Hi all! I'm glad to use Arch; and it's my first post in here.
I've an Asus Eee PC 1201HA which doesn't appear in the ArchWiki; but
reading a mix of another Eee's I could make it work fairly good;
although there's one issue left.
To begin with, it's "special" features which need extra packages are:
-Intel GMA500 graphics with POULSBO driver. (Say no more... someday
there will be AMD netbooks easily available in Argentina)
-Synaptics Keypad (xf86-input-synaptics)
-Can't remember the brand of the HD, bur it needs to set APM in zero so
it stops parking randomly.
-Some APM package so the netbook manages power more efficiently and some
other package to recognize function keys. "Fn" key PLUS other things
work ok.
The issue is that whenever I'm writting, regardless of what application
I'm working in, there's some sort of random "paste" of some signal text.
Examples are: "MouseNavigationClick"; "GoogleSearch" if there's an open
firefox, etc. I have no certain evidence, but I suspect it's when some
of my fingers touch the mousepad.
Example of what I see:
$ pacman -S k3...
and suddenly it comes out: $ pacman -S k3SignalSlotMouseb
Understandable right?
I suspect it's something to do with Xorg.conf, although the problem was
there even when that file didn't exist.
The actual xorg.conf is the one on the wiki for poulsbo; it doesn't have
any mention to Mouse or keyboard.
If anyone had a similar problem, any suggestion would be welcome.
Thanks in advance,
Nicolás
PD: From ArchWiki:
Build and Install from AUR (xorg 1.9)
Build and install the following packages in this exact order
1)psb-firmware <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31993>
2)psb-kmod <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31992>
3)libdrm-poulsbo <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31991>
4)xpsb-glx <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31994>
5)xorg-x11-drv-psb <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31995>.
Configure xorg.conf
To tell Xorg to use this driver, change the Driver line in
|/etc/X11/xorg.conf| to read as:
Driver "psb"
You can also try adding a couple options to try improving acceleration
or stability:
with:
Option "ShadowFB" "true"
and possibly:
Option "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"
Cross fingers and restart X.
