Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] External monitor

2008-05-20 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 20 May 2008 20:00:50 +0200 Sven Arvidsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAIK, the maximum framebuffer for intel is 2048x2048 (if you want DRI). It sounds like you need to set a Virtual 2048 2048 line in the screen configuration in xorg.conf. Indeed, which is why we mentioned this here:

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Intel Atom Processor

2008-07-27 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:29:48 +0200 Steffen Moeller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: many thanks for your reply. Your web sites are indeed what I wanted to see, possibly a bit too far away from John Doe who just bought such a machine as a Newbie Linux user, Naturally. The site is made by and for those

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Debian - Asus person

2008-07-31 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:04:18 -0300 Fabio Pugliese Ornellas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As discussed at the #debian-eeepc, we are in need of a person to keep in touch with Asus when Debian EEE needs it, so that we won't overload [EMAIL PROTECTED] Also would be nice to have a process to contact

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] eeepc-madwifi-source fails to build with kernel 2.6.26

2008-08-05 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 17:03:18 +0300 Damyan Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Today I decided to do the m-a dance and try 2.6.26 on my eee. (m-a is only needed for eeepc-madwifi; atl2 has arrived to my mirror) Try the madwifi source. As indicated in my 'bits' post we don't need our

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] support of 1680 * 1050 resolution over VGA of EeePC 701 4G under Debian

2008-08-05 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:47:40 +0200 Paul Menzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Is somebody on this list successfully using this resolution? yes. it should 'just work'. 2. What BIOS version is running? i got an original model in nov. 2007. can't remember. i've never updated it. 3. Do you

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] “Coding” Style for Debian Wiki

2008-08-07 Thread Ben Armstrong
My $0.02 ... Please do *not* use the GUI editor on our pages. It is buggy (e.g. makes labels for links disappear!) and introduces many subtle changes to the pages that make the diffs very hard to read (I often can't see the real changes there are so many superflous changes ... link style, etc.)

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] “Coding” Style for Debian Wiki

2008-08-07 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:43:40 +0200 Paul Menzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did not use the GUI editor. This wasn't directed at you. This thread is about Coding style so I want to make sure this point is clear to everyone reading it. While reading through the pages I am changing the link style

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Software for playing music and movies

2008-08-07 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:31:56 +0200 Paul Menzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do you use. I guess one can categorize it into GUI and CLI. So please list the programs you use for playing music or movies in the respective section. == GUI == VLC [2] smplayer (same as xandros does) sometimes

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Software for playing music and movies

2008-08-07 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:58:09 +0200 Paul Menzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: === QT (KDE) === smplayer (same as xandros does) but QT is not KDE ... if you label it this way, it makes it seem as if smplayer drags in all KDE deps. But it doesn't. It's quite light: Depends: libc6 (= 2.7-1),

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] athk5 work for 701

2008-08-07 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:06:27 +0200 Paul Menzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These are great news. Could somebody tell me, how I can get the modules installed on my sid system. In what package are/will be the athk5 module be packaged in? The will be included in a future kernel in Debian, not as a

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] No boot without ac adapter

2008-08-13 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:02:48 +0200 InSa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure, bug n° 494984. Thanks! And add to that bug# the workaround mentioned elsewhere in this thread (blacklisting thermal) once you confirm it works? Thanks again, Ben -- ,-. nSLUGhttp://www.nslug.ns.ca [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] No boot without ac adapter

2008-08-13 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:02:53 +0200 InSa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Before doing that I would like to be sure that blacklisting thermal will not cause fan to not start when it should be, I do not know if they are related but I think it's better to know it before giving possible breakable

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] No boot without ac adapter

2008-08-14 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:49:42 +0200 Axel Beckert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 0910 Is there anyone else here with 0910 who can confirm they don't have the problem? Or better yet, someone who had the problem and it went away when they upgraded to 0910? My bios version is 0204, btw. Ben -- ,-.

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] No boot without ac adapter

2008-08-14 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:54:00 -0400 Eric Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to publicize this better, but kernel 2.6.26 includes the eeepc-laptop module, which supersedes eeepc-acpi (more features and fewer bugs). I've been told by the debian-kernel team that lenny will definitely use

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] UPX

2008-08-15 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:21:51 +0100 Andrew Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd personally ask to avoid it, their licensing is GPL and in the free commerical license they make reference to this nugget. The stub which is imbedded in each UPX compressed program is part of UPX and UCL,

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] prebuild madwifi-eeepc-modules-2.6.26 ?

2008-08-16 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:01:06 +0200 Noèl Köthe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will there be madwifi-eeepc-modules-2.6.26 from this project? I do not want to install all the build stuff on my eee because I do not have enough space for it and in the past I was very happy to get it from

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] No more resume after suspend

2008-08-16 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:19:31 +0200 InSa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Solved, just add resume=/dev/sdb1 in /boot/grub/menu.lst which was disappeared... ;) Sure, but you need to understand why that disappeared. There is a section at the top of menu.lst where you add parameters to append to each

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Wireless OSD display on 901+ models

2008-08-18 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:26:10 +0300 Damyan Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, in hotkey.sh we only need to see if the wireless is enabled, i.e. whether there is a wireless interface available at all, not its name. Yes, but elsewhere don't we need its name? So I was thinking of a

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Gathering information on getting support for 1650 * 1050 resolution

2008-08-18 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:17:12 +0200 Paul Menzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe I will find some differences in the log-files comparing the versions. It is not logical for me why with the same model you get different results. So I would like to take this shot. I have an early production model

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Gathering information on getting support for 1650 * 1050 resolution

2008-08-18 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:37:35 +0200 Paul Menzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So maybe the processor has not been underclocked also. So please post cat /proc/cpuinfo. No. The processor *is* underclocked. That much I know. Sorry, I'm at work and my Eee isn't handy, so I can't paste you anything

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] OT: Notifications in the Debian Wiki

2008-08-18 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:30:53 +0200 Paul Menzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the answers. I think the problem was, that I had never logged out before and the notification setting are saved in the handler only if you log out (bug?). Doing this I do receive notifications now. Hm? No, I

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Wireless OSD display on 901+ models

2008-08-19 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:28:26 +0300 Damyan Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps the only way of doing an install-time check is by the model-based approach you propose. If we go this route, please at least pretend we can do feature checks. That is, hide the implementation in an appropriately

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Wireless OSD display on 901+ models

2008-08-19 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:00:56 +0200 Iván Sánchez Ortega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that won't work, suppose the following scenario: User buys a new eeepc, tinkers with Xandros, and: - Turns the webcam off (won't be seen on lsusb) - Turns WiFi off (won't be seen on lspci thanks to

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Wireless OSD display on 901+ models

2008-08-19 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:04:19 +0200 Iván Sánchez Ortega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Use debconf to ask the user if he wants an OSD (currently disabled now, most users may fund it useful) and the resolution of the external VGA display when enabled. Using debconf to ask about OSD isn't a bad idea.

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Wireless OSD display on 901+ models

2008-08-19 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:27:29 +0200 Iván Sánchez Ortega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, at least it's better than having a 640x480 default resolution. May the script probe the monitor every time the VGA output is switched on? The idea there was to do something guaranteed to work. Maybe we

[Debian-eeepc-devel] [SCM] rt2860 source for the ralink wireless chip in the eeepc 901. branch, master, updated. ec938143d89820494f2f8e775ffd157d1a4bd8d7

2008-08-27 Thread Ben Armstrong
The following commit has been merged in the master branch: commit ec938143d89820494f2f8e775ffd157d1a4bd8d7 Author: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed Aug 27 18:04:31 2008 -0300 Install .ko to correct path in .deb diff --git a/rt2860-1.7.0.0/debian/rules.modules b/rt2860-1.7.0.0

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] wireless and thermal nocrt=1 not working for eeepc 900/2.6.26

2008-08-31 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:49:01 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you, this worked. Now I see the ath0 wireless, and while there are regular Critical strip point messages on the console, it does not shut down. It sounds like you didn't actually apply the workaround correctly. After I did

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] wireless and thermal nocrt=1 not working for eeepc 900/2.6.26

