Revision as of 00:32, 14 June 2012

Installing Arch

This wiki page supplements these pages: Beginners Guide, the Official Install Guide, and Installing Arch Linux on the Asus EEE PC. Please refer to those guides first before following the eeepc-specific pointers on this page.

Ethernet

Ethernet works "out of the box" with no additional configuration.

Sound

Sound works as per the Beginners Guide instructions.

Video

Check how to use Poulsbo. Works fine with the psb driver, mplayer-vaapi and libva-freeworld.

Wireless

Wireless works as described in the Beginners Guide with the 2.6.33 kernel. Unencrypted, WEP, WPA-PSK and WPA2 connections are confirmed working.

Multi Touchscreen

Seems to work out of the box with Xorg 1.9 and kernel 2.6.36, but needs to be calibrated.

to install driver do these steps:

1. install dkms [1] from AUR

2. download the hid-mosart driver for multitouch support for Asus T91MT : [2]

unpack it with 'ar vx hid-mosart-dkms_1.0.0_all.deb'

unpack data.tar.gz and copy hid-mosart-1.0.0.dkms.tar.gz file in data.tar.gz/usr/src to /usr/src/hid-mosart-1.0.0.dkms.tar.gz

unpack control.tar.gz and run './postinst configure' in control.tar.gz as root user

4. reboot

Note that you do not need to change xorg.conf but ensure that the module installed by 'modprobe -l "hid-mosart*"'

Suspend

The system can be suspended using pm-suspend without additional configuration:

pm-suspend

Hardware

$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation System Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo) (rev 07)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation System Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo) Graphics Controller (rev 07)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation System Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo) HD Audio Controller (rev 07)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation System Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 07)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation System Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 07)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation System Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo) USB UHCI #1 (rev 07)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation System Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo) USB UHCI #2 (rev 07)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation System Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo) USB UHCI #3 (rev 07)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation System Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo) USB EHCI #1 (rev 07)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation System Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo) LPC Bridge (rev 07)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation System Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo) IDE Controller (rev 07)
01:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Atheros AR8132 / L1c Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (rev c0)

More Resources

Asus Eee PC General Guide for EEE PCs on Arch

Using Poulsbo on Arch

Ubuntu T91MT Howto lots of detailed information, most of it applicable to Arch