• mig5
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Topic: EeePC 1005P

Hi all,

Firstly just wanted to say, I was thrilled to hear Crunchbang has switched to a Debian base - it's brought me back to Crunchbang, long time Debian user that I am :)

I've installed it on an EeePC 1005P. Wifi and sound worked out of the box (just had to raise the speaker volume in alsamixer before I could hear anything).

Things I can't get to work:

1) volume hotkeys
2) suspend/resume

I've installed eeepc-acpi-scripts but that hasn't seemed to help. I care more about the suspend/resume on lid close than the volume. Any success stories?

Also, has anyone managed to install eee-control or similar to manipulate CPU speeds etc? I haven't had any luck dpkg -i 'ing the ubuntu .debs, and compiling has failed outright (still working on that though).

Edit: one last thing that might interest the devs: I initially attempted the install with encrypted LVM partitions per the debian installer. This succeeded, but Crunchbang couldn't boot. (couldn't initialise the root filesystem) Interestingly, the kernels in the grub menu were 'blinking' when highlighted in this state. I was never prompted for a passphrase to decrypt after grub loaded. Just a black screen with blinking cursor. Loading in single-user mode showed it hung at 'initialising root filesystem' or somesuch.

I was in a rush so I reinstalled with standard partitions and didn't look at it any further.

Last edited by mig5 (2010-06-07 09:14:56)

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Re: EeePC 1005P

Greetings, welcome to the forum. smile

  • mig5
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Re: EeePC 1005P

Thanks!

Just a quick note to say, I solved my suspend issue - I edited the settings in the XFCE power manager to suspend when lid is closed on battery power.. for some reason the default is to 'Lock screen' which is a bit useless smile Anyway - that was an easy solution, I had been digging around in the acpi scripts without trying the easy way first smile

Also, I noticed on the forum that the 'blinking kernel of death' issue I experienced when trying to use encrypted LVM partitions is happening to others too

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Re: EeePC 1005P

Hello, fellow Melbournian!

Regarding volume hotkeys, I was unable to get them working in the previous (9.04) release, when i switched to Statler I had gotten so used to not having them that I don't care anymore. I just use volwheel or volume-icon to set levels.

I've not gotten eee-control working, but I do miss CPU scaling on AC connect/disconnect. So I'd also be interested to hear if anyone got those working.

Last edited by PoliticsOfStarving (2010-06-15 01:12:12)

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  • Registered: 2009-10-22
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Re: EeePC 1005P

for cpu speed control I use cpufreqd. Installation and setting it up wasn't painless, but after some digging I was able to get full speed on AC, minimum speed on Battery with the ability to go full speed when in need and as the battery runs out less and less speed...Actually you can set everything the way you want them...You should try it out...

  • mig5
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Re: EeePC 1005P

Thanks, I'll take a look at that! I've given up on eee-control.

For anyone else that it might help - I also fixed the random dimming/brightening of the backlight that occurs on FN +F5 / F6 by editing /etc/default/grub so that GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT looks like 

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet acpi_osi=Linux"
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Re: EeePC 1005P

to get the volume keys working try to install the package "xfce4-volumed"

it worked for me with dell mini 9 and #! xfce