03 November, 2008
EeePC 901 with Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex
I have finally bought an EeePC 901, mainly to use for travelling.
I had been holding off for some weeks because I had hoped (in vain) that the Linux version with 20GB SSD and without a Windows XP license would become available here in Australia.
Anyway, I decided to try putting brand new Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex on it and I must say it worked really well. Here is what I did:
I am typing this on the little keyboard of the 901 and it is actually quite usable even though I would not want to type pages and pages on it. (Somehow the Blogger editor behaves a bit funny, but I guess this has nothing to do with the hardware but if anything with Firefox 3.)
So far, I think this is an excellent little machine - it even plays Big Buck Bunny in 720p without any problems. ;-)
I had been holding off for some weeks because I had hoped (in vain) that the Linux version with 20GB SSD and without a Windows XP license would become available here in Australia.
Anyway, I decided to try putting brand new Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex on it and I must say it worked really well. Here is what I did:
- Downloaded the standard Intrepid i386 Desktop CD and put it on a USB memory stick using UNetbootin.
- Installed with the following disk layout: / on 4GB SSD, 1GB swap and 7GB /home on 8GB SSD. (I setup a 1GB swap partition for hibernation and also used ext3 even though some sources say that the flash memory may die during the lifetime of the box.)
- One issue I noticed was that my static IP configuration did get lost between reboots. Eventually I created a new connection from scratch and that worked fine.
- After installation, I added the Ubuntu EeePC kernel and assorted tools which resolved the WLAN problem (even though I have not actually connected to any access points yet) and got all of the Hot Keys to work.
- I thought the screen was a bit dark, so I looked around and found that using the following command makes it much brighter: setpci -s 00:02.1 f4.b=ff. (This may fry the screen apparently, so use at own risk.)
- Also, the sound volume was very low. Appending the following to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base fixed this: options snd-hda-intel model=auto
I am typing this on the little keyboard of the 901 and it is actually quite usable even though I would not want to type pages and pages on it. (Somehow the Blogger editor behaves a bit funny, but I guess this has nothing to do with the hardware but if anything with Firefox 3.)
So far, I think this is an excellent little machine - it even plays Big Buck Bunny in 720p without any problems. ;-)
# posted by Andree Leidenfrost @ 11:02 pm 
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Hi synergism (Ben) - good to see you around. :-)
Mea culpa.
I wanted something quick that gives me all the bells and whistles and this seems to currently be rather Ubuntu than Debian.
I do intend to try Debian as well. (Not much to back up on the 901 - it only has 12GB of mass storage.)
Mea culpa.
I wanted something quick that gives me all the bells and whistles and this seems to currently be rather Ubuntu than Debian.
I do intend to try Debian as well. (Not much to back up on the 901 - it only has 12GB of mass storage.)
Ever since trying this all sound output is broken by silent periods, sometimes resulting in the video player I am using (it affects all of them) crashing.
Sometimes I get the error message that the audio device is already in use, or something like that.
I tried reversing the changes made to the conf file, but the problem persists.
PLEASE help!?
Sometimes I get the error message that the audio device is already in use, or something like that.
I tried reversing the changes made to the conf file, but the problem persists.
PLEASE help!?
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