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I got nearly everything working like a charm under ubuntu/gutsy, so I packaged my scripts so that everybody can enjoy it. currently, it addresses:
- small fonts, no compiz, fullscreen apps...
- wifi (using the newly released madwifi driver)
- hotkeys (vga out untested)
- overclocking to 900Mhz (using the eee module)
- webcam
- suspend-to-ram (WARNING: some users reported that the eee may wake-up if you unplug the power cord while suspended, and even wake up for no reason, and then it may cause heat damage: you should shutdown instead of suspending for long periods)
- sound
- other fixes
you can either install scripts manually or use the provided install.sh that copies things in various locations. the installers are intended for a fresh install and will overwrite sensible files in /boot and /etc (you are warned).
http://eee-ubuntu-support.googlecode.com/
this pack is a work-in-progress and I am willing to update it with the latest findings. so please, contribute.
the scripts being young, I would really welcome a few tester not afraid of having to reinstall everything to test them and report here. Also, it would be nice if someone can host the files.
[edit] many updates available from the googlecode site. read on for the details
Last edited by benob (2007-12-13 9:06:29 pm)
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OK two quick things.
ALWAYS make backups of the files you copy over (or whatever).
Second, when you copied over menu.lst you also copied over your UUID so it will only work on your computer (so anyone elses won't boot). (so just change root=UUID=blahblah to /dev/sda1)
Thats about all for now don't have much time to do trials (battery dying).
Forgot to mention I'm running Xubuntu and I did not do a clean install.
Last edited by mobad (2007-12-03 3:00:41 am)
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I have tried to install this over a clean Ubuntu install I have on an external HDD (in the second partition).
Main things are:-
I needed root (hd1,1) in the GRUB command set as mine's on partition 1 (not zero)
I needed to change the root=UUID<etc> to root=/dev/sdb1
But, on boot up, I get the Ubuntu splash screen with progress bar, then it goes to the recovery console.
I can confirm the the tweak-gnome script appears to work, but there is perhaps something wrong with the kernel or modules in your pack to cause the machine to fallback to the console.
Each script should have an undo script that can be run from a working bootup (in this case, restoring the files altered, even if they are backups that were kept (as mobad says) by the original script. This isn't so important for the gnome tweak script, but for the install script it's vital.
I can't do much now, apart from reinstall Ubuntu on the external drive.
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Nice work! For later down the road, what's the feasibility of rolling this into a network install package (perhaps) for Ubuntu (i.e. one that installs Ubuntu itself over the network instead of off a CD/DVD) so that it would be a complete solution?
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Mohan, are you saying it worked for you?
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> mobad, Jon Bradbury, mkrishnan
Ok about the partition/hdd config. Maybe I should leave that to the user (pointing him to a howto...) because it is too specific.
I'll modify the scripts to backup everything and add a restore switch.
I have no experience in .deb'ing but maybe it has all the backup/confirm infrastructure ready...
other than that, give me feedback about functionality. does it work in the end?
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^^ Jon, sorry, no, I haven't tried it.
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Sure, it boots (after changing root=) but I had almost everything setup from before, most of the hotkeys worked before, and still work. Only that isn't working (and wasn't working before) is the mic. Sorry I couldn't be of more help just I don't want to do a clean install right now.
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had to do the fix mentioned above. Installed on a fresh copy of Ubuntu.
Application button doesn't work
VGA didn't work
I looked at your VGA code and changed it a bit to make it work
the event script should be
event=hotkey ATKD .* action=/etc/acpi/mailbtn.sh %e
and the script is
#!/bin/sh
export DISPLAY=:0
case $3 in
#Fn+F3
00000030)
echo "LCD" > /dev/console &
/bin/su parker -c "/usr/bin/xrandr --output LVDS --preferred --output VGA --off"
;;
00000031)
echo "CRT" > /dev/console &
/bin/su parker -c "/usr/bin/xrandr --output VGA --mode 800x600 --output LVDS --off"
;;
00000032)
echo "LCD-CRT" > /dev/console &
/bin/su parker -c "/usr/bin/xrandr --output VGA --mode 800x480 --output LVDS --mode 800x480"
esacreplace parker with your logon name
you will have to edit your xorg.conf like the wiki says
I still haven't figured out how to get gnome-system-monitor to open
Last edited by Longhorn Engineer (2007-12-04 3:38:05 am)
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benob wrote:
> Jon Bradbury
Please call me Jon... 
benob wrote:
other than that, give me feedback about functionality. does it work in the end?
Not on an external drive. I'm re-installing Ubuntu to my external drive and attempting to get the bootloader to reside on the inernal flashdrive. I think I messed that bit up last night! I will have another go once I have it working.
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OK, i installed this yesterday, after fixing the UUID, it boots OK, with a couple of problems:
Hotkeys dont work
Microphone doesn't work
Doesnt de-overclock before standby, causing a crash when it tries to resume
Just my thoughts. I also had a problem i havn't been able to repeat, where the eee diddn't go into standby when i closed it, causing a very hot eee!
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Oh, I forgot to add that when I ran the tweak gnome script, all the window titles changed from characters to square boxes. I assume this is because the title bar isn't big enough to fit the title font's size.
[edit : Yes, it's because the script has left the title font at 12.]
It would be very nice if you could make CTRL-ALT-T open a terminal, too.
(sorry, I kinda got used to that in Xandros)
Last edited by Jon Bradbury (2007-12-04 5:14:19 am)
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Longhorn Engineer wrote:
had to do the fix mentioned above. Installed on a fresh copy of Ubuntu.
