[Debian-eeepc-devel] Got my 1000HE, here's some info on it.

[Frédéric Boiteux]

Le Wed, 4 Mar 2009 19:55:52 -0800,
Cory Nelson <phrosty at gmail.com> a écrit :

> Delivered yesterday, put Debian on it immediately.  It's got the same
> stuff inside as the 1002HA: atl1e wired, AR928X wireless, Elantech
> touchpad.  I got something around 6-7 hours of life out of it with
> varying firefox+wifi usage, full-screen h.264 playing, and compiling.
> Power usage reports as between 10 and 16Wh.
Thanks for your report.

> Installed via usb stick using the vanilla installer.  I've got
> everything working with the exception of one frustrating issue:  When
> I first installed, the touchpad was a complete mess.  Holding my
> finger still on it would make it jump sporadically around a ~10 pixel
> radius, with some clicks put in for good measure.  Eventually movement
> would become very hard, with almost everything was interpreted as
> clicks.
Strange !

>  Updating kernel to recognize it as an Elantech slightly
> solved that.
Does installing the Debian's linux-image-2.6.28-1-686 solves the
Elantech recognition issue ?

>  Now I have no random clicking, but I still have sporadic
> movement if ethernet is plugged in.  Unplug ethernet and cursor stays
> still.  Doesn't happen with wifi.  It baffles me, if anyone has ideas
> I'd appreciate them.
> 
> Please, put 2.6.28 (for ath9k) kernel packages with elantech support,
> and alsa packages, into the debian-eee repo.
It's already in Sid / Squeeze ! Perhaps also in backports.org ?

>  User documentation
> should not have "the only way around this is for you to compile a
> custom kernel..." anywhere in it -- I'm very happy with my Eee now
> that it's mostly usable, but honestly if I wasn't a long-time debian
> user comfortable with all this, I would have given up and tried
> something else.
Installing a Linux system on a brand new model is always a possibly
difficult task...


I wonder about some points :
- did you succeeded in using function keys ? especially wifi switch ?
- do you know more about Asus's 'Super Hybrid Engine' ?

	Fred.