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Asus Eee Pc X101ch Mint installation: Start With Linux Mint MATE

Post by sebastjava » Tue Jan 16, 2018 7:30 pm

There is no big trouble with this computer on Mate. The biggest thing was the internal speaker not working, while the headphones are okay. Learn how to fix this here. The rest of these tutorials about this little netbook is just about being perfectionist and caring about every specific detail.

First, Choose The Right Linux Distribution: Linux Mint Mate

I got tired of using Windows 7 on my little Asus netbook, the Asus EeePC X101CH. This netbook is now much faster, functional and beautiful after i installed Linux Mint MATE on it. You have to choose the best Linux distribution for your small computer. There are four different Linux Mint distributions. For such a small computer, you need a lightweight one: XFCE or MATE. But i found some flaws on the XFCE. The most serious one is with the screen. The screen is off after resuming from suspend, so the computer is still working but you can’t see anything! Also, it will not check if you have unsaved documents before you shutdown the machine. And there are other small flaws on the XFCE. If you really want to keep your XFCE, read this: How To Switch On Your Black Screen: Shortcut & Script. But i strongly recommend you avoid the XFCE and choose Linux Mint MATE instead (32-bit version). LM MATE is a fast, functional and beautiful system. I found just a few minor flaws on it and. i got it all corrected! They are listed here along with simple instructions on how to fix them.

Not convinced? I tried Lubuntu, Xubuntu and Linux Mint XFCE before finally choosing Linux Mint MATE. The latest one: 18.2. I installed it alongside my Windows 7 so i can go back to Windows if i need to. But i rarely do. If you want to install your Linux Mint system alongside Windows, you must have some free space on your hard drive so that option is available from your Linux Mint installer. «Free space» is a space with no partition at all. Typically, we get this by shrinking the (C:) partition. But it takes time. Are you using your Windows automated system backup? These backups are stored on (D:) partition. If you are not using it, you could delete this (D:) partition. Do this from a Windows session. You will instantly get 180 Gb of free space. Just make sure you have nothing important stored on that (D:) partition before you delete it. In all cases, backup all your precious documents before attempting anything. I mean, backup your documents on some external drive or USB key, not on that partition you are about to delete!

This Linux Mint MATE has a few little flaws, but less than the other systems. Most of those flaws are specific to your machine and its devices. The manufacturers are making drivers for their devices to operate in Windows, but not in the other systems. So there are people working hard on retro engineering to make those drivers for Linux. But they can’t test everything on every machine. So we are going to «tune up» our machine all by ourselves.

First things first, you must read this easy, short tutorial on how to create a booting USB stick and install Linux Mint:
https://linuxmint-installation-guide.re . en/latest/
There is no CD/DVD on this computer, so you will need that USB stick.

Get your system here: LinuxMint Download and select «Linux Mint 18.3 «Sylvia» — MATE (32-bit)».
The newer versions will be 64-bit only: it won’t work on this netbook.

Speed up your file browser (Caja)

Your screen is very small and there are a few windows that won’t fit. In that case, the bottom part of the window is hiding below the bottom of your screen. Just press the Alt key while dragging the window. By pressing Alt and dragging, you can push the upper part of the window outside the screen so you can access the lower part.
Note: At home or at the office, you can also plug a bigger screen, with a bigger resolution. This small integrated GPU (called «IGP») can actually control 2 screens simultaneously! I am currently enjoying a 1440 x 900 screen resolution. (2019-08-18)

Accented Letters In The Start Menu

Those using French, Spanish or any other language with special accented letters will find some errors in the start menu here on the bottom left corner. There are things like «À propos de moi» or «Économiseur d’écran» which do not appear in alphabetical order. They stand at the bottom of the menu list. That’s because their names start with an accented letter. Remove that accent and the menu item will fall in the appropriate alphabetical order.

Right-click on any misplaced menu item, select Edit properties , then change the name from something like «Économiseur. » to «Economiseur. » and close. Repeat this for every misplaced menu item.

Get A Decent Brightness For The Boot Splash Screen (Plymouth Theme)
. AND no error/warning messages . AND also a soft, precise brightness control.

1. Open /etc/default/grub text file as administrator (right-click on it and select «Open as administrator»)
2. Find this line: #GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep
3. Change it to: GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=1024×768,800×600,640×480,auto
4. While we are at it, find the line starting with this: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=
5. After «quiet», type «loglevel=3». This must be separated from the other parameters by one space before and after; see example below. Adding this will get rid of 1 or 2 warning/error messages for which there is no solution. This message was there before but you could not see it because the screen was too dark.
6. In this same GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT= line, at the END of it, but before the closing quote, type «acpi_backlight=none», preceded by one space. This will make your brightness control blue keys soft and precise.
7. Again, make sure there is one space separating each parameter in this line. Usually you end up with a line like this EXAMPLE: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=»quiet loglevel=3 splash acpi_backlight=none»
8. Save this text file.
9. Open your Terminal and run sudo update-grub

Stay With Mint-X (until Linux Mint MATE 19.x)

1. No visual hint on default button (ex.: «Save» vs «Close without saving»)
2. Scrollbars-junction: it looks like the slider stops before reaching the end.
3. Progressbar-osd has half-rounded corners.
4. There is a weird and ugly 1/4 second flash around tooltips.
5. IMPORTANT: In Caja file manager > View menu: Extra Pane ON and both Views in List mode: Select one file in the first List and then another file in the second List: the first selected file «disappeared!» (white text on white background!)

