Asus R2H on gentoo

kenobi · n00b Joined: 27 Nov 2002 Posts: 10

Hiho!

I'm wondering if anyone has tried this?

I have mine for about 2 weeks now and have been relatively successful, mostly thanks to this howto [1].
I thought about writing a howto for gentoo as well.

What really bothers me is the GPS module...I never owned a gps and I have no idea how to get it working.
In windows it sits behind com2 which is using 0x3f8,irq 4. Linux doesnt detect any serial ports and setting this manual with setserial didn't seem to work either. At least cat /dev/ttyS0 didnt reveal anything.

[1] http://www.xs4all.nl/~sozonko/asus_r2h_howto/

mikers456 · n00b Joined: 07 Jul 2004 Posts: 36

UNDEAD-THREAD! Zombie Alert. [Sorry guys... backfilling info]

I have an R2H and wondered the same thing... Turns out that the asus laptop support module (app-laptop/acpi4asus) should provide support. Emerge, modprobe and that should do it... (it worked well for me).

GPS will appear as /dev/ttyS0. Use gpsd or similar to read it. Make sure it has already ran once under windows or other, first time locking on to all SATs is a little slow. Put by big window or outside to give it chance to find some GPS SATS. Could take up to 30 minutes or more. Thereafter should be only a minute or two to lock on.

Poseidon · Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2008 6:32 pm Post subject: ASUS R2H (recent)

I have this thing working beautifully with GPS, touchscreen, webcam, and DRI enabled. One problem, and I've seen this on other embedded LCD devices with the i810/i915 chipsets: WHITE screen when using newer intel drivers. I've had to back down to old versions of X and the driver to get it to work. Otherwise, if I connect an external monitor (which disables the internal LCD) - it looks perfect.

If anyone else is interested I will continue to work on it. You'll find posts all over the internet ("ASUS gray screen"), but all of the fixes are unknowingly using the old driver. Please post if you have any advice!

-Sebastian