DISQUS

Scott Wegner · 1 year ago

What about the ubuntu-eee project? I'm not sure if they have an 8.10-based version out yet, but I know this distro seeks to iron-out some of the incompatibilities with the eee pc.

Derek Buranen · 1 year ago

What's with the lack of swap? How do you hibernate? Hibernating is clutch on these to improve boot time.

I used a swap on my 701 to hibernate. I've heard that the wear on your hard drive still gives you plenty of years with the thing.

Matsu · 1 year ago

Also, as a final step you might want to install eee-control, which is a pretty nifty tool allowing you to map those special keys on the Eee PC, and en-/disable bluetooth and the webcam right from your system tray:

http://greg.geekmind.org/eee-control/

charles · 1 year ago

The package linux-backports-modules-intrepid contains the necessary modules for the Eee's wireless. The array.org kernels are not needed.

Spike Burch · 1 year ago

Try ubuntu-eee :)

zulu11 · 1 year ago

Install full Ubuntu 8.04 or 8.10 then run these commands:

wget http://eee.ricey.co.uk/files/eee/RiceeeyTweak.sh

sh RiceeeyTweak.sh

That will reset windows sizes, fonts, etc to be suitable for eee.

zulu11 · 1 year ago

Currently running Mandriva 2008 Spring Powerpack on my eee, everything seems to work, haven't tried wireless or the webcam yet. Still having some issues getting 3G mobile broadband to play nicely.

Bill Goldberg · 1 year ago

Or you can use one of the special Ubuntu based eeepc distro's like ubuntu-eee or eeebuntu, thus avoiding to have to install the custom kernel.

I used eeebuntu and everything, including the webcam and wireless worked OOTB.

For people using an external hdd for this, don't forget to use the first partition on the external hdd, set a boot flag to it using gparted and format the first partition as fat32.

Unetbootin will do the rest.

Carmelo · 1 year ago

Thanks :)

I have just done that and everything goes ok :)

Can I translate your tuto into french for my blog ?

Thanks.

Carmelo

Stronghold · 1 year ago

Great tutorial! But you need to make a hint on how to install the 915resolution or else the eeepc will not work correctly..

MilchFlasche · 1 year ago

Actually Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1 has included the Array.org kernel.

Anonymous · 1 year ago

i recently purchased an eee 900, and was seriously disappointed with the xandros OS, if i had wanted my computer dumbed down to the capabilities of a big ass cell phone it would have been great. i installed ubuntu 8.10 and it runs great. took a little elbow grease to get things like wifi working and there was also a shut down issue, the computer would shut down but not power off completely. but i was ablwe to easily google a solution. i would recommend that anyone upgrade to full ubuntu on their eee. i am not very technically savy, if i could do it, anyone can.

Alec

cj · 1 year ago

If the linux-backports-modules-intrepid has wireless drivers, as mentioned above, they didn't seem to be enabled by default or available in any newbie-obvious location.

fat_tuesday · 1 year ago

Great tutorial - thanks!

Anonymous · 1 year ago

what about the microphone?

on the ubuntu - eee dist based off of ubuntu 8.04 the microphone doesnt work

does it work now in 8.10?

Anonymous · 12 months ago

> what about the microphone?

Works on my PC901 with the array.org kernel.

Anonymous · 11 months ago

Tom. Your Tutorials Rule. Thanks for getting my EEE Pc Working!

Chris · 11 months ago

Great guide thank you. I have an eee 900a and have only run into one real problem I can't seem to figure out. Some windows are too tall to fit on screen and I can't seem to figure out how to move them or pan down so I can the entire window. This is mostly a problem for non resizable settings dialogs.

Can anyone point me to a workaround for this? Thanks.

yanko · 11 months ago

thank you very much for this precious help for a beginner like me. my eee 901 works finally:))
But what to do with the others kernels I see on booting on the grub? can I deleted them? and how??
(I have XP and Ubuntu instaled on this PC)

Anonymous · 10 months ago

My head hurts.
You want to recommend formatting with ext2, no?