This new release offers many new features including support for compressed 1024x768 for 9 and 10" netbooks as well as a compressed 800x600 mode for netbooks with 7" screens.
The new "Insane" overclock mode isn't supported at all at this time on any of the E
ee PCs that don't expose the SMBus including the Eee PC 1000HE and most newer devices.Some Eee users have reported issues with the new bus control system, mostly those with 900 series running more than 1GB of memory. Good news though, you no longer need to disable scaling, just configure BUS_MODE="SHE" and remove the older DONOTSCALE_FSB key from your .local file.
In any case where you experience lockups when booting without power connected, or whenever you unplug / plug the AC connection, switch to SHE mode.
With this upgrade, I strongly recomm
end removing the .local file that you previously used with the 1.0 series *IF* you copied the template and edited it. With this version and going forward, I recommend that you only add the changes to the .local file rather than copying the whole file and editing it.There have been some minor issues being reported with the upgrade; so far I've seen about 1700 installations this week and the #1 issues are (2 users reporting) WIFI not resuming, (2 users reporting) screen scrambling when changing modes or rotating the screen, and (2 users reporting) the upgrade manager is not allowing it to be installed because of the new dependency. To upgrade use Synaptic, or 'sudo apt-get dist-upgrade'. Please be aware that the first two issues are not
issues with Eee PC ACPI, but rather they are issues with Jauntys poor Intel drivers, and kernels earlier than 2.6.30. The Eeebuntu team has worked extensively to resolve these issues for our users, and the fixes linked [ HERE ] are directly compatible with Ubuntu Jaunty as well. If you are experiencing issues with WIFI control or with Screen scrambling please follow the instructions in the linked article to resolve your issues before reporting problems to help reduce the effort of supporting you during the upgrade to the new release. I've started updating the WIKI to reflect this new release, however please be patient as all of the changes are not yet complete.Go get [ Eee PC Utilities ]
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Does SHE now work with the 1000HE?
Yes, with the 1000HE it will automatically use SHE mode if you are running a newer kernel. I strongly recommend using 2.6.30 with the 1000HE, and installing my eeepc-laptop-dkms package.
Hello
thank you very much for your great work!
may I advance a request?
I'm actually using ubuntu-netbook-remix, but built on top a LPIA kernel. Could you provide us a i386-LPIA repo?
Anyway I strongly believe that your software should be in the official "universe" Karmic Koala repo.
Thanks again
Alex
I'm afraid that I don't have anything running an lpia kernel, but I'll take a look and see what I can do.
Concerning Karmic, if you could help me figure out that process, I'll gladly get started on it.
+1 for Synaptic isn't letting me dist-upgrade eepc-acpi-utilities.
"The following packages have been kept back: eepc-acpi-utilities (1.0.51 => 1.1.33)"
Try:
sudo apt-get install netbook-dkms
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Hi, do you know how to set the 702 (and I guess 701s) to the full 900Mhz ? Have been reading everywhere but there is nothing coordinated about it. Lots of questions, and mainly older solutions. Tried with emifreq-applet which ups it, but I think it interferes with your software. Is there a bugtracker for your utilities or anywhere else I can post ??
B. Rgds,
John
This looks like a great bit of software! I cant wait to try it out on my 1000HE. My problem is that when I try to install it in synaptic, it cant install the acpi-support-base dependency. What repository has this, how do I get it working?
You tagged this with "debian" as well as Ubuntu. Will your software work with Lenny with a 2.6.26-2 kernel?
Ok, three problems for me, as I am running karmic kubuntu lpia:
1 - only i386 rep, so I downloaded the packages and did a "dpkg --force-architecture" to install them. AFAIK to create lpia packages you need a lpia chroot, at least that was the only solution when I was building my own kernel for a AA1, that and setting architecture in the control file to lpia. So for now this might be the only way.
2 - netbook-dkms installs, but the module gives errors in dmesg:
"[ 12.875192] sys_init_module: 'netbook'->init suspiciously returned 1, it should follow 0/-E convention
[ 12.875198] sys_init_module: loading module anyway...
[ 12.875212] Pid: 1263, comm: modprobe Not tainted 2.6.31-10-lpia #34-Ubuntu
[ 12.875221] Call Trace:
[ 12.875244] [< c0568d6e>] ? printk+0x18/0x1a
[ 12.875264] [< c016ef0b>] sys_init_module+0x18b/0x1f0
[ 12.875279] [< c010334c>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb"
3 - I get no client applet. I tried to see what you had in xdg autostart, but even running /etc/init.d/eeepc-restore client by hand I never got a output. Might be related to problem 2 above, or might be because I am running kubuntu and have no gnome libs here?
Forgot to add that I have a Asus 1101ha, with 2GB ram (hynix) and 20% overclock set in the BIOS, which only seems to work in XP with Asus HybridEngine.
1. I unfortunately don't use an lpia kernel, I'm looking into building noarch packages, but the Eee PC Tray binary is i386 specific.
2. This is most likely related to the lpia kernel.
3. The tray application is built on mono, and also requires mono gtk libraries. This in turn requires other GNOME libraries. If someone would be interested in building a KDE tray application I would gladly host it. :)
That is one hell of a fast service, mister! :D
1 - lpia can run i386. Most of us running lpia distros repackage skype by just changing the arch in the control file, and it works fine. Basically lpia should have atom and low power specific optimizations, probably in operations ordering and reduced instruction sets, but the code is still i386 and interchangeable with non lpia i686 compatible cpus.
2 - So, I'm not sure if it is lpia related, as the module is compiled by netbook-dkms. Have you tried in the i386 2.6.31-10 kernel?
3 - double oops, as I try to stay away from mono... Maybe if I have no other option, as my development days are over. Any volunteers for the kde applet?
Thank you for your work on this!
I'm currently (20090926 21:50 GMT+2) testing your testing repository, and have installed the netbook dkms.
I have two questions:
1. On my system (a freshly updated Ubuntu Karmic Netbook Remix), I also see a kernel module called "eeepc_laptop" in the lsmod output. Your netbook kernel module is also installed. Should I uninstall and blacklist the eeepc_laptop kernel module?
2. Do you still need setfsb output from this machine, an Asus 1005HA-H (atom N280, 10.5 hours rated battery)
Thanks,
Charl Botha
http://cpbotha.net/
Hi Charl.
The Eee Laptop and Netbook modules compliment each other. Netbook is only required if you want fine grained fan control or don't want to use SHE. Eee Laptop exposes SHE mode which is now used by default. I recommend leaving them both installed since they don't conflict.
The setfsb output wouldn't really help unless within Linux you see the SMBus or SMBios interface in an lspci.
Trying to run it on a EEE 701 with Karmic Desktop, but I can't get it working.
a) I don't see a Tray app. The function keys work, but no Tray app. And I am running Gnome.
b) Starting "EeePC ACPI Settings" IN "Preferences" asks for my password, then starts gedit with an empty file ?
c) Sometimes whemn starting my EEE, my screen corrupts and I have to hard-reset it to get it booting.
Are there any solutions ?
I just installed this in the 701 with a freshly installed 9.10 (Karmic) Netbook Remix and it works just fine.
But i would like some little info... Whats "Super High Perfomance"?, "High Perfomance"? and "Power saver"? And how to force it to a different choice?
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