Asus Eee PC 701/4G Laptop Testing Results

[Xelsior]

Here are my testing results for the Asus Eee PC 701/4G. It is now
running really fast on my system ! It could do with a little more
memory for those who open a lot of tabs in Firefox.

I am unsure what to do with this information now ... publish it on the
wiki ? It would be nice to see these kind of changes included as
Lubuntu runs really nicely on the 701.

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( Offical Asus support ... http://sourceforge.net/projects/eeecommunity/ )

Lubuntu Minimal (mini.iso)...
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/Documentation/MinimalInstall

 > Cannot show console (can see flashing cursor pixels along top).
Wrong video mode.

Lubuntu-Alternate ...

Prerequisites

 > NOT DONE - Flash with latest BIOS -
http://support.asus.com/Download.aspx?SLanguage=en&m=Eee+PC+4G%2fLinux&p=20&s=1

Testing

 > Keyboard detection cannot accept "ė" key (can't AltGr key?).

    - Solution ... pretend european "ė" keys are not there. Just
select "£" then it gets GB layout.

    - Result: Fully functional keyboard but NO European "ė" and other
special characters.

    - Other Eee specific keyboard functions work OK.

 > Memory after fresh install: 367 used, 132 free (out of 512. O swap.
Should be 50 - 60 used ?
   Memory after optimisations below: 206 used, 281 free

    - Desktop Session Settings ...

        > Turning off ... SSH agent, Update Notifier, Cert & Key
Storage, Check for New Hardware Drivers, GPG Password Agent, Secret
Storage Service

        > removed /etc/xdg/autostart items ... bluetooth*, gnome*,
print*, update*

    - uneeded kernel modules ...add to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
... rfcomm (bluetooth), bluetooth, parpot_pc, ppdev, parport (parallel
port), joydev (gamepad/joystick), snd_rawmidi, snd_seq_midi,
snd_seq_midi_event, snd_seq_device ?, lp, at12 ?, bnep.

    - Don't use pcmanfm as desktop file manager ?

    - Remove xscreensaver ? used to blank screen.

 > Disk space 1.5 gig free

 > Optimisations (not tried yet)

    - Set noatime flag

    - EXT4 supports SSD - Set TRIM command support using the discard
mounting option in your fstab (or with tune2fs -o discard /dev/sdaX) -
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt;h=10ec4639f1522dad34d66eea61443750435fe3ae;hb=HEAD
      TRIM ... tested ? works? stable?

 > Cpufreq

   -  "modprobe acpi-cpufreq" activates cpufreq system and puts
processor to 900mhz - or did "sudo apt-get install cpufrequtils" get
it working ?

   -  unplugging power supply DOES NOT take cpu back to 633mhz. Seems
to be fixed

   -  Jan 19 16:47:31 eeepc-lubuntu-djbarney kernel: [   15.017494]
p4-clockmod: P4/Xeon(TM) CPU On-Demand Clock Modulation available
Jan 19 16:47:31 eeepc-lubuntu-djbarney dbus[461]: [system] Activating
service name='org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher' (using servicehelper)
Jan 19 16:47:31 eeepc-lubuntu-djbarney dbus[461]: [system]
Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher'
Jan 19 16:47:32 eeepc-lubuntu-djbarney kernel: [   15.808660] ondemand
governor failed, too long transition latency of HW, fallback to
performance governor



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