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I went with SSD over the HD after hear complaints by 1000hd owners about fan/hd noise. I wanted a quiet machine, a light weight machine and on I could easily touch type on. Tried a friends 901 and found the keyboard cramped. Plus the 40g of SSD sold me on th 1000.
I went with the conventional HDD (eee 900ha) but kind of wish I'd gone with the SSD. While the HDD is a lot faster, it is also kind of hot and noisy. Thinking about possibly replacing the HDD with a SATA SDD once the prices come down....
The eee specific kernel and tools... are those opensource or are they closed source?
Just wondering what will happen when Asus stops supporting the eee.
Well, the kernel from array.org is open, it includes a few questionable patches (like madwifi) and while 100% open source it does include outside code (like microcode for the wireless drivers). When Asus stops supporting the EeePC the drivers will still be around, after all the EeePC is simple stock hardware with a few ACPI keys and a semi-supported wireless chipset 
The main drivers required for the EeePC are slowly getting into the stock kernel. the asus-laptop module supports all of the EeePC's oddities, and the ath5k driver is simple, but provides working support for the 701 series. Not sure about the 901 and 1000, but I think they have better driver support anyway.
I really do wonder whats happening with Ubuntu and the EeePCs, It seems they're not really arsed about core support for the EeePC. Debian have got a strong drive to get all the drivers included in the core kernel package. Before #! I used a pure debian install with only a couple of minor packages (eeepc-scripts) to get everything working, but it seems for #!/Ubuntu I need to jump through some hoops. I know this isn't a issue of #! but still a point to look on.
Also, where is the best place to purchase a Eee 1000? Amazon?
Bit late, but heres a site that helped me getting my 701 when they were launched, setup by one of the guys at eeeuser.com
CrunchEee doesn't like me... 
For some reason, my partitions aren't showing up during installation, so I can't do anything. The regular Ubuntu livecd displays and lets me edit my partitions.
I'm really excited to use CrunchEee. I'm typing this from the livecd right now, and everything seems to be working great. Just not the partition manager...
(I want to install to /dev/sda8)
I have a 1000HA, by the way.
Scratch that, I rebooted, went straight to the installer before doing anything else, and it worked successfully. *installing right now*
I suspect the cause for the problem was using the file manager, which caused my other partitions to be mounted, and once mounted, I guess the installer partition manager just didn't want to see them.
Scratch that, I rebooted, went straight to the installer before doing anything else, and it worked successfully. *installing right now*
I suspect the cause for the problem was using the file manager, which caused my other partitions to be mounted, and once mounted, I guess the installer partition manager just didn't want to see them.
Good stuff, I am glad to read that you managed to get it sorted.
BTW, welcome to the forums!
Please,
Can anyone help me get the power manager working? Pressing the power button on my 701 immediately shuts down the machine even though the policy in the power preferences is set to "Ask". I haven't had this issue in any other 'buntu, but this is my first experience with OpenBox.
Thank you,
Allen
Please,
Can anyone help me get the power manager working? Pressing the power button on my 701 immediately shuts down the machine even though the policy in the power preferences is set to "Ask". I haven't had this issue in any other 'buntu, but this is my first experience with OpenBox.Thank you,
Allen
Check out http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … -to-crash/. No resolution yet.
Cruncheee now has its own sub-forum on the popular eeeuser.com site, check it out!
Check out http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … -to-crash/. No resolution yet.
Thank you! I'll try not to hit the power button to shut down for the time being, but muscle memory dies hard…
Allen
Cruncheee now has its own sub-forum on the popular eeeuser.com site, check it out!
Very cool!
just installed it as my primary OS on my eee. was looking to swap it to linux only and after playing with cruncheee live for a bit and loved it. so i've made it my only OS on my eee and everything is working perfectly .
just installed it as my primary OS on my eee. was looking to swap it to linux only and after playing with cruncheee live for a bit and loved it. so i've made it my only OS on my eee and everything is working perfectly
I'm glad everything is going so well for you with crunchbang on your eee. Welcome to the forums
Hi! How is the acpikeys and powersaving stuff working in this distro? And OSD? I tried crunchbang with my eee 1000h some time ago and i couldn't get all acpi keys or osd working. (with elmurato script).
Anyways, great job with the distro
Just for fun, I tried this on my Aspire One. One nice thing is that the ath5k module is included, meaning wireless works out of the box. (Ubuntu's made the, IMHO VERY wrong decision to exclude it for the moment, although it's installable with the backports for Intrepid).
Great job, even if it's for a different netbook. Now, we need one for the MSI Wind with the 802 N card.
Actually, even in its normal and Lite forms, I've found Crunchbang to just be better on this netbook than a few other lightweight distributions.
One nice thing is that the ath5k module is included, meaning wireless works out of the box. (Ubuntu's made the, IMHO VERY wrong decision to exclude it for the moment, although it's installable with the backports for Intrepid).
Ath5k has some issues, like it can't do some of the auto rate configuration, which means it can be quite slow in some situations. Madwifi is still the leader in terms of speed and features, but ath5k should catchup soon enough
One thing you may want to replace in this version, remove eeepc-config and replace it with eee-control.
eee-control is a total hardware management package for the eeepc, including a nice little tray icon and gui stuff for enabling/disabling bits of hardware. Also it uses a background daemon instead of the icky acpi scripts. It's already in the array.org repo and i've just put it on my 701. Very swish
Ok. Does all keys work with this? And when can we see a final version of cruncheee ?
@nik_doof, I know that some people have issues with ath5k. (I haven't been one of them, however.) I wasn't sure this version of #!Crunchbang would include it because the newer EEE's no longer use the AR5007EG.
@nik_doof, I know that some people have issues with ath5k. (I haven't been one of them, however.) I wasn't sure this version of #!Crunchbang would include it because the newer EEE's no longer use the AR5007EG.
#! uses the array.org kernel, which includes the ath5k driver by default.
Is there a bittorrent of crunchee I can help seed?
nipeng wrote:The eee specific kernel and tools... are those opensource or are they closed source?
Just wondering what will happen when Asus stops supporting the eee.Well, the kernel from array.org is open, it includes a few questionable patches (like madwifi) and while 100% open source it does include outside code (like microcode for the wireless drivers). When Asus stops supporting the EeePC the drivers will still be around, after all the EeePC is simple stock hardware with a few ACPI keys and a semi-supported wireless chipset
The main drivers required for the EeePC are slowly getting into the stock kernel. the asus-laptop module supports all of the EeePC's oddities, and the ath5k driver is simple, but provides working support for the 701 series. Not sure about the 901 and 1000, but I think they have better driver support anyway.
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Thanks for your answer Nik. 
*Currently checking out all the different eee models.*
hotkeys mute and volume dont work, also i installed with swedish, but system was still in english after reboot, i installed and changed to swedish with all commands, now some parts are in swedish and some parts in english. 
zenlc wrote:That did it.
Unfortunately, it didn't do it completely:
zen@Eve:~$ eee-control-tray & [1] 5518 zen@Eve:~$ Can't access shared memory area. SHMConfig disabled?Any more ideas?
I get the same error when trying to install eee-control on a cruncheee 901. It worked when I installed eee-control on the full version of crunchbang (on a 901 aswell).
Have u been able to sort this out?
zenlc wrote:zen@Eve:~$ eee-control-tray & [1] 5518 zen@Eve:~$ Can't access shared memory area. SHMConfig disabled?Any more ideas?
I get the same error when trying to install eee-control on a cruncheee 901. It worked when I installed eee-control on the full version of crunchbang (on a 901 aswell).
Have u been able to sort this out?
No, but it will still start manually so I'm not sure how detrimental the error is.
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