Arch on Eee PC

JazzplayerL9 · 2008-04-16 16:06:19

@toofishes,

Guess I should've read the 25 pages before posting. Thanks for the reply though.

ighea · 2008-04-16 16:19:54

jensp wrote:

Hey, would you mind to include the fbsplash patch in the eeepc kernel? That would be really nice for people who'd like some eye candy

It's already possible to use splashy or similar, but in my opinion those just slow down the overall boot up process unnecessarily. Still, I'm having a nice Arch boot splash!

And am I really the only one having problems with the madwifi-ng-eee-3456-1 package? I just can't get dhcp-leases at all with that and had to revert back to version 3402-1.

Well, have to try snapshot version 3545 and see if it does any better.

Last edited by ighea (2008-04-16 21:16:02)

spaam · 2008-04-17 07:33:24

ighea wrote:

jensp wrote:
Hey, would you mind to include the fbsplash patch in the eeepc kernel? That would be really nice for people who'd like some eye candy
It's already possible to use splashy or similar, but in my opinion those just slow down the overall boot up process unnecessarily. Still, I'm having a nice Arch boot splash!

And am I really the only one having problems with the madwifi-ng-eee-3456-1 package? I just can't get dhcp-leases at all with that and had to revert back to version 3402-1.
Well, have to try snapshot version 3545 and see if it does any better.

you are not the only one
i use the snapshot magwifi-ng-eee-3402-3 .. that package works great

woho the first post

ighea · 2008-04-17 11:17:42

Well, it seems that the snapshot-r3545 is working again. I use my own kernel build anyway so this does not really concern me (I need wine to function), but for the greater good...

Should be fixed asap, toofishes!

spaam · 2008-04-17 12:45:23

ighea wrote:

Well, it seems that the snapshot-r3545 is working again. I use my own kernel build anyway so this does not really concern me (I need wine to function), but for the greater good...
Should be fixed asap, toofishes!

what is the big different between your kernel build and toofiches? the splice thing?

ighea · 2008-04-17 12:50:57

spaam wrote:

ighea wrote:
Well, it seems that the snapshot-r3545 is working again. I use my own kernel build anyway so this does not really concern me (I need wine to function), but for the greater good...
Should be fixed asap, toofishes!
what is the big different between your kernel build and toofiches? the splice thing?

That mostly and I also remove all (in my opinion) unneeded debuging features.

toofishes · 2008-04-17 13:02:32

ighea wrote:

spaam wrote:
ighea wrote:
Well, it seems that the snapshot-r3545 is working again. I use my own kernel build anyway so this does not really concern me (I need wine to function), but for the greater good...
Should be fixed asap, toofishes!
what is the big different between your kernel build and toofiches? the splice thing?
That mostly and I also remove all (in my opinion) unneeded debuging features.

Such as? I didn't think I left a whole lot in there.

I just bumped the madwifi version, hopefully this helps people that were having issues. And if something really needs to be fixed omg asap, I don't think forums is the best place to leave me a message- you should really try email.

And before anyone asks, no, I'm not pushing out 2.6.25 tonight. Or probably in the next week. Why? There is nothing new that is going to blow my socks off, so I just don't see the need to rush. I was running an RC for a while anyway on my machine, and it was working fine, but I want to make sure I get the config updated right before I just push a lump of crap out there.

Kitty · 2008-04-18 00:05:34

pacman cant' seem to pull acpi-eee from toofishes' repo. The other stuff (kernel, wifi, etc) came in fine, so I don't think I have a config prob. Any clues?

toofishes · 2008-04-18 00:27:19

Kitty wrote:

pacman cant' seem to pull acpi-eee from toofishes' repo. The other stuff (kernel, wifi, etc) came in fine, so I don't think I have a config prob. Any clues?

It isn't in there, thats why. I never really turned it into a package because I feel like its something you fix to your own needs. And I never suspend.

pacman -Sl eee

KSiimson · 2008-04-18 17:35:24

Anyone had any luck on overclocking EEE to 900 mhz? I would like to do it, but I'm afraid of having to recompile the kernel.

