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#1 2010-06-25 12:16:14

phar
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Registered: 2009-10-20
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Asus eeePC Touch T101MT

Got my hands on one of these a few days ago. I Installed Arch on it yesterday and I thought I'd start a thread to a) resolve some issues I've discovered and b) serve as a resource that I'll eventually turn into a wiki page.

I'll be updating this post with new information as I go. Any other Arch users who own one of these interesting little machines, please post with any suggestions/additions!

Specifications
Intel Atom N450 (512K cache, 1.66Ghz, supports x86_64) with builtin GMA 3150
1 or 2 GB DDR2
320GB HDD
10.1in TFT Touchscreen WSVGA
1024x600 resolution
802.11 b/g/n wireless
10/100Mbps Ethernet

Output of lspci

 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Pineview DMI Bridge
      00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Pineview Integrated Graphics Controller
      00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Pineview Integrated Graphics Controller
      00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
      00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
      00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
      00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02)
      00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
      00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
      00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
      00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
      00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
      00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
      00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Tigerpoint LPC Controller (rev 02)
      00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801GR/GH (ICH7 Family) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)
      01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Atheros AR8132 / L1c Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (rev c0)
      02:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)

Installation
Installation itself is fairly painless. I booted the archboot installation iso over network (via PXE) and followed the installer, choosing to auto-prepare the hard drive and installing only the base and base-devel packages.

Networking worked perfectly with no additional tweaking. Installing the alsa packages had sound working too, again without additional fiddling. X works fine with the xf86-video-intel driver and without an xorg.conf file.

EDIT: Wireless works fine using wicd, tested using a hidden WPA2 passphrase protected network.

I am running Openbox, so I don't have the benefit of a DE which would likely clear up some of the issues below.

Issues
Several of the Fn+F* buttons do not do as they should.
Fn+F1 (suspend) does not work.
Fn+F2 (Toggle wireless card power) does not work.
Fn+F3 (Toggle touchpad) does not work.
Fn+F4 (Forgotten what this does!) does nothing.

Display brightness
The screen contrast is very low. Fn+F5 (Brightness down) can make the screen go completely black, and I actually thought my screen had broken. Fn+F6 (Brightness up) works but it should be able to go brighter. It's barely legible in normal indoors light.

EDIT: Display still illegible with /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCDD/brightness set to 100. It is not an X problem as issue persists at login.

EDIT: Problem has disappeared on reboot. Will try to reproduce (could be when resuming from battery? EDIT: Netbook was suspended with echo -n mem > /sys/power/state and on resume screen was at proper brightness, unable to reproduce issue)

The Touchscreen does not work as intended. Pressing the screen moves the mouse to the top right and appears to scroll up as a mouse scroll wheel would. The touchscreen sans multitouch is reported working in the Ubuntu thread here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1468376

To Test
Webcam - Need to look into this.
Microphone - Again need to look into this.

Last edited by phar (2010-06-25 16:02:16)


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#2 2010-07-01 18:15:17

ladanz
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Registered: 2009-08-08
Posts: 13

Re: Asus eeePC Touch T101MT

Hi there!
Got myself a nice T101, too!

I am quite happy with it. After the update to the new X server from [testing] my touchpad issues (was quite sensible) are gone and with the eGalax driver from the AUR the touchdisplay works quite good (not perfectly, but it's okay).

Webcam is working, but the picture is upside down. But i think i heard that the v4l people are already onto this one.
Microphone works as aspected, a skype session proved it.

All in all: It's like it's been made for arch! Love it!

Here's another ressource on T101: http://www.debacher.de/wiki/Asus_T101MT
And here's eGalax driver: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35045 (vote for it's inclusion wink )

Have fun with your device!

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#3 2010-07-02 08:36:36

inknoir
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Registered: 2009-06-28
Posts: 29

Re: Asus eeePC Touch T101MT

Hi,
I had the same issues you had, but the brightnessproblem was easily solved by closing the lid while it was running. After opening it again I had full screenbrightness. I can't remember the screen being dark again after an bios-update two weeks ago, but I am not sure. By the way, the brightnessproblem was discussed at the Ubuntuforum as well (with no solution so far).

I had problems with network (eth0). The device sometimes didn't show up after reboot , when I left the networkcable plugged in. Didn't investigate further though, since I only use wireless.

I also tried the drivers for the touchscreen they offered at Ubuntu, but wasn't really happy with them. They had to be upgraded manually after every kernelupdate and the touchscreen was pretty sluggish in my opinion.

Now I am running archlinux from SD-card, which es very comforting, since I can switch off the harddrive. It helps with power-consumption, it went down to 5,7 W after tweaking it with powertop and its totally quite.

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#4 2010-07-13 10:46:49

phar
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Registered: 2009-10-20
Posts: 14

Re: Asus eeePC Touch T101MT

Question about Touchscreen removed, thanks Ladanz and Inknoir for your help!

Will be writing this into the Arch wiki shortly.

Phar

Last edited by phar (2010-07-13 11:35:04)


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#5 2010-07-14 13:48:17

inknoir
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Re: Asus eeePC Touch T101MT

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#6 2010-07-15 13:35:25

toomanymirrors
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Registered: 2007-11-06
Posts: 15

Re: Asus eeePC Touch T101MT

Great to see so many Arch users with the same great toy! The same site inknoir mentioned above has a piece on forcing the two finger scrolling to work on the touch pad which I really enjoy: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/T101M … 20TOUCHPAD
I'm using the eGalax touchscreen driver and the only problem I was having was solved by unchecking the "enable press and hold" option in the settings manager.

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#7 2010-11-12 11:35:31

kevrox
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Registered: 2010-11-12
Posts: 1

Re: Asus eeePC Touch T101MT

Hi all, i have one of these little units and am running ubuntu 10.04 well on it. I have used arch before on an old dell and got it working but was wondering now that you all have had some time to tweak your units how snappy and touch friendly is your unit and does it respond like you would like? I am finding the ubuntu option nice but it is not as snappy as I would like, I know it is only an atom processor but as we all do we try to squeeze the most out of our toys.
cheers kev

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#8 2010-11-12 15:19:32

Awebb
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Registered: 2010-05-06
Posts: 6,275

Re: Asus eeePC Touch T101MT

phar wrote:

Issues
Several of the Fn+F* buttons do not do as they should.
Fn+F1 (suspend) does not work.
Fn+F2 (Toggle wireless card power) does not work.
Fn+F3 (Toggle touchpad) does not work.
Fn+F4 (Forgotten what this does!) does nothing.

1. Add "acpi_osi=Linux" to your kernel line in grub. This will make the Fn-Keys available. Check with "xev" which xorg event is mapped to which key. Wifi will work out of the box now.
2. The package acpi-eeepc-generic in AUR will provide a set of scripts you can use with your eee. Use the buttons activated in 1. and manually configure them (touchpad, bluetooth). There might be no script for your machine, but you can write your own script.

Haven't got the microphone working yet.
Webcam worked out of the box, try Cheese to test it.

I'm on an EeePC 1015PEM. It's not the same, but my tips are generic anyway.

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#9 2011-07-11 05:43:51

knicefire
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Registered: 2009-11-12
Posts: 3

Re: Asus eeePC Touch T101MT

Hello everyone! After update to kernel 2.6.39 my touch screen not work correctly. Perhaps this is an issue in new kernel module called hid_multitouch. Is anyone had this issue too?

Last edited by knicefire (2011-07-11 05:44:21)

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