Install Ubuntu Hardy (8.04.1) Guide

Hum, not quite about what exactly to do...

I'm guessing I start by getting the source code (seeing as repositories still only have 1.0.16, would that be the drivers the firmware, all of them that I should get?

then I configure make and make install I guess.

after that do I need to repeat any of the module assistant steps from the tutorial?

thanks for any help

 

The easy way to install ALSA 1.0.17....

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=820959

There is a script with instructions. I am not quite sure about changing the config before compiling. I just ran the script as-is and it worked for me.

Beware it takes a while to build....

 

here ya go......this will make the wireless led blinky blink durring wireless traffic and association

sysctl -w dev.wifi0.softled=1
sysctl -w dev.wifi0.ledpin=3

I updated the guide to say that the led for the wifi works...


hakuna matata

 

Hmm, no led blinking at all. Issuing the sysctl -w dev.wifi0.softled=1 command prevents wifi from working completely, the command sysctl -w dev.wifi0.softled=2 turns it back on. But no single blink..

 

Does not work for me!
With the commands in the /etc/rc.local I get no connect to the wireless network (and no led flashing) and
entering the commands directly causes the existing connection to disconnect and never come up again (asks for pass phrase repeatedly without connecting).
Again no flashing led.....

 

Yeh, odd....I supposed i should of rebooted after, it seems to work once the system is up and running..but if the commands are ran durring startup, all sorts of weird issues happen..I will get it figured out shortly

 

edit i see what i did...2 softleds...i didn't send the right pair

 

softled is 1 and ledpin is 3

 

Aliosa,

Do the wifi kill switch commands also go in rc.local?

Thanks,

Allan

 

Great! Thanks a lot for finding and posting on this. It works fine on my machine. However I would prefer to see a constant-on led when wifi is on and off when it's not. Any idea how to get that?

On the wifi kill switch; it seems to only kill the wifi on software level as my power consumption is about the same. Also Ubuntu doesn't understand the wifi is turned off and tries to find a wifi connection.

 

I have added the following to the guide:

Code:

# Economize the SSD
sysctl -w vm.swappiness=1               # Strongly discourage swapping
sysctl -w vm.vfs_cache_pressure=50      # Don't shrink the inode cache aggressively

# As in the rc.last.ctrl of Linpus
echo ondemand > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
echo ondemand > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cpufreq/scaling_governor
cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/ondemand/sampling_rate_max > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/ondemand/sampling_rate

echo 3000 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs
echo 20 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio
echo 10 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_background_ratio

echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/sched_mc_power_savings
echo 10 > /sys/module/snd_hda_intel/parameters/power_save
echo 5 > /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode

#Decrease power usage of USB while idle
[ -L /sys/bus/usb/devices/1-5/power/level ] && echo auto > /sys/bus/usb/devices/1-5/power/level
[ -L /sys/bus/usb/devices/5-5/power/level ] && echo auto > /sys/bus/usb/devices/5-5/power/level

I have been using this without a problem. Let me know if something is wrong with it, or change it yourself.

 

This does indeed work.
However it does not come up again after resume...
It does after reboot.

Peter.

 

Ubuntunians, i'm not sure if you noticed but Acer has released the full kernel source. One of the things i noticed is a patched sdhci.c driver, maybe helping with sd card problems in Ubuntu.

 

Nice!

I got the wifi LED working, but it seemed to me that in order to keep it solid you'd have to use the negative value (being the opposite of how it works now and all.) Low & behold, when I run the command sudo sysctl -w dev.wifi0.ledpin=-3, the light goes solid.

 

This script, plus setting model=acer and creating asound.conf as described in viewtopic.php?f=28&t=164&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=180#p6686 have pretty much solved all my sound and mike related problems. Should these replace the existing sound tweaks in the wiki?

Allan

 

2manydjs, I believe there is an error in the script you posted above.
The line:

Code:

echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/sched_mc_power_savings

should be modified to:

Code:

echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/sched_smt_power_savings

I will modify the guide if someone can confirm that this is the case with there installation also. (It is easy to investigate what files are located in the directory specified by the path).

 

Indeed I have no "mc" file but a "smt" one in my /sys/devices/system/cpu/ folder.

 

I need some help getting this installed. I've been trying for, like, 2 days now to get this to work with no results.

I'm following the guide pretty much exactly. The error I get is:

udevd-event[1445]: run_program: '/sbin/modeprove' abnormal exit

It drops me to the busybox initramfs prompt after that. I've got the 8gig Linpus model, what the hell is going on and how do I fix it? I know my way around Windows and OSX, but Linux is fairly new to me. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

I spoke too soon. Main speaker mutes for only about a second when headphones are plugged in. Any suggestions? I might experiment with different model= settings.

Allan

 

At what step do you get this error?