On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 05:31:37PM -0600, Stewart Midwinter wrote: > Just for a lark I tried this distro on my original Eee PC. I used dd to > push the image over to a 1 GB USB key, and booted off it. > When the desktop came up I noticed a few things... > - the fonts were VERY large. I was unable to figure out how to reduce the > size of the default font
thanks to Bryce for some detailed suggestions on adjusting the font size by looking at monitor quirks (lots of detailed info on that wiki page, Bryce!). I didn't get anywhere with the info, though. My dpi is 96, which is normal. Further information - I was using an Intrepid image. I've since downloaded and booted the 20081002 Intrepid image and now the touchpad works! So that's a step forward. But I'm still unable to adjust default font size. I tried editing xorg.conf and adding some information about the fonts path but didn't get anywhere. [part of my problem is that I don't have wired internet at home and the Eee PC's WLAN card is not recognized so all my research has to go through my phone, which is painful and slow]. I'm thinking that the Eee PC is a little off-target for this distro and I'm going to revert to running the version of Ubuntu formerly known as Ubuntu Remix and now known as Ubuntu Eee. See http://ubuntu-eee.com/. It's doing everything I need it to do, right out of the box, and all the Eee PC hardware is working with it. It also looks nice and can be easily customized through Synaptic. Only downside is the >1 min. boot-up time compared to 15 seconds for the native Xandros Linux. thanks Stewart
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