Am using Jaunty NBR myself, after the reports came in that it worked rather well... and it does

I updated the version of the eee Ubuntu in order to get Skype to install. Having some grief with the microphone side of things, it is a 900A.

Same problem also happens when not using Skype, using the simple sound recorder thing.

If someone has it working properly, please drop me a line :-)

I updated the version of the eee Ubuntu in order to get Skype to install. Having some grief with the microphone side of things, it is a 900A.

Same problem also happens when not using Skype, using the simple sound recorder thