done. See first post.

Last edited by AndyRTR (2008-07-29 06:54:37)

jeezus · 2008-07-29 07:47:06

Got Arch installed couple of days back, everything running smoothly.

Here's the xorg.conf from Linpus

# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "DontZap" "yes"
Option "DontVTSwitch" "yes"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Synaptics Mouse" "AlwaysCore"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "gb,us"
Option "XkbVariant" "euro"
Option "XkbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics Mouse"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "LeftEdge" "1700"
Option "RightEdge" "5300"
Option "TopEdge" "1700"
Option "BottomEdge" "4200"
Option "FingerLow" "25"
Option "FingerHigh" "30"
Option "MaxTapTime" "180"
Option "MaxTapMove" "220"
Option "VertScrollDelta" "100"
Option "MinSpeed" "0.09"
Option "MaxSpeed" "0.18"
Option "AccelFactor" "0.0015"
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
Modeline "1024x600" 50.40 1024 1048 1184 1344 600 600 619 625
# Option "Above" "Monitor1"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "intel"
# Option "monitor-LVDS" "Monitor0"
# Option "monitor-VGA" "Monitor1"
Option "Clone" "true"
Option "MonitorLayout" "LVDS,VGA"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
# Screen 0
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1024x600" "800x600" "640x480"
Virtual 1024 600
EndSubSection
EndSection

gothicknight · 2008-07-29 10:31:58

Thanks jeezus!
Andy I've updated the wiki with some more info (as the xorg from jeezus) and webcam info.

As for graphical issues, I've not detected a single issue but I'm using KDEmod. Some text size issues in arch's site using konqueror but installed Opera and worked just fine.

DHCP wasn't working until I've remembered of memstick module being at 100% usage and removed it.

AndyRTR · 2008-07-29 11:01:52

Does anybody know where Linpus store their sources? I want to have a look at their patches before I start building a customized kernel.

And any idea what are best CFLAGS for cross-compiling with my workstation? I haven't found anything better than: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-5136711.html - maybe someone can run on the AspireOne a small compile task use

CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"

and report back what flags gcc shows while compiling. I'm not going to install any devel stuff to that slow system. So please someone else.

jeezus · 2008-07-29 12:22:59

They seems to have some RPM and SRPMS on their ftp server e.g. ftp://ftp.linpus.com/dists

They also had some kernel in the download section of their webpage, but that doesnt seem to work.

jbooth · 2008-07-29 16:21:27

I'd suggest -Os for all the netbooks over -O2. Small hard drive and small cache/memory will likely favor it.

Gullible Jones · 2008-07-29 16:48:02

You should be able to use ndiswrapper for the wifi. If the chipset is AR5007EG, use the 0.6 series driver from www.atheros.cz...

mattjones · 2008-07-29 19:47:12

Hi, I'm now up and running with my Aspire One, although I made the mistake of not creating the /home partition on the SD storage expansion. I'm trying to mount the SD card, although dmesg is returning:

mmc0: error -110 whilst initialising SD card

Is this because the card is wrongly formatted? If so, how do I format it? The drive doesn't appear as a device in gparted, and /dev/mmcblk0p1 doesn't exist.

KimTjik · 2008-07-29 20:05:25

May I interfere with a non-Arch question: in view of your comment AndyRTR about Linpus can I interpret that as the default operating system being of quite good quality? Secondly, what's your - just as the first question any input from anybody is valuable - overall conclusion about Aspire One? I'm asking because I'll probably not have the time for doing any serious attempt right now, but such a device would still be of use.

AndyRTR · 2008-07-29 20:56:40

@mattjones: please see Ubuntu thread. afair the card has to be put into the slow before booting. hotplug is not yet suported in the left slot. moving /home shouldn't be that hard. just boot from usb stick and mount / and sd card somewhere under /mnt and copy current wrong located /mnt/oldroot/home to /mnt/new_home.

@KimTjik: Linpus isn't what I wanted to have on my netbook. I want full control. But if you only just want to surf and chat it should be more than enough. And the Fedora distribtion behind makes it easy to install additional packages. But don't expect good suppot from Linpus. I've not seen often such a poor website.

gothicknight · 2008-07-30 09:06:24

I agree with jbooth. Size in this matter is important.

I've manage to come up with an idea of mounting /var/cache/pacman/pkg in tmpfs. This will avoid, when installing, extra I/O (which would better the instalation performance) with the downside of memory limitations (mounted with size=350MB), that can be managed with smaller/devided instalations.
This is by no means user-friendly and packages are lost after reboot, but with current bandwith that wouldn't be a problem.

EDIT: Gullible Jones, Andy managed to build a working madwifi lkm to get wifi up and running.

