Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:14:46 -0800 From: Jack Twilley <jmt@twilley.org> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Asus EEE -- suspend, card reader and camera Message-ID: <49396F96.8050403@twilley.org>
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I am a mostly-happy user of an Asus EEE 701. Recently I was pointed at http://wiki.freebsd.org/AsusEee which has more current information than the nighthack page. I'm running RELENG_7 and I am pleased to confirm that the wired Ethernet works out of the box. I'm looking forward to ath_hal merging from current so I can stop copying over the madwifi hal directory. I have only three issues remaining, some of which are at least partially discussed on that page. First, I'm new to FreeBSD on laptops. I tried to suspend with Fn-F1 and it seemed to do the right thing, but I don't know how to resume. I tried Fn-F1 and it didn't work. I hit the power button, and the LEDs changed but the screen never woke up. I had to hold down the power button to get it to shut off, then tapped it to bring it up. I added the sysctls as recommended by the wiki page -- is there something else I'm missing? Second, the card reader seems to bite the shed if I use it in the 40MB/s mode but not in the 1MB/s mode. Is this a hardware problem or a software problem or what? Is there some geek knob I can twiddle to throttle the card reader so I can use some happy medium? 1MB/s is really slow. :-) Third, there isn't a single mention of the camera on that page. I saw a sysctl for the camera but it seems to simply report whether or not the camera is enabled in the BIOS. Are there any apps which use the camera? Is there a driver issue with it, or something else that I haven't heard? Thanks so much for all your work. I am very pleased with how well the laptop is supported in general, and it's sweet to show the Linux users that it's not the only non-Windows choice for the Eee! Jack.
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