Acer Aspire One

kaola_linux · 2009-03-23 09:37:30

Hey everyone, I would just like to confirm to those AA1 owners running kdemod 4.2 and kernel26-one-dev had some issues starting kdemod after installing the latest version of wicd...:) I've tried using the stock kernel and I've succesfully started it for comparison purposes....I'm just not sure ...I've downgraded to the previous version of wicd and all is working fine now...:)

Last edited by kaola_linux (2009-03-23 09:39:03)

Tera · 2009-03-23 11:22:20

kaola_linux wrote:

Btw, could you teach me what to do with your PKGBUILD to enable ntfs support or if there is another way? I'm willing to pay attention...:D Thanks

Easiest way would be to "pacman -S ntfs-3g" and then "ntfs-3g /dev/sdX1 /path/to/mount/dir"

kaola_linux · 2009-03-23 12:20:32

Tera wrote:

kaola_linux wrote:
Btw, could you teach me what to do with your PKGBUILD to enable ntfs support or if there is another way? I'm willing to pay attention...:D Thanks
Easiest way would be to "pacman -S ntfs-3g" and then "ntfs-3g /dev/sdX1 /path/to/mount/dir"

I've already done that...I was hoping if I could enable it to be automounted by hal...

Last edited by kaola_linux (2009-03-23 12:23:51)

Zom · 2009-03-23 13:52:18

You mean for KDE4.2? Symlink mount.ntfs to ntfs-3g or something like that. Easiest way, I've heard.

kaola_linux · 2009-03-23 15:35:15

Zom wrote:

You mean for KDE4.2? Symlink mount.ntfs to ntfs-3g or something like that. Easiest way, I've heard.

Just tried it and it's now working...I have just read the wiki about that..:)

ahaslam · 2009-03-23 17:10:09

Spot the difference:

For those who don't like squinting @ pictures:

From:

dmesg | grep -e agp -e drm
[    0.869821] Linux agpgart interface v0.103
[    0.869942] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: Intel 945GME Chipset
[    0.870282] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: detected 7932K stolen memory
[    0.873157] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0x60000000
[    0.873461] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[    0.876494] [drm] MTRR allocation failed.  Graphics performance may suffer.
[    0.876590] [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20080730 on minor 0

To:

dmesg | grep -e agp -e drm
[    0.869821] Linux agpgart interface v0.103
[    0.869942] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: Intel 945GME Chipset
[    0.870282] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: detected 7932K stolen memory
[    0.873157] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0x60000000
[    0.873461] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[    0.876590] [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20080730 on minor 0

Using Theapp's config settings has no performance impact, tho it's clearly the right thing to use. Anyone know what this 'stolen' memory is?

Last edited by ahaslam (2009-03-23 17:15:11)

Tera · 2009-03-24 09:05:55

ahaslam wrote:

Anyone know what this 'stolen' memory is?

The size does seem to reflect to about 8MB, which is the default shared memory of the graphics chip (set on BIOS). I suspect that the X server just detected that the graphic chip has, like, already stolen 8MB of memory from the RAM for itself. Please someone correct me if I'm totally wrong.

ichbinesderelch · 2009-03-24 12:01:43

[   20.030289] X:3438 conflicting memory types 20000000-30000000 write-combining<->uncached-minus   
[   20.030299] reserve_memtype failed 0x20000000-0x30000000, track write-combining, req write-combining                                                                                                 
[   20.494223] X:3438 conflicting memory types 20000000-30000000 write-combining<->uncached-minus   
[   20.494232] reserve_memtype failed 0x20000000-0x30000000, track write-combining, req write-combining                                                                                                 
[   20.786071] X:3438 conflicting memory types 20000000-30000000 write-combining<->uncached-minus   
[   20.786081] reserve_memtype failed 0x20000000-0x30000000, track write-combining, req write-combining
[   20.828857] X:3803 freeing invalid memtype 20000000-30000000

anyone knows something about those errors in dmesg? currently using kernel26-one-dev, but same errors occur with stock kernel. anyone else having these? google didnt return anything usefull

EDIT:
fixed by adding nopat to grub kernel line

Last edited by ichbinesderelch (2009-03-24 15:25:20)

thayer · 2009-03-24 19:51:19

IMO this thread is getting saturated and difficult to navigate for accurate information. I suggest renaming the original thread to "Acer Aspire One Kernel development" or similar and then creating new threads for unrelated questions.

