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## page was renamed from DebianEeePC/Models/900A

Asus EeePC 900A

The 900A is a kind of crossing between a 900 and a 901. It's Atom-based but shares a lot of devices with the 900.

Please be aware that this is the result of a single install, it has not been verified by anybody.

GRUB-Problem

Installing from an USB-memory-stick with the eeePC-installer and ethernet, went except for the grub-install which installed to the wrong disk (the USB-stick) leaving an unbootable system and an corrupt installer-image. The problem was that the USB-stick became sda and the internal SSD sdb when booting the installer-image and the installer installed GRUB to the first harddisk.

So when the installer is asking if it should install GRUB to the first harddisk take a look at your devices: Change to console two [Alt-F2] and determine what is mounted on /target (df -a). If it is /dev/sda1 you will be O.K. if it is /dev/sdb1 you have some work to do:

Say: “No”. and enter “/dev/sdb”

After the reboot at the end of the installation you have to edit the GRUB-entries to get the system up again: Edit the grub entry [e]

 root (hd0,0)
 kernel … root=/dev/sda1

and boot [b].

Then login as root and edit /grub/menu.lst

 # groot=(hd0,0)
 # kopt=root=/dev/sda1 ro

and run update-grub.

Audio

see ["DebianEeePC/Model/900"] “Volume keys”. I haven't checked the microphone yet.

Powersave

The kernel-module acpi_cpufreq is not loaded automatically on boot, so add it to /etc/modules to allow for frequency-scaling.