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blixawillbargeld

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Registered: 2008-01-22

Posts: 39

Re: Arch on Eee PC

@jickel: can u mount the sd card manually after boot (tty1, login as root and "mount /home")?
whicht kernel do you use? is the usb-storage module compiled into the kernel or as module? i had the same issue with usb-storage as module, i guess it just takes to long to load or something like this.....so i compiled it into the kernel and everything works....if u have it as a module maybe u can try to add it to the modules list in the rc.conf...

Jickel

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Registered: 2008-06-22

Posts: 47

Re: Arch on Eee PC

blixawillbargeld: I'm currently using your (first) kernel, where usb-storage (usb_storage) is compiled into the kernel and there are all those little usb_serial modules, so I don't think the problem lies there... Going to try mounting manually as soon as I get some time to sit down in front of the Eee again.

punkeroso

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From: Rome, Italy

Registered: 2007-01-19

Posts: 105

Re: Arch on Eee PC

Oh dear, I've run into some very interesting issues trying to move /home to an SD-card. I copied over the contents of the /home folder (using cp, so hidden stuff is transferred too) and then edited fstab so it looks like this:

# 
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>        <dir>         <type>    <options>          <dump> <pass>
none                   /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
none                   /dev/shm      tmpfs     defaults            0      0


UUID=8309d954-e54a-4d47-a3dc-8e8e329d4c6b / ext3 defaults,noatime,nodiratime 0 1
UUID=28bbd7d2-265c-4eec-9ddf-76c63ff930dc /home ext3 defaults,noatime,nodiratime 0 2

However, the system fails to mount home when I reboot. In bash I automatically get HOME=/ , and my DE won't load as it can't find my personal settings files which are usually found under /home. Funny thing is, when I run cfstab /dev/sdb1 (sdb is my SD card), I see the memory card, but if I try to run it with cfstab /dev/sdb , bash (cfstab) just freezes on me. dmesg then gives the following output

sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Sense Key : 0x4 [current] 
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] ASC=0x11 ASCQ=0x0
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 15758328

Switching memory cards won't help. I tried using both a 8GB Transcend Class 6 and a Sandisk Ultra II 2GB. Also, I get this error regardless if I mount /home on the card.

What the heck am I doing wrong? My method of copying and editing fstab seemed to be the correct way according to the guys in the IRC channel.

I'm using the toofishes's kernel and I had /home mounted on a SDHC card since I have the eee. My SDHC is formatted as ext2. I used cp -rp to copy the whole content of /home into the SDHC.
Regards

Jickel

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Registered: 2008-06-22

Posts: 47

Re: Arch on Eee PC

Hmm, I copied /home with cp -r, not cp -rp, I wonder if that was what borked it... (I'm swedish, I have a licence to bork). I'll check if it makes any difference ASAP. I'll also see if switching back to toofishes kernel makes any difference.

EDIT: Yup, cp -rp did the trick! I still have that wierd cfdisk bug though, it would be interesting if anyone else could verify this.

Uh, now that I've copied over home and remounted it, how am I supposed to delete the old /home directory with it's contents, that's hogging my SSD? /home will of course only take me to the SD-card, how do I find the old directory?

Last edited by Jickel (2008-06-30 05:16:59)

spaam

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2008-04-17

Posts: 4

Re: Arch on Eee PC

unmount your sd-card. delete files in the homedirectory on your ssd. then mount sd-card again ;D

btw..
Anyone having some packetloss with latest wifidriver ?
i do have some of these. quite annoying.

Jickel

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Registered: 2008-06-22

Posts: 47

Re: Arch on Eee PC

Thanks spaam, I did a variant of what you said (edited fstab to change home location along the way), it worked. I learned the hard way you have to keep the actual /home directory though.

ighea

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From: Finland

Registered: 2007-10-20

Posts: 118

Re: Arch on Eee PC

Toofishes: So you are still keeping the uvesafb built in? Is there a particular reason for still keeping it there and not building it as module? Perhaps there has been some changes in the driver's code that I don't know about, but wasn't the only way to get it to work properly the module solution? :I

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punkeroso

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From: Rome, Italy

Registered: 2007-01-19

Posts: 105

Re: Arch on Eee PC

Toofishes: So you are still keeping the uvesafb built in? Is there a particular reason for still keeping it there and not building it as module? Perhaps there has been some changes in the driver's code that I don't know about, but wasn't the only way to get it to work properly the module solution? :I

I spent a couple of hours trying to get the framebuffer working at 800x480, but I solved nothing.
So, why still keeping also the intelfb built-in? Someone get it to work?
If there's no way to get the consolle at 800x480, why still keeping these modules in the kernel?
Regards

Jickel

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Registered: 2008-06-22

Posts: 47

Re: Arch on Eee PC

uvesafb not working? Could that be the reason I could never the the logo to load when I recompiled the kernel?

Jickel

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Registered: 2008-06-22

Posts: 47

Re: Arch on Eee PC

Btw, I still believe there might be a problem with shutdown. This is from a few pages back, and I'm having the very same issue now. I only have shutdown problems if I actually play any sound at all during my session though.

Am I the only one to have trouble with toofishe's trick concerning alsa & shutdown?

It was working fine a few days ago, but since a fresh install, the system is simply freezing at shutdown (hanging at "the system is going to halt NOW!"), and the only solution is to hold the power button, which of course produces inconsistent fs at reboot.

[eko@nodrom ~]$ cat /etc/rc.local.shutdown
#!/bin/bash
#
# /etc/rc.local.shutdown: Local shutdown script.
#

#/etc/rc.d/alsa stop #tried with and without this line: same results.
echo -n "0000:00:1b.0" > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/HDA\ Intel/unbind

I think the pci bus is the same:

[eko@nodrom ~]$ lspci | grep Audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)

I've also tried to execute the echo -n... command before halting and after stoping alsa, but without succes, the system is still hanging at shutdown.

zodmaner

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Registered: 2007-07-11

Posts: 653

Re: Arch on Eee PC

Btw, I still believe there might be a problem with shutdown.

Just curious, but what model of Eee do you guys use? The solution on the wiki (which is the same one you've found in this thread) should work with 701 model.

Last edited by zodmaner (2008-07-05 12:05:56)

Jickel

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Registered: 2008-06-22

Posts: 47

Re: Arch on Eee PC

zodmaner: The 701 in my case, so it is a bit odd that it's not working.

toofishes

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From: Chicago, IL

Registered: 2006-06-06

Posts: 602

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Re: Arch on Eee PC

I'm going to build 2.6.25.10 sometime this weekend, sorry if it looks like I disappeared. There just haven't been a lot of relevant changes that needed an immediate recompile.

Can someone do me a favor though since I am a bit short on time and summarize what I need to do with the framebuffer modules and such? It appears what I am doing is not working for everybody, so I'd like to hear what needs to be done.

JJwalker

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Registered: 2008-07-05

Posts: 17

Re: Arch on Eee PC

Hi! i've been trying to setup ARch on EEE, but ran into some problems:
i cant boot with kernel from toofishes. For some seconds the loading is ok, but it stops with message "Kernel panic - not syncing: no init found. Try passing init= option to kernel"
I'm using 701 4g EEE ps model, Arch 2008.06 and latest (i think) kernel from toofishes rep.
I have done everything according to the instructions on the wiki. Maybe something has changed and wiki is outdated?
Ok, seems that i figured out what was wrong. I had to change root=/dev/sda1 to root=/dev/sda2. As far as i understand this is because i have boot partition and /.
Sorry for stupid questions, i'm trying linux for the first time

Last edited by JJwalker (2008-07-05 16:20:53)

punkeroso

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From: Rome, Italy

Registered: 2007-01-19

Posts: 105

Re: Arch on Eee PC

I'm going to build 2.6.25.10 sometime this weekend, sorry if it looks like I disappeared. There just haven't been a lot of relevant changes that needed an immediate recompile.

Can someone do me a favor though since I am a bit short on time and summarize what I need to do with the framebuffer modules and such? It appears what I am doing is not working for everybody, so I'd like to hear what needs to be done.

I didn't found a way to get uvesafb/intelfb working.
According to the wiki, the only way to get the uvesafb working, should be to compile it as a module and use an initramfs with the v86d hook. Too "complicated" for my tastes, so i suggest to remove every kind of stuff linked to framebuffer.
Just my two cents.
Regards

Jickel

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Registered: 2008-06-22

Posts: 47

Re: Arch on Eee PC

toofishes and punkeroso, I found this a few pages back:

@toofishes:
could you please set CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y in the eeepc kernel? It is required for uvesafb to work.

What is this used for anyway? Is it related to the vga=### options in Grub's menu.lst, resolution setting and logo display in the console/boot display?

Also, toofish, I haven't managed to figure out what options govern vmsplit and I keep getting segfaults. If you have time, see my posts a page or two back, I'd really appreciate it as I'm gonna need Wine when school starts again.