2008-09-01 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:52:58 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, both files files contain exactly the same: --- /etc/modprobe.d/local ## options thermal nocrt=1 options pciehp pciehp_force=1 - Hmm. Well,

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Re : No boot without ac adapter

2008-09-01 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:10:33 +0200 seb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM : reinstall debian , and DO NOT SELECT LAPTOP when task selection asks for !! No, I'm pretty sure that is a false lead. The problem seems to be intermittent, so you just got lucky. I don't have the laptop

[Debian-eeepc-devel] Bug#497526: Please remove eeepc-modules

2008-09-02 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: linux-modules-extra-2.6 Version: 2.6.26-3 Severity: normal Please remove eeepc-modules, as 2.6.26 now contains eeepc-laptop which supercedes it. Thanks, Ben -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')

[Debian-eeepc-devel] 901, 1000 owners, what should soft-button #3 do? ([SCM] Maintenance of eeepc-acpi-scripts debian package branch, master, updated. b70d7df87f2e4223dfebd9681c7941051532abdd)

2008-09-02 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:55:12 + Damyan Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +NOTE BEFORE UPLOADING: the binding of soft-button #3 needs to be decided ... + * add support for toggling the built-in camera and bind that to +soft-button #3 OK. So what this is about is I understand

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] SD-Card problems on eee900, kernelpackage 2.6.26-4

2008-09-08 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 09:29:30 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any way that this patch could be applied to the debian eeepc apt sources so that we can get a properly modified 2.6.26 linux image (together with the thermal nocrt=1 hack)? No, we will not provide eee-specific kernels. The project

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] New and wondering - make me excited ;)

2008-09-10 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:14:02 +0200 Johnny Kewl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.pocketables.net/2008/05/gigabyte-mid-m5.html I think we have some crossed wires here. This list is specifically about making Debian work on the Asus Eee PC. And that is what Iván was talking about when he said

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] New and wondering - make me excited ;)

2008-09-10 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:10:03 +0200 Johnny Kewl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These things are the future I think... MIDs may be the future, but netbooks are the present, and the Eee PC netbooks in particular are what have my attention. As for being motivated by the call to beat Microsoft, to be

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Auto-select VGA mode

2008-09-11 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:27:16 -0300 Luiz Eduardo Guaraldo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, as I know a little bit of bash scripting, I made some changes to let it find the best resolution of the VGA display automatically and I want to share it. Thanks. But please see the TODO in the

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Ralink problems

2008-10-02 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 23:40:42 +0100 Matthew Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an EEE1000 and I'm having problems getting the wireless to work. Symptoms are: I understand from talking to you on irc that before using our package you built and installed rt2860 yourself. I wonder if there is

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Bogus thermal shutdown and eg storm issues might be solved :)

2008-10-02 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:53:50 +0200 Robert Epprecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a new Debian kernel 2.6.26-7 version building. I could not wait until it reaches sid, compiled the sources and started testing it regarding thermal shutdowns and eg storm issues. For those who can't wait

[Debian-eeepc-devel] Bug#501498: Bug#501498: Bug#501498: Bug#501498: eeepc-acpi-scripts: Fn-F2 turns wireless off, but never back on

2008-10-09 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Thu, 9 Oct 2008 07:09:42 +0300 Damyan Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # dmidecode -s system-manufacturer ASUSTeK Computer INC. # dmidecode -s system-product-name 901 Or for that matter, skip dmidecode and get the info from: cat /sys/class/dmi/id/sys_vendor cat

[Debian-eeepc-devel] Fw: Bits from the Debian Eee PC team, autumn 2008

2008-10-13 Thread Ben Armstrong
Begin forwarded message: Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:35:16 -0300 From: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Bits from the Debian Eee PC team, autumn 2008 Also posted as http://syn.theti.ca/2008/10/13/ Some brief highlights of the last three months of Debian Eee PC

[Debian-eeepc-devel] [SCM] custom debian-installer for EeePC branch, master, updated. cb0d94d2d58dc330626bb0b0b28b72adddcb90eb

