On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 3:07 AM, Frédéric Boiteux <[email protected]> wrote: > Le Wed, 4 Mar 2009 19:55:52 -0800, > Cory Nelson <[email protected]> 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 ?
Deb's kernel does not recognize it as Elantech... the config option given in the docs is not set. I needed to grab the source and compile a custom one. >> 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 ? Indeed, but (as above), not one that recognizes Elantech. >> 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... > Agreed, however this is all hardware which showed up in other models, so in theory this should have been a much faster experience. > > 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' ? Wifi is the only one that comes to mind as not working. As to what "Super Hybrid Engine" is - I can only guess it may be a Windows driver that drops speed & voltage of some hardware, and perhaps turns some off? I assume the bulk of the battery life improvement is from the LED-backlit screen and larger battery. I did not have Windows on the machine longer than it took to make sure everything worked, so I didn't test the battery life there. -- Cory Nelson _______________________________________________ Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel
