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Botanicus

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Registered: 2006-11-06

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[Xorg Server] Graphics Drivers for Asus EEE 1101HA

I just installed Arch Linux to my new Asus EEE 1101HA. Everything's fine, just Xserver starts in 1024x768 instead of 1366x768 which is really, really annoying. Which driver shall I use? Everyone's talking about Poulsbo, but it doesn't seem to be so stable (at least what I read). Or is it already reasonable stable? If not, which other drivers are available? Thanks.

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

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Re: [Xorg Server] Graphics Drivers for Asus EEE 1101HA

Welcome to the forums Botanicus.

The whole Poulsbo situation is a bit of a mess. There's a thread here on how to get it running under Arch (my experiences are posted there). VESA will detect the correct modes automatically (well 1368x768). I find it too slow to use and haven't invested any time in trying to see if I could fix that. Personally I'm using uvesafb with the patched 915resolution-static in AUR. It has no 3D and the colors are fairly dull, but it works well enough for me. Just follow the uvesafb instructions in the wiki.

Botanicus

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Registered: 2006-11-06

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Re: [Xorg Server] Graphics Drivers for Asus EEE 1101HA

Hi skottish,

thank you very much. I set up uvesafb & 915resolutions and it works. I just have problems with X-drivers - you wrote me in other thread that I should use fbdev and should read about it on wiki. But I can't see any reasonable info about this driver and how to set it up.

ATM I have vesa driver (in my xorg.conf), it works, but 19 FPS is pretty low, I need something faster. With Poulsbo driver I got about 250 I think. I don't need 250 FPS, most of time I'm just doing software development, but I need something better than 19 ... so with uvesafb I can't use the "intel" driver for X? No "i810" or something similar?

frenchy

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Registered: 2008-10-14

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Re: [Xorg Server] Graphics Drivers for Asus EEE 1101HA

I have install arch on my eeepc 1101 using this thread : http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=78719&p=3
everything works fine, no slowdown.