eeePC 900 && video cam

Mon Jun 23 12:36:52 UTC 2008

Hello,

I followed the hints in
http://nighthack.org/wiki/EeeBSD
to install FreeBSD 7.0R in my new Asus eeePC 900; attached is a complete
installation guide;

the (deleted) Linux saw the on board video cam with these messages:

[   11.540000] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[   11.560000] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device CNF7129 (04f2:b071)
[   11.690000] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo
[   11.690000] USB Video Class driver (SVN r2008.02.27)

and it worked nicely; are there any plans or works for supporting this
card?

thx in advance

	matthias
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$Id: installEeePC.txt,v 1.1 2008/06/23 07:49:29 guru Exp $

   How I have installed FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE in the Asus eeePC 900
                     <guru at UnixArea.de>

First prepare an USB key with:

- a booting FreeBSD 7.0R
- the tree of the disk1 below /disk1, as minimum:
  disk1/7.0-RELEASE
  disk1/packages

How to do this is documented on Internet already, see for example:
http://groups.google.com/group/lucky.freebsd.questions/msg/5c759b1c87376b22

The eeePC 900 comes with two separate SSD's which will show up
in FreeBSD as

/dev/ad2 (4 GByte)
/dev/ad3 (16 GByte)

even if you can boot /dev/ad3 from the boot-monitor (press ESC after power-on),
it seems that the BIOS by its own can only boot from the first SSD, the
so called OB (on board) SSD; so we will install the system in /dev/ad2;

create a new partition table on /dev/ad2 with a default slice 1 and make it 
boot-able:

# fdisk -BI /dev/ad2

(ignore any errors)

label it for booting freebsd:

# bsdlabel -wB /dev/ad2s1

edit the disk label and change partition a from "unused" to "4.2BSD"
as partition type:

# setenv EDITOR /usr/bin/vi
# bsdlabel -e /dev/ad2s1

create the future root-filesystem on it and mount it to /mnt for the
installation:

# newfs -m 0 -o space /dev/ad2s1a
# mount /dev/ad3s1a /mnt 

install freebsd into /mnt; this assumes that you have copied the FreeBSD
distribution into your USB key below /disk1/7.0-RELEASE:

# setenv DESTDIR /mnt
# cd /disk1/7.0-RELEASE
# cd base
# ./install.sh
You are about to extract the base distribution into /mnt - are you SURE
you want to do this over your installed system (y/n): y

# cd ../manpages
# ./install.sh
# cd ../catpages
# ./install.sh

go to the kernels directory and install a kernel of your choice: 
[default is GENERIC kernel; change to "smp" for smp-machines] 

# rmdir /mnt/boot/kernel 
# cd ../kernels; 
# cat generic.?? | tar --unlink -xpzf - -C /mnt/boot 
# cd /mnt/boot 
# mv GENERIC kernel 

now, tell FreeBSD to mount later the correct root-filesystem: 

# echo "/dev/ad3s1a  /  ufs  rw,noatime  1  1" >/mnt/etc/fstab 

create your rc.conf.local in /mnt/etc to redefine some settings: 

# cat <<EOFRCCONF >/mnt/etc/rc.conf.local 
#!/bin/sh 
tmpmfs="YES" 
tmpsize="128m" 
hostname="tiny" 
keyrate="fast" 
EOFRCCONF 

# chmod 0755 /mnt/etc/rc.conf.local 

set a new root password manually, if you want (default="") 

# chroot /mnt /usr/bin/passwd root 

unmount the new root /mnt and reboot the eeePC:

# cd
# umount /mnt
# reboot

when the system comes up again, use 'sysinstall' for installation of Xorg

mount the USB key as:

# mount -o ro /dev/da0s1a /mnt

# sysinstall-->Configure-->Distributions-->X.org

from installation media 'File System' and pointed to /mnt/disk1; again
this assumes that you have copied the FreeBSD distribution into your USB
key below /disk1/packages:

remove the package 'xf86-video-i810-1.6.5_3' and install correct video drivers
for the Intel chip-set; the package must be pulled from FreeBSD web sites, i.e.
it is not part of the default 7.0-R distribution CD:

# pkg_delete -f xf86-video-i810-1.6.5_3
# cd /mnt/eeePC
# pkg_add xf86-video-intel-2.1.1.tbz

login again to refresh the PATH only

use 'sysinstall' to activate the mouse daemon and configure the X server:

# Xorg -configure

before deleting the Linux on the eeePC I saved the original xorg.conf
and merged the Monitor section into the generated xorg.conf as:

    Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        VendorName   "ASUS"
        ModelName    "Eee PC P900"
        Modeline     "1024x600"  48.96  1024 1064 1168 1312  600 601 604 622  -HSync +Vsync
    EndSection

# cp xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf

adjust /etc/rc.conf file with:

    syslogd_enable="NO"
    sendmail_enable="NONE"

adjust /boot/loader.conf file with:

    snd_hda_load="YES"

on the second disk /dev/ad3 I created one big UFS and mounted this as /usr/home;

on my 'normal' laptop with the same FreeBSD version I created packages of all
ports I have installed on this, around 640 ports which are in packages
1.2 GByte; I moved them with the USB key to /usr/home/PKGDIR and installed
the KDE environment (and all other stuff) just with:

# cd /usr/home/PKGDIR
# pkg_add kde-3.5.8.tbz

to be continued ... (with the kernel module ath_hal.ko)

as said in http://nighthack.org/wiki/EeeBSD fetch the 'ath' update from
http://snapshots.madwifi.org/special/madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007.tar.gz

I have updated with this patch the kernel in my 'normal' laptop as:

# cd /usr/src/sys/contrib/dev
# mv ath ath.orig
# mkdir ath
# cd /tmp
# tar xzf madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007.tar.gz
# cd madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007/hal
# cp -R * /usr/src/sys/contrib/dev/ath/

# cd /usr/src/sys/i386/compile/REBELION
# make depend
# make
# make install
# cd /boot
# mv kernel kernel.ath
# mv kernel.old kernel

move over the kernel to the eeePC and unpack it there into /boot:

# mount /dev/da0s1a /mnt
# tar cfz /mnt/eeePC/kernel.tar.gz kernel.ath
# cp /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf /mnt/eeePC

# mkdir /mnt/eeePC/usr-local-etc-devd
# cp /usr/local/etc/devd/* /mnt/eeePC/usr-local-etc-devd
# umount /mnt

the ath0 comes up and works normaly with 'wpa_supplicant' and the hooks
in devd(8) on IF_UP / IF_DOWN