[fedora-arm] Any thoughts on running Fedora+XFCE on an Efika Smartbook?

[Steev Klimaszewski]

On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Jon Masters <jcm at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-05-15 at 12:07 +0100, Niels de Vos wrote:
>
>> I know that some of you have an Efika Smartbook
>> (http://www.genesi-usa.com/products/smartbook) and am interested in
>> your opinions on it. I'm looking to getting one myself, but only if
>> there are positive experiences with it.
>
> I run mine with XFCE just fine. We need a standard kernel package, but
> we'll be looking into that in due course. For now, only problem with
> stock (older) kernel I'm using is lack of resume. I have an external USB
> to VGA adapter I want to get working soon for presentations.
>
> Using in the garden/Starbucks/outdoors is fine.
>
> Jon.

I've seen suspend/resume mentioned a few times on here as not working
(I'm assuming Fedora); I'm not if you need a specific pm utils
version, but all you should need to do is add a config file with the
following in it:

SUSPEND_MODULES="ehci_hcd"
SLEEP_MODULES="ehci_hcd"

The big reason is that everything is on the USB bus, so when it comes
back from suspend, it re-probes everything.  (Assuming you're building
with the latest kernel sources in Gitorious, you'll want the usb
portions to be modules, assuming you aren't using the
mx51_efikamx_defconfig )

I've no person experience with building a kernel on Fedora, but
hopefully that helps someone out :)


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Steev Klimaszewski <steev at genesi-usa.com>
Senior Software Engineer, Genesi USA, Inc.