up:
Configuring grml for the EEE PC

  1. Run grml-x -force fluxbox as root once to auto-configure X11.

  2. Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf, uncomment the keyboard section and adjust your keyboard layout.

  3. Ethernet

    1. Enable Ethernet by installing the atl2 package downloaded above with dpkg -i. Run modprobe atl2 && dhclient.

  4. Wifi 
    1. apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
wget -c http://snapshots.madwifi.org/special/madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007.tar.gz
KERNELHEADERS=/usr/src/linux-headers-$(uname -r) make install
modprobe ath_pci
modprobe wlan_scan_sta

    2. If you don't like that, read http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?pid=47421#p47421 to see how to build a Debian package.

    3. For WPA, I configured wpasupplicant manually. See http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/HowTo/Wifi.

  5. Upgrade the system: apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

  6. Set the timezone: dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

  7. Adjust /etc/grml/autoconfig.

  8. Webcam 
    1. apt-get install module-assistant luvcview
m-a update
RELAX_CC_CHECK=1 m-a a-i linux-uvc
modprobe uvcvideo
  9. Sound

    1. Create a file with contents options snd-hda-indel model=3stack-dig in /etc/modprobe.d.

  10. ACPI

    1. TBD

  11. General tricks

    1. Read http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/HowTo/Install and http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/TipsAndTricks, most of it applies.

    2. In /etc/sysctl.conf, set 

      1. vm.swappiness = 0
vm.dirty_writeback_centisecs = 1500

    3. In /etc/fstab, set / to noatime,commit=30,errors=remount-ro. Don't forget to disable grml-rebuildfstab in /etc/grml/autoconfig!

  12. DWM

    1. http://github.com/chneukirchen/dwm-chris2/tree/master