Tera · 2009-03-25 00:04:39

ichbinesderelch wrote:

[   20.030289] X:3438 conflicting memory types 20000000-30000000 write-combining<->uncached-minus   
[   20.030299] reserve_memtype failed 0x20000000-0x30000000, track write-combining, req write-combining                                                                                                 
[   20.494223] X:3438 conflicting memory types 20000000-30000000 write-combining<->uncached-minus   
[   20.494232] reserve_memtype failed 0x20000000-0x30000000, track write-combining, req write-combining                                                                                                 
[   20.786071] X:3438 conflicting memory types 20000000-30000000 write-combining<->uncached-minus   
[   20.786081] reserve_memtype failed 0x20000000-0x30000000, track write-combining, req write-combining
[   20.828857] X:3803 freeing invalid memtype 20000000-30000000

anyone knows something about those errors in dmesg? currently using kernel26-one-dev, but same errors occur with stock kernel. anyone else having these? google didnt return anything usefull

EDIT:
fixed by adding nopat to grub kernel line

I can compile a test build without PAT, but I'm afraid that running without PAT has it's side-effects...

Last edited by Tera (2009-03-25 00:05:05)

ichbinesderelch · 2009-03-25 10:10:00

but what are these side effects? didn't have any performance increase or any similiar

i still have those errors showing in dmesg
[drm:i915_setparam] *ERROR* unknown parameter 4
[drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 6
[drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 6
but couldn't find any usefull for this(using testing repo right now)

Tera · 2009-03-26 08:03:41

ichbinesderelch wrote:

but what are these side effects? didn't have any performance increase or any similiar
i still have those errors showing in dmesg
[drm:i915_setparam] *ERROR* unknown parameter 4
[drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 6
[drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 6
but couldn't find any usefull for this(using testing repo right now)

I'm not getting such errors myself, but in the other hand I'm running latest GIT version of the Intel driver.
Can you post your Xorg's Section "Device" please.

ichbinesderelch · 2009-03-26 11:10:59

i'm running fully without xorg.conf, gave me better performance so far, with the latest 2.6.29 kernel from testing this error is gone anyways, so nevermind it thx anyway

Tera · 2009-03-26 12:56:56

ichbinesderelch wrote:

i'm running fully without xorg.conf, gave me better performance so far, with the latest 2.6.29 kernel from testing this error is gone anyways, so nevermind it thx anyway

Would you like to try with kernel26-one-dev and verify the problem does not happen with it? I just released few hours ago a new version which is based on the stable release. I will post the announcement next.

Tera · 2009-03-26 13:19:47

I have released new kernel26-one-dev which is based on the stable 2.6.29 kernel. The kernel package will start to follow kernel 2.6.30 as soon as the first snapshots have been released, so the stability can naturally reduce. I consider this the most stable release yet. I will archive ths release so that it will be easily available for everyone until kernel26-one-dev 2.6.30 is out, for those of us who doesn't like to run the most bleeding edge kernel

New featuress are:
- acerhdf has been integrated to the kernel. The package conflicts now with 'acerfand' and 'acerhdf'.
- MTRR issues fixed
- Strange Xorg memory errors fixed (compiled without PAT).

The binary kernel which is available on my dump directory has not yet been updated. I'm writing this announcement from Pendolino (train) and the connection isn't stable enought for me to upload it to the server at this point. Happy upgrading!!

ichbinesderelch · 2009-03-26 14:13:52

Tera wrote:

ichbinesderelch wrote:
i'm running fully without xorg.conf, gave me better performance so far, with the latest 2.6.29 kernel from testing this error is gone anyways, so nevermind it thx anyway
Would you like to try with kernel26-one-dev and verify the problem does not happen with it? I just released few hours ago a new version which is based on the stable release. I will post the announcement next.

downloading the source form kernel.org right now, could take some time, i get about 10kb/s from the server but will report back than

el_cammello · 2009-03-26 15:09:01

I've installed the new kernel (kernel26-one-dev), the fan doesn't turn off, I've checked:

[~] sudo cat /var/log/messages.log | grep acerhdf
Mar 26 15:57:22 acerone kernel: [    1.314015] acerhdf: version: 0.4.0 compiledate: Mar 26 2009 15:47:14
Mar 26 15:57:22 acerone kernel: [    1.314021] acerhdf: biosvendor:Acer
Mar 26 15:57:22 acerone kernel: [    1.314025] acerhdf: biosversion:v0.3309
Mar 26 15:57:22 acerone kernel: [    1.314030] acerhdf: biosrelease:10/06/2008
Mar 26 15:57:22 acerone kernel: [    1.314034] acerhdf: biosproduct:AOA150
[~]

the temperature is missing.. I believe it doesn't work

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EasyTarget · 2009-03-26 17:42:59

Tera, thankyou soooo much for that! I was waiting for this release before giving it a try and my One now feels 'complete' Unfortunately, like el_cammello, the fan is running continuously again , but that is the only Issue I have encountered.

