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Gentoo on ASUS EEEPC 1000HE

I just started to compile the kernel. In order to avoid some unnecessary trail-and-error steps, I used the output of lsmod from the previous Fedora installation. Unfortunatelly, some modules are missing from gentoo-sources. As always, I decided to built a monolithic kernel with almost no modules.

The output from ls in Fedora was:

Module Size Used by
ath9k 202952 0
mac80211 149776 1 ath9k
rt2860sta 476724 1
ath 7068 1 ath9k
cfg80211 73044 3 ath9k,mac80211,ath
sco 16184 2
bridge 43992 0
stp 1988 1 bridge
llc 4960 2 bridge,stp
bnep 15028 2
l2cap 32564 3 bnep
btusb 15032 0
bluetooth 78336 9 sco,bnep,l2cap,btusb
fuse 52712 2
sunrpc 158388 1
nf_conntrack_ftp 11088 0
ip6t_REJECT 4620 2
nf_conntrack_ipv6 17548 3
ip6table_filter 3168 1
ip6_tables 11144 1 ip6table_filter
ipv6 239420 32 ip6t_REJECT,nf_conntrack_ipv6
cpufreq_ondemand 6160 2
acpi_cpufreq 8848 0
ext2 56604 1
dm_multipath 14472 0
uinput 6852 0
snd_hda_codec_realtek 199204 1
snd_hda_intel 25080 3
snd_hda_codec 60584 2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 6900 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_seq 46960 0
snd_seq_device 6232 1 snd_seq
snd_pcm 64772 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
uvcvideo 51116 0
videodev 30160 1 uvcvideo
v4l1_compat 12312 2 uvcvideo,videodev
snd_timer 17992 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 50908 14 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 5672 1 snd
iTCO_wdt 10432 0
iTCO_vendor_support 2812 1 iTCO_wdt
joydev 9320 0
snd_page_alloc 7832 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
atl1e 31960 0
eeepc_laptop 12220 0
rfkill 16220 3 cfg80211,bluetooth,eeepc_laptop
i915 189860 2
drm_kms_helper 22688 1 i915
drm 134548 3 i915,drm_kms_helper
i2c_algo_bit 4820 1 i915
i2c_core 23120 4 videodev,i915,drm,i2c_algo_bit
video 19088 1 i915
output 2468 1 video

Gentoo on ASUS EEEPC 1000HE Revisited

Dear readers,

Last August, I brought an ASUS EEEPC 1000HE and tried to install Gentto on it. I must say it was successful. Nevertheless, I never managed to configure eduroam and was forced to install fedora 12 on it.

Now I plan to re install gentoo on my netbook. At this stage I know some interesting stuf about running linux on these machines:

First of all: windows is totally unnecessary, so I'm going to simply erase windows from the laptop and give the 160GB hard drive to linux.

Secondly, I really don't know if keeping the EFI partition at the end of the disk is worthy, but, since it's only 50Mb, I'm going to keep it.

So the first step for me is to backup the data in /home and to ensure that my not-so-trusty eeebuntu booting pen is working.

Back from vacatons

Hello everyone.

I'm definitively back from my vacations and work is starting to pile up. I'll restart my posting in the next few days.

Bye

Happy Birthday to me!

Hello Everyone...

Yes, it's true, today is my 27th anniversary. It's summer, it's very hot, and I haven't had the patience to write to this blog. Actually, I haven't had the patience to write anything in the last few days.

Darwin, my new netbook, is doing fine with Gentoo. There was one or two little twists I had to make, but I can say that the standard procedure for installing Gentoo produced a stable and reliable Linux system that takes advantage for the several features of this beutifull piece of hardware. The main drawback is the time it takes to compile everything up (It took about one week to have everything working. With these machines, it is almost mandatory to install a precompiled version of openoffice (openoffice-bin).

I'm also preparing my new homepage, and started to compose the "Prelude" project, which may become available, latter in the year.

I'm off to dinner now. ;)

Gentoo on ASUS EEEPC 1000HE

Hello Everyone!

Today (actually, yesterday) I've made it: I've finally installed Gentoo on my new ASUS EEEPC. It wasn't all that hard, and the little machine really surprised me with it's ability to handle processor-intensive tasks like compiling the kernel. Nevertheless, there was some trial-and-error and I hope to give you a more detailed description of the thing I've tried.

Just to start with (I'm somewhat sleepy) the best way for you to install gentoo is booting eeebuntu from a usb stick. Just boot the eeepc with windows, download the eeebuntu iso file and fedora's live usb creator for windows. The process of making a bootable USB stick is very straight forward using this technique.

After creating the bootable system in a stick, shutdown windows, re-insert the usb pendrive in any of the available usb ports and turn the computer on again. When you start to see Asus eeepc splash image, press the Esc key until a menu appears from where you can choose to boot from the usb device. Eeebuntu will then give you a fully-featured gnome environment from where you can start installing gentoo.

Just one more thing. Being a gentoo user for the last 3 years, I've never grew costumed with *buntu's fashion of omitting the root account. Unfortunately, you need to have root privileges in order to install gentoo, so, you have to do this: from a terminal window:

$ sudo passwd

And introduce a password for the root account. Atfer doing this, you can switch to root by using the su command.

Asus EEE PC 1000HE

It's been a while since my last post. During these months, I've been doing some tutoring, research and a lot of possible-Phd-scholarship-related paperwork. During this time, I've noticed the lack of a piece of hardware that would allow me to do part of my work wherever I may be.

As you know, I'm doing research in computational chemistry, so some of you may think I would enjoy having something powerful on my bag. But let us consider my work: most of my calculations are done using some density functional level of theory (B3LYP, X3LYP, M06...). For these calculations, GAMESS usually takes something between one afternoon and ten days. So, am I going to do ab initio calculations with my laptop? I don't think so. My laptop is intented for text processing, some programming (just writting source code) and doing some statistical treatments (ussing R, or Octave). I enjoy doing some musical composition (using MIDI) and musical algorithms (using MIDI, python or Chuck). Neither of thises thing actually need a great processor, there fore I've decided to go for the Asus EEE PC 1000HE.

The Asus EEE PC 1000HE has been subject to some wonderfull reviews. It is mostly known for its well designed keyboard and its long standing battery, but its merits extend to its camera, built quality, mate (non-glossy) display and so on, and so on... My first impression was that this was a very stable, solid and quite usable netbook. I also noticed that the netbook is very light... ok, most netbooks are somewhat lighter, nevertheless this small guy is lighter than the paper notebooks (including one of mine molekines) I ussualy carry with me.

Upon turning it on, I've soon discovered that this piece of hadware is completelly useless untill you install some state of the art open soure software. During next week I intent to mount a gentoo system on it. I'll keep Windows XP, because it may come usefull for some activities, but Microsoft Works and the whole panoplia of demos have to be substituted for Firefox, OpenOffice.org, and similars.

All-in-all, I still thing this is quite a netbook.