2008-10-16 Thread Ben Armstrong
The following commit has been merged in the master branch: commit cb0d94d2d58dc330626bb0b0b28b72adddcb90eb Author: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu Oct 16 06:13:41 2008 -0300 Bump up kernel d-i version# diff --git a/build-eeepc.sh b/build-eeepc.sh index 29f52d4..672a4b2 100755

[Debian-eeepc-devel] 2.6.26-8 migrated to lenny now, fixing thermal/ACPI bugs

2008-10-16 Thread Ben Armstrong
Whew. The bugs in http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/Bugs/2.6.26 relating to thermal/ACPI are now resolved with the 2.6.26-8 migration of linux-image-2.6.26-1-686! I'm in the process of rebuilding the installer against the new kernel today, but the old one is still OK to use, as it will install

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] 2.6.26-8 migrated to lenny now, fixing thermal/ACPI bugs

2008-10-17 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:48:41 +0100 Marcos Torres Marado [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great! Please tell here on the list when the new installer is available, and thanks for the work you've been doing so far :-) The new installer is available now. Ben

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Touchpad on 901

2008-10-20 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:58:43 -0400 Eric Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like the two-finger scroll support a lot. Has anyone been able to get the equivalent of the disable touchpad while typing in the original Xandros? synclient? ___

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Cannot load pciehp module (Was: Re: FN+F2 does not toggle wifi anymore)

2008-10-24 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:19:57 +0200 Leandro Noferini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have yet this line in /etc/modules but when I try to load this module I get this error: minchioncino:~# modprobe pciehp FATAL: Error inserting pciehp

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] still having wpa_supplicant problems with rt2860 on 901

2008-11-02 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Sun, 2 Nov 2008 13:23:14 -0500 Eric Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. Unfortunately, my configuration is identical to yours, and I still can't associate with the AP unless I use plain ifconfig ra0 up and DHCP. I have heard (on #eeepc @ irc.freenode.net) that 1.7.1.1 is much better

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Annoying SCM messages on this list

2008-11-08 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:57:53 + Phil Endecott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am I the only one to find the [SCM] messages on this list annoying? The 2 MB one that has just found its way into my inbox is particularly unwanted, Sorry. I really should have rejected that one. but I would be happy

[Debian-eeepc-devel] rtl8187se for Eee PC 701SD (and MSI Wind)

2008-11-11 Thread Ben Armstrong
Eee PC Model 701SD uses the rtl8187se driver which is not in the kernel upstream. Ultimately, we want to use whatever is supported in the kernel. While there is some recent work on rtl8187 in wireless-testing, we don't yet know if this works for the rtl8187se. We'd be interested in hearing from

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] rtl8187se for Eee PC 701SD (and MSI Wind)

2008-11-13 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:59:15 +0100 Arnaud Cornet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did a package for my wind u100 some time ago: http://nohar.t1r.net/debian/ Works for me with WPA2 and network manager. Fantastic! I'll have our 701SD users try it out. Thanks, Ben

[Debian-eeepc-devel] New live USB image: 1.0~a8

2008-11-23 Thread Ben Armstrong
Please see http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/Live where you can download the new live image I prepared today including LXDE, all Eee PC drivers for all models (except rtl8187se wifi for the model 701SD,) ACPI scripts and OSD. I would be interested to hear back from owners of various models about

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] New live USB image: 1.0~a8

2008-11-26 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:03:51 +0100 Robert Epprecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please see http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/Live where you can download the new live image Two things that would be nice to have in a live image: * easy to find

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] eee box with debian

2008-11-28 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:58:33 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the replies ... which lead me to why the eee box is an eee pc? I would have though that it is a kind of eeepc 1000. The Eee PC family is characterized by being a line of netbooks made by a single vendor and sharing

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Shutting down fails: rnmod snd-hda-intel

2008-12-02 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:50:46 +0100 Jaap van Wingerde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DebianEeePC/Bugs/Shutting down fails http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/Bugs?action=showredirect=DebianEeePC%2FHowTo%2FTroubleshooting#head-2cd36402e4d36a0653b669d58cbacdc5584628a1 rmmod snd_hda_intel must be

