Arch on Eee PC

kiddyfurby · 2008-04-30 02:30:24

gash, are u using 2008.03? if you are, simply mount the drive:
mount /dev/sd[x] /src

gash · 2008-04-30 06:20:42

No i'm using 2007.8-2, tonight will try with 2008.3

vomix · 2008-04-30 06:32:24

Even with 2007.8-2, I think you don't have to modprobe anything.
Just mount /dev/sd[x] /src as kiddyfurby said, and then /arch/setup !

gash · 2008-04-30 08:25:39

USB pen remains off then not mount any /dev/sd[x] says that there is nothing whit 2007.8-2.

EDIT
2008.3 work fine
thanks all.

Last edited by gash (2008-04-30 11:34:24)

kiddyfurby · 2008-05-01 20:32:06

toofishes wrote:

kiddyfurby wrote:
now booting my jfs root, yay~!
i notice there's a unset CFLAG in the PKGINFO, does that mean no optimization for the eee cpu?
http://code.toofishes.net/gitweb.cgi?p= … cb;hb=HEAD
one thing that confuses me is that... asus_acpi is included in toofishes's kernel, but then i still need ighea's package?
i noticed toofishes's git have a folder "acpi-eee", which is not available as package, o i can simply check it out and makepkg, but there must be a reason toofishes is not doing that (yet)
My next build will include JFS as a module, although that won't allow you to boot without a initrd. I'm not sure of the overhead of that filesystem if it was built in, but I am not against including it if it is not a huge driver.
I just haven't bothered to make an acpi package for everyone because I've tweaked mine a lot more than other people may want, and I don't really suspend so it wouldn't get much testing (since my kernel is so quick to boot up anyway).
The kernel sets its own CFLAGS when building, so you can always safely unset them as they are set by the CPU type you configure in the kernelconfig. I just wanted to make sure the host CFLAGS weren't overriding anything on the Eee (I don't build this kernel on the Eee, that might be painfully slow). My kernel will actually be better optimized than the stock i686 Arch kernel as it can use SSE/SSE2/MMX instructions.

Thanks for your answer toofishes!
you are so kind to add JFS to the kernel, wow i can save the dirty work next time.

i suppose "kernel26eee" means your kernel? the wiki page says that it have problem with Fn+F2, something wrong with hotplug.. but its alright on my eeepc
if we can confirm that then we can remove that outdated information in the wiki

ighea · 2008-05-01 20:38:03

kiddyfurby wrote:

i suppose "kernel26eee" means your kernel? the wiki page says that it have problem with Fn+F2, something wrong with hotplug.. but its alright on my eeepc
if we can confirm that then we can remove that outdated information in the wiki

Yes, there should not be any problems with the wifi-toggling when using acpi-eee package. There's a really ugly tweak for the hotplugging issue. I also agree that we should remove all out-dated information from the wiki, we just need someone to do that.

kant1 · 2008-05-02 14:04:02

testube_babies wrote:

SD card solution (for me, at least):
For some reason, my SDHC card had 4MB of unallocated space at the start. Expanding the ext2 partition to encompass that unallocated space solved all of the udev problems.

I'm having _super_ long boot times with an 8GB card too. Any hints on how you expanded the ext2 partition? Right now I can't even mount the card on the EEE.

testube_babies · 2008-05-03 02:47:46

kant1 wrote:

I'm having _super_ long boot times with an 8GB card too. Any hints on how you expanded the ext2 partition? Right now I can't even mount the card on the EEE.

I downgraded to the 2.6.24eee kernel (so that the SD card would mount), used gparted to edit the partitions, and then re-upgraded to 2.6.25eee.

Although, now that I think about it, the stock Arch kernel should be able to mount the memory card with no problem - you could run your favorite partition editor off of that.

toofishes · 2008-05-03 05:53:23

I built 2.6.25.1 and modules locally, but I noticed one issue before I push it out there- at least my webcam no longer shows video. If anyone wants to try out the packages, they are in the normal place- look for the highest version numbers of each, I did not add them to the pacman DB because I want to wait until I figure out why this problem is occurring.

Can people here be kind enough to report their webcam working status (just using something like luvcview -f yuv) before and after the upgrade to my 2.6.25.1 build? I want to make sure it isn't just me.

Everything besides the webcam seems to be working fine, so don't get too scared here about upgrading.

faelar · 2008-05-03 10:56:59

Posting from my eeepc (you can translate it by wireless is working) :

local/kernel-eee 2.6.25-2 (eee)
The Linux Kernel and modules for the Asus Eee PC 701
local/linux-uvc-eee-svn 205-1 (eee)
Linux driver for USB Video Class devices built for EEE

Tested with skype : webcam OK

local/kernel-eee 2.6.25.1-1 (eee)
The Linux Kernel and modules for the Asus Eee PC 701
local/linux-uvc-eee-svn 207-1 (eee)
Linux driver for USB Video Class devices built for EEE

Tested with skype : the light is switched on, but the screen remains black.

##########

EDIT : Toofishes, don't you have any problem with the brightness when closing/opening the lide ? (suspend off)

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kant1 · 2008-05-03 15:06:09

testube_babies wrote:

kant1 wrote:
I'm having _super_ long boot times with an 8GB card too. Any hints on how you expanded the ext2 partition? Right now I can't even mount the card on the EEE.
I downgraded to the 2.6.24eee kernel (so that the SD card would mount), used gparted to edit the partitions, and then re-upgraded to 2.6.25eee.
Although, now that I think about it, the stock Arch kernel should be able to mount the memory card with no problem - you could run your favorite partition editor off of that.

thanks, using the stock arch kernel and gparted fixed the issue. it just took a while! thanks again for your help.

toofishes · 2008-05-03 16:05:07

faelar wrote:

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local/kernel-eee 2.6.25-2 (eee)
local/linux-uvc-eee-svn 205-1 (eee)
Tested with skype : webcam OK
local/kernel-eee 2.6.25.1-1 (eee)
local/linux-uvc-eee-svn 207-1 (eee)
Tested with skype : the light is switched on, but the screen remains black.

Looks like I'm not alone then. I also tried recompiling the revision 205 driver for 2.6.25.1 and it was still black, so the culprit looks to be in the kernel and not uvcvideo. If anyone else has time to play with this and figure out the problem, I would appreciate it. You might need to get in contact with the uvc-video guys.

EDIT : Toofishes, don't you have any problem with the brightness when closing/opening the lide ? (suspend off)

I haven't noticed any problems- what exactly is wrong? I don't have any ACPI events at all fire on lid close and lid open. The screen backlight turns off itself when the lid closes, and turns on when I open it back up.

faelar · 2008-05-03 22:02:50

I haven't noticed any problems- what exactly is wrong? I don't have any ACPI events at all fire on lid close and lid open. The screen backlight turns off itself when the lid closes, and turns on when I open it back up.

Strange, just after installing your pkg, I closed the lide going to eat. When I was coming back, the screen brightness was at the maximum, but changing it with fn keys reset it to the right position... I'll try to explain with an exemple :
* If you push your fn key it adds or removes 10%
- Screen's brightness is 30%
- I close the lide
- I open the lide
- Brightness is at 100%
- I press fn key only once
- Brightness is at 20%
But now it appears to work so I don't now if it was related in anyway...

bludra84 · 2008-05-04 02:22:49

ighea and toofishes thanks for the awesome work. I just got my eeepc yesterday and I'm having a great time. My only problem is with ighea's acpi package. When I suspend the machine it goes down fine, but when it resumes it makes a screeching sound out of the speakers and then gnome complains about not suspending succesfully. Anyone come about this problem?

blixawillbargeld · 2008-05-05 09:20:28

do i have to put "alsactl restore" in /etc/rc.local to have the microphone working everytime i reboot or is there another solution?

vomix · 2008-05-06 15:14:13

toofishes wrote:

I built 2.6.25.1 and modules locally, but I noticed one issue before I push it out there- at least my webcam no longer shows video. If anyone wants to try out the packages, they are in the normal place- look for the highest version numbers of each, I did not add them to the pacman DB because I want to wait until I figure out why this problem is occurring.
Can people here be kind enough to report their webcam working status (just using something like luvcview -f yuv) before and after the upgrade to my 2.6.25.1 build? I want to make sure it isn't just me.
Everything besides the webcam seems to be working fine, so don't get too scared here about upgrading.

