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# ASUS Eee PC 1005HA

Device | Status | Modules
Intel 945GME | Working | xf86-video-intel
Ethernet | Working |
Wireless | Working |
Audio | Working | snd_hda_intel
Camera | Working | uvcvideo
Card Reader | Working |
Function Keys | Working |

This article describes both the 1005HA and the 1005HAB. The functional differences are outlined below.

Component | 1005HA | 1005HAB
CPU | Atom N280 | Atom N270
Battery | 63Wh | 48Wh or 23Wh
Bluetooth | Yes | No

# Installation

For an in-depth guide on the installation see the Beginners' guide.

## Boot Booster

Boot Booster is a feature that caches the result of the POST check to the hard drive. It can save several seconds off your boot time once activated.

To continue using Boot Booster, create a partition on the disk:

- It must be a primary partition.
- It must be 8MB minimum, pay attention to partition alignments.
- It must be type `0xEF` (`EFI (FAT-12/16/32)` in Fdisk, `esp` in GNU Parted).

After install is complete, enable Boot Booster in the BIOS. On the second boot after enabling, Boot Booster will be fully activated. Boot Booster must be disabled in the BIOS to boot from other devices again.

## Wireless/rfkill

The wireless interface may become soft blocked shortly after completing initial installation. Install rfkill as part of the installation and see the rfkill caveat.

# Display and input settings

See Xorg, Intel graphics, Keyboard configuration in Xorg and Touchpad Synaptics.

# Powersaving and ACPI

See the main page: Power management.

Start off your powersaving adventures by installing Powertop. This is basically a program to see how much power stuff is using, but it also gives you tips on what to change.

A good starting point is to disable the hardware you do not plan on using. Reboot and enter the BIOS by pressing F2. Disable for example the card reader, camera, ethernet but only if you do not need them of course.

According to Powertop the 1005HA uses around 7-10 Watts on maximum powersave (using Laptop mode tools and cpufreq and the above hardware disabled, using Wifi and writing this). Idle around 5-6 W. Please report how to get it lower!

## laptop-mode-tools

laptop-mode-tools is an easy way to setup most of the available power saving options on the 1005HA. These include spinning down the hard drive and adjusting the power saving modes of the harddrive and CPU, as well as autosuspending of the USB-ports and screen brightness etc. It provides a great centralized configuration file as well as separate configuration files for the various power saving modules managed by Laptop mode tools.

## Gmabooster

To further save power it is possible to use gmabooster to force a lower clock on the GPU when entering powersave and to overclock when on AC power.

Install gmaboosterAUR and then trigger the different clock levels with:

    echo "foo" | gmabooster

Where foo can be in the range 1 to 4 which yields 166, 200, 250 or 400 MHz GPU Clock.

When using powerdown add the line to

    /usr/bin/powerdown

and

    /usr/bin/powerup

and set foo appropriately.

## CPU frequency scaling

See cpufrequtils.

## Hotkeys

To get the hotkeys working (fn+F1 etc, touchpad lock, powerbutton shutdown, Super hybrid engine toggle), install the acpi-eeepc-genericAUR package from AUR. Configuration is done in the file /etc/conf.d/acpi-eeepc-generic.conf.

acpi-eeepc-generic needs the eeepc_wmi kernel module to be loaded to work. Check with:

    lsmod | grep eeepc

If not found, use

    acpi_osi=Linux

as mentioned under CPU Powersawing.

### Wifi toggle

To enable the toggling of the Wifi by pressing fn+f2, edit the acpi-eeepc-generic config file and change

    COMMANDS_WIFI_TOGGLE=("/etc/acpi/eeepc/acpi-generic-toggle-wifi.sh")

to

    COMMANDS_WIFI_TOGGLE=()

Source.

### Sound volume hotkeys

In order to get the hotkeys for muting and raising and lowering of the sound volume, edit /etc/conf.d/acpi-eeepc-generic.conf and replace the lines:

    COMMANDS_MUTE=("alsa_toggle_mute")
    COMMANDS_VOLUME_DOWN=("alsa_set_volume 5%-")
    COMMANDS_VOLUME_UP=("alsa_set_volume 5%+")

with

    COMMANDS_MUTE=("@amixer set Master toggle")
    COMMANDS_VOLUME_DOWN=("@amixer set Master 10%-")
    COMMANDS_VOLUME_UP=("@amixer set Master 10%+")

Note that the value 10% can be any value you prefer, see the man page of amixer.

### Sleep

If you have problems with the script provided in acpi-eeepc-generic, try pm-suspend or native systemd instead.

To substitute the acpi sleep script, edit /etc/conf.d/acpi-eeepc-generic.conf and comment out the line that reads:

    COMMANDS_SLEEP=("/etc/acpi/eeepc/acpi-eeepc-generic-suspend2ram.sh")

Replace it with:

    COMMANDS_SLEEP=("/usr/sbin/pm-suspend")

or

    COMMANDS_SLEEP=("systemctl suspend")

The relevance of the pm-suspend scripts are questioned since the switch to systemd. See pm-utils.

### Display Panel

The display pannel toggle hotkey (Fn+F7) does not produce a scancode (Tested on kernel 4.4.1-2-ARCH).

### Trackpad Toggle

The Trackpad Toggle (Fn+F3 or the hard button) can work but require manual configuration. See extra keyboard keys and Touchpad Synaptics. In kernel 4.4.1-2-ARCH using eeepc_wmi and asus_wmi modules I was unable to find a way to manage the trackpad status LED.

## Display settings

Create the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and add the following to it to enable Intel's framebuffer compression, which according to Lesswats.org is supposed to save quite some power.

    Section "Device"
     Identifier "Builtin Default intel Device 0"
     Driver	 "intel"
     Option	 "FramebufferCompression" "on"
     Option	 "AccelMethod" "EXA"
     Option	 "Tiling" "on"
    EndSection

# Hardware

## Ethernet

Works with the stock 2.6.32 kernel.

## WiFi

WiFi works out of the box with the stock kernel (tested with 2.6.30 and 2.6.32).

## Camera

To enable/disable the camera:

     # enable
     echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/camera
     # disable
     echo 0 > /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/camera

If you really want camera to be disabled, take a look in devices section of BIOS.

Make sure that the module `uvcvideo` is loaded

To record video and take photos, you may use cheese or wxcam package.

To simply test the camera, you may use `mplayer`:

     mplayer -fps 15 tv://

The webcam works with Skype.

## Microphone

The microphone works out of the box, it's just a matter of configuration. Run:

    $ alsamixer

Press <F4> to go to the 'Capture' section. Navigate to the 'Capture' item using the right and left arrow keys and make sure 'LR Capture' appears. If it doesn't, press <Space>. The 'Capture' and 'Digital' levels are a trade-off between gain and static. I recommend setting to 70 and 75 (using the up and down arrow keys), respectivelly, but you can ajust this to your liking. Exit alsamixer pressing <ESC> and test it:

    $ arecord /tmp/record.wav

Say something close enough to the microphone and hit <Ctrl+C> to stop recording. Play it with:

    $ aplay /tmp/record.wav

If everything went well, save your settings (as root):

    # alsactl store

Source: [1]

# Hardware Info

## lspci

Note that this is the 1005HA-M version.

    $ lspci

    00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
    00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
    00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
    00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
    00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
    00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
    00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02)
    00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
    00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
    00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
    00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
    00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
    00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
    00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
    00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)
    01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Attansic Technology Corp. Atheros AR8132 / L1c Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (rev c0)
    02:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)

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