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Success report

2008-12-07 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Sat, 6 Dec 2008 13:21:48 -0800 Ken Restivo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only stressful thing was that ACPI RAM sleep didn't work. It'd go to sleep properly but then would lock up upon resume. Googling around for a week, and trying all sorts of random things, I finally found a suggestion

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Brltty and the custom installer for the Eee

2008-12-07 Thread Ben Armstrong
Robin, That's great that it worked on the first try! On Sun, 7 Dec 2008 22:50:48 +0100 Robin Kipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be great if we could get that included in the official images, it doesn't take up a lot of space I think and I'm sure nobody would complain about it. That's

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Brltty and the custom installer for the Eee

2008-12-08 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 17:21:19 +0100 Robin Kipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just looked through the BIOS settings with someone else, but I couldn't find anything related to WLAN Robin, Look again under the Advanced tab, a page called Onboard Devices Configuration. WLAN should be there along with

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Brltty and the custom installer for the Eee

2008-12-08 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 18:32:27 +0100 Robin Kipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks a lot for your tips. I'll see about the WLAN, I hope the WLAN-chip in the Eee isn't damaged or something. Highly unlikely. At this time, Debian acts as there was no WLAN chip really, lspci and lsusb didn't show

[Debian-eeepc-devel] Help cleanup wiki: standard install, elantech, synaptics, etc.

2008-12-26 Thread Ben Armstrong
Our wiki at http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC is riddled with out of date misleading info. I am making a pass at cleaning some of it up today. I have just eviscerated from http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/HowTo/InstallUsingStandardInstaller any out-of-date info regarding atl2 / atl1e. To the

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] 700 4g with Lenny - No microphone

2009-01-06 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 22:50:44 +0100 Daniel Huhardeaux tootai...@gmail.com wrote: BTW, do you have Lenny alsa-source or did you install the experimental package? The mic on the 4G works fine with both. In my extensive experience supporting users with mic problems, it is usually the mixer settings

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Goals for Squeeze?

2009-02-22 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 19:51:52 +0100 Paul Menzel paulepan...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Some of this stuff is also already mentioned on the TODO list in the Debian Wiki [1]. Feel free to update it. 1. Move to ath5k driver. Naturally. This will be done rather quickly, as 2.6.28 is now in sid

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] SD Cards

2009-03-02 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 12:51:42 -0300 Pedro Bulach Gapski pbgap...@gmail.com wrote: Fabien, my eee show the same sd card bug, and it has indeed been solved on newer kernel versions. Look for the debian trunk kernels on wiki.debian.org, and install the sid kernel. I am running fine with

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Mounting SD Card at boot time

2009-03-02 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 13:30:12 -0500 Michael Pobega pob...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 01:51:03PM -0400, Ben Armstrong wrote: USB_PERSIST=y (turned on by default in debian kernels since 2.6.26) and echo the appropriate value to the appropriate node under /sys to make the SD card

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

2009-03-06 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 19:55:52 -0800 Cory Nelson phro...@gmail.com wrote: 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

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

2009-03-06 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 05:42:54 -0800 Cory Nelson phro...@gmail.com wrote: Agreed, however this is all hardware which showed up in other models, so in theory this should have been a much faster experience. I wouldn't count on it. With each new platform the variations on the hardware seem endless.

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Beta 1 of eeepc-acpi-scripts 1.1.0 available for testing

2009-04-03 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Fri, 3 Apr 2009 09:13:50 +0200 Santi Béjar sa...@agolina.net wrote: == parameters/pciehp_slot_with_bus == N I don't know why the slot_with_bus is zero, when I reran the /etc/init.d/eeepc it loads the module with slot_with_bus=1. Check all files in /etc/modprobe.d/ to see if there is an

[Debian-eeepc-devel] Bug#522756: After resume, acpid dies: too many errors reading input layer - aborting

2009-04-06 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: acpid Version: 1.0.8-6 Severity: normal On my Asus Eee PC model 4G (aka 701) sometimes after I resume, acpid dies with the following errors: Apr 6 05:59:52 dove acpid: input layer read error: No such device (19) Apr 6 05:59:52 dove last message repeated 4 times Apr 6 05:59:52 dove

