[Project] kernel-netbook

dieghen89 · 2011-06-06 19:07:01

Have you already considered use /etc/rc.local.shutdown?

RozenTensai · 2011-06-06 20:06:18

dieghen89 wrote:

@RozenTensai
if you want wo use the UUID you have to create the initrd...And i don't think you want A feature of this kernel is don't have it

yeah, noticed that, now I got uresume broken and reading about how to put the tuxonice method to work right now

dieghen89 · 2011-06-06 21:54:31

RozenTensai wrote:

dieghen89 wrote:
@RozenTensai
if you want wo use the UUID you have to create the initrd...And i don't think you want A feature of this kernel is don't have it
yeah, noticed that, now I got uresume broken and reading about how to put the tuxonice method to work right now

If you managed to get TOI working on 2.6.39 please write me how

Btw, i've updated to 2.6.39.1....There isn't the arch logo, i'm waiting a tpowa's update...Changelog in google code as ever...

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RozenTensai · 2011-06-07 00:39:28

dieghen89 wrote:

If you managed to get TOI working on 2.6.39 please write me how

Well, good news over here
This is what I did:

-I had uswsusp-fbsplash so I uninstalled it.
-Installed hibernate-script from the AUR, not using pacman as the (outdated?) wiki said.
-passed the swap partition path as a kernel parameter like this "resume=/dev/sdXX" in /boot/grub/menu.lst
-changed the swap partition path in /etc/hibernate/tuxonice.conf like this "SuspendDevice swap:/dev/sdXX"
-changed the powerdown method to 5 (poweroff) because 3 (suspend-to-RAM) throwed me a Segfault before even trying to hibernate and 4 (ACPI S4 sleep) throwed a Segfault just after resuming, leaving me unable to hibernate again.
-activated the FullSpeedCPU parameter (in tuxonice.conf too) to take advantage of the 2 (cores?) that my atom shows up at boot
-rebooted (to apply the kernel parameter)

and voilá, TOI working in my netbook

I'm using XFCE with KDM (used KDE4 but it's a resource eater you see ) and it boots really fast

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dieghen89 · 2011-06-07 11:31:18

Mmh without applying any patch? o_O

cylverbak · 2011-06-07 12:12:39

dieghen89 wrote:

I can't help you...i never used the bluetooth in all my present and old netbooks With -ARCH kernel works all fine?

Just tried it with the latest 2.6.38-ARCH kernel and no, it doesn't turn on bluetooth either. Oh well, I can live with this

RozenTensai · 2011-06-07 23:49:33

dieghen89 wrote:

Mmh without applying any patch? o_O

yep, haven't you applied the patch on the precompiled kernel? O_O

...
Looking through the dmesg output I get no "TuxOnIce" lines so... that was PM picking up the hibernation task, and a false alarm
Well, will try to patch the latest kernel with TOI, and post any result later

dieghen89 · 2011-06-08 06:19:17

This is the problem.....no patch for 2.6.39 yet....also for 2.6.38 has come very late (in the while i was already switched to .39 tree)...

null · 2011-06-08 10:52:47

just installed it and for the first time i was able to use pm-suspend on my dell inspiron mini. Also it takes a lot less boot time with this kernel. Thanks a lot for this work!

But I also got two problems:
- I get Kernel Panics when I try to boot without initrd
- when I start with initrd I get a message something like this (can't find it in the logs):
modprobe: fatal: could not insert /lib/module/2.6.39-netbook/modules.dep - no such file or dir
but I created the file with depmod and it exists.

any suggestions?

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dieghen89 · 2011-06-08 12:02:21

@null
do you use UUID? They don't work without initrd...
About the modules.dep problem, mmh i'm thinking...here is all ok...Meanwhile let's solve the initrd problem

Zom · 2011-06-08 12:04:48

null wrote:

just installed it and for the first time i was able to use pm-suspend on my dell inspiron mini. Also it takes a lot less boot time with this kernel. Thanks a lot for this work!
But I also got two problems:
- I get Kernel Panics when I try to boot without initrd
- when I start with initrd I get a message something like this (can't find it in the logs):
modprobe: fatal: could not insert /lib/module/2.6.39-netbook/modules.dep - no such file or dir
but I created the file with depmod and it exists.
any suggestions?

Did you create a new initrd for kernel-netbook, or are you using the old -ARCH-kernel initrd?