Avoid system errors ! (update from 2019/12/24)

There are system error messages about the ACPI on suspend or resume from suspend. I suggest you just avoid using suspend. Disable the Fn+F1 blue key [Zz] using Keyboard Shortcuts here:
Menu > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts
or type

And change all options in the Power Management to «Shutdown», «Never» or «Do nothing», as appropriate. For example, when i close the lid, the computer will shutdown automatically. Same thing for the power button. Change all these here:
Menu > Preferences > Power Management
or type

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That was just the beginning. Take a look at my others Asus Eee PC X101CH tutorials listed on top of this page. There you will see how to fix the speaker, fix the microphone, get a good video playback, get a better brightness control, and get those missing blue function keys! Follow these quick and easy instructions and you will have a nice, well working computer.

Tested on Linux Mint MATE 18.2 & 18.3 with the latest kernel.
Linux Mint 18.x is based on Ubuntu 16.04.

Self-Appointed Benevolent Designer on LinuxMint Cinnamon 21.x

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ASUS EeePc X101CH Video Drivers?

Post by Seano » Thu May 03, 2012 4:14 am

On Monday I bought my girlfriend her first computer. A little ASUS netbook — Eee PC model X101CH-BRN007W. It didn’t come with any sort of operating system apart from the Express Gate Cloud, so naturally I’ve installed GNU/Linux for her to learn on.

The problem I have been unsuccessful in finding any solution since Monday, searching ASUS site, Ubuntu site, and here too is how to find a suitable video driver to increase the screen resolution from 800×600 to the 1024×600 that is apparently possible using other operating systems.

I have downloaded and installed linuxmint-12-gnome-dvd-32bit.iso, and it’s running on her new machine reasonably well already since the second attempt*. Updates are done now too.

The hardware specifications, as much as I can get from the BIOS and the System Settings —> Info are:

ASUS Eee PC X101CH-BRN007W — ACPI BIOS
Bios Version 0501
Build Date 01/06/2012 ie. Jan 6th.
EC Firmware Version EPCE-022
Memory: 2.0 GiB
Processor: Intel Atom CPU N2600 @ 1.60Ghz x 4
Graphics: Vesa: Intel XX Graphics
Experience: Fallback
VGA Controller: Intel Cedarview Integrated Graphic Controller (rev 09) (prof-if 00 [VGA controller])

Apologies if that is not sensible information to provide, but if so, please reply if you may know how I might obtain the correct drivers for the apparently built-in video adaptor so that I might achieve the 1024×600 resolution.

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* Regarding the installation, the one failure I had was at the webcam/photo part, where the 600 pixel vertical resolution did not allow for any visible onward button. Second time around, just required hitting TAB once or twice and then Enter, and all went on from there, but it was a bit confusing at first with such a little screen. Other than that, smooth as silk.

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[Solved] Linux mint 18.1 no sound netbook asus eee pc x101ch

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[Solved] Linux mint 18.1 no sound netbook asus eee pc x101ch

Post by juamba48 » Wed Dec 28, 2016 1:03 pm

Good day to all. Thank you very much to all the Linux Mint team for all the effort and for the creation and maintenance of this wonderful distro. I have been using Mint 17.2 KDE on my Asus eee pc x101ch with no problems for a couple of years. I updated to 17.3 by the end of last year and everything was working fine. I was very happy to learn of the release of 18.1 «Serena» and decided to give it a try. I chose MATE, since this hardware is not very poweful, and downloaded the ISO. Yesterday I tried it as a live session and thought everything was working alright, so I installed erasing all of my older 17.3. Later in the day, after installing all codecs and proprietary drivers, I found out that sound does not play out of the netbook speakers. If I plug headphones I do get sound, but nothing comes out of the speakers. I did some tests and this is what I get (itś in Spanish since this is my countryś language):

gisela@gisela-X101CH ~ $ cat /proc/asound/card0/codec* | grep Codec
Codec: Realtek ALC269VB
Codec: Intel CedarTrail HDMI

I checked the device and I get:

gisela@gisela-X101CH ~ $ aplay -l
**** Lista de PLAYBACK dispositivos hardware ****
tarjeta 0: Intel [HDA Intel], dispositivo 0: ALC269VB Analog [ALC269VB Analog]
Subdispositivos: 1/1
Subdispositivo #0: subdevice #0
tarjeta 0: Intel [HDA Intel], dispositivo 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdispositivos: 1/1
Subdispositivo #0: subdevice #0

Right now I am downloading 17.2, which I know works for sure in my netbook, to check if it is not my hardware.

If any of you could give me any hint as to how to get the sound to work I would really be grateful.

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