Acer Aspire One

gothicknight · 2008-08-01 23:41:48

I've recently bought a 4Gb SD and unfortunately I'm getting *allot* of errors in the filesystem :s

It always start by this line:
" mmcblk0: error -110 sending read/write command"

No matter the filesystem I choose it allways gives this. And I've run a battery of tests (badblocks with all tests) and the SD card is fine.

Does anyone have a hint on this? I've googled and found only reports of the problem, no solution or real info on this

Determination · 2008-08-02 05:51:58

From my experience, not shutting down One cleanly pretty much ensures that /home will be corrupted on the SD card. Tried ext2 and now reiserfs. Reiserfs has yet to crap out on me so far, I'll update if I have the same issues.

I didn't add the sound modules, they were added when I installed alsa-utils according to the Beginner's Guide, I think.

vegai · 2008-08-03 11:26:17

Good stuff on the wiki! For a minute there, I feared I was the only Arch user who got one of these

Some questions...

The page recommends not having a swap partition. But isn't suspend-to-disk a useful feature with the Aspire One?

Also, it says "Never choose to use a journaling file system on the SSD partitions". So, is EXT2 the obvious best choice?

I read a bit about LogFS and such, but it seems that, while those filesystems can be vastly superiour to filesystems designed for platters, the current SSDs are maldesigned in various ways that logfs wouldn't help there too much. Anyone know more about this?

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Determination · 2008-08-03 16:27:50

I have ext2 on my SSD, and I originally had ext2 on my SD /home partition as well. I'm hesitant to test further with suspend-to-RAM as every time I tried I corrupted the filesystem on the SD card.

So far I haven't been missing swap since arch + xfce is running so well on 512mb.

AndyRTR · 2008-08-03 20:34:19

PSU of my Acer One just died. Will have to send it back to the shop

Keep up the good work until I'll be back.

Determination · 2008-08-04 03:24:53

http://www.aspireoneuser.com/2008/08/03 … ios-v3114/

oh boy, new bios!

gothicknight · 2008-08-05 13:07:46

The problem with my card seems to be the slow write speed and the hardcoded "sleep" value of MMC driver.
When using my girlfriend's EeePC it simply waits until everything is written, possibly because it's a sdX device (USB card reader?) instead of mmcblkX device and the drivers respond diferently to I/O bandwith restrictions.

Any ideas how to overcome this issue?
Possibly a filesystem that limmits the quantity of data being pushed into the device?
From my tests JFS was the filesystem with the less filesystem errors upon the MMC error, although I cannot relly enough on the fsck.jfs as the ext3 gives plenty of them (when trying with ext3 offcourse) and the mount option errors=remount-ro quicky enables read only in ext2 and ext3 which doesn't happen in JFS.

vegai · 2008-08-06 09:58:52

I saw recommendations in several places to use the noop IO scheduler -- and it makes sense. I added this to the wiki page (just elevator=noop on your grub kernel line)

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Fackamato · 2008-08-06 10:02:39

vegai wrote:

I saw recommendations in several places to use the noop IO scheduler -- and it makes sense. I added this to the wiki page (just elevator=noop on your grub kernel line)

This also applies to all virtual machines with Linux guests who use an image file as a harddrive. (just thought I'd share!)

antis · 2008-08-06 19:42:42

I think I'm in love.
Just got this little beauty installed with Arch and so far everything is working beautifully. The only thing that caused me troubles was to get the wlan working but after 1 hour or so I realized that I had switched it off with the button on the front panel. Way to go me

Still got a few things to work on (web cam etc) before everything is up and running.

Also, good work on the wiki guys!

Edit: After a few hours of use I notice that the fan is on quite alot. Any ideas how to make it work less? The cpu gouvernor makes the cpu work at 800Mhz and the case isn't very hot at all so I guess the fan should be able to run slower...

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vegai · 2008-08-07 11:20:33

antis wrote:

Edit: After a few hours of use I notice that the fan is on quite alot. Any ideas how to make it work less? The cpu gouvernor makes the cpu work at 800Mhz and the case isn't very hot at all so I guess the fan should be able to run slower...

Use top and powertop to see what keeps the machine active.

I'm not sure whether using the cpu governor is a good idea -- seems like the CPU is able to shut itself down pretty well when it's idle anyway. Anyone have more info about this? The governor causes more wakeups, that's for sure.

antis · 2008-08-07 22:20:25

vegai wrote:

Use top and powertop to see what keeps the machine active.
I'm not sure whether using the cpu governor is a good idea -- seems like the CPU is able to shut itself down pretty well when it's idle anyway. Anyone have more info about this? The governor causes more wakeups, that's for sure.