I have another tweak that I wanted to share here, and possibly ask if it can be incorporated in the kernel:

I have added the following lines near the top of my /etc/rc.local

# Stop disk activity being batched, not sensible on SSD.
echo 1 >| /sys/block/sda/queue/iosched/fifo_batch
echo 1 >| /sys/block/mmcblk0/queue/iosched/fifo_batch

I got this trick from http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/09/0 … te-drives/ although I have also seen it mentioned elsewhere. It stops disk activity being batched (?when files are close together?), which is an advantage with mechanical HDDs but not really sensible for SSDs. When I implemented this on my old Fedora install it seemed to make icon-heavy menu's, thumbnails, etc. in the GUI 'snappier' and faster to open. Hard to measure, but I was sure I could detect a difference.

I was actually wondering if it can be set as a default in the Kernel, I had a look at the kernel config reference but could not see anything relevant, but maybe someone with better Kernel-Fu skillz can make it the default?

el_cammello · 2009-03-26 19:28:43

for the fan:

echo kernel > /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/mode

Last edited by el_cammello (2009-03-26 19:30:19)

MarCustomized · 2009-03-26 21:07:21

Tera, you are amazing.

EDIT: Tera, I'm getting the following error message at boot.

[    4.841760] modprobe: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.29-one-dev/modules.dep: No such file or directory

I ran "depmod -a" in the /lib/modules/2.6.29-one-dev/ directory. The file "modules.dep" exists. I don't know why I'm still getting the error.

Last edited by MarCustomized (2009-03-26 23:30:49)

AndyRTR · 2009-03-27 05:46:06

Any improvements the 2.6.29 kernel brings to the Aspire one? I guess we need a new patch to get the Wifi LED back working. Last 2.6.28 kernel works well for me. So I'm in no hurry.

btw: ever thought about this:
http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux … 144/thread ?

Is the AUR kernel still maitained? I could take it over but would make it more slacky confed

Tera · 2009-03-27 10:55:25

AndyRTR wrote:

Any improvements the 2.6.29 kernel brings to the Aspire one? I guess we need a new patch to get the Wifi LED back working. Last 2.6.28 kernel works well for me. So I'm in no hurry.
btw: ever thought about this:
http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux … 144/thread ?
Is the AUR kernel still maitained? I could take it over but would make it more slacky confed

kernel26-one-dev includes patches for the WIFI leds. The code should be stable enought to include to a stable kernel series as well IMHO.
The kernel26-one has been quiet so long that I'd email the package maintainer and ask whats hapenning

2.6.29 doesn't bring anything must have for Aspire One, except the normal kernel development. Thanks for the patch link. It does look like something to include into kernel26-one-dev when I next time update it.

Last edited by Tera (2009-03-27 11:01:49)

Tera · 2009-03-27 11:07:53

MarCustomized wrote:

Tera, you are amazing.
EDIT: Tera, I'm getting the following error message at boot.
[    4.841760] modprobe: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.29-one-dev/modules.dep: No such file or directory
I ran "depmod -a" in the /lib/modules/2.6.29-one-dev/ directory. The file "modules.dep" exists. I don't know why I'm still getting the error.

I'm not having the same problem so unfortunately I can't comment much. The error howerver is non-fatal as all the most important drivers have been compiled into the kernel. It causes trouble only if you need to modprobe additional modules.

EDIT: You can try and remove the file, and re-create it with depmod -a. Other than that I don't have much clue. You could try starting a separate thread about it and if you find a solution on that thread, link it back to me so I can verify would the PKGBUILD need any updating to solve the matter.

Last edited by Tera (2009-03-27 12:44:16)

Abecedarian · 2009-03-28 01:43:37

I'm having some problems with my One - the filesystem check on boot fails instantly. Every time. I disabled checking on the memory card expansion partitions (/var, /tmp, /home), which only left / on the SSD to check. It still failed without even beginning any check and kicked me to the "CTL+D to reboot, or root password for maintenance" prompt. In the meantime, I've disabled automatic file system checking, but I know this is no solution.

If this is a general problem rather than aspire one specific, I'll make a topic for it somewhere else. I just thought this was the best place to ask.

Tera · 2009-03-28 10:09:39

Abecedarian wrote:

If this is a general problem rather than aspire one specific, I'll make a topic for it somewhere else. I just thought this was the best place to ask.

Sounds like a general problem

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