eee pc .. w00t! OMFG!

[Tony Scharf]

I havnt had such issues with Ubuntu either, though I have had the odd
graphics card give me headaches.

Like anything, I guess its best to check compatibility before getting started.

Tony

On Jan 28, 2008 9:07 AM, ibi sum <ibisum at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've never had such a dilemna, personally, with Ubuntu .. okay, maybe the
> odd driver issue, but it seems to me like you've got a tweak-fest going on
> there Dong ..
>
> ;
>
>
>
> On Jan 28, 2008 4:02 PM, The Dong <dong at f2s.com> wrote:
> >
> > Jay Vaughan wrote:
> > > and actually i will put ubuntu on it instead, coz while it is very
> > > nice to have OSX on the eee pc, i prefer linux.  :)  but what a great
> > > thing to see ..
> >
> > God. Ubuntu can suck.
> > I put it on this computer yesterday from the live CD.
> > First off, it didn't even get past the startup screen, so I had to
> > search (in XP) for a solution to that involving tagging on
> > all_generic_ide to the boot up line..
> > Then when it did get in, the network was fuxxored.
> > No matter what I did, the wireless seemed to always snatch the manually
> > entered DNS and put in the wrong one, then mozilla firefox wouldn't
> > connect at all (more edits) Nothing made it work. So I rebooted.
> > Then the network worked as if by magic so I tried to enable the fancy
> > graphical extras for the great UI experience.
> > At this point it failed again, saying my GFX card needed special drivers
> > and my approval.
> > It also started to nag me about updates so I let it storm off and DL
> > 238Mb of updates, installed them all, then POOF, my vesa GFX card
> > settings are now knackered and it's back to 640x480 at 60Hz.
> > After hours of trying to fix the GFX, installing the right drivers,
> > following to the letter all the articles I could find, I finally almost
> > give up after reading another user experience with the Radeon HD2600XT.
> > It just doesn't work, but it might with this other tool.
> > So, I download this other tool and try and install it and it fails.
> > So NOW, I give up, pop in the windows XP boot disk, remove GRUB, wipe
> > out the linux partitions and get back to a set up where wired and
> > wireless works and so does everything else ;)
> >
> > At least the Backtrack Linux Live Distro does work without any problems
> > at all...
> >
> >
> >
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