RozenTensai · 2011-06-08 23:56:02

@null:

RozenTensai wrote:

...got a kernel panic without an initrd image and "can't load /lib/.../modules.dep" using an initrd.
cause: using UUIDs in grub.
solution: change to (recommended?) format of /dev/sdXX in grub's menu.lst

that's the solution

About the TOI patch... i'm goig to try (blindly) to get the latest TOI working on 2.6.39... or maybe wait for the devs to do it?

null · 2011-06-09 08:42:14

i was using /dev/by-label. switching to /dev/sda3 did the trick. thanks!
And I won't need a solution for the second thing but I did create a new initrd for kernel-netbook.

Paul-S · 2011-06-11 21:24:26

I'm using the kernel on a MSI Wind U135 and it runs great only problem is the touchpad vert scroll and edge scroll are not working. It works fine with the standard kernel, just wondering if theres anything obvious I'm missing. synclient VertEdgeScroll=1 gives a 'Couldn't find synaptics properties.No synaptic driver loaded' error.

Cheers
Paul-S

dieghen89 · 2011-06-12 07:33:41

Mmh:

diego@eeepc ~>sudo zcat /proc/config.gz | grep SYNAPT
Password: 
CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_SYNAPTICS=y
CONFIG_MOUSE_SYNAPTICS_I2C=m
# CONFIG_TOUCHSCREEN_SYNAPTICS_I2C_RMI4 is not set

can you post the lsmod in the stock kernel?

Paul-S · 2011-06-12 10:02:32

Yep dieghen89 here it is

Module                  Size  Used by
ipv6                  249260  14 
ext2                   55475  1 
i915                  557262  2 
uvcvideo               55020  0 
videodev               70734  1 uvcvideo
media                   8545  1 videodev
drm_kms_helper         24245  1 i915
snd_hda_codec_realtek   225687  1 
drm                   147653  3 i915,drm_kms_helper
snd_hda_intel          19261  0 
snd_hda_codec          66793  2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
serio_raw               3430  0 
msi_laptop              5303  0 
sparse_keymap           2636  1 msi_laptop
snd_hwdep               4919  1 snd_hda_codec
uhci_hcd               19344  0 
i2c_algo_bit            4431  1 i915
intel_agp               8664  1 i915
ehci_hcd               34847  0 
i2c_i801                7039  0 
sg                     21022  0 
psmouse                55927  0 
snd_pcm                60311  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
rfkill                 12510  1 msi_laptop
usbcore               119004  4 uvcvideo,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd
pcspkr                  1415  0 
i2c_core               16665  6 i915,videodev,drm_kms_helper,drm,i2c_algo_bit,i2c_i801
evdev                   7310  8 
intel_gtt              11417  3 i915,intel_agp
ac                      2545  0 
iTCO_wdt               10333  0 
battery                 8905  0 
processor              21884  0 
wmi                     7367  0 
snd_timer              15542  1 snd_pcm
video                   9852  1 i915
button                  3654  1 i915
iTCO_vendor_support     1553  1 iTCO_wdt
r8169                  34923  0 
thermal                 6603  0 
agpgart                22160  3 drm,intel_agp,intel_gtt
snd_page_alloc          5909  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
mii                     3383  1 r8169
snd_mixer_oss          12783  0 
snd                    43527  7 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mixer_oss
soundcore               5018  1 snd
rt2860sta             479236  1 
crc_ccitt               1103  1 rt2860sta
ext4                  334626  2 
mbcache                 4321  2 ext2,ext4
jbd2                   59098  1 ext4
crc16                   1077  1 ext4
sd_mod                 25515  5 
ahci                   18093  4 
libahci                16581  1 ahci
libata                154349  2 ahci,libahci
scsi_mod              110670  3 sg,sd_mod,libata

Cheers
Paul-S

dieghen89 · 2011-06-16 17:55:35

It's strange because it seems that the kernel has already all the modules...Have you tried also with 2.6.39.X kernel right?

p.s. excuse me for the late response but i'm in full exams period...

chemicalfan · 2011-06-17 15:30:09

Long story so bear with me!