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czar · 2008-04-18 19:18:01

KSiimson wrote:

Anyone had any luck on overclocking EEE to 900 mhz? I would like to do it, but I'm afraid of having to recompile the kernel.

absolutely, i have heard mixed results with reaching 900 but your processor can either do it or it can't. Increase the clock speed in small increments until you reach 100 on the fsb or you become unstable. I use Igeah's acpi to run a script "overclock.sh" when i plug my eee in (battery life is only about 2 hours when over clocked) but the script looks like this

#!/bin/bash
echo 80 24 0 > /proc/eee/fsb
echo 85 24 1 > /proc/eee/fsb
echo 90 24 1 > /proc/eee/fsb
echo 95 24 1 > /proc/eee/fsb
echo 97 24 1 > /proc/eee/fsb
echo 100 24 1 > /proc/eee/fsb

echo 30 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/ondemand/up_threshold

make sure you have eee.ko loaded for this to work
also notice how the last number changes from a 0 to 1, this has to do with power consumption, as an alternative to overclocking all the way to 900 you might just see how far you can get with that number being 0. setting it to 1 is what really kills the battery.
goodluck!

edit: i use toofish's kernel btw

Last edited by czar (2008-04-18 19:18:33)

KSiimson · 2008-04-18 19:22:36

czar wrote:

make sure you have eee.ko loaded for this to work

Sorry, half-newbie here. What (and where) is eee.ko, and how do I load it? I use Toofish's kernel also, glad to see it works for that!

E: Googled a little bit and found a section about it in Ubuntu's wiki at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EeePC. I downloaded eeepc-linux-0.2.tar.gz, extracted it, changed directory to eeepc-linux/module, and tried 'make'. It failed with 'make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.24eee/build: No such file or directory. Stop.' I assume I am missing something, such as kernel headers, any pointers?

E2: I only have '2.6.22-14-generic' folder under /lib/modules/.

E3: SOLVED!!! Toofishes repository has a package for it, so sudo pacman -S eeepc-linux was enough.

Last edited by KSiimson (2008-04-18 22:29:33)

KSiimson · 2008-04-19 01:05:43

Sorry for double post, but is there a script to restore the default clock speeds? I put an overclock option in my Openbox menu, and I would like an option to restore the default speed also.

ighea · 2008-04-19 01:45:19

KSiimson wrote:

Sorry for double post, but is there a script to restore the default clock speeds? I put an overclock option in my Openbox menu, and I would like an option to restore the default speed also.

Try reverse order back down to

#!/bin/bash
echo 90 24 1 > /proc/eee/fsb
sleep 1
echo 80 24 1 > /proc/eee/fsb
sleep 1
echo 70 24 0 > /proc/eee/fsb

KSiimson · 2008-04-19 03:17:35

Duh... kiitos!

ighea · 2008-04-19 08:30:11

toofishes wrote:

Kitty wrote:
pacman cant' seem to pull acpi-eee from toofishes' repo. The other stuff (kernel, wifi, etc) came in fine, so I don't think I have a config prob. Any clues?
It isn't in there, thats why. I never really turned it into a package because I feel like its something you fix to your own needs. And I never suspend.
pacman -Sl eee

In my opinion it would still be good to have a generic working package of acpi-scripts to start with the modifications. Most of people do not need anything too fancy and just want things to work with minor fixing.
It would be preferred to have your package repository to provide necessary Eee functionality out of box!

We have seen that everybody might never invent electric bulb, but they still should be encouraged to keep going with Arch.

And the "unneeded" debug features I mentioned are options normal user should never leave out of kernel like such as crash handlers and printk's. So no worries on this part.

faelar · 2008-04-19 11:39:46

I found a comparison between different filesystems for SSD :
http://osl.sed.hu/wiki/ubifs/index.php/IOzone
Of course arch provide support for ext, jfs and xfs, and I think it's enought, really, so this link is just here for curiosity

I would like to ask if ighea's acpi script could be added to toofishes' [eee] repository as a part of the eee meta-package ?

