Friday, October 3, 2008

Further test of Fedora 9 on ASUS Eee PC 1000H.

Just tested compiz. It works without any extra configuration. Box rotates without lag.

Test built-in webcam. The webcam is detected automatically as /dev/video0 and it is tested usable on Skype for Linux.

P.S. Loved the touchpad bottons: they are aluminium and integrated as pad chrome. The materal made me feel durable. I remebered how bad was the C notebooks mouse click which worn out shortly. Surprisingly two fingers on touchpad will be recognized as scroll up/down which is very convenience. And it is smarter because scroll will not be triggered if more than two fingers.

Installed mplayer and some codecs. played divx and rmvb nicely.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thank you for posting!!! I am following your Fedora experience....I am thinking of installing it on my 1000H (once it arrives) I'm not sure if I'll keep it. I'm so used to Slax!

かいお (Kaio) said...

Thank you for reading, too.

I guess most distros have similar installation procedures.

i.e. get networking usable by downloading wireless kernel modules and corresponding kernel packages -> get an update from internet repo -> setup sound -> optimize display settings -> setup your own tools and customize desktop. :)

The main issues of 1000H are the WLAN card is not detected by Fedora and internal mic is not working at F9 (It works on F10 and rawhide dev ver instead.).

1000H's portability, price, design, and keyboard size is all just nice to me.

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