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Asus Eee PC 1005HA

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The Asus Eee PC 1005HA is a laptop manufactured by Asus in 2009. It features an Intel Atom
N280 with 1GB of RAM (upgradable to 2GB), a 160GB hard disk, and a Mobile Intel 945ME
Express with 250MB of VRAM. Some versions of the laptop had an Intel Atom N270.
This article supplements the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en
/handbook/handbook-x86.xml) with specic information regarding the Eee PC 1005HA.
Kernel conguration is based on the sys-kernel/gentoo-sources (https://packages.gentoo.org
/packages/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources)-3.0.6.

Contents
1 Choosing the right install medium
2 Partitioning
2.1 Boot Booster
3 Hardware
3.1 CPU
3.2 Graphics
3.3 Ethernet
3.4 Wireless
3.5 Sound
3.6 Webcam
3.7 ACPI, LEDs and hotkeys
3.8 Bluetooth
3.9 TouchPad
3.10 Keyboard

Choosing the right install medium

As the Eee PC 1005HA does not have a CD/DVD drive, the easiest way to install Gentoo is
using a LiveUSB. Follow the instructions given in the Gentoo Linux LiveUSB HOWTO (/wiki
/LiveUSB/Guide).
The ath9k module that ships with the gentoo-minimal disk image has not been compiled with
PCI support, which means wireless networking is not available during install. As a Gentoo
install is dependent on a network connection, either install over ethernet (atl1c driver is
supported), use another distro to install (e.g. System Rescue CD (http://www.sysresccd.org/)),
or recompile the ath9k module for a custom LiveUSB.

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To boot from a LiveUSB press Esc as the machine powers on, then select the appropriate
device from the list presented. If Boot Booster is enabled (see later), rst enter the BIOS
conguration by pressing F2 as the machine powers on, then exit without saving changes by
pressing F10 , then press Esc as described previously.

Partitioning
Follow the guidance on partitioning as given in the handbook (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en
/handbook/handbook-x86.xml), with the following exception to enable Boot Booster:
Boot Booster
The Asus Eee PC 1005HA features a technology called Boot Booster, which can reduce boot
times by a few seconds by caching the results of the POST (http://en.wikipedia.org
/wiki/Power-on_self-test) on the hard disk. When partitioning the internal hard disk, create a
16MB primary partition of type EFI (0xEF). The location on the disk is unimportant but the
partition must be a primary one. The system does not boot using the EFI (Extensible Firmware
Interface), but rather uses the partition type to identify which partition to read/write the
cache.
The example fdisk output below shows a 100MB boot partition, a 16MB EFI partition (for Boot
Booster) a 2GB swap partition and a ~147GB partition for the rest of the system.

root # fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xde0404c0

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

/dev/sda1 * 2048 206847 102400 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 206848 239615 16384 ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32)
/dev/sda3 239616 4433919 2097152 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4 4433920 312581807 154073944 83 Linux

Boot Booster must also be enabled in the BIOS conguration.

Hardware
CPU
The CPU is an Intel Atom N280 (or N270 on some revisions).

KERNEL Processor support

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Processor type and features --->

[*] Symmetric multi-processing support
Processor Family (Intel Atom) --->
...
(2) Maximum number of CPUs
[*] SMT (Hyperthreading) scheduler support
...
[*] Machine Check / overheating reporting
[*] Intel MCE features
...
<*> /dev/cpu/microcode - microcode support
[*] Intel microcode patch loading support

To update the processor microcode, install sys-apps/microcode-ctl

(https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/sys-apps/microcode-ctl).

root # emerge --ask sys-apps/microcode-ctl

The microcode patch will be lost at each reboot, but the init script can reload it.

root # /etc/init.d/microcode_ctl start

root # rc-update add microcode_ctl boot
In this example, the microcode is updated from version 0x212 to 0x218.

root # dmesg | grep microcode

[ 0.250287] microcode: CPU0 sig=0x106c2, pf=0x4, revision=0x212

[ 0.250302] microcode: CPU1 sig=0x106c2, pf=0x4, revision=0x212
[ 0.250433] microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.00 <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>, Pe
[ 11.330007] microcode: CPU0 updated to revision 0x218, date = 2009-04-10
[ 11.335961] microcode: CPU1 updated to revision 0x218, date = 2009-04-10

Graphics
The GPU is a Mobile Intel 945ME Express. Follow the instructions in the Intel (/wiki/Intel)
article.

Ethernet
The Ethernet card is an Atheros AR8132.

KERNEL Gigabit Ethernet

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Device Drivers --->

[*] Network device support --->
[*] Ethernet (1000Mbit) --->
[M] Atheros L1C Gigabit Ethernet Support

Wireless
The wireless card is an Atheros AR9285 (PCI-Express).

KERNEL Wireless support

[*] Networking Support --->

-*- Wireless --->
<*> cfg80211 - wireless configuration API
...
<*> Generic IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack (mac80211)

Device Drivers --->

[*] Network device support --->
[*] Wireless LAN --->
[M] Atheros Wireless Cards --->
[M] Atheros 802.11n wireless cards support
[*] Atheros ath9k PCI/PCIe bus support

Sound
The sound card is a Realtek ALC269 (Intel ICH7 Family).

KERNEL Sound card support

Device Drivers --->

<M> Sound Card Support --->
<M> Advanced Linux Sound Architecture --->
[*] PCI Sound Devices --->
[M] Intel HD Audio --->
[*] Build Realtek HD-audio codec support

See also the ALSA (/wiki/ALSA) guide.

Webcam
KERNEL Webcam support

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Device Drivers --->

[M] Multimedia Support --->
[M] Video For Linux
...
[*] Video Capture Adapters --->
[*] Autoselect pertinent encoders/decoders and other helper chips
...
[*] V4L USB Devices --->
<M> USB Video Class (UVC)
[*] UVC input events device support

ACPI, LEDs and hotkeys

KERNEL

Device Drivers --->

[*] X86 Platform Specific Device Drivers --->
<M> Eee PC Hotkey Driver

Bluetooth
Bluetooth is provided by a Broadcom BT-253, connected using USB. Follow the instructions
given in the Gentoo Linux Bluetooth Guide (/wiki/Bluetooth).

TouchPad
The TouchPad is a Synaptics PS/2 TouchPad.

KERNEL TouchPad support

Device Drivers --->

Input device support --->
<*> Mouse interface
...
[*] Mice --->
<*> PS/2 mouse
[*] Synaptics PS/2 mouse protocol extension

Enable two-nger scrolling in X:

FILE /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-synaptics

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Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
MatchIsTouchpad "on"
Option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "true"
Option "HorizTwoFingerScroll" "true"
Option "EmulateTwoFingerMinZ" "40"
Option "EmulateTwoFingerMinW" "5"
EndSection

Keyboard
Conguration for the keyboard in X (adjust as required):

FILE /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/30-keyboard

Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Keyboard"
Driver "evdev"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbModel" "asus_laptop"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbVariant" ",qwerty"
MatchIsKeyboard "on"
EndSection

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