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Debian Eeepc-live Version 1.0~b1

2009-04-13 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:25:14 -0500 John jpi...@gmail.com wrote: Tested today on my spanish keyboard 701. Downloaded, dd'ed to micro SD card and booted without troubles. Impressive that you've got it inside 256MBs. Spanish locale/ keyboard layout would be nice? Should be able to boot with

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Debian kernel 2.6.26-2 and wlan0 not working

2009-04-16 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:19:31 +0200 leandro noferini lnofe...@cybervalley.org wrote: Yes, I can confirm: 2.6.26 is still present in unstable. And I can confirm that it is not: http://packages.debian.org/linux-image-2.6.26 Where is your evidence? Ben

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Debian kernel 2.6.26-2 and wlan0 not working

2009-04-16 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:16:13 +0200 Santi Béjar sa...@agolina.net wrote: It was in sid, but has migrated to testing: http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/linux-2.6/news/20090412T163918Z.html and removed from sid afterwards. Thanks for clearing that up. Ben

[Debian-eeepc-devel] Running Eee with lid closed considered harmful?

2009-04-21 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:28:55 +0200 Santi Béjar sa...@agolina.net wrote: It has been discussed in the past. The main issue is that the Eee uses the keyboard to cool the machine, so the only sane/safe thing to do is to suspend. You can always, at your own risk, modify the action in

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] eeepc-acpi-scripts new version 1.1.0 is broken on 1000H

2009-04-24 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:27:01 +0200 Dirk Salva dsa...@nutrimatic.ping.de wrote: Has anybody tested the new version 1.1.0 of the eeepc-acpi-scripts package on a 1000H? Seems not. There are IMHO lots of bugs in it, it is nearly completely dysfunctional: - wireless.sh / Wireless On/Off with

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] upgrade to SID

2009-04-24 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:31:21 -0300 Ufa u...@technotroll.org wrote: Does anyone here upgraded or is using sid (unstable).? I am willing to upgrade because of the free wireless driver. Another possible upgrade path is to continue to use Lenny, but use a backport of the sid 2.6.29 kernel. See:

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] high rate of spam on the list

2009-05-01 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Fri, 01 May 2009 15:58:52 -0400 Gene Cash gene.c...@gmail.com wrote: I get more spam than actual content. Is anybody going to actually manage this list? I hardly see any. I guess my spam filter is better than yours. I'm open to suggestions as to how I should tune the Mailman

[Debian-eeepc-devel] Bug#527601: Bug#527601: eeepc-acpi-scripts: PCI hotplug error in wireless startup (901)

2009-05-08 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Fri, 8 May 2009 15:02:33 +0100 Darren Salt li...@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk wrote: NAK, since it'll break things with (some) later kernels. Anyway, that module should already be loaded with exactly those options (see /etc/init.d/eeepc-acpi-scripts and /sys/module/pciehp/parameters/*); if

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Problem installing squeeze with debian eee installer

2009-05-12 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 12 May 2009 16:29:57 +0300 Serge s...@tlc.ks.ua wrote: I can confirm this bug. Tried few times with installing squeeze. It is a Lenny installer only. Hiding the fact that the standard installer (on which the custom installer is based) also provides a non-functional testing option is a

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Problems with Linux 2.6.29 ?

2009-05-12 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 12 May 2009 14:23:17 +0200 Frédéric Boiteux fboit...@calistel.com wrote: I've tried this Debian Live system on a USB thumb drive, it works well, and I tried several suspend2ram with success, so the 2.6.29 kernel can work on my hardware, good ! Then I tried to start the official

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Eee1000HE: unable to turn off wifi

2009-05-14 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Thu, 14 May 2009 12:19:18 +0200 Alessandro Pellizzari a...@amiran.it wrote: I am configuring Debian on my new 1000HE, but have a problem. Both pressing Fn-F2 or manually echoing 1 in /sys/class/rfkill/rfkill0/state, the wifi remains on. I found no way to turn it off. Even rmmod-ing

[Debian-eeepc-devel] Bits from the Eee PC team, Spring 2009

2009-05-23 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://syn.theti.ca/?p=116 Lenny well supported We're pleased that Lenny released with good support for the Eee PC and are now turning our efforts to make Squeeze even better, while continuing to provide support for our Lenny user base.