Application button doesn't work
VGA didn't work
I looked at your VGA code and changed it a bit to make it work
the event script should beCode:
event=hotkey ATKD .* action=/etc/acpi/mailbtn.sh %eand the script is
Code:
#!/bin/sh export DISPLAY=:0 case $3 in #Fn+F3 00000030) echo "LCD" > /dev/console & /bin/su parker -c "/usr/bin/xrandr --output LVDS --preferred --output VGA --off" ;; 00000031) echo "CRT" > /dev/console & /bin/su parker -c "/usr/bin/xrandr --output VGA --mode 800x600 --output LVDS --off" ;; 00000032) echo "LCD-CRT" > /dev/console & /bin/su parker -c "/usr/bin/xrandr --output VGA --mode 800x480 --output LVDS --mode 800x480" esacreplace parker with your logon name
you will have to edit your xorg.conf like the wiki says
I still haven't figured out how to get gnome-system-monitor to open
what are the files that need to be edited?
action=/etc/acpi/mailbtn.sh %e or action=/etc/acpi/videobtn.sh %e?
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gh3 wrote:
action=/etc/acpi/mailbtn.sh %e or action=/etc/acpi/videobtn.sh %e?
/etc/acpi/mailbtn.sh is just a random script thats in that folder that edited (laziness). Any script will work. as long as you chmod +x it.
the oveclock works great. It isn't crashing my system btw and super_pi is running at a flat 70seconds which is 50-60seconds faster than stock speeds.
to get it to boot up on start up i made a script in /etc/init.d/ called overclock.sh and chmod+x it.
#!/bin/sh /etc/init.d/eee-overclock.sh start
That calls the eee-overclock.sh and tells it to start
then edit the file /etc/rc.local and add this above exit 0
/etc/init.d/overclock.sh
Then reboot to see if it worked,
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Ok, ran this on my Xubuntu setup and it seems to have broken wifi. Scan works fine, but I can't connect to any networks, encrypted or not.
Seems completely unable to associate with an AP.
Edit: Booted with generic kernel, installed the new madwifi drivers, and got it to work.
Last edited by mallard (2007-12-05 2:25:15 am)
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is there a new updated version with full hotkeys support?
i tried to get lcd/vga to work, but it seems not to work at all :x
or better i'm still stopped on which file have i to edit in /etc/acpi/events i tried with the three eee- but it seems not to work :x
Last edited by gh3 (2007-12-05 7:20:25 am)
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Jon Bradbury wrote:
Oh, I forgot to add that when I ran the tweak gnome script, all the window titles changed from characters to square boxes. I assume this is because the title bar isn't big enough to fit the title font's size.
[edit : Yes, it's because the script has left the title font at 12.]
It would be very nice if you could make CTRL-ALT-T open a terminal, too.
(sorry, I kinda got used to that in Xandros)
I think this can be easily done under System-->Preferences-->Keyboard Shortcuts: the last entry under Desktop is Run a terminal ~ change the shortcut to whatever you like.
I'm still trying to get all my FN keys mapped though, and as far as I know, there's no easy way to do it through the GUI in 7.10.
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@gh3
you just have to edit one of the eee-output's then delete the other two. By the way you have to restart for it to work and have a VGA cable plugged into another monitor.
hope this helps!
This scriptpack worked really well (besides the vga stuff) and only needs a few tweaks.
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mhhh debugging it seems that it isn't able to process xrandr.
i tried with your version changing the user with my one, i tried removing su, but it won't work.
obviously pasting the portion of code from the videobtn.sh to test it, the system ask me for account password in order to execute it, and 'm starting to think that the problem could be related to this...
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I updated the installer (selective installs, backup of overwritten files, leave the grub stuff to the user):
[edit] new url: http://eee-ubuntu-support.googlecode.co … y_v0.3.tgz
Sorry, I did not fix the vga hotkeys yet (gotta find an external display first 
)
Some problems I have observed with my eee:
- with the latest madwifi, transferring large files sometimes stalls (I had a hard time uploading the new pack and it's only 8 megs), maybe I'll add the option to use the stock driver or ndiswrapper if they work better.
- the overclock module sometimes reboots unexpectedly the machine (if you don't need those 900Mhz, you may want to pass) and the fan gets noisy. if only we could control it.
- the dim-screen function is a bit obtrusive (moving the mouse does not undim the screen in some conditions).
- sometimes, hotkeys do not send events for a while (likely to be a bug in the asus_acpi module).
- the eee has problems with repeated sleep-suspend cycles and after a while, things begin to malfunction and you end-up rebooting.
Last edited by benob (2007-12-06 2:49:00 am)
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btw you can test them without an external display, on my it works fine without connecting it, obviously choosing VGA only, my eee lcd turn off, but it allows me to understand if the xrandr works fine or not.
btw i m not still able to have the FN+f5 to work in that way, but pasting the codes on terminal them works as charm :x
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did you replace the name "parker" with your login?
also make sure the script you installed it in is executable (shows up green in the ls function in terminal)
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eh guys, version 0.3 is up !!!
http://eee-ubuntu-support.googlecode.co … y_v0.3.tgz
- it no longer contains the 2.6.21 kernel and has drivers for the original ubuntu kernel (no more modification of /boot/grub/menu.lst)
- the vga/lcd button works now 
(by the way, you can have a look at /var/log/acpid to catch button numbers and get reports on script execution)
- the applications button works (it currently launches the calculator. check out the README to tweak that)
- overclocking is activated at boot time
- no more funny scripts related to madwifi and network manager. the new madwifi works alone. as a byproduct, suspend/resume is faster
As always, testers and contributers are welcome.
For now, I'll read the documentation on how to put all those files in a .deb
[edit] moved to google code
Last edited by benob (2007-12-06 2:43:06 am)
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this weekend I will wipe my copy and give it another go
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