ASUS Eee PC 1015b
This page includes general information regarding Asus EEE PC 1015B and related notes on installing/using Arch Linux on it.
System specs
- CPU: AMD Fusion APU C30 1.2GHz (single core) or C50 1.0GHz (dual core) Processor
- RAM: 1DDR3, 2 x SO-DIMM, 1GB/2GB (work with 4GB/8GB module)
- HDD: 2.5" SATA 250GB/320GB/500GB HDD
- GPU: Radeon HD 6250
- Display: 10.1" LED backlit WSVGA (1024x600) Screen
- Ethernet: Atheros AR8152 v2.0 Fast Ethernet
- Wireless: Atheros WLAN 802.11 b/g/n@2.4GHz or Broadcom WLAN BCM4313 802.11 b/g/n@2.4GHz
- Bluetooth: Bluetooth V2.1+EDR or Bluetooth V3.0+HS (both optional)
- Webcam: Working (remenber to add yourself to video group)
- Card Reader: SDHC Reader
- Extras: 3 USB 2.0 ports or 1 x USB 3.0 port and 2 x USB 2.0 ports
Summary
Things that "just work":
- Wlan (ath9k is part of the kernel; some use brcmsmac)
- Ethernet
- Graphics (with kms and dri2, using the xf86-video-ati driver)
- Webcam (using v4l)
- Suspend-to-RAM (after installing acpid)
- Cardreader (but keucr is in staging, thus taints the kernel. PyroPeter experienced crashes while he inserted or removed sd cards)
- Bluetooth (after installing bluez)
- CPU Frequency Scaling (Use acpi_cpufreq since linux 3.7)
- TouchPad (support multi-touch after installing xf86-input-synaptics)
- Video Acceleration (either open source driver (xf86-video-ati) or ATI/AMD's propretary driver(catalyst) work)
/etc/modprobe.d/eeepc1015b.conf:
# supposed to help against following msg in dmesg: # SP5100 TCO timer: mmio address 0xbafe00 already in use blacklist sp5100_tco # if you don't need the sd-card reader you may want to blacklist # keucr. it is in staging, thus taints the kernel blacklist keucr # if you find "ACPI: resource piix4_smbus [io 0x0b00-0x0b07] # conflicts with ACPI region SMRG [io 0xb00-0xb0f]" # in /var/log/messages.log ,try to uncomment the following line #blacklist i2c_piix4
Graphics
The open source drivers will work adequately. For AMD catalyst drivers, please use the catalyst and catalyst-utils packages from the AUR.
lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 14h Processor Root Complex 00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Device 9805 00:01.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Wrestler HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 6250/6310] 00:04.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 14h Processor Root Port 00:05.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 14h Processor Root Port 00:11.0 SATA controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 SATA Controller [AHCI mode] 00:12.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller 00:12.2 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller 00:13.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller 00:13.2 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller 00:14.0 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 42) 00:14.2 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) (rev 40) 00:14.3 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 LPC host controller (rev 40) 00:14.4 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge (rev 40) 00:15.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB700/SB800/SB900 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 0) 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 0 (rev 43) 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 1 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 2 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 3 00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 4 00:18.5 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 6 00:18.6 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 5 00:18.7 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 7 01:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01) 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR8152 v2.0 Fast Ethernet (rev c1)
On models with ASMedia USB 3.0 chip, replace last 2 line with:
01:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01) 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR8152 v2.0 Fast Ethernet (rev c1) 03:00.0 USB controller: ASMedia Technology Inc. Device 1040
lsusb:
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 002 Device 002: ID 13d3:5702 IMC Networks UVC VGA Webcam
Audio
After running alsaconf the graphics card was the default audio output, so I had to create /etc/asound.conf
with the following contents:
defaults.ctl.card 1 defaults.pcm.card 1 defaults.timer.card 1
Volume function key for alsa:
/etc/acpi/handler.sh
...... open) #echo "LID opend!">/dev/tty5 ;; esac ;; ## volume control key ## button/mute) case "$2" in MUTE) amixer set Master toggle ;; esac ;; button/volumedown) case "$2" in VOLDN) amixer set Master 2%- ;; esac ;; button/volumeup) case "$2" in VOLUP) amixer set Master 2%+ ;; esac ;; ## volume control key end ## *) logger "ACPI group/action underfined: $1 /$2" ;; esac
Powersaving
When system is idle, ATI/AMD's propretary driver(catalyst) saves 2.5W than xf86-video-ati.