40.27 ASUS EeePC 1005P (Rhesus)
The system was purchased from Bing Lee for $425. It is an excellent netbook with a bright screen, and purportedly a long battery life, and well featured when running Ubuntu.
40.27.1 Rhesus Usage
Rhesus is a netbook computer for portability and general computing requirements including presentations, email, skype, web browsing, music and video. It has been replaced [121230] as the primary portable machine, and has since acted as a audio media server connected to a receiver, for reception of internet radio and podcasts.
40.27.2 Rhesus Hardware
The netbook features a 10.1 inch display, an Intel Atom N450, 1.6GHz CPU, 11 hours battery life, with 1GB of DDR2 memory and a 250GB hard drive. It includes an inbuilt SD card reader, 3 USB2 sockets, wireless, bluetooth, and a TouchPad.
40.27.3 Specifications
From the dmesg, dmidecode, lspci
and lshw commands and /proc/cpuinfo:
| Spec | Details |
|---|---|
| Machine: | Asus EeePC 1005P |
| CPU: | Intel Atom N450 1.66GHz |
| Bogomips: | 3333.08 |
| Memory: | 1GiB DDR2 DIMM Synchronous 667MHz (1.5 ns) |
| Network: | Atheros AR8132 / L1c Gigabit Ethernet (atl1c) |
| Atheros AR9285 802.11bg wifi (ath9k) | |
| Disk: | Hitachi HTS45402 (250GB/232GiB ATA /dev/sda) |
| Video: | N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller (i915) |
| Camera: | (uvcvideo) |
| Audio: | N10/ICH 7 Family High definition Audio Controller (snd_hda_intel) |
| Touchpad: | Synaptics SynPS/2 () |
| Bluetooth: | (btusb) |
| Boot: | Grub2 |
| Kernel: | 2.6.32-21-generic |
40.27.4 Operating System
Rhesus came with MS/Windows 7 Starter which was immediately installed over. Ubuntu Netbook Remix (10.4) was installed from USB [100503]. The iso image was downloaded from Ubuntu. It was uploaded to a 2GB USB Thumb drive formatted as fat32. The machine’s BIOS boot menu was obtained through a Ctrl-Esc on booting, selecting the removable drive. Successive upgrades of Ubuntu have been successful. Upgrade to Ubuntu 14.04 [140422] went smoothly running do-release-upgrade.
40.27.5 Issues
Working: Skype (audio, though only external microphone), video, ethernet, wifi.
Not Tested: Skype (video), hibernate, suspend, external monitor.
Not Working: Skype with internal microphone (Sound Recorder records sound okay).
40.27.6 Rhesus Install Log
40.27.6.1 3 May 2010
Download ubuntu-10.4-netbook-i386.iso from http://www.ubuntu.com. Write to a 2GB USB thumb drive using ImageWriter (usb-creator-gtk).
Then start the EeePC holding Ctrl-Esc to get into the boot menu to boot from the USB HDD. Getting the boot menu seems tricky on netbooks. Sometimes it worked, one time I needed to F2 then F10, then OK, then repeatedly press Esc.
Install went forward just fine.
To get the Fn-F5 and Fn-F6 working properly (rather than randomly),
change a line in the file /etc/defailt/grub:
and then
It worked just fine after this.
Wifi did not seem to be working at first, though the module seemed to have been loaded (ath9k). I started Network Tools under System, and that allowed specificaiton of the passphrase, and then it started working and continues to work on reboot.
40.27.7 Rhesus Troubleshooting
40.27.7.1 12.04 Upgrade: Sound Input Issues
After upgrading, recording audio from the internal mic or from an external mic resulting in a very noisey/scratchy background and low quality voice. Solution was found to add the following to /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-audio-dev/alsa-daily/ubuntu precise main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-audio-dev/alsa-daily/ubuntu precise mainThe install the latest version of the sound driver:
$ wajig install alsa-hda-dkmsThen reboot:
$ sudo rebootSound was much better. Now has a level of contstant white noise in the background. On advice I also added the following to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf, but made little difference to the background noise - so stay with it for now - sounds okay.
options snd-hda-intel model=asusNote that the built in microphone is working just fine too.
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