I know I probably won’t be able to help much, since I’m not that knowledgeable about programming and even linux.

All I know is I’ve installed Mandriva,and it boots pretty slow.
Is there an easy way to install or implement your program into my Eeepc?

Maybe the only thing I could do is help to write out a wiki on wiki.eeeuser.com or something…
the forums are currently too large to get anywhere, and finding something there is like finding a specific seashell on a whole beach…

So,with noobs in mind, is there a way on how to install it?
Thank you!

get from official xandros repos.

BUT if you try to shutdown while any program that uses audio is running the module can’t be unloaded and full shutdown hangs. I added the following two lines to kill any such programs before rmmoding snd-hda-intel

killall -9 -w `lsof +c 15 /dev/dsp | awk ‘{print $1}’`
killall -9 -w `lsof +c 15 /dev/snd/* | awk ‘{print $1}’`

I used killall procname instead of kill PID because killall has the -w switch, that forces it to wait until all the targetted programs are really dead before moving on. Using kill followed by rmmod failed, as they programs weren’t quite dead yet :) killall -w, rmmod seemed more elegant than kill, wait 5 seconds, rmmod.

the +c 15 on lsof is there because the columns displayed by lsof’s output are by default only 9 characters wide, so you’d end up trying to kill firefox-b (instead of firefox-bin). 15 is the max. Longer named programs will not be killed. You can
fuser -k /dev/snd/*;fuser -k /dev/dsp
first, and hope the killall command takes enough time for such programs to be actually dead by the time you rmmod.

I had been using
killall -9 -w `lsof +c 15 | grep -E ’snd|dsp’ | awk ‘{print $1}’`
but lsof-ing everything and grepping throught it could take a lot of seconds.

Long story short, 900 users add these lines to /sbin/fastinit.sh and you can just shutdown.
killall -9 -w `lsof +c 15 /dev/dsp | awk ‘{print $1}’`
killall -9 -w `lsof +c 15 /dev/snd/* | awk ‘{print $1}’`
rmmod snd_hda_intel

rmmod snd-hda-intel

Not sure what’s happening but this worked for me anyway.

BTW thanks for the finit reimplementation. I learnt how the linux boot up from the source. Pity that Asus do not release their originals.

However the system cannot properly power off by /sbin/fastshutdown.sh. The power light stays there.
I tried to go back to the echo 5 method, but still not work.
There isn’t any message output even I did not specify quiet option.

Rebooting worked however.

Grateful if anyone has idea about the power off. Anything changed in model 900?

I starting hacking a bit too for eeexubuntu:
My results could be found here:
http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?pid=233009

A quick search for mount options in C or sys/mount.h will help.

However as a result of this - and a lack of GNU Autotools or other compile time optioning - it makes it hard to have an aptitude or similar distribution interface. When more distributions are tested as working (without regressions) that may become a possibility.

I asume that this small c tool replaces all /etc/init.d scripts, all scripts i still need should be put in a services.sh which will be called by finit after it has done its job.

i use eeexubuntu with /usr as unionfs/sqashfs and /home as cryptofs luks at a sd card.
i mount /usr with fstab and /home with a init.d script

so must i hack the c code and add my /usr mount or does it load fstab mounts?

About finit in Xubuntu: it’s almost certain that you’ll have to make changes in finit-alt to accomodate xubuntu’s needs. Some distribution-specific quirks are implemented and can be enabled using macros, see how Mandriva is supported in finit-alt.c. Since Ubuntu/Debian are closer to the original Xandros than Mandriva, my guess is that it won’t be hard to implement. Drop a note if you have specific problems.

I’m currently running xubuntu 8.04 (beta) with root on the SSD and /home on an SDHC, with fvwm-metisse as the WM.
I love my current setup, apart from the 80s boot time…

If I can get this to work, I will be a very happy guy!

One thing I noticed - this can be apt-got? Do I need to set up a specific repository for this in my sources.lst?

If I can get this working, I’d look to write up a guide on the eeeuser wiki for this, I’m sure it would interest a lot of eee owners!