Last edited by gothicknight (2008-07-30 09:08:18)

.:B:. · 2008-07-30 09:44:05

Can someone tell me if the Aspire One uses DDR1 or DDR2? I have a trashed laptop with 512 MB SO-DIMMs, would be nice if I could recuperate those. I plan on getting an 8 GB SSD Aspire One version when Acer puts in 6 cell batteries, but the SSD versions only have 512 MB RAM afaict.

The Atom is a 'new' CPU so I'd think it's DDR2, but I think the chipset it uses is a tad old, so that would make DDR1 more probable...

Edit: scratch that, seems to be DDR2.

Last edited by B (2008-07-30 10:07:16)

AndyRTR · 2008-07-30 09:54:01

It's DDRII So-Dimm. Not easy to access the 2nd free memory slot. There are videos and howtos around. You have to disassamble the whole netbook to get access to the 2nd slot under the mainboard. You even have to remove screws from under lower rubber feets.

I'll try to live as long as possible with the preinstalled 512MB though having some stick laying around for upgrade.

.:B:. · 2008-07-30 10:08:20

Hehe .

I am gonna check on prices for SO-DIMMs, we'll see how it goes . By the time the 6 cell version hits the markets it will be september, maybe october even .

AndyRTR · 2008-07-30 10:40:46

http://blogs.zdnet.com/perlow/?p=9190 - let's try out what really helps improving performance

jeezus · 2008-07-30 10:53:12

Did anybody get the orginal .config or anything from the Linpus kernel?
Would be nice to get same boot times. Also the udev uevents init script thingy takes ages for me.

I was going to start compiling today, when I get home if I have time...

gothicknight · 2008-07-30 12:55:01

Thanks for the tweaks Andy.

Unfortunately the tweak #1 didn't work on the Aspire One as it doesn't support any cache at all (IMHO)

[root@One ~]# hdparm -W1 /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
 setting drive write-caching to 1 (on)
 HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(setcache) failed: Input/output error
 write-caching = not supported

AndyRTR · 2008-07-30 14:55:46

Have you noticed any performance change with the I/O scedular change?

gothicknight · 2008-07-30 15:11:53

I can't see any *real* difference so far. Later this day I'll try with cfq and noop and see which handles it better.

Determination · 2008-08-01 06:01:41

I got most of the system running for me following the invaluable wiki entry. But, I am having some issues with pm-suspend. Anyone have the One successfully wake from suspend? I can't get the monitor to turn back on (even with --quirk-dmps-on) or to not freeze when I try to sleep from within X.

edit: apparently when it fails, I can still type. When I try to reboot, it is corrupting the super block of the ext2 filesystem on the SD card I am using for /home (per your suggestions). Are these issues related?

Last edited by Determination (2008-08-01 06:07:20)

gothicknight · 2008-08-01 15:11:13

Can't confirm that Determination. Mine suspended and revived from the shadows without a problem...

Determination · 2008-08-01 15:53:54

how odd.

pm-utils right? acpi module running? I am most likely missing something.

Last edited by Determination (2008-08-01 15:55:29)

gothicknight · 2008-08-01 16:21:53

I'm ussing KDE klaptop to switch to suspend mode.
Don't know if that has something to do with it... but i doubt it has.

Which modules(wireless,graphics,...), desktop enviroment and daemons are you running?
Did you configure your X to use intel driver?

Determination · 2008-08-01 17:51:45

modules I have loaded via /etc/rc.conf:

MODULES=(r8169 !atk5k !memstick ath_hal ath_pci wlan snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-hwdep snd-page-alloc snd-pcm snd-timer snd snd-hda-intel soundcore acpi acpi-cpufreq cpufreq_ondemand)

daemons, /etc/rc.conf:

DAEMONS=(cpufreq syslog-ng @hal @samba @network @netfs !crond)

device, /etc/X11/xorg.conf: (using the Linpus one posted on the wiki)

 Section "Device"
   Identifier "Videocard0"
   Driver "intel"
   # Option "monitor-LVDS" "Monitor0"
   # Option "monitor-VGA" "Monitor1"
   Option "Clone" "true"
   Option "MonitorLayout" "LVDS,VGA"
   vBusID "PCI:0:2:0"
   # Screen 0
 EndSection

Please excuse any typing errors, I had to type it from the another computer as I am having wireless issues with my One atm.

I'm using xfce, but the problem happens even if I suspend on the CLI.

Last edited by Determination (2008-08-01 21:31:25)

gothicknight · 2008-08-01 22:36:10

I don't know much about suspend, but OSS aren't modules deprecated? I don't need to load the sound modules at all.

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