According to powertop the absolute top cause for wakeups is "mmc0, uhci_hcd:usb4". Don't really know what it is... maybe the left SD expansion slot? As for other processes (looking at top) there isn't very much activity at all when I'm not using the computer.

Also, has anyone got the 5-in-1 card reader on the right side to work? I get no information at all from dmesg when inserting a SD-card. Any particular module that should be loaded?

.:B:. · 2008-08-08 00:26:32

mmc is for the SD card reader . I don't know how the Aspire One is set up internally but the SD card reader is probably hooked up to the USB bus, hence the uhcid_hcd too.

Xeo84 · 2008-08-08 06:14:07

hi, i also installed archlinux on aspire one but i not be able to set up LAN!!!!
i loaded module r8169, configured rc.conf with static ip and also dhcp but doesn't work.
i use a router and gateway it's correctly set, but if i try to do a ping i see destination unreachble!
i don't understand i've forgot something???
thanks!

AndyRTR · 2008-08-08 06:28:28

please use kernel 2.6.26 from testing repo!

Xeo84 · 2008-08-08 06:43:53

how can i download the kernel, is possible to download with a non-archlinux os and trasfer it on my aspire one???
tnx!!

antis · 2008-08-08 07:13:19

Xeo84 wrote:

how can i download the kernel, is possible to download with a non-archlinux os and trasfer it on my aspire one???
tnx!!

Go to you favourite mirror and download the kernelpackage. Then install locally with pacman -U.

For example:

Go to: ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/
Navigate to: testing/os/i686/
Download: kernel26-2.6.26-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz

Transfer the file to your Arch install and run: pacman -U kernel26-2.6.26-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz

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Xeo84 · 2008-08-08 07:32:24

antis wrote:

Xeo84 wrote:
how can i download the kernel, is possible to download with a non-archlinux os and trasfer it on my aspire one???
tnx!!
Go to you favourite mirror and download the kernelpackage. Then install locally with pacman -U.
For example:
Go to: ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/
Navigate to: testing/os/i686/
Download: kernel26-2.6.26-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz
Transfer the file to your Arch install and run: pacman -U kernel26-2.6.26-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz

Thanks a lot i will try this evening

vegai · 2008-08-08 08:40:07

Determination wrote:

http://www.aspireoneuser.com/2008/08/03 … ios-v3114/
oh boy, new bios!

Anyone know a nifty way to get that baby loaded?

I suppose I'll need a USB image of a bootable Freedos or something. Or PXE boot?

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gothicknight · 2008-08-08 09:38:43

Vegai, IMHO its pointless to update, the suposly fix in the C4 state is for windows only.

Xeo84 · 2008-08-09 11:34:56

hi, lan finally work with kernel .26 thanks!!
but i've other 2 problem:
1: i installed cpufreq and in rc.conf i load modules "acpi-cpufreq" and "cpufreq_ondemand", but when aspire start the frequency is always to 1.60Ghz and governor is performance, if i set manually the governor to ondemand, frequency slow to 800 and it's ok!
why i can't load archlinux with ondemand governor by default?

2: i installed xorg everythingh ok but when do startx, it seems to load, i also see for a second the mouse cursor but after it exit and error is:
login: error 32, errno 2 no such file or directory,
reason: get pty: not enough ptys!!
I copied the xorg.conf founded in acer aspire one wiki without change!

thanks for any help!!
bye

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AndyRTR · 2008-08-09 11:57:59

Xeo84 wrote:

hi, lan finally work with kernel .26 thanks!!
but i've other 2 problem:
1: i installed cpufreq and in rc.conf i load modules "acpi-cpufreq" and "cpufreq_ondemand", but when aspire start the frequency is always to 1.60Ghz and governor is performance, if i set manually the governor to ondemand, frequency slow to 800 and it's ok!
why i can't load archlinux with ondemand governor by default?

see wiki page: add the gouvernor to rc.local

Xeo84 wrote:

2: i installed xorg everythingh ok but when do startx, it seems to load, i also see for a second the mouse cursor but after it exit and error is:
login: error 32, errno 2 no such file or directory,
reason: get pty: not enough ptys!!
I copied the xorg.conf founded in acer aspire one wiki without change!
thanks for any help!!
bye

A short google request shows that you probably missed
none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
in your fstab.

.:B:. · 2008-08-09 12:07:43

gothicknight wrote:

Vegai, IMHO its pointless to update, the suposly fix in the C4 state is for windows only.

Linux identifies as a version of Windows to the BIOS ACPI table, so I presume it is relevant?

Xeo84 · 2008-08-09 12:58:47

thanks a lot it works

Xeo84 · 2008-08-09 13:15:16

what GDM do u use?? i think to install gnome it works ok or it's slow??
and kde4 had u tried yet??

or xfce????

thanks!!!

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