[Debian-eeepc-devel] Debian lenny on ASUS Eee PC 1000H

[Pedro Bulach Gapski]

Regarding SD card problems, check
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-eeepc-devel/2008-August/000837.html

I switched to debian kernel 2.6.27 and that solved my troubles with sd cards.

Pedro

On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Luca Capello <luca at pca.it> wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> Please Cc: me, I am not subscribed to the list, TIA.
>
> As reported at bug #509765 [1], I installed lenny on a 1000H, with no
> problem at all WRT the Debian part (i.e. GDM nicely showed up at the
> reboot), but only with the first NTFS partition (resizing seemed to work
> OK, but now Windows XP cannot boot anymore).
>
> The following are my quick tests on the default installation, i.e.
> without the tricks on the Debian wiki.
>
>
> 1) /etc/default/eeepc-acpi-scripts
>
>   a. VOLUME_LABEL needs to be changed to 'Master' or 'PCM' (there is no
>      'LineOut' control)
>
>   b. HEADPHONE_LABEL must be changed as well, in this case to
>      'Headphone' (there is no 'iSpeaker' control).
>
>      OTOH, as far as I read both variables above they seem to be
>      similar, which is a bit misleading, since the headphone is only a
>      switch.  And their meaning is not really clear...
>
>   c. There are no OSD notifications for brightness changes.
>
>   d. OSD works when aosd-cat is installed, but in general I would
>      prefer the basic functions (brightness and sound) directly
>      supported by GNOME (or KDE or $WHATEVER).
>
>      I tested Tomaz Solc's patch [2], taking /usr/bin/acpi_fakekey and
>      /usr/share/acpi-support/key-constants from acpi-suppor: they work
>      as expected, thanks Tomaz!  I am not sure I will have the time to
>      adapt them to the brightness keys, but IMHO we should.
>
>   e. Some softkeys on the 1000H model are different from the
>      "standard" ones [3]:
>
>        F3  -> empty
>        F4  -> empty
>        F5  -> brightness decrease
>        F6  -> brightness increase
>        F7  -> blank screen (like SOFTBTN1)
>        F8  -> switch screen
>        F9  -> task manager
>        F10 -> sound mut
>        F11 -> sound decrease
>        F12 -> sound increase
>
>      However, all softkeys known to work still do it even if the
>      associated key has been changed.
>
>   f. The "switch screen" softkey should be adjusted to work as the user
>      manual reports, i.e. cycle through
>
>        LCD only -> CRT only -> clone mode -> extended mode
>
>      NB, my intent was not to criticize: a long time ago I started to
>      work on a shell script to do exactly that on my ThinkPad X60 [4],
>      but I put that work on hold since then because the solution with
>      xrandr was less than trivial...
>
>
> 2) wireless
>
>   a. The switch (Fn+F2) works out of the box, but not disabling it
>      through the sysfs value
>
>        /sys/module/eeepc_laptop/drivers/platform\:eeepc/eeepc/wlan
>
>   b. The led, however, seems to be always on.  According to the user
>      manual, it should be on only when the wireless is activated.  I
>      guess this is because of the RT2860 driver.
>
>   c. As explained in the Debian Wiki [5], indeed I can connect to two
>      WPA/WPA2 APs (both Fonera 2100A) only specifying the TKIP cipher.
>
>
> 3) Webcam, bluetooth and SD card reader work out of the box.  The same
>   applies to suspend/hibernate, tested from GNOME.
>
>
> Thx, bye,
> Gismo / Luca
>
> Footnotes:
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/509765
> [2] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-eeepc-devel/2008-December/001724.html
> [3] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/HowTo/Configure#head-7b20dbd395dc85ab2bbe201c8f2af0b7d71527bc
> [4] http://luca.pca.it/projects/ibm/x60_1706-gmg/
> [5] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/HowTo/Wifi/Rt2860
>
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