Arch on Eee PC

zodmaner · 2008-02-16 07:12:44

kant1 wrote:

I've posted my package list and a few configs. I can paste any others that are of interest.
http://mychael.gotdns.com/blog/2008/02/ … nux-setup/

Your brightness setting problem after resume from hibernation should be solved if you switch from xf86-video-intel to xf86-video-i810 driver.

kant1 · 2008-02-16 16:55:48

Yeah, the only reason I went with the intel drivers is because I thought I could get seamless external monitor support that way. Sadly that never worked out for me. I probably will go back to i810.

mattiksi · 2008-02-17 00:02:35

So, just for clarification:

If I'd like to install Arch Linux (or any other distro) to an external usb-harddrive, could Iinstall Arch linux normally with swap and ext3?

If someone knows how that works please share your information
I've been really curious about this method, because I think it should be faster than sd-card and I could use swap and ext3, it also would save the onboard ssd or other flash medias. There are so many cheap usb-harddisks available that don't need external power source. They are also so small in size but so much larger in disk space compared to an sd-card
It would have to work so, that if usb-drive is not attached to the EEE, then the default xandros would boot. If usb-harddisk is attached and powered on, then grub is loaded from usb-harddisk.

Anyone done this? How fast does it work? How is the installation etc? Could I just install arch normally with ethernet and then install kernel26eee with pacman and everything should just work after that.

kant1 · 2008-02-17 02:14:34

The prohibition on using swap and a journaling filesystem (ext3) is because the SSD is a flash device. They have a limited number of writes before they die Harddrives can take way more writes before being unusable.

So it doesn't matter how your hard drive connects. The important thing is whether or not your hard drive is a flash drive.

mattiksi · 2008-02-17 10:18:50

Yeah I kind of knew that. I just thought that people who have tried installing Arch linux to a non-flash drive using EEE should share their experiences and possibly add something to the EEE-wiki page

Garuma · 2008-02-17 12:56:19

Hey folks,

I updated yesterday to kernel26 2.6.24 and latest compatible eeemodules from dkite (thnaks for the package dkite btw ) and it seems that suspend2ram.sh isn't working anymore (whatever I close the lid or launch /etc/acpi/suspend2ram.sh manually). I get no particulate error message and the only effect is that I can't launch apps after the suspend call. Any idea of the problem ?

shrd · 2008-02-17 16:14:15

i have error with the last kernel with madwifi driver : dmesg display many warnings
anyway wifi works... except with fn+f2 toggle.
dkite i can't compile atl2.ko, how do you have compiled atl2 with the new kernel ?

kant1 · 2008-02-17 21:38:37

Hey, does anyone have a streamlined mkinitcpio.conf for the Eee pc? Right now I have the default hooks (all of them). Has anyone taken some out to speed up the booting process?

shrd · 2008-02-17 22:20:01

the problem with stock kernel is udev uevents delay : 20 seconds... dont know why

dkite · 2008-02-18 04:28:50

I've updated the kernel26 2.6.24 kernel modules. It uses the Openwrt madwifi set up for the .24 series kernel. It fixes the module unloading problems that broke the sleep. Please test on your machine.

I had to increase the timeouts in /etc/acpi/wlan.sh increasing the sleep 4 to sleep 6 after turning the radio on, before loading the modules. I tested it a couple of times and it seems ok.

The eeemodules are in AUR.

I appreciate the feedback. This is a neat project, which I hope becomes unnecessary as the various modules and code are added to the upstream projects.

http://members.shaw.ca/dkite

Derek

faelar · 2008-02-18 11:46:23

Hum... well.
Suspend works, but the wifi doesn't.
The blue light goes on, but ifconfig shows only lo and eth0.

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dkite · 2008-02-18 15:34:09

faelar wrote:

Hum... well.
Suspend works, but the wifi doesn't.
The blue light goes on, but ifconfig shows only lo and eth0.

In /etc/acpi/wlan.sh try playing with the sleep values. I gave it a bit more time to settle, and it seems to work.

Derek

Theq629 · 2008-02-18 16:01:18

kant1 wrote:

Hey, does anyone have a streamlined mkinitcpio.conf for the Eee pc? Right now I have the default hooks (all of them). Has anyone taken some out to speed up the booting process?

I seem to be getting away with using mostly manual module choices:

MODULES="ata_generic ahci ata_piix ext2 ext3 jbd mbcache usb_storage ide_core sd_mod ehci_hcd uhci_hcd usbcore libata reiserfs"
HOOKS="base eeehd uresume"

My eeehd hook just does some mknodding to make devices available for uresume, and I think is not needed for a regular boot.

The major slowdown on a regular boot seems to be loading udev after the ramdisk stage, though.

