Arch Linux on HP Mini Note 210-1014

Diperbarui 2 April 2010 oleh Dani Iswara

I am using Arch Linux 2009.08 install CD on cheapest netbook/notebook HP Mini Note 210-1014 with no pre-installed operating system. This netbook specification has

Intel Atom N450-1.66GHz, RAM 1GB, Harddisk 160GB
10 inchs screen with 1024x600px, web camera, card reader, ethernet, WiFi, 3 USB ports, 1 external vga ports.

You should follow our best ArchWiki, Official Arch Linux Install Guide.

Almost all items works fine. In this part, I choose GNOME as desktop environment.

GRUB

Later, I installed grub-gfx to have Arch Linux image as background on booting option menu. This is my /boot/grub/menu.lst file with framebuffer vga=789, using 800x600px on 16M colors:

...
# general configuration:
timeout   3
default   0
color light-blue/black light-cyan/blue
splashimage /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

...

# (0) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux
root   (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda3 ro vga=789
initrd /boot/kernel26.img

# (1) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux Fallback
root   (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda3 ro vga=789
initrd /boot/kernel26-fallback.img

Hardware

$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Pineview DMI Bridge
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Pineview Integrated Graphics Controller
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Pineview Integrated Graphics Controller
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Tigerpoint LPC Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801GR/GH (ICH7 Family) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)
02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)

Video

$xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 600, maximum 4096 x 4096
VGA1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
LVDS1 connected 1024x600+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 222mm x 125mm
   1024x600       60.0*+
   800x600        60.3  
   640x480        59.9  

1024×600 pixels resolution works fine. But some bottom parts of pop-up window menus will be slightly hidden. There are usually Cancel, Close, and OK button in GNOME.