Else I want to thank both of you again for all what you do !

toofishes · 2008-04-19 16:30:55

2.6.25 and all modules are going up to my repo as I type this. Let me know if there are any problems or regressions. If it is serious, send me an email- I'll see that much quicker than anything posted here.

FYI, you are looking at filesystems for flash memory devices, which is not as applicable as you may think for the Eee. SSD have internal wear-leveling controls, and the flash filesystems out there (like jffs2) are designed for raw flash devices that do not have these controls built in, such as on a router using OpenWRT for instance.

Doc_McCoy · 2008-04-19 17:03:45

Hi,
I have wacom bamboo fun medium and I would like to install the linuxwacom driver on the eeepc.
My current kernel is the 2.6.25eee from toofishes.

Unfortunately I can't compile this wacomdriver, because it would like to know where my kernel source directory is located. But I just can find the standart 2.6.24-ARCH kernel in /usr/src/ and no 2.6.24eee or 2.6.25eee.
If i look up in /lib/modules/2.6.25eee/ there's missing the "build"- and "source"- link. In 2.6.24.4eee both links weren't missing, but the are linked on your homefolder.:cool:

Therefore do you have any idea how to fix this problem. Sadly I am not expert in Archlinux and kernel, compiling and so on...

toofishes · 2008-04-19 18:03:17

Doc_McCoy wrote:

Hi,
I have wacom bamboo fun medium and I would like to install the linuxwacom driver on the eeepc.
My current kernel is the 2.6.25eee from toofishes.
Unfortunately I can't compile this wacomdriver, because it would like to know where my kernel source directory is located. But I just can find the standart 2.6.24-ARCH kernel in /usr/src/ and no 2.6.24eee or 2.6.25eee.
If i look up in /lib/modules/2.6.25eee/ there's missing the "build"- and "source"- link. In 2.6.24.4eee both links weren't missing, but the are linked on your homefolder.:cool:
Therefore do you have any idea how to fix this problem. Sadly I am not expert in Archlinux and kernel, compiling and so on...

I purposely get rid of all this stuff on the Eee kernel so the package is more reasonably sized (compare it with the stock Arch kernel). I also do not compile the kernel on my Eee, I use my more powerful desktop for the job.

The easiest way to add a module for my kernel is to grab my git tree and then run a makepkg -o in the kernel-eee directory. Then you can structure your new module just like the other ones in the git tree, where they point to the kernel-eee src/ directory for the kernel source rather than try to use that of the host system.

ighea · 2008-04-19 21:29:37

elbecko wrote:

ighea wrote:
And here's acpi-eee v. 9-1
Thanks, ighea. Now wlan-on always works.
One request. Current version of acpi-eee doesn't offer any option for powebutton event. It always executes shutdown. How about modifying this so that it accepts optional command by offering configurable variable like POWER_OFF_COMMAND or something?

It really took too long time, but here you go.
acpi-eee-9-3
Changes http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15796
and package http://kapsi.fi/~ighea/eee/acpi-eee/acp … pkg.tar.gz

brncmp · 2008-04-20 18:31:51

Hello,

I want dim the screen when on battery and make is go back bright when the ac is back on. Does any one know a command that I can in the acpi scripts that ighea made?

Thanks
brncmp

blixawillbargeld · 2008-04-20 20:36:30

@toofishes: thanks for the new kernel...everything works so far except volume control using the function key...i tried dkites and igheas acpid packages

ighea · 2008-04-20 20:45:15

blixawillbargeld wrote:

@toofishes: thanks for the new kernel...everything works so far except volume control using the function key...i tried dkites and igheas acpid packages

There's nothing wrong with the kernel, just item names in alsa devices have changed.
I wonder why nobody noticed this before.

blixawillbargeld · 2008-04-20 20:48:19

ah ok :-) and how do i fix it?

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