Asus EEE -- suspend, card reader and camera

Jack Twilley <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I am a mostly-happy user of an Asus EEE 701.  Recently I was pointed at 
http://wiki.freebsd.org/AsusEee which has more current information than 
the nighthack page.  I'm running RELENG_7 and I am pleased to confirm 
that the wired Ethernet works out of the box.  I'm looking forward to 
ath_hal merging from current so I can stop copying over the madwifi hal 
directory.  I have only three issues remaining, some of which are at 
least partially discussed on that page.

First, I'm new to FreeBSD on laptops.  I tried to suspend with Fn-F1 and 
it seemed to do the right thing, but I don't know how to resume.  I 
tried Fn-F1 and it didn't work.  I hit the power button, and the LEDs 
changed but the screen never woke up.  I had to hold down the power 
button to get it to shut off, then tapped it to bring it up.  I added 
the sysctls as recommended by the wiki page -- is there something else 
I'm missing?

Second, the card reader seems to bite the shed if I use it in the 40MB/s 
mode but not in the 1MB/s mode.  Is this a hardware problem or a 
software problem or what?  Is there some geek knob I can twiddle to 
throttle the card reader so I can use some happy medium?  1MB/s is 
really slow. :-)

Third, there isn't a single mention of the camera on that page.  I saw a 
sysctl for the camera but it seems to simply report whether or not the 
camera is enabled in the BIOS.  Are there any apps which use the camera? 
   Is there a driver issue with it, or something else that I haven't heard?

Thanks so much for all your work.  I am very pleased with how well the 
laptop is supported in general, and it's sweet to show the Linux users 
that it's not the only non-Windows choice for the Eee!

Jack.
_______________________________________________
[email protected] mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.