Hi all,
crave away Paul...
I have had an eee pc 1000 for about 3 mo., It replaced my heavily used
MV12W P3 1.13 Ghz Sharp Laptop that finally bit it when it developed a
mysterious logic board issue.
I dumped xandros the first day and installed "ubuntu eee" now "easy
peasy". The kernel is quick to boot and has all necessary drivers for
the net-top. I'm currently running 2.6.24-21-eeepc and Ubuntu 8.04.1.
It boots in about half the time of my core 2 Duo Desktop FWIW.
Everything is working quite well right now. I can work most of a day,
5hrs. without charging, and the whole day 8 hrs. using aggressive power
management and plugging in during lunch. The power supply is 12v @ 3A so
a vehicle setup might be safe (over/under voltage etc.). The webcam is
supported and has an LED that denotes power is on. I took some images
with it, but I don't do videoconferencing... yet. VGA out is a bit
tricky as you need to use or script xrandr if the monitor is not
connected at startup (the Fn F8 key combo doesn't work. this might have
been fixed recently..). (Ditto for the screen darkening feature on F7)
The on keyboard brightness and audio controls work fine, even Fn F9
brings up the system monitor. BT, WiFI and Ethernet are quite happy.
There are four buttons on the upper left "silver bar". From left to
right they correspondingly turn on/off the screen, toggle bluetooth,
toggle processor speed, and toggle the automatic fan control. The root
filesystem is on the internal 8GB SSD, and I did go without a swap
partition. I watch memory usage closely, and tend not to have a ton of
apps open. no problems yet. The 32GB SD is mounted as /home partition,
and means I can pop out all my info quickly and easily when the machine
is off...
I have used the unit for normal stuff, Gimp, 2d CAD (Qcad) and 3d CAD
(Medusa4, need to use a larger monitor) and have tried Armagetron
Advanced http://www.armagetronad.net/ to tax the video subsystem and
processor. The game is quite crisp and responsive. CAD was fine. Much
better than my old i810/1.13Ghz P3. I tried watching hulu and that
worked fine too. I was really hoping to get a Via Nano based netbook
instead of the atom, but the ol P3 bit it too soon.
Other Considerations: Most of the weight is toward the back of the
laptop and sometimes it wants to tip backward, particularly when you are
sitting with the machine on your lap and the screen is opened really
far..go figure. the left handrest gets slightly warm, and the keyboard
is great except for the right shift key which was moved outboard and
made smaller. The 10 inch widescreen is great through 180 degrees. The
trackpad buttons are a bit stiff for my liking.
The eee will work with a wacom, but you need to do extra work in 8.04.
my wacom bamboo works fine with it.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=765915
I am using the normal Gnome Desktop as I didn't like the nettop launcher
that shipped with ubuntu eee. I am sure It could be further streamlined,
but haven't gone the extra distance.
Dollar-wise, considering it is half the cost of a nice laptop, this is
by far the most adaptable and useful laptop computer I have owned to
date. *Andy fondly remembers the Duo 280c Powerbook that STILL works fine*
Andrew Crawford
Paul Flint wrote:
Greetings List Lurkers,
One of the local geeks got an eee pc 1000. We are trying to make it do
some good things, boot off the usb, load Ubuntu, work with a wacom
tablet, and etc. Simple things really...
While I have learned a bit about the Xandros distro, I crave someone to
talk to about this thing. Anybody got one of these beasties out there?
Thanks in advance and...
Kindest Regards,
Paul Flint
(802) 479-2360
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