Linux on the ASUS N10 N10J

james- · 12-01-2008, 04:58 AM

True.. we dont need intel wireless drivers for example strict minimum would be cool

BTW do you have a command to remove a deb package? I was trying to upgrade from rc5 to rc6 and kept giving me an error that something (/lib/at...) was in use I had to reboot in 2.6.27 and use cruft remover(which wasn't installed?) to remove RC5 then install RC6

also while trying to install NVIDIA drivers(even after stopping GDM) xorg was still running I just did a quick "sudo killall gdm Xorg"

Well after I put it to 1000Hz...it no longer worked.. so I had to recompile with 200Hz(just to try it) it seems to be working pretty well right now

ALLurGroceries · 12-01-2008, 11:44 AM

I stripped out the kernel config and it compiled 1.5hrs

There is still more yet that can be removed but I wanted to be conservative.

-- Edit: I rolled the config into the howto --

james- · 12-02-2008, 10:50 AM

rc7 is out

going to try your stripped version

Code:

export CONCURRENCY_LEVEL=2

what does that do?
tells that the laptop has 2 cores?

ALLurGroceries · 12-02-2008, 01:22 PM

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Originally Posted by james-

what does that do?
tells that the laptop has 2 cores?

Yeah, precisely... it should help a lot! I forgot to add it in before. Along with the stripped config it really cuts the time down... thanks for letting me know about rc7 I will get to that later today.

Edit -- Further stripped down my config and rc7 compiled in about 15 mins less this time... I updated the howto

james- · 12-03-2008, 12:05 AM

so far everything is working. going to test the HDMI output tomorrow.

ALLurGroceries · 12-03-2008, 12:14 AM

Cool... I hope your compile time was shorter.. I am still going to cut more out yet, I will keep you updated

Edit: There is a new nvidia beta driver out, 180.11. I updated the howto.

james- · 12-04-2008, 12:02 AM

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Originally Posted by ALLurGroceries

Cool... I hope your compile time was shorter.. I am still going to cut more out yet, I will keep you updated

Edit: There is a new nvidia beta driver out, 180.11. I updated the howto.

nope I didn't use the rc6 config and didn't know if rc6 was compatible with rc7 so let it compile during the night

i'll test out HDMI probably this weekend(things came up)

ALLurGroceries · 12-04-2008, 12:08 AM

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Originally Posted by james-

nope I didn't use the rc6 config and didn't know if rc6 was compatible with rc7 so let it compile during the night

i'll test out HDMI probably this weekend(things came up)

That's too bad... it would have worked, 'make oldconfig' will just prompt you for new configuration options and you can just hold down enter to accept defaults and then do the build. I've not had any problems with my config at all but it's not yet as small as I'd like.

james- · 12-04-2008, 07:44 PM

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Originally Posted by ALLurGroceries

That's too bad... it would have worked, 'make oldconfig' will just prompt you for new configuration options and you can just hold down enter to accept defaults and then do the build. I've not had any problems with my config at all but it's not yet as small as I'd like.

yeah the first time I compiled rc4 it let me hold down enter for asking me questions and now it just auto-configs it o_O.. is that normal?(they are extracted in different folders.

ALLurGroceries · 12-04-2008, 07:45 PM

Yeah, it will only prompt you if there are new options, between releases, especially RC releases there tend to be no new configuration options. So that's normal