Asus Eee PC 701/4G Laptop Testing Results

Fri Jan 20 18:33:50 UTC 2012

Hello !

See my post on this list "Introduction & Eee PC".

I'm a new arrival so I need some help here ...

What are test cases and how do I run them ? Please explain or direct
me to the appropriate wiki page.

In the meantime I will start putting bugs in. I'll also publish a
guide (on the Lubuntu wiki?) showing how to do what I have done until
the fixes are included in future releases.

Some more background context about the importance of this (comments welcome).

1. Ubuntu gets seen as "bloated" which is why it's recommended to run
things like AntiX on low spec machines. AntiX can be very good for
really old computers - I have it running on an ancient 486 laptop
running a webcam, but it does not provide the large community and
ethos that Ubuntu does.

2. "One laptop per child" ...

"The Eee series is one response to the XO-1 notebook from the One
Laptop per Child initiative. At the Intel Developer Forum 2007, Asus
demonstrated the Classmate PC and the Eee PC, and listed
specifications for four models of the Eee PC."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eee_pc

Making sure Ubuntu/Lubuntu can run on the Eee is a good test case for
allowing as much access as possible for those in countries where high
performance hardware is not a priority. From what I've found out so
far there's no reason to have to exclude those people just because
Ubuntu uses the latest applications or kernel. I've actually been
surprised how easy it is too cut down the kernel and packages to fit
into smaller and smaller hard drives and memory. Of course I'm new
here so I'm still finding out how this fits into the Ubuntu way of
doing things.

Barney Holmes

On 20 January 2012 12:13, Gema Gomez <gema.gomez-solano at canonical.com> wrote:
> Hi Xelsior!
>
> On 19/01/12 21:43, Xelsior wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Can you tell us which test cases did you run? This email comes a bit out
> of context at least for me and cannot really understand what testing
> were you doing or with which objective.
>
>>
>> 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.
>
> Regarding test results, unless you were running existing test cases
> (were you?) we have no way to report results (for instance if you were
> running Ubuntu Friendly test cases with checkbox, the tool reports your
> results for you, but I am not sure if it is available in other flavors
> than Ubuntu). If you were running our wiki test cases, results are
> reported on the tracker.
>
> Any problems you found you should raise a bug to make sure that someone
> fixes it. This is the most important part, in my opinion, especially if
> you were doing adhoc testing and not following any particular test case.
>
> Thanks,
> Gema
>
>
>>
>> --------------------
>>
>> ( 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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