Last edited by Jickel (2008-07-05 20:13:04)

zodmaner

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Registered: 2007-07-11

Posts: 653

Re: Arch on Eee PC

@ Jickel

On my Eee, I have the following in my /etc/rc.local.shutdown:

# Stop ALSA daemon first
/etc/rc.d/alsa stop 

# Then
echo -n "0000:00:1b.0" > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/HDA\ Intel/unbind

These lines solved my shutdown problem. No idea why it doesn't seems to work with you and vomix.

Last edited by zodmaner (2008-07-06 13:47:04)

blixawillbargeld

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Registered: 2008-01-22

Posts: 39

Re: Arch on Eee PC

@toofishes: thanks a lot for building the new kernel with usb_serial!

puelocesar

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Registered: 2008-07-07

Posts: 16

Re: Arch on Eee PC

Hi all, I recently installed Archlinux on my EEE folowing the instructions from the wiki, and I'm very satisfied with boot speed, but I'm having *serious* problems with 2D performance on X11.

I'm using the kernel-eee from toofishes, and intel driver. I tried setting AccelMethod to Xaa and putting "INTEL_BATCH=1" in /etc/environment, and indeed I got some better results, but still my desktop is much slower than the debian I had installed on this machine. I tried using the i810 driver too, but I had the same performance issues.

After googleing a bit, I found this: http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=19944

And I experimented booting with Arch's stock kernel, and for my surprise, 2d was very fast again. The problem is that I don't want to use the default kernel, because it loads thousands of modules and udev is slow at boot, and I'll have to compile the dkite's modules, as he does not provide precompiled modules for 2.6.25..

So, I'm asking for help so I can restore 2d performance on toofishes kernel..

obs: If you are using older Firefox2 or the older kde3, you won't notice too much laggyness, because Firefox3 and Kde4 uses a lot of 2d accel from xrender

thanks

zodmaner

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Registered: 2007-07-11

Posts: 653

Re: Arch on Eee PC

@ Jickel & vomix (again )

I just remember another thing: Did you guys use mpd? If you do, you need to stop mpd daemon first before you can shutdown properly.

I usually have this in my /etc/rc.local.shutdown when I use mpd:

# Stop mpd daemon
/etc/rc.d/mpd stop

# Stop ALSA daemon first
/etc/rc.d/alsa stop 

# Then
echo -n "0000:00:1b.0" > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/HDA\ Intel/unbind

Hope this help.

Last edited by zodmaner (2008-07-07 14:20:47)

Jickel

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Registered: 2008-06-22

Posts: 47

Re: Arch on Eee PC

zodmaner: Gonna check this out ASAP! Just wanted to say that I think I noticed what I was doing wrong with vmsplit earlier. According to this old patch, http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/peop … ions.patch , the CONFIG_PAGE_OFFSET_ VALUE needs to be changed from 0X78000000 to 0xC0000000. I'll try this as soon as possible with toofishes' newest offering.

Last edited by Jickel (2008-07-07 21:22:53)

JJwalker

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Registered: 2008-07-05

Posts: 17

Re: Arch on Eee PC

I have a question regarding backing up /dev/sda. I have installed arch on my eee pc, tuned everything as i wanted and now i want to backup everything.
I've booted into arch live cd, inserted my 8 gig sd (formatted in ext2) typed dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb.
Then waited for about 2 hours but nothing happend. As far as i remember 40 mins were enough to dd 80 gig ide drive. I'm confised

Jickel

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Registered: 2008-06-22

Posts: 47

Re: Arch on Eee PC

JJwalker: I'm still a bit of a newbie, but I use cp -va SOURCE DEST for my backup needs (you'll want verbose when copying huge file trees).

JJwalker

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Registered: 2008-07-05

Posts: 17

Re: Arch on Eee PC

ok, cp is great, but i dont get why doesn't dd finish as it should! If anyone tried to dd /dev/sda what time did it take?
I was using kingston SDHC 8 gig as a backup media, but it was going on for about 2 hours with no result!

Last edited by JJwalker (2008-07-07 23:51:44)

Jickel

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Registered: 2008-06-22

Posts: 47

Re: Arch on Eee PC

Edit: SOLVED. I tried running my custom kernel with highmem and vmsplit 3/1, but I got some FS errors plus some other issues. No need to clutter up this thread with that issue, see my other thread for it and the solution: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=51400

I'll try following toofishes' advice and using makeconfig! I didn't even know there was such a thing, to be honest. Oh well, i guess there's an easy way and a hard way to learn things!

Last edited by Jickel (2008-07-08 21:34:50)