Asus Eee PC 1000HE

Summary
This article will try to describe a Gentoo installation on an Asus EEE PC 1000HE with the following goals :
 * 1) Boots quickly
 * 2) No lag, responds quickly
 * 3) Excellent battery life. Asus boasts 9.5 hours battery life - So the goal is to get at least 8 hours.
 * 4) Suspends to both ram and disk.

Please update this article with your experience :)

Boot Install
To install your favorite OS, you have the following options :
 * 1) USB boot stick
 * 2) USB CD/DVD drive
 * 3) Network install via PXE

PCI
output : 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02) 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02) 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02) 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller (rev 02) 01:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01) 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Attansic Technology Corp. Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 PCI-E Ethernet Controller (rev b0)

The 1000he comes standard with 1gig of ram and a 160gig 5400 RPM sata2 2.5" drive. To help meet the goals stated above 2gigs of ram was installed in place of 1gig ram, and a Patriot 36gig SSD was installed in place of the 160gig harddrive.

If you are using an SSD the following article shows how to align your filesystem to the SSD's erase block size. The purpose of this is to speed up the disk in general and use disk space more efficiently

USB
output : Bus 001 Device 003: ID 04f2:b071 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd 2.0M UVC WebCam / CNF7129 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 005 Device 002: ID 0b05:b700 ASUSTek Computer, Inc. Broadcom Bluetooth 2.1 Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

CPU
1000HE comes with an Intel Atom N280. Here is the : processor      : 0 vendor_id      : GenuineIntel cpu family     : 6 model          : 28 model name     : Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N280   @ 1.66GHz stepping       : 2 cpu MHz        : 1667.000 cache size     : 512 KB physical id     : 0 siblings       : 2 core id        : 0 cpu cores      : 1 apicid         : 0 initial apicid : 0 fdiv_bug       : no hlt_bug         : no f00f_bug        : no coma_bug        : no fpu             : yes fpu_exception  : yes cpuid level    : 10 wp             : yes flags          : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm bogomips       : 3324.37 clflush size   : 64 power management:

processor      : 1 vendor_id      : GenuineIntel cpu family     : 6 model          : 28 model name     : Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N280   @ 1.66GHz stepping       : 2 cpu MHz        : 1667.000 cache size     : 512 KB physical id     : 0 siblings       : 2 core id        : 0 cpu cores      : 1 apicid         : 1 initial apicid : 1 fdiv_bug       : no hlt_bug         : no f00f_bug        : no coma_bug        : no fpu             : yes fpu_exception  : yes cpuid level    : 10 wp             : yes flags          : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm bogomips       : 3324.82 clflush size   : 64 power management:

Wireless network card
lspci

Use Module: ath9k

Alternatively,

lspci

Use Module: rt2800pci

You may also need a firmware blob from Ralink:

emerge net-wireless/rt2860-firmware --autounmask-write

Network card
lspci

Use Module: atl1e

Bluetooth
Use Module: btusb

Audio
Use Module: snd-hda-intel

Webcam
Use Module: uvcvideo

Power management
Work in progress...

Quick Post
On the harddrive that comes with the Eeepc there are four partitions by default :

fdisk -l

The first two are respectively system and data, the third partition is a hidden partition used for system restores, and the last partition is a 50MB partition that the Eeepc BIOS uses to store some data to abreviate the POST of your netbook.

To meet the quick boot goal keep the fourth partition. Those 50 megabytes saves about ~7 seconds of boot time. Provided you're using the HDD that comes with your 1000he, all that needs to be done in order to keep the quick post working after you wipe is to leave partition 4 alone.

If you delete the EFI partition by mistake, you can restore Boot Booster by creating a 50MB primary partition at the end of your hard drive. Label it as EFI (0xef) from within fdisk. The contents of the partition are not important as it is only a caching area for the BIOS.

To backup the partition and MBR use:

To restore the partition and partition table on the stock HDD use:

fstab Tweaks
Here are tweaks incorporated into the build to help meet the project goals(stated above):