2008/11/12 Safe Hammad safe.hammad@sandacre.com
Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 21:53 +0000, Barry Chater wrote:
Hi Has anyone put Ubuntu 8.04 on a Eeepc 900. If so any major problems. Barry
You'd probably want to be aiming for 8.10 now and there is probably an eee specific page on the ubuntu wiki (I know there is for my Asipre one netbook)
As a recent proud owner of an eeepc 901, and after not too much searching and fiddling to get standard Ubuntu on it, the following combination has worked a treat for me:
- Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10 (standard desktop edition)
- Kernel from http://array.org/ubuntu/ (to get wifi, screen etc.
working easily) 3. Intrepid ACPI Scripts from http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~elmurato/EeePC/ (to get the function keys and extra buttons working)
An alternative worth considering is the script from http://eee.ricey.co.uk/ which uses the standard Intrepid kernel and patches some userspace stuff up. There is also an installation guide there.
Intrepid has drivers for the Wifi (which 8.04 didn't) but they are a seperate package called (something like) linux-backports-modules-2.6.27-7-generic_2.6.27-7.4_i386.deb which is on the CD and in the repository.