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tehabe

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Registered: 2008-10-14

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Re: Arch on Asus EEE 901

How do I get rid of this message:

Nov  2 00:35:07 proton logger: Could not verify user for X:
Nov  2 00:35:07 proton logger: thomas vc/7 Nov 1 18:59 (:0)
Nov  2 00:35:07 proton logger: Falling back to XUSER: thomas

Has anybody an idea, other weird message is this one:

Nov  3 19:52:49 proton logger: ACPI group/action undefined: processor P001 00000081 00000000
Nov  3 19:52:49 proton logger: ACPI group/action undefined: processor P002 00000081 00000000

It comes, when my eeePC wakes up.

Izuil

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2006-10-07

Posts: 162

Re: Arch on Asus EEE 901

Izuil

did you succeed in compiling your module? the trick given by robertek did the job. there is a point that can be usefull : If the path to the module's sources i want to compile contain space, the make fail. Not any space char in the path and all work fine.

I didn't need to compile it, robertek included the driver in the zen3 kernel

Is there a simple way to check my battery power?

I installed xfce4-battery-plugin for the xfce4-panel but it won't start.
My guess is that I'm missing a vital module but which one?

loading xfce4-battery-plugin produce segfault since it has been updated to 0.5.1

there is fix at http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=443256

Thanks!

EDIT: I forgot something, if I do:

glxinfo | grep rendering

I get no for an answer
Does anyone else have direct rendering?

If it helps, when I do startx I get drmOpen failed.

Last edited by Izuil (2008-11-03 20:07:59)

Etuxia

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From: Stockholm, Sweden

Registered: 2008-10-29

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Re: Arch on Asus EEE 901

Izuil

did you succeed in compiling your module? the trick given by robertek did the job. there is a point that can be usefull : If the path to the module's sources i want to compile contain space, the make fail. Not any space char in the path and all work fine.

I didn't need to compile it, robertek included the driver in the zen3 kernel

Is there a simple way to check my battery power?

I installed xfce4-battery-plugin for the xfce4-panel but it won't start.
My guess is that I'm missing a vital module but which one?

loading xfce4-battery-plugin produce segfault since it has been updated to 0.5.1

there is fix at http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=443256

Thanks!

EDIT: I forgot something, if I do:

glxinfo | grep rendering

I get no for an answer
Does anyone else have direct rendering?

If it helps, when I do startx I get drmOpen failed.

etu@Slartibartfast:~$ glxinfo | grep rendering
direct rendering: Yes

lejonet

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Registered: 2008-10-27

Posts: 80

Re: Arch on Asus EEE 901

Izuil

did you succeed in compiling your module? the trick given by robertek did the job. there is a point that can be usefull : If the path to the module's sources i want to compile contain space, the make fail. Not any space char in the path and all work fine.

I didn't need to compile it, robertek included the driver in the zen3 kernel

Is there a simple way to check my battery power?

I installed xfce4-battery-plugin for the xfce4-panel but it won't start.
My guess is that I'm missing a vital module but which one?

loading xfce4-battery-plugin produce segfault since it has been updated to 0.5.1

there is fix at http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=443256

Thanks!

EDIT: I forgot something, if I do:

glxinfo | grep rendering

I get no for an answer
Does anyone else have direct rendering?

If it helps, when I do startx I get drmOpen failed.

I also get :

[lejonet@lejonets-eeepc]$ glxinfo | grep rendering 
direct rendering: Yes

Regarding the fsb settings, when I changed  100 50 1 > 100 50 0  present rate in /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state went down from 1116 to 1016 mA

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Izuil

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Registered: 2006-10-07

Posts: 162

Re: Arch on Asus EEE 901

Darn... Are you guys using the latest  kernel from robertek?
Could any of you post your xorg.conf fies?

EDIT: lsmod output would also be nice

Last edited by Izuil (2008-11-04 00:07:37)

Etuxia

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Re: Arch on Asus EEE 901

Darn... Are you guys using the latest  kernel from robertek?
Could any of you post your xorg.conf fies?

EDIT: lsmod output would also be nice

I not using the latest one, Im using an old kernel before he created the 1G and 4G kernels.

The latest just give me Kernel Panic.

I will post my xorg.conf soon. It have multitouch and things like that enabled.

http://pastebin.com/m198fe19e

Last edited by Etuxia (2008-11-04 02:04:37)

elliott

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Registered: 2006-03-07

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Re: Arch on Asus EEE 901

The latest just give me Kernel Panic.

