• mkinitrd-6.0.34-nash-hotplug.patch

Die, nash, die.

• VIA video of course won’t run with IEGD, but the (somewhat ugly) VNC-based hack for the Eeepc could work. X compositing or RandR could work depending on 3D performance, availability of RandR 1.2 for VIA graphic chips and quality compromises, but both solutions require development (i.e. possible but not available yet).
• Wifi performance issues may be related to RTL8187 rate control not working properly (it always tries to use the highest possible bitrate reducing range dramatically). Using a recent Windows driver with ndiswrapper should solve most problems, or reducing the bitrate manually should increase range using the native driver.
• Faster boot can be achived using finit (a reimplementation of the Eeepc fastinit), but some customization to finit-alt will be necessary to boot Ubuntu.

On a side note, finit-alt worked quite well booting Mandriva 2008 with Enlightenment in the Dreambook IL1, another VIA-based mini-laptop (possibly booting even faster than the Eeepc because the Intel driver for Xorg takes a while to initialize).

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• It works, as confirmed by Eeepc users that tested the program.
• Metalshark fixed a bug in the reimplementation that prevented it to load the shutdown splash screen.
• Kept finit.c as an accurate reimplementation of the original Eeepc fastinit, and spawned finit-mod.c as a modified/optimized version intended to be a drop-in replacement for fastinit. A third version, finit-alt.c, contains changes to allow alternative Linux distributions to boot in the Eeepc (currently supports Mandriva 2008).

Read on for details and results of booting Mandriva 2008 on a regular (non-Eeepc) laptop using finit-alt.

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From the USB ID it is supposed to contain a Vimicro VC0323 controller, and it was recognized as so by the GSPCA driver. This camera, however, seems to have a number of quirks that cause the driver to decode the image incorrectly: the image is fed as YUV instead of Jpeg (like the VC0321), image start offset is different from what the driver expects for VC0323 or VC0321, and finally the sensor appears to be mounted upside-down inside the camera. Read on for fix details and GSPCA patches.

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Codecgraph is a tool to generate a graph based on the ALSA description of a High Definition Audio codec. The generated graph depicts the HDA codec layout and node connections, helping driver troubleshooting and maintenance. Codecgraph’s parser reads the codec description from /proc/asound/card*/codec#0 and parsed data is sent to Graphviz for actual graph generation.

I mentioned codecgraph before as the tool used to fix 5.1 sound in six and threestack ALC888-based HP systems, and recently it was used to fix 5.1/7.1 sound in the Dell Inspiron 530.

• Hg patch for alsa-kernel: fixes 5.1 sound and headphone detection in the Dell Inspiron 530
• Patch for Linux 2.6.23.12: same patch as above, backported to Linux 2.6.23.12

It adds the ALC888 6stack-dell mode for the Inspiron 530 and hopefully for other Dell systems based on the ALC888. The patch has already been submited upstream and should show up in the next kernel version. The patch has also been added to the current Mandriva Cooker kernel.

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• Add quirk for Syntek 174f:5212 UVC camera Wrong! Use Herton’s Laurent’s patch below.
• Add quirk for Syntek 174f:5212 UVC camera (fixed version)
• Laurent Pinchart’s final patch

Syntek camera framegrabs: 1, 2.

Update: Posted Herton Krzesinski’s fixed version. Posted Laurent Pinchart’s final version.