Asus T91 linux installation

[proverbs308]

I have been considering buying the T91 but was wondering if anyone has successfully installed linux on it. If I bought it would the touchscreen work or would I be stuck with Windows?

[rscasas]

You can check eeeuser forums.
Also I have found this blog http://linux-t91.blogspot.com/

[Mizukusai]

Installed Moblin successfully but failed to boot it.
Installed Ubuntu Jaunty successfully. Needed to install a few additional packages. There is still a few issue. The bigger one is a annoying habit : it freezes near every 20 minutes.

[moocow1452]

From what I heard, there has been some success with it, but unless you really want to muck in the drivers, it's not recommended for end users. But that's Linux for you...

@Mizukusai: What works and what doesn't with the T91? I heard that wireless was possible, but a hassle. I've also heard rumors of multitouch, but squat about the "rotate" feature.

[Leed]

Got it up and running on my new T91, it's all a bit slow at first, doesn't find the correct display and wireless drivers by default, but now I have it running real good and fast thanks to a friendly website.

http://www.hilbig.id.au/t91/index.html

--edit, to keep things were we can find them
Wireless
-Activate Backport repositories either in Synaptic or by removing the # in /etc/apt/sources.list
-sudo apt-get update
-sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-jaunty
-reboot

Graphics Driver
-add to /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mobile/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mobile/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
-sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys C6598A30
-sudo apt-get install poulsbo-driver-2d poulsbo-driver-3d psb-firmware

..and this (on ever kernel update)
-sudo apt-get install psb-kernel-source
-sudo apt-get install psb-kernel-source

--end edit

I'm still looking for a way to get the webcam working

[Mizukusai]

What does not work :

• Compiz (Never mind. I'm using netbook remix)
• The "rotate" button below the screen. Actually, maybe it works but i don't know how to catch it.
• stability. The OS freezes often, randomly.
• Moblin does not boot as all. But Ubuntu does.
• the graphic driver perfs are bad
• webcom is cheese. But ok in Skype (i heard)

What does work : everything else

• touchscreen
• easystroke (great soft !!!)
• rotate screen from command-line (and so from easystroke actions as well)
• sound
• network

Here are some touchscreen softwares, I have tested so far :

• gournal
• cellwriter
• easystroke (but adding exceptions fails: )
• The gimp (I know it is not dedicated to touchscreens but it is funny to draw !)

I'm looking for a media player with mouse gesture. VLC does not work fine in UNR.

[davidjany]

Guys, have a look at http://www.ced-network.net/blog/2009...ntu-904jaunty/. It might worth it - but I can't try it:
- Installation Tips (Swap,...)
- Configure simulated right-click
- Configure laptop-mode with Asus's Super Hybrid Engine

I'm using WinXP again, because I wanted to have full-screen writing capabilities, a good virtual keyboard and some other things and could'nt get them quite as good as WinXP with Touch-It Virtual Keyboard and ritePen Pro (all commercial).

I'll switch back to linux when it has the same features...

[Jonathanius]

Hey guys, the davidjany's link (to Cedric's aka cdufour's) blog contained a command which worked to change my brightness:

xrandr --output LVDS0 --set BACKLIGHT x

where x is a number between 100 and 0
...now to make a script that can use it... I tried before to see if the script was triggered by setting the action in the /etc/acpi/events/brightness to launch a script that displayed one of those cool notification things, and the script worked when I executed it directly, but i never got it to launch when a key was pressed, even when trying keys that I knew worked (the rotate button). I don't know any shell so I wasn't surprised. So, could someone who knows what there doing give me a way to test if the event is being triggered? From there concocting a script should be trivial.

[Leed]

Nice work guys, guess I'll check back on that once I switch to Karmic by the End of the month. I read something in the updates, that brightness will be using xrandr. It already works in Jaunty by the way.


Jonathanius
You can type "acpi_listen" in the console to see what the keys trigger

as for the launched script, make sure you have the full path in the command line. The script must also be set as executable... or why not just post your event file

as to see if the script is launched, just place a notify-send command inside the script you want to launch, you don't need to make a new script for it.

[Mizukusai]

Just finished the installation of karmic beta, moblin remix.
Using your instructions. (Thx again!!)

It seems ok but :

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

This section makes Xorg crashes when mutter (moblin interace) starts
I think the problem is that one :

(EE) PSB(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed. Disabling DRI.

Without if, Xorg is o, but really really slow.

Any ideas, guys ?