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Howto: Enable ACPI Hotkeys in Ubuntu 10.04 on Eee PC

June 7th, 2010 7 comments

I had some kind of trouble when I just installed Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) on my Eee PC 1005HA-H. The new Ubuntu comes with the upgraded Bootloader GRUB 2.0.  In this short tutorial I will tell you how to enable ACPI Hotkeys on your Eee PC or mabye other Netbooks from different manufacturers like Toshiba.

First, you have to know, that there’s a kernel module called “eeepc laptop” which can’t be loaded when GRUB isn’t configured for it. You have to tell the system which kind of ACPI model will be needed.

  • Open /etc/default/grub with your favourite editor
  • Go to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT and add the following param: acpi_osi=Linux.

The config line should look this way:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi_osi=Linux"

Then save the config file and execute the command “update-grub”
to update grub.

FYI: There looks like to be a bug that your pppoe-connection won’t work
and your eth0 NIC won’t be available after you edited the GRUB-Config.
Fore more information, see the bug report here:  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/505452

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My new ASUS Eee PC 1005ha-H

September 19th, 2009 No comments

Hi outta there :)

Since this Tuesday (evening)  I’m the proud owner of a new ASUS Eee PC 1005ha-H in black. It comes with the Intel Atom N280 which has 60 Mhz more and is 20 percent more energy efficient. I’ve changed the memory so that there 2 GB 800Mhz DDR2 RAM built-in now.

I have installed the Ubuntu 9.04 Netbook Remix (jaunty) and the pre-installed Windows XP Home. Now it’s multi-boot. :)

I had to do some research getting the network interfaces to work (wired and wireless).

Do this for wired network:

First, download the  AR81Family-linux-v1.0.0.10.tar.gz from http://partner.atheros.com/Drivers.aspx
Then do the following…

tar -xzvf AR813X-linux-v1.0.0.9.tar.gz
cd src
make
sudo make install
sudo insmod atl1e.ko

With the now running wired network do

sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-jaunty

Now all interfaces should run. :)

Further, abut the acpi-hotkeys: The scripts will be included in the next release of ubuntu in the 2.6.29 Kernel. There is no fix for this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi/+bug/262679

Thank you for reading!

PS: I’m still searching people who will contribute to nautilusgit, my new project.

tar -xzvf AR813X-linux-v1.0.0.9.tar.gz
cd src
make
sudo make install
sudo insmod atl1e.ko
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