Re: [Hampshire] Restore native Xandros to Eee PC 901

2009-03-27 Thread Bond, Peter
Re 901 keyboard - Hmm. Turns out it wasn't a sw issue at all, so my astonishment at it needing an OS reinstall was justified. How can anyone return a supposedly repaired system without doing even the most trivial of tests??? Ho hum. Peter

Re: [Hampshire] Restore native Xandros to Eee PC 901

2009-03-27 Thread Owain Clarke
I must admit my Eee 701 has been so much more enjoyable since I eventually managed to get Ubuntu running on it. Apart from anything else, the original setup is incredibly wasteful of space, e.g. Adobe Reader rather than Evince, and the lack of uptodate software is frustrating. No wonder the

Re: [Hampshire] Restore native Xandros to Eee PC 901

2009-03-26 Thread Steve Wesemeyer
Hiya, I just sent mine back - alternate numeric keys had just stopped working, which prevented me logging in. Collected Monday, returned today... And the fix was reinstall OS. I've yet to check that it is all OK, but I'm a bit flabbergasted that Xandros + the updates they've issued could