[Pardus-devel] Support for Asus Eee in 2008

[tuxedup at tuxedup.greenisp.org]

Quoting Ekin MeroÄŸlu <ekin at pardus.org.tr>:

> Hi;
> 
> Thursday 17 April 2008, tuxedup at tuxedup.greenisp.org :
> > Hello all/ Merhaba herkese,
> >
> > I am wondering about the release of Pardus 2008 and it's support for the
> > Asus Eee.
> >
> > With 2008 using a newer kernel can we replace the current atl2 package
> with
> > the one driver maintained by Red Hat?  The current driver does not support
> > newer kernels, however the driver maintained by Red Hat supports the
> latest
> > kernels. It is currently included in the Fedora 8 kernel so I am going to
> > pressume that it is stable enough for desktop usage.
> >
> > The driver can be found here;
> > http://people.redhat.com/csnook/atl2/
> 
> Pardus-devel and 2008 repos include linux kernel 2.6.24.4 and atl2-2.0.4
> (from 
> csnook's branch) at the moment - weekly developer CDs [1] contain both.

Ahh fantastic, I did not realise.  I have not had chance to look at the status
of devel so I was not aware of this.

> > Also what is the status of the Madwifi driver support for the wireless
> > chipset used in the Asus Eee?  I know there is a patch that allows it to
> > work which is what I currently use.  Whether this patch prevents support
> > for other devices working I do not know, but there must be a way around
> > this given that Mandriva 2008.1 ships with support for the Asus Eee out of
> > the box.
> 
> The patched madwifi driver will be a seperate package, as the patched 
> atheros-HAL (thus the new package) has serious performance issues with some 
> older cards/chipsets. 
> 
> > On a side note would it be possible to include the Ucview drivers in 2008
> > as these are required for the webcam (I do not think it works with the
> 2007
> > kernel).
> 
> Thanks for the tip, we'll try to include it - I have no information about the
> 
> driver though... 

Sorry I made a mistake there, Ucview is the camera application included in the
stock Xandros install on the Eee to take shots with etc.  The driver is Unicap
(is ths included in the repos already?  I was not able to find it).

http://unicap-imaging.org/unicap_eeepc.htm
http://unicap-imaging.org/index.htm

> > It would be nice if 2008 was released with good support for the Asus Eee,
> > as it takes a little bit of work to have it functioning correctly.  If we
> > can have good support we can at least compete with Mandriva for out of the
> > box Eee support.
> 
> I think most of the needed work has been done, we'll improve it till the 
> release..

The other bits like having the Fn keys working and having Suspend resume working
are all detailed here;

http://wiki.eeeuser.com/ubuntu

The asus acpi packages used with the eee allow the system to report an accurate
battery state and condition as well as enabling the fn keys.

The asus acpi is found here,

http://dlsvr01.asus.com/pub/ASUS/EeePC/701/ASUS_ACPI_071126.rar

Hopefully this will provide a bit more on what I mentioned, sorry about my
previous error.

All the best

Michael Austin (Tuxedup)