Fairly easy fix, after you update the kernel, before the reboot, just run this command.

mkinitcpio -c /etc/mkinitcpio-zeneee.conf -k 2.6.27-zen3eee -g /boot/zeneee.img

He didn't update a variable in his zen-eee901.install file and it doesn't create the correct initramfs.

Last edited by elliott (2008-11-04 02:11:08)

Etuxia

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Re: Arch on Asus EEE 901

The latest just give me Kernel Panic.

Fairly easy fix, after you update the kernel, before the reboot, just run this command.

mkinitcpio -c /etc/mkinitcpio-zeneee.conf -k 2.6.27-zen3eee -g /boot/zeneee.img

He didn't update a variable in his zen-eee901.install file and it doesn't create the correct initramfs.

It solved the kernel panic but none of the network cards works.

elliott

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Registered: 2006-03-07

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Re: Arch on Asus EEE 901

I can't really comment on that, I don't use ethernet, it is disabled in the BIOS. I also swapped my wifi card to an AR5007EG that I had laying around.

What exactly is happening?
Are the modules loading? Are the interfaces being created?

Robertek

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Registered: 2007-06-02

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Re: Arch on Asus EEE 901

The latest just give me Kernel Panic.

Fairly easy fix, after you update the kernel, before the reboot, just run this command.

mkinitcpio -c /etc/mkinitcpio-zeneee.conf -k 2.6.27-zen3eee -g /boot/zeneee.img

He didn't update a variable in his zen-eee901.install file and it doesn't create the correct initramfs.

Agrrhh thanks, I will make an fixed package. If you find something similar next time, feel free to email me.

Last edited by Robertek (2008-11-04 08:03:40)

Etuxia

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Re: Arch on Asus EEE 901

Arghh, Robertek your mirror is really slow right now...

Last edited by Etuxia (2008-11-04 10:48:11)

Izuil

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Registered: 2006-10-07

Posts: 162

Re: Arch on Asus EEE 901

@Etuxia: Have you put rt2860sta and atl1e in your modules line in rc.conf?

@elliott: Thanks for your xorg.conf, gonna do a quick compare and try yours later.

Etuxia

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Re: Arch on Asus EEE 901

@Etuxia: Have you put rt2860sta and atl1e in your modules line in rc.conf?

No, I havent. I will do it and try again when I be able to download files from robertek's mirror again.

Izuil

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Registered: 2006-10-07

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Re: Arch on Asus EEE 901

@Etuxia: Have you put rt2860sta and atl1e in your modules line in rc.conf?

No, I havent. I will do it and try again when I be able to download files from robertek's mirror again.

Which file is it that you arre missing? I have the latest kernel, I could upload it to rapidshare for you?

EDIT: Latest kernel: http://rapidshare.com/files/160551598/z … ar.gz.html

just do

pacman -U filename

when you are in the folder where you downloaded the file.

EDIT2: Once again, could anyone post the output of:

lsmod

Last edited by Izuil (2008-11-04 12:30:16)

Etuxia

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Re: Arch on Asus EEE 901

@Etuxia: Have you put rt2860sta and atl1e in your modules line in rc.conf?

No, I havent. I will do it and try again when I be able to download files from robertek's mirror again.

Which file is it that you arre missing? I have the latest kernel, I could upload it to rapidshare for you?

It isn't missing. Just can't download it. I tried in fiefox, with wget, and pacman. I can download it but it is really really slow.

And I have just 1Gb RAM, so I using the 1G kernel.

etu@Slartibartfast:~$ lsmod 
Module                  Size  Used by
hci_usb                10460  0 
bluetooth              41892  1 hci_usb
atl1e                  27796  0 
rt2860sta             345856  1 
pciehp                 28508  0 
pci_hotplug            10636  1 pciehp
snd_hwdep               6020  0 
snd_pcm_oss            30176  0 
snd_mixer_oss          12096  1 snd_pcm_oss
ext3                   97160  2 
jbd                    38036  1 ext3
dm_crypt               10884  0 
dm_mod                 40368  1 dm_crypt

Last edited by Etuxia (2008-11-04 12:33:28)

Izuil

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Re: Arch on Asus EEE 901

I emptied my modules line and now I have direct rendering :S Probably loaded something in the wrong order.

thanks anyhow

EDIT: joydev would be sweet to have in the kernel, the eee is perfect for zsnes Just needs a controller

Last edited by Izuil (2008-11-04 19:12:06)

elliott

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Re: Arch on Asus EEE 901

EDIT: joydev would be sweet to have in the kernel, the eee is perfect for zsnes Just needs a controller

I'll second this, I've been adding it myself at each release.

kleinlohmi

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Registered: 2008-10-16

Posts: 15

Re: Arch on Asus EEE 901

I have a problem with netcfg. Dunno if this is eee related but it really drives me nuts.
When i connect to my wpa secured wlan using netcfg everything works nice, but when i want to disconnect using netcfg -a, if just fails.

Any ideas??

steve___

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Registered: 2008-02-24

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Re: Arch on Asus EEE 901

I have a problem with netcfg. Dunno if this is eee related but it really drives me nuts.
When i connect to my wpa secured wlan using netcfg everything works nice, but when i want to disconnect using netcfg -a, if just fails.

Any ideas??

Have you tried the command  'netcfg -d PROFILE_NAME' ?

Gringo

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Registered: 2008-07-31

Posts: 37

Re: Arch on Asus EEE 901

For those of you who have problems with hardware not being found, I might have a simple solution: I always use hwdetect to detect my hardware and corresponding kernel modules.

hwdetect --modules

This prints a modules line you can use in /etc/rc./conf :

MODULES=(video intel-agp !intel-rng rng-core output snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-page-alloc snd-pcm snd-timer snd-hda-intel atl1e rt2860sta)

I commented intel-rng because I get an error whenever I load the module. The intel random generator is proably not supported on the Atom processor. The above configuration works perfectly for me.

Izuil

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Registered: 2006-10-07

Posts: 162

Re: Arch on Asus EEE 901

I have a problem with netcfg. Dunno if this is eee related but it really drives me nuts.
When i connect to my wpa secured wlan using netcfg everything works nice, but when i want to disconnect using netcfg -a, if just fails.

Any ideas??

If you're using X (which I suppose you do) I can really recommend wicd

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

Last edited by Izuil (2008-11-05 16:58:32)

lejonet

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Registered: 2008-10-27

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Re: Arch on Asus EEE 901

Adding to Izuils comment about wicd

I have always been using wicd as my connection manager under linux and I had some problems getting it to work under Arch.
Remember that if you have checked that the module and interface is loaded as its supposed to, try to connect with the wext driver instead of ralink legacy (you set it under preference).

It sounds weird that the ralink legacy drivers dont work but wext does but what is logical in a computer anyways?

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kleinlohmi

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Registered: 2008-10-16

Posts: 15

Re: Arch on Asus EEE 901

I have a problem with netcfg. Dunno if this is eee related but it really drives me nuts.
When i connect to my wpa secured wlan using netcfg everything works nice, but when i want to disconnect using netcfg -a, if just fails.

Any ideas??

Have you tried the command  'netcfg -d PROFILE_NAME' ?

I tried that, but it didn't work neither.

I have a problem with netcfg. Dunno if this is eee related but it really drives me nuts.
When i connect to my wpa secured wlan using netcfg everything works nice, but when i want to disconnect using netcfg -a, if just fails.

Any ideas??

If you're using X (which I suppose you do) I can really recommend wicd

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

I don't want to use X for my wireless connection and setting up manually is weird. On Gnome i was using networkmanager, that worked fine, but I really would like to use netcfg.

Is there an error log to diagnose what is going wrong?? It just offers me [FAIL] ^^

Thanks for any help!!

Edit:
To provide you with further details:
My wlan connection is down in ifconfig after shutting it down with netcfg and my web connection ist lost. But when i want to reconnect to my Wlan, netcfg says "WLAN is already connected".

Last edited by kleinlohmi (2008-11-05 18:18:29)

Etuxia

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Re: Arch on Asus EEE 901

My wlan isn't working.

I got the laatest zen-eee901-1G kernel.

MODULES=(pciehp rt2860sta atl1e)

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng acpid dbus hal @wicd @sshd @bluetooth)

Did I miss something? What driver should I usee in wicd-client?

steve___

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Registered: 2008-02-24

Posts: 452

Re: Arch on Asus EEE 901

@ kleinlohmi

When I was testing with my friends 901 I had to do this to get disconnected:

$ netcfg2 -d wifi-home && ifconfig ra0 down

And this to connect

$ ifconfig ra0 uup && netcfg2 wifi-home

-steve