Delivered yesterday, put Debian on it immediately. It's got the same stuff inside as the 1002HA: atl1e wired, AR928X wireless, Elantech touchpad. I got something around 6-7 hours of life out of it with varying firefox+wifi usage, full-screen h.264 playing, and compiling. Power usage reports as between 10 and 16Wh.
Installed via usb stick using the vanilla installer. I've got everything working with the exception of one frustrating issue: When I first installed, the touchpad was a complete mess. Holding my finger still on it would make it jump sporadically around a ~10 pixel radius, with some clicks put in for good measure. Eventually movement would become very hard, with almost everything was interpreted as clicks. Updating kernel to recognize it as an Elantech slightly solved that. Now I have no random clicking, but I still have sporadic movement if ethernet is plugged in. Unplug ethernet and cursor stays still. Doesn't happen with wifi. It baffles me, if anyone has ideas I'd appreciate them. Please, put 2.6.28 (for ath9k) kernel packages with elantech support, and alsa packages, into the debian-eee repo. User documentation should not have "the only way around this is for you to compile a custom kernel..." anywhere in it -- I'm very happy with my Eee now that it's mostly usable, but honestly if I wasn't a long-time debian user comfortable with all this, I would have given up and tried something else. -- Cory Nelson _______________________________________________ Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel
