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ighea

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From: Finland

Registered: 2007-10-20

Posts: 118

Re: Arch on Eee PC

Hi there! First of all, thanks all of you who contributed in making Arch run on the Eee!

I got a little problem though - Wireless isn't working. I'm using toofishes' latest kernel and madwifi-eee-svn is installed too. The problem is, no ath0 interface comes up. Can anyone of you give me a hint what I missed? In other words: what are the steps required after pacman finished installing madwifi-eee-svn?

[root@eee ~]# pacman -Q kernel-eee madwifi-eee-svn && uname -a
kernel-eee 2.6.26-1
madwifi-eee-svn 3772-1
Linux eee 2.6.26eee #1 PREEMPT Mon Jul 14 20:24:08 CDT 2008 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 900MHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

Can we assume that you have ath_pci and ath_hal modules loaded? How do you check that ath0 interfaces is not there? Do you use some kind of network manager?

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puelocesar

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Registered: 2008-07-07

Posts: 16

Re: Arch on Eee PC

Wine doesn't work with the Eee kernel. It requests a 3g/1g split. How can this be fixed?

Can someone please put this in the wiki? I'm getting real sick of answering the same question.

Why on earth do so many people use wine? I had no idea.

What's the problem with wine? Can someone explain me why this 3g/1g split isn't default?

Damn, I forgot that and upgraded my system.. now no more diablo until I download the sources again, and modify the pkg build again and compile-it again...

Thinking about it, is there anyway to lock a package on a version on pacman? I didn't found that on the docs...

ighea

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From: Finland

Registered: 2007-10-20

Posts: 118

Re: Arch on Eee PC

Wine doesn't work with the Eee kernel. It requests a 3g/1g split. How can this be fixed?

Can someone please put this in the wiki? I'm getting real sick of answering the same question.

Why on earth do so many people use wine? I had no idea.

What's the problem with wine? Can someone explain me why this 3g/1g split isn't default?

Damn, I forgot that and upgraded my system.. now no more diablo until I download the sources again, and modify the pkg build again and compile-it again...

Thinking about it, is there anyway to lock a package on a version on pacman? I didn't found that on the docs...

Grab slightly modified kerne-eee-2.6.26-1 (and madwifi-eee-svn) from here:
http://koti.kapsi.fi/~ighea/eee/kernel-eee/
Wine works, uvesafb is built as module, eeepc-laptop driver is used (fan-control, wee!) and EC (Fn-Fx problem) is patched/fixed. Don't forget to upgrade your acpi-eee to version 9-6.

I think toofishes keeps the 2G/2G VM split because it is said to give a little performance boost, but in my opinion it does not really matter and causes only unnecessary confusion (as we have seen) and the effect can't be really even noticed at all.

And you can use IgnorePkg-line in /etc/pacman.conf to hold packages from being updated.

IgnorePkg = kernel-eee madwifi-eee-svn

Last edited by ighea (2008-07-19 00:27:24)

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puelocesar

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Registered: 2008-07-07

Posts: 16

Re: Arch on Eee PC

wow, very thanks ighea, it worked very well

zodmaner

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Registered: 2007-07-11

Posts: 653

Re: Arch on Eee PC

Great job ighea. Hopefully toofishes will implement your fix in his kernel soon, as this problem with ACPI events is very annoying.

Also, I have add informations on the wiki on how to install ighea's modified toofishes' kernel here, as well as instruction on how to recompile toofishes' kernel to support Wine here. Please look over them and correct any mistake that I make.

PS. ighea, could you also post/upload your modified kernel PKGBUILD?

Last edited by zodmaner (2008-07-19 07:29:43)

ighea

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From: Finland

Registered: 2007-10-20

Posts: 118

Re: Arch on Eee PC

Great job ighea. Hopefully toofishes will implement your fix in his kernel soon, as this problem with ACPI events is very annoying.

Also, I have add informations on the wiki on how to install ighea's modified toofishes' kernel here, as well as instruction on how to recompile toofishes' kernel to support Wine here. Please look over them and correct any mistake that I make.

PS. ighea, could you also post/upload your modified kernel PKGBUILD?

Well, to be exact it really is not *my* fix, I just fetched it from http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=16862. (It is diffirent than the one in my post about the fix before, this shouldn't kill the ACPI event queue.) I updated the information into the wiki. Everything else looks good.

I have pushed the PKGBUILD to the same place with the other stuff. Changes were only removing asus_acpi module and patches from the file and applying the ec2.patch.

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Jickel

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Registered: 2008-06-22

Posts: 47

Re: Arch on Eee PC

From the Wiki:

 230 CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM=y
 231 # CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G is not set
 232 # CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set
 233 CONFIG_VMSPLIT_3G=y
 234 # CONFIG_VMSPLIT_3G_OPT is not set
 235 # CONFIG_VMSPLIT_2G is not set
 236 # CONFIG_VMSPLIT_2G_OPT is not set
 237 # CONFIG_VMSPLIT_1G is not set

We don't need to enable highmem? I compiled through menuconfig with these lines:

CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y
# CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set
CONFIG_VMSPLIT_3G=y
# CONFIG_VMSPLIT_3G_OPT is not set
# CONFIG_VMSPLIT_2G is not set
# CONFIG_VMSPLIT_2G_OPT is not set
# CONFIG_VMSPLIT_1G is not set
CONFIG_PAGE_OFFSET=0xC0000000
CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y

Of special note is CONFIG_PAGE_OFFSET, which has been changed from the original value of 0x78000000. I don't know if this is specific to highmem, but I would suggest using menuconfig for these things, and that this should be reflected in the wiki. I'm not confident enough to change it myself quite yet though.

Last edited by Jickel (2008-07-19 15:36:25)

chibacityblues

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Registered: 2008-07-17

Posts: 5

Re: Arch on Eee PC

Can we assume that you have ath_pci and ath_hal modules loaded? How do you check that ath0 interfaces is not there? Do you use some kind of network manager?

Hi ighea thanks for your reply. Both modules are loaded. I don't use any network manager, just plain shell:

[root@eee ~]# cat /etc/rc.conf |grep MODULES
MODULES=( ath_pci ath_hal )

[root@eee ~]# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
cifs                  193384  3 
ath_pci               182968  0 
wlan                  180532  1 ath_pci
ath_hal               297888  1 ath_pci

[root@eee ~]# ifconfig -a
eth0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1F:C6:73:03:6D  
           ...

lo         Link encap:Local Loopback  
           ...
 

[root@eee ~]# iwconfig 
lo        no wireless extensions.
eth0      no wireless extensions.

[root@eee ~]# athstats 
athstats: wifi0: No such device

Any idea?

ighea

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From: Finland

Registered: 2007-10-20

Posts: 118

Re: Arch on Eee PC

Can we assume that you have ath_pci and ath_hal modules loaded? How do you check that ath0 interfaces is not there? Do you use some kind of network manager?

Hi ighea thanks for your reply. Both modules are loaded. I don't use any network manager, just plain shell:

[root@eee ~]# cat /etc/rc.conf |grep MODULES
MODULES=( ath_pci ath_hal )

[root@eee ~]# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
cifs                  193384  3 
ath_pci               182968  0 
wlan                  180532  1 ath_pci
ath_hal               297888  1 ath_pci

[root@eee ~]# ifconfig -a
eth0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1F:C6:73:03:6D  
           ...

lo         Link encap:Local Loopback  
           ...
 

[root@eee ~]# iwconfig 
lo        no wireless extensions.
eth0      no wireless extensions.

[root@eee ~]# athstats 
athstats: wifi0: No such device

Any idea?

Do you have madwifi-eee-svn package installed?

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anryko

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Registered: 2008-07-20

Posts: 4

Re: Arch on Eee PC

to ighea:

Grab slightly modified kerne-eee-2.6.26-1 (and madwifi-eee-svn) from here:
http://koti.kapsi.fi/~ighea/eee/kernel-eee/
Wine works, uvesafb is built as module, eeepc-laptop driver is used (fan-control, wee!) and EC (Fn-Fx problem) is patched/fixed. Don't forget to upgrade your acpi-eee to version 9-6.

Hi, can you upload the source code of this kernel.
Or patches witch i can use to patch vanilla kernel (this would be even better).

Last edited by anryko (2008-07-20 16:54:39)

Jickel

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Registered: 2008-06-22

Posts: 47

Re: Arch on Eee PC

Hi, can you upload the source code of this kernel.
Or patches witch i can use to patch vanilla kernel (this would be even better).

I think you can find all the info you need in the PKGBUILD, including links to the patches and source, as with all other Arch packages.

anryko

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Registered: 2008-07-20

Posts: 4

Re: Arch on Eee PC

Thenx Jickel

anryko

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Registered: 2008-07-20

Posts: 4

Re: Arch on Eee PC

atl2-patch-fix-2.6.26.patch

what about this patch, where to get it?

anryko

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Registered: 2008-07-20

Posts: 4

Re: Arch on Eee PC

Hi, i need some help.
i have 2.6.26 kernel
i have installed acpi-eee, madwifi-svn
Fn-Fx keys are working.
But my wireless is not working. Fn-F2 turns on/off the blue light, but ath0 is not present... and i have no /proc/acpi/asus/ directory.

What am I doing wrong?

Kitty

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From: The Burning Desert

Registered: 2008-01-11

Posts: 88

Re: Arch on Eee PC

Grrr, having trouble updating to the latest stuff.

$ sudo pacman -Su
:: Starting full system upgrade...
:: Replace firefox3 with extra/firefox? [Y/n] 
:: Replace libungif with extra/giflib? [Y/n] 
:: Replace linux-uvc-eee-svn with eee/kernel-eee? [Y/n] 
warning: shared-mime-info: forcing upgrade to version 0.30-1
warning: vlc: forcing upgrade to version 0.8.6i-1
warning: xf86-video-vesa: forcing upgrade to version 1.3.0-6
resolving dependencies...
error: cannot resolve "kernel-eee=2.6.25.10-1", a dependency of "eeepc-linux"
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: eeepc-linux: requires kernel-eee=2.6.25.10-1

Can't upgrade the kernel unless the kernel is updated? Catch 22, or has my linux-fu failed me? It's been a while since the E was used last, looks like I've missed a few updates.

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toofishes

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From: Chicago, IL

Registered: 2006-06-06

Posts: 602

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Re: Arch on Eee PC

Grrr, having trouble updating to the latest stuff.

$ sudo pacman -Su
:: Starting full system upgrade...
:: Replace firefox3 with extra/firefox? [Y/n] 
:: Replace libungif with extra/giflib? [Y/n] 
:: Replace linux-uvc-eee-svn with eee/kernel-eee? [Y/n] 
warning: shared-mime-info: forcing upgrade to version 0.30-1
warning: vlc: forcing upgrade to version 0.8.6i-1
warning: xf86-video-vesa: forcing upgrade to version 1.3.0-6
resolving dependencies...
error: cannot resolve "kernel-eee=2.6.25.10-1", a dependency of "eeepc-linux"
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: eeepc-linux: requires kernel-eee=2.6.25.10-1

Can't upgrade the kernel unless the kernel is updated? Catch 22, or has my linux-fu failed me? It's been a while since the E was used last, looks like I've missed a few updates.

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 63#p393463 was where I noted that eeepc-linux no longer compiles cleanly against 2.6.26. I don't think it is needed as some people pointed out- I need to find some other kernel options to turn on though.

azu

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Registered: 2008-07-23

Posts: 10

Re: Arch on Eee PC

hi2all... i've 3ePC 701.  pls explain to me:
before 2.6.26-1 from http://koti.kapsi.fi/~ighea/eee/kernel-eee/
I used kernel26eee (2.6.25) + eeepc-linux. Then eee.ko make possible to use /proc/eee/[fsb,fan_speed,fan_manual,temperature...].

