ASUS Eee PC
Eee T101MT
Eee 1001P
Eee 1001PX
Eee 1005P(E)
Eee 1011PX
Some Fn keys might work out of the box but with recent kernels, you will not be able to turn wifi on or off unless you add acpi_osi=Linux to the kernel parameters.
Eee 1015 BX
Most seems to work 'out-of-the-box':
- Wlan
- Ethernet
- Graphics (using the xf86-video-ati driver)
- Webcam
- Suspend-to-RAM (with acpi & acpid)
- Cardreader
- TouchPad (using the xf86-input-synaptics driver)
My blacklist:
# /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
blacklist sp5100_tco
For sound at DE add this file to your HOME-directory:
# # ~/.asoundrc # defaults.ctl.card 1 defaults.pcm.card 1 defaults.timer.card 1
For volume-control-buttons I use shortcuts with:
amixer -q -c 1 set Master 5+ amixer -q -c 1 set Master 5- amixer -q -c 1 set Master toggle
Eee 1015 PE/PEM
Hardware
The Eee 1015 series laptops come with a 1024x600 LED display and a Dual Core Intel Atom processor (N550). They also have a Broadcom wireless card and an Atheros Ethernet port.
Here is the output of lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation N10 Family DMI Bridge (rev 02) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02) 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02) 00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) 00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) 00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02) 00:1d.3 USB controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02) 00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation NM10 Family LPC Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 02) 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR8132 Fast Ethernet (rev c0) 02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)
Here is the output of lscpu:
Architecture: x86_64 CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit Byte Order: Little Endian CPU(s): 4 On-line CPU(s) list: 0-3 Thread(s) per core: 2 Core(s) per socket: 2 Socket(s): 1 NUMA node(s): 1 Vendor ID: GenuineIntel CPU family: 6 Model: 28 Stepping: 10 CPU MHz: 1499.813 BogoMIPS: 3000.61 L1d cache: 24K L1i cache: 32K L2 cache: 512K NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-3
Installation
To install Arch on the Asus Eee 1015 series you need to use an external cd-rom drive or USB Installation Media.
The partition created by Asus on my 1015 PEM is as follows:
Number Start End Size Type File System Flags 1 1049kb 107Gb 107Gb primary NTFS 2 107Gb 123Gb 16.1Gb primary fat32 hidden 3 123Gb 250Gb 127Gb primary NTFS 4 250Gb 250Gb 21.2Gb primary
Results may vary. The first partition was the Windows 7 installation. The second is the recovery partition with splashtop. Removing this second partition will cause the fast-start Linux to stop working. The third is Windows D:\ drive and the last one is the boot partition for Windows 7.
Due to the limitations of having 4 partitions per drive I installed arch on the first 107Gb partition and created a swap file instead of a partition as per Swap.
Eee 1015 PN
Eee 1201T
Eee 1201N
Eee 1215B
Things that work out of the box: Wifi, Ethernet, Video (max resolution available with basic Xorg and xfce packages installed), Touchpad, Keyboard (Fn keys not working).
Things that need work: Audio, Fn keys, Power management.
Audio
With the xfce4 desktop environment audio does not work by default (did not test with other de). To fix this, add the following lines in your ~/.asoundrc:
defaults.pcm.card 1 defaults.ctl.card 1
(Credit to Touko Korpela from the Debian mailing list)
Power Management
ACPI executes correctly and returns remaining battery life. Cpufreq does not seem to work, hence making it impossible for Jupiter ([1]) to manage the Super Hybrid Engine. However, from the Jupiter tray icon, screen orientation, resolution and touchpad can be toggled and modified.
By suggestion from the Debian mailing list, I tried loading "powernow-k8" with modprobe to get cpufreq working. This is apparently a bug in the driver detection mechanism of cpufreq, and should be reported upstream, I guess. After loading that module, cpufreq-info seems to work. Have not tried getting Jupiter to manage SHE yet after that.
Suspend and hibernate work OK, with one tiny bug: I cannot seem to get the SD-card reader working after resuming from hibernate. After a reboot, it works fine.
USB 3.0 on battery
On battery devices plugged in to the usb 3.0 port were not recognized before the usb autosuspend power save feature was turned off. The problem is reported as a reset or a loss of power:
# dmesg | tail
[ 3039.634343] usb usb1: root hub lost power or was reset [ 3039.634397] usb usb3: root hub lost power or was reset [ 3040.634459] usb usb1: root hub lost power or was reset [ 3040.634514] usb usb3: root hub lost power or was reset
Autosuspend can be disabled globally by using the usbcore.autosuspend=-1 kernel parameter.
Disabling autosuspend only for the usb 3.0 port is possible by creating a specific udev rule. See udev#About udev rules for more information.
Information about the usb 3.0 device can be obtained with lsusb and udevadmn info. Below is a simple udev rule which disables autosuspend for all version 3.0 usb devices:
/etc/udev/rules.d/usb-power.rules
# Disable autosuspend for USB 3.0 port
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{version}==" 3.00", ATTR{power/control}="on"
Eee 1215P
Everything works fine (as of December 8, 2017), but need to use
acpi_osi=""
kernel parameter.