Garuma · 2008-02-18 16:34:37

Suspend is working again with your changes dkite, thanks !

luipugs · 2008-02-18 17:59:27

ok everyone, i really really really want this to work.

i tried the instructions here: Install from USB stick. i was successfully able to boot arch linux in eee pc. when i tried to issue

modprobe usb-storage

i get the message "could not load /lib/modules/2.6.22-arch/modules.dep"

i also tried to use

mount /dev/sd[x] /src

(i am pretty sure my usb is sda1, but i can't see sda1 in /dev.)
but i encountered a message to the effect that i have to specify the filetype. so i tried

mount -t autofs /dev/sd[x] /src

but i get an error like "wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock"

-t vfat and -t msdos also does not work.

i have no idea why no other person seems to have my problem. i could really appreciate if someone can help me with this.

mitchell · 2008-02-18 20:03:03

fdisk -l

should tell you where your USB disk is. I've found modprobe is unnecessary and can 'mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /src' right away.

Romashka · 2008-02-18 21:52:39

I've added the link to our Wiki page (which I think is better) to http://wiki.eeeuser.com/installingarchlinux

Fun thing, I've registered on that forum when there was <50 users, but still don't have an Eee.

once · 2008-02-18 22:58:15

Romashka wrote:

Fun thing, I've registered on that forum when there was <50 users, but still don't have an Eee.

me too, even I'm in Taiwan.

dkite · 2008-02-19 01:10:00

luipugs wrote:

ok everyone, i really really really want this to work.
i tried the instructions here: Install from USB stick. i was successfully able to boot arch linux in eee pc. when i tried to issue
modprobe usb-storage
i get the message "could not load /lib/modules/2.6.22-arch/modules.dep"
i also tried to use
mount /dev/sd[x] /src
(i am pretty sure my usb is sda1, but i can't see sda1 in /dev.)
but i encountered a message to the effect that i have to specify the filetype. so i tried
mount -t autofs /dev/sd[x] /src
but i get an error like "wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock"
-t vfat and -t msdos also does not work.
i have no idea why no other person seems to have my problem. i could really appreciate if someone can help me with this.

Run

dmesg | grep sd

to find out where your drives are. Did you create the partitions with cfdisk?

Derek

luipugs · 2008-02-19 02:01:19

@dkite:

i skipped the cfdisk and used mkfs.vfat -F 16 /dev/sda1 immediately.

ok, so i didn't do everything to the letter (ehehe, scratches head...)

i'll report on my next progress when i get home.

toofishes · 2008-02-19 04:53:04

My Eee should be showing up tomorrow, so hope a dev is welcome in your little circle of friends.

It might take me a bit to get up to speed with everything here, but I'll be glad to contribute once I get my bearings. I'm also planning on putting together my own kernel package which will be ideal for a stock Eee PC- meaning no highmem overhead, no SMP code, optimized for Pentium-M, and killing off a lot of the modular drivers. Any stock hardware will also have the drivers compiled in. I'll probably compile a glibc optimized for Pentium M as well, as that will enable use of MMX, SSE, and SSE2 instruction sets which are known to give speedups in things like memcpy.

ise · 2008-02-19 05:56:52

toofishes wrote:

My Eee should be showing up tomorrow, so hope a dev is welcome in your little circle of friends.

Mine has come yesterday ArchLinux is already installed. I think we are welcomed here....I think.

toofishes wrote:

It might take me a bit to get up to speed with everything here, but I'll be glad to contribute once I get my bearings. I'm also planning on putting together my own kernel package which will be ideal for a stock Eee PC- meaning no highmem overhead, no SMP code, optimized for Pentium-M, and killing off a lot of the modular drivers. Any stock hardware will also have the drivers compiled in. I'll probably compile a glibc optimized for Pentium M as well, as that will enable use of MMX, SSE, and SSE2 instruction sets which are known to give speedups in things like memcpy.

I have thought about the same idea, but first I have to setup everything on my EEE...not finished yet.

@Toofishes: If you received your EEE, let me know...

Daniel

faelar · 2008-02-19 10:20:12

I would like to launch gscreenshot when using the printscreen button, but I can't find anywhere the keycode. I suppose one line in /etc/acpi/hotkey.sh will do the trick, if someone can help me with that. Thank you

And a stupid, non-hardware related question, just for fun. What is the color of your EEEPC ? Mine is a black galaxy one ^^

hope a dev is welcome in your little circle of friends

Is there really somewhere where an arch-dev isn't welcome ?

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zodmaner · 2008-02-19 15:08:40

Welcome to the club ise, toofishes!

toofishes: That idea of your custom kernel sounds exciting, can't wait to try it out.

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ise · 2008-02-19 16:19:48

zodmaner wrote:

Welcome to the club ise, toofishes!

Thanks zodmaner....

Now everything is configured and my EEE runs like a charm. Thanks to all the people who have made the wiki entry and thanks to dkite for the package so far. Keep up the good work....Now my fine tuning begins...

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