Same here:
luvcview -f yuv was working fine before upgrading the kernel to the latest version, but on kernel 2.6.25.1-1 it just show a black windows.
So it isn't just you!

@blixawillbargeld:
I'm not using the microphone and I don't exactly know what's your problem, but if you're launching the alsa daemon at boot (in rc.conf), it normally saves and restore your volume levels at each shutdown/reboot!

Last edited by vomix (2008-05-06 15:14:37)

dav7 · 2008-05-08 01:47:55

On page 1 of this thread, dklite noted that his system wouldn't properly write changes to disk unless he logged out properly.

I've no idea if it was mentioned again (this thread has 29 pages as of this writing and I am NOT reading 27 pages of text...) or a solution was found, but has anyone else experienced this issue?

For any such user(s), does running `sync' before shutdown help?

-dav7

toofishes · 2008-05-09 03:32:51

Looks like someone else is seeing our same problem with the webcam, I sent an email there as well:
https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/linu … 03488.html

I've decided to bump my repository to my newest packages. If the webcam is critical to you, then you will not want to update as it won't work right now. Hopefully we'll have a fix for that in the next couple of days.

Doc_McCoy · 2008-05-10 16:27:00

Hi guys,
I updated the madwifi package and the eee-kernel package today, WLAN still works with netcfg2 for example. Unfortunately "kismet" is getting stucked after a few minutes scaning or playing around with kismet. But I am not the only one with such a problem. I don't know whats wrong with these new packages, but the eee is really stucking, you even can't kill the x-server, you can just press the powerbutton for a reset.

bludra84 · 2008-05-10 16:49:54

toofishes, have you tried running wine with your kernel? I keep getting "Wine requires a 3G/1G user/kernal memory split...". If I recompile your kernel with this configuration do you think I should have any problems elsewhere?

bludra84 · 2008-05-10 16:50:50

Doc_McCoy wrote:

Hi guys,
I updated the madwifi package and the eee-kernel package today, WLAN still works with netcfg2 for example. Unfortunately "kismet" is getting stucked after a few minutes scaning or playing around with kismet. But I am not the only one with such a problem. I don't know whats wrong with these new packages, but the eee is really stucking, you even can't kill the x-server, you can just press the powerbutton for a reset.

I was just playing around with kismet for a while yesterday and didn't notice any issues.

toofishes · 2008-05-10 17:54:41

bludra84 wrote:

toofishes, have you tried running wine with your kernel? I keep getting "Wine requires a 3G/1G user/kernal memory split...". If I recompile your kernel with this configuration do you think I should have any problems elsewhere?

I don't run wine on my Eee so I could care less. Wine is broken if it can't deal with anything but the default.

With that said, someone did notice this a while back and brought it up- I don't blame you for not wanting to crawl through 29 pages of posts. If you rebuild my kernel with the default split, you should be fine. Note that you will need to rebuild all the modules too as this is a fairly large change.

See:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=540135
The wine guys seem to think no one should use anything but the default: http://www.winehq.com/pipermail/wine-de … 46152.html
And their newsletter, search for "New Kernel Option & Wine": http://www.winehq.org/?issue=310

bludra84 · 2008-05-11 00:27:02

Thanks!

ighea · 2008-05-14 15:21:15

WebCam is working once again with kernel 2.6.25.3, thanks.

Black_Gamer · 2008-05-14 21:27:11

Hi all!
I've been trying to install Arch on my Asus Eeepc, in a 16Gb Sdhc. I did the core install and everything went well, but when i am booting the kernel, i get a kernel panic.

Kinit: Unable to mount root fs on device sdb6(8,22)
Kinit: init not found!
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

It seems that card is not correctly unmounted everytime i shutdown the pc, and get a corrupted filesystem. I booted the arch live usb, and did a e2fsck to the card, and in fact it had errors. Does anyone know a way to correct this problem? Is there anything that can be done to correctly unmount the sdcard?

Thanks

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