one.de A110 mini-book VIA C7 HW platfrm / Quanta IL1

[FrankA]

hey guys,

at a ridiculous €200 you get in Germany the ONE.de A110
subminiature notebook.

it is based on the Quanta IL1 reference design, which has numerous clones
worldwide and ships in volume. it is a commercial competitor to the OLPC.

its like 512 MB RAM, 1 MHz VIA C7 ULV processor, no hd, 2 MB flash
with WLAN USB asf.

great platform for puppy in fact I am using it right now.

to sell it at €200 incl, VAT they cut XP and webcam, but that is just an advantage.

only thing : it uses VIA integrated video 800x480 pixel, which runs in 640x480 in puppy and ubuntu. sound and network is OK driver-wise.

the way to work forward ahead of the supplier Brunen-IT is to get a proper 800x480 VESA mode. any hint, maybe ?

[Aitch]

Hi, FrankA

I’ve got the standard Xvesa X server working at 800×480, that was easy — you need to go into /usr/X11R7/bin/xwin and bypass the ‘ddcprobe’ and just run the '915resolution 38 800 480' and set that as the only available resolution.

He was referring to the Intel Classmate, but the fix should be the same for the Eee.
And once the i810 Xorg driver has been "fooled" into accepting 800x480 as a valid bios setting, Xorg should work as well.


There is also a good Developer Blog post about "Working with a small screen"

http://puppylinux.com/blog/?p=56#comments

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=165950

Aitch

[raffy]

Could you try choosing 'Other" from the bottom of the xorgwizard dialogue? Maybe the next dialog will show the available screen resolution set for the LCD screen?

I say this because the video fix for the Intel machines is 915resolution (which will not work with the VIA machine).

[Aitch]

@raffy

I based my reply on

And once the i810 Xorg driver has been "fooled" into accepting 800x480 as a valid bios setting, Xorg should work as well.

figuring that if tempestuous was saying the previous code would fool a machine with an i810 chipset into a 915 chipset situation, that it may have the same effect on the via chipset

I don't have the facility to test this guestimate though

@Frank, I'll leave it up to you,

If it doesn't work a ctrl/alt/backspace will get you out of xorg to try a different setting

Aitch

[mechmike]

Is this the same or perhaps a similar unit?

http://www.elonexone.co.uk/

More here: http://www.itwire.com/content/view/18520/1141/

Slashdotted this AM.

[raffy]

No, definitely not. You should check the processor for the "300 mhz etc etc" - this is supposedly an ex-486 processor that can't compare with the C7 (or even C3) of VIA.

[Aitch]

Is this the same or perhaps a similar unit?

The Elonex is a completely different kettle of fish, Mike

The EEEPC is well featured in many Puppy pages but the VIA tends to be advertised for carPCs & embedded applications/robotics or Lo power system builders

This is a VIA quick one, 1Ghz - 3.9" x 2.8"

http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/embed ... /index.jsp

A typical power supply

http://www.mini-box.com/picoPSU-90?sc=8&category=13

Cases

http://www.mini-box.com/s.nl/sc.8/category.87/.f

Nice, huh?

Aitch

[headfound]

I emailed elonex for confirmation of the processor because no-one seems to know much about it and they confirmed that it is definitely an x86 chip, not arm/risc. So puppy should work!

[FrankA]

it is based on the Quanta IL1 reference design, which has numerous clones
worldwide and ships in volume. it is a commercial competitor to the OLPC.

http://a110wiki.de

I see to it to get puppy fixes together for it.

[FrankA]

Hi, FrankA

I’ve got the standard Xvesa X server working at 800×480, that was easy — you need to go into /usr/X11R7/bin/xwin and bypass the ‘ddcprobe’ and just run the '915resolution 38 800 480' and set that as the only available resolution.

He was referring to the Intel Classmate, but the fix should be the same for the Eee.
And once the i810 Xorg driver has been "fooled" into accepting 800x480 as a valid bios setting, Xorg should work as well.

915resolution binary does not know the VIA chipset on Quanta IL1, unfortunately

[FrankA]

wow!
.
lucid 5.1 supports the IL-1 netbook very good:

only thing missing is modem out of the box (tho its feasibly by tweaking)

and hires external monitor (probably not doable right now.)


still, with lucid IL-1 is one hell of a $200 USD machine with nice flash-videoplay and all !