I used to run Ubuntu (since 8.10) on my netbook, and I've always had an issue with wireless where it would drop randomly, and only a full halt/shutdown would cure it. Now, I put up with this all the way up to 10.10, hoping it would get fixed, but it didn't. A few months ago, I jumped to Arch, embarking on a Gentoo-style project where every package I install onto the system is custom compiled using my CFLAGS. I've only just started to use the wireless under Arch (was relying on eth0 until a couple of nights ago), and I'm disappointed to see the same issue occurs using your kernel It's not exactly the same - your kernel only requires a soft reboot or 2 to restore functionality, but it's still broken.

Now, the error I get in the /var/log/errors.log file is the "kernel: ath5k phy0: failed to wakeup the MAC Chip" and "kernel: ath5k phy0: can't reset hardware (-5)" as reported previously by Ubuntu users using madwifi, but now the atk5k driver is in the kernel I guess it's a different team's problem?

I did wonder if this is a hardware fault until I see others with the same issue, which leads me to think that the driver (or at least the implementation) is bugged. Have you any experience of this, and can you help me? I can provide any information you need me to (providing you tell me where to get it, I'm still pretty noob!) If you can't help, please can you tell me who I need to be reporting this to so I can try to get this resolved (hopefully upstream, eventually!)

Edit: Forgot to add - love your kernel, even better with the BFQ patch, lightning quick

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Zom · 2011-06-17 16:30:45

You can try unloading and reloading the module with modprobe. modprobe -r ath5k, modprobe ath5k.

chemicalfan · 2011-06-18 12:35:56

I'm sure I've tried rmmod ath5k && modprobe ath5k before to no avail - I'm not sure if the driver is statically compiled into this kernel though...

Anyway, I'll give it a try next time it happens, thanks

Zom · 2011-06-18 14:29:29

CONFIG_ATH5K=m

Should be a module. But yeah, some other card I used required a full power cycle before it'd reset, so I guess it could be the hardware that's just buggy.

STEELBAS · 2011-06-19 23:46:07

Hey, just to let you know that I'm thoroughly enjoying your kernel. Keep up the good work!

I'm wondering though: I'm using your kernel on an Acer Aspire One AOA110, and use an SD-card put my /home directory on. Is there anyone else who does this, and who has been able to make suspend/hibernate work? I have put some efford in trying to make this work in the past, but it never quite worked for me - always freezing up or giving a kernel error when I tried to suspend.

Zom · 2011-06-20 00:26:30

STEELBAS wrote:

Hey, just to let you know that I'm thoroughly enjoying your kernel. Keep up the good work!
I'm wondering though: I'm using your kernel on an Acer Aspire One AOA110, and use an SD-card put my /home directory on. Is there anyone else who does this, and who has been able to make suspend/hibernate work? I have put some efford in trying to make this work in the past, but it never quite worked for me - always freezing up or giving a kernel error when I tried to suspend.

Yeah, I tried this. The card reader is very finicky, especially with SDHC-cards, but with a regular SD-card, I could do this with no problem, but with SDHC, I hit a brick wall. I suppose it's possible in certain environments, but with KDE or gnome, it's close to impossible. I never managed to get it to work in openbox either.

I just set it to automatically mount somewhere else through KDE and had a script unmount it on suspend. Worked somewhat fine, but suspend was very slow (20-30 seconds to suspend machine). Otherwise, I'd run into a risk of it hanging during resume instead.

The SSD in the AOA110L is pretty much crap anyways. Writing to it is extremely slow, and it's only 8GB. Most people I've talked to about this machine ended up switching to a regular harddrive, though I suppose you could a "real" SSD too. If you really want to do this, I suggest getting a regular SD-card (Which basically never is above 4GB unfortunately) and just running /home on that, then using the other card reader as a stash for music and such in the other card slot. That should save you some writes on /, and still give you some storage space. It's not much of an appealing solution though, and I'd think it'd be quite prone to errors.

For now, I just use the machine as a small server running minecraft. Works surprisingly well, I must say.

chemicalfan · 2011-07-01 10:36:06

Quick question - when attempting to compile glibc, it says I need "linux-api-headers=>2.6.39", is this different from the headers shipped with this kernel? If not, do I need to mod the glibc PKGBUILD in some way, or if they are different, am I safe to download the "linux-api-headers" package?

Edit: Never mind, I've had this resolved in another post (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=955909)

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knedlyk · 2011-07-02 00:25:32

A piece of trouble, possible bug: when I attach my Samsung Galaxy S (I9000) via USB cable only internal card is mounted. I checked the same on the stock kernel, both internal and external cards are mounted. Which additional info do I need to provide?

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