Q1: Now fan control is provided by new kernel eeepc-laptop driver. It's pretty, thnx. But how to change behavior of it: with eee.ko i could use own script which at temperature 50 make fan_speed f.ex. 40%, 55->60%. The question is: are there any config params for this driver?

Q2: I had problem with cardreader and my SDHC , which i used to solve by echo 70 24 1 > /proc/eee/fsb , then voltage rised up and cardreader worked fine. How to solve it now and do I need to solve (it seems I need , the problem show itself ) ?

Q3: my wifi is broken now (rev.3752 & 3772): wlan0 and wmaster0 interfaces appeared, but wpa_supplicant cannot start with any of them, opposed to previous revision with ath0 interface (3698)
A3: place ath5k driver to blacklist -> reboot -> ath0 device appeared, wpa_supplicant works much better (it statrs and trying to associate with AP), but still can not.
#dmesg 
.....
wifi0: ath_rxorn_tasklet: Receive FIFO overrun; reseting.
I'm going to compile some prev. svn rev.
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Last edited by azu (2008-07-23 14:40:30)

Jickel

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Registered: 2008-06-22

Posts: 47

Re: Arch on Eee PC

Kitty: As toofish said, just just remove eeepc-linux with pacman before updating your system. At least I think that's how I did it.

Another thing, is anyone using toofishes latest packages (IE not ighea's newest stuff) having problems with their Eee not always suspending when the lid is closed?

Last edited by Jickel (2008-07-23 22:03:21)

xcession

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From: Udon Thani, Thailand

Registered: 2008-05-07

Posts: 72

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Re: Arch on Eee PC

I'm using latest toofish eee kernel... having internal microphone problem... any clue?

I already try what in the wiki tell about the microphone ... edit alsa file from false to true, but it keep revert back to false..

Last edited by xcession (2008-07-24 16:49:30)

JazzplayerL9

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Registered: 2006-03-31

Posts: 109

Re: Arch on Eee PC

This post is no longer a problem.  It is nice to know you read it, but it has been edited to facilitate a better post later in this thread.  Have a nice day.

Last edited by JazzplayerL9 (2008-07-25 13:34:27)

Heresyte

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Registered: 2008-07-10

Posts: 19

Re: Arch on Eee PC

Shit.  I ordered my 901 under the assumption that I would be able to replace the OS with something decent.  I just got it today and Xandros is definitely not tolerable, so hopefully somebody can figure out how to get this working.

I paid $70 extra to buy this from NewEgg so that I didn't have to wait a month for Amazon to get them.  I start school in about 3 weeks and I wanted this setup by then, but maybe I should have just waited for Amazon.

toofishes

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From: Chicago, IL

Registered: 2006-06-06

Posts: 602

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Re: Arch on Eee PC

Um...I've seen plenty of people say they have things on the 901 working fine...how did one post turn everyone around on this issue?

Heresyte

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Registered: 2008-07-10

Posts: 19

Re: Arch on Eee PC

Oh.  This is the first place I looked, and all I saw about the 901 was a post saying things weren't working well so... heh.

Last edited by Heresyte (2008-07-25 03:53:03)

JazzplayerL9

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Registered: 2006-03-31

Posts: 109

Re: Arch on Eee PC

@toofishes,

sorry man...didn't think I'd cause that much of a stir.  I'm going to go give it a try tonight and I'll make a solid EDIT to this message with my findings. 

Until then, has anyone confirmed that the microphone works in Arch?  They're still fretting with that over in *buntu land.

zodmaner

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Registered: 2007-07-11

Posts: 653

Re: Arch on Eee PC

@toofishes,
Until then, has anyone confirmed that the microphone works in Arch?  They're still fretting with that over in *buntu land.

I can confirm that microphone works fine on my Eee 701. And I didn't have to do anything other then install and config ALSA according to the instruction on the ALSA  article on the wiki and config alsamixer according to the instruction on Eee article.

Last edited by zodmaner (2008-07-25 14:21:00)