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On Tuesday 22 September 2009 18:33:30 Daniel da Veiga wrote: |
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> As an owner (701 and 900), I researched a lot, and found this: |
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> http://code.toofishes.net/cgit/dan/eee.git/tree/kernel-eee/kernelconfig |
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An interesting link - thanks. His hardware differs from mine and it's not |
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easy to pick out the differences I want from those I don't; I think I've |
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got most of the right things though. |
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> Its an Arch developer that makes a binary package (an eee specific |
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> kernel), but he publishes all info using git (including the kernel |
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> config file). You can use that to compile your own kernel and it will |
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> give you a perfectly working framebuffer at native resolution (800x480 |
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> in 701, and 1024x600 in 900). |
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I do now have a 127x37 text console, which looks like the one I described |
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but is activated earlier. It'll do nicely. I assume it's 1024x600. |
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Two problems remain (until I solve those and expose the next layer!): |
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1. On starting X I find that the keyboard and mouse are not connected. I can |
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ssh in and reboot the machine, so it's still alive - just not responsive to |
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me at the keyboard. I've tried an xorg.conf from X -configure, and I've |
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tried without. More investigation to do here. |
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2. The wireless network. This uses an Atheros chip, device 168c:002b, not |
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quite the same as the chips described on gentoo-wiki. Has anyone here got |
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this system working? Do I need madwifi, for instance? The old laptop this |
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netbook will replace has a madwifi installation that I could plagiarise. |
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Rgds |
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Peter |