[Debian-eeepc-devel] Testers needed for rebuilt debian-eeepc.img

2009-05-24 Thread Ben Armstrong
If you want to help test, I have rebuilt debian-eeepc.img with the correct archive key in it. If you just want a working install and don't want to waste your time attempting an install that might fail, please just wait until we have uploaded a fully tested image. The test image and its md5sum

[Debian-eeepc-devel] New test installer image uploaded, seeking testers

2009-05-26 Thread Ben Armstrong
Again, I haven't been able to test this myself. It's in the same location, same filenames: http://people.debian.org/~synrg/debian-eeepc/debian-eeepc.img http://people.debian.org/~synrg/debian-eeepc/debian-eeepc.img.md5 c497c08ad8bd18399183787ed6c5ef2b debian-eeepc.img In this version I have

[Debian-eeepc-devel] Installer image released

2009-05-28 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Wed, 27 May 2009 20:48:37 +0400 Boris Popov popo...@gmail.com wrote: It's works good. (Asus 701 on SSD). 2009/5/26 Ben Armstrong sy...@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca: Again, I haven't been able to test this myself.  It's in the same location, same filenames: http://people.debian.org/~synrg

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Installer bug - root account is locked, user account not created

2009-06-18 Thread Ben Armstrong
This is not a bug. On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:47:53 +0100 (BST) Matthew Wakeling matt...@wakeling.homeip.net wrote: I just tried installing Debian onto my new EeePC 901 using the specific installer. I chose expert mode, First mistake. More people get into trouble this way. There are numerous

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] spam on this debian-eeepc list

2009-06-24 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:12:40 +0200 Jelle de Jong jelledej...@powercraft.nl wrote: I am wondering why there is so much spam on this list. I can imagine it is a highly visible server but there are other list with much more traffic that don't have these amounts of spam. Could somebody enlighten

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] debian on 1005-HA H

2009-07-16 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:04:58 +0100 Darren Salt li...@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk wrote: I see no reason not to mix them. man apt_preferences for more information. Or http://wiki.debian.org/AptPinning Ben ___ Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list

[Debian-eeepc-devel] Bug#538410: atl1c: ethernet broken on Eee PC model 1005HA-H

2009-07-25 Thread Ben Armstrong
ethernet working on this model as soon as possible. Thanks, Ben Armstrong, debian-eeepc project leader ___ Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list Debian-eeepc-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] soft keys stop working

2009-07-27 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:15:34 +0200 Frédéric Boiteux fboit...@calistel.com wrote: Yes, I get this behaviour from time to time, but didn't identify yet the related event / cause, it doesn't occurs so often… Check to see if acpid has died. If it has, start it again: /etc/init.d/acpid start If

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] How can I help?

2009-08-06 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:29:28 -0700 Trevor trevor.ch...@gmail.com wrote: I want to begin by thanking all of you guys and gals for making the Debian installation process as painless as possible on the eeepc. My 900a has never been so happy and responsive, and that experience led me to kick

[Debian-eeepc-devel] Wiki Models pages need help, 1005HA and 1008HA are new

2009-08-08 Thread Ben Armstrong
We try to stay on top of the differences between models at http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/Models but Asus has released so many new models that it is a tough job. As developers, we have very few of these models so we rely on you, the users, to help keep these pages up-to-date. Even if you

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Skilled wiki custodians needed

2009-08-08 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Sat, 08 Aug 2009 19:56:38 +0700 Mikhail Gusarov dotted...@dottedmag.net wrote: What's the best way to deal with bugreports in wiki? Is there anything better than just going through list, trying to reproduce bugs on the available hardware and removing ones which are not reproducible? Yes,

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] [RFC] wireless.sh: remove special treatment for Atheros

2009-08-12 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:52:40 +0200 Thiemo Nagel thiemo.na...@ph.tum.de wrote: If we remove this, we'll probably break things for some etch users who run eeepc-acpi-scripts from unstable. Therefore I'd suggest to add logic to detect the kernel version and only remove the special treatment

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] [RFC] wireless.sh: remove special treatment for Atheros

2009-08-12 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:50:32 +0200 Thiemo Nagel thiemo.na...@ph.tum.de wrote: Alan Jenkins wrote: Are you concerned about the module loading as well, or only ifconfig up as quoted above? I'm not into the technical details. The argumentation is: Somebody put it there, probably there's

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Should I reinstall from scratch?

2009-08-13 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:18:16 +0100 Dick Middleton d...@fouter.net wrote: Fabien wrote: If so, as I am a single user nobody else use my eeePC, Do I need any session manager? I've installed basic debian, gdm, x and lxde. Is gdm needed? What is the way to have a minimalist lxde

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Network on Eee 1101HA

2009-09-15 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:56:41 +0300 j...@tutpro.com (Juha Heinanen) wrote: Eystein Bye writes: I dont know if this is the right place to post this (so I apologize if Im wrong). looks like you haven't check archives of this list. Probably. But Juha, since you were successful, would

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Network on Eee 1101HA

2009-09-15 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:12:06 +0300 j...@tutpro.com (Juha Heinanen) wrote: ok, that is fine with me. i just needed this thing to run lenny, because i'm using it to build debian packages that must work on lenny hosts. I would normally use a lenny chroot for that (e.g. pbuilder and friends).

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] /etc/default/eeepc-acpi-scripts configuration

2009-09-20 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:08:39 -0700 Trevor Chart trevor.ch...@gmail.com wrote: I realize that the reason for splitting out brightness is different (we don't, to my knowledge, handle brightness), Actually, no, that isn't it. It's that brightness change is self-evident, so there is no reason to

[Debian-eeepc-devel] Squeeze release goals

2009-10-10 Thread Ben Armstrong
We should start a list of Squeeze release goals (belongs in the wiki, actually) and get started on them. Here are the two big ones: - standard Debian-installer prebuilt images support Eee PCs out of the box - one of the biggest blockers is rt2860 depends on non-free firmware - we have talked

[Debian-eeepc-devel] Cleanup of TODO -

2009-10-10 Thread Ben Armstrong
I have just purge a bunch of old/done items from our TODO in the wiki: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/Todo what about this one? Hard/Wishlist: use s2ram from uswsusp for suspend * needs 467017 uswsusp looks unmaintained for a long time (see grave bug #498917, not fixed for one

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Squeeze release goals

2009-10-11 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:34:49 +0300 j...@tutpro.com (Juha Heinanen) wrote: I have two problems that I have with Grub2+vesa+GMA500 solution: - Performance. glxgears gives about 200 fps, which is quite low for video and things like googlemaps. - No backlight control. If I want to adjust

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Squeeze release goals

2009-10-11 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:41:40 +0200 Luca Niccoli lultimou...@gmail.com wrote: I don't see that happening before squeeze. I don't think ATM rt2800pci is even usable, and it still uses the ralink firmware. So I'd rather see this as a Squeeze+1 goal. I thought they were making some progress on

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] [Debian-eeepc-commits] [SCM] Maintenance of eeepc-acpi-scripts debian package branch, master, updated. 1.1.1-39-g3ab8972

2009-10-14 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:43:34 +0300 Damyan Ivanov d...@debian.org wrote: -=| Darren Salt, Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 03:17:07PM + |=- The following commit has been merged in the master branch: commit 3ab89721828e085bc6116bd1afe1a4e15833aca3 Author: Darren Salt

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] [Debian-eeepc-commits] [SCM] Maintenance of eeepc-acpi-scripts debian package branch, master, updated. 1.1.1-39-g3ab8972

2009-10-14 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:04:24 -0300 Ben Armstrong sy...@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca wrote: Time spent parsing, since we include this everywhere. According to Darren's tests: _ds_ Hmm. Might be worth making a man page for the defaults file and removing the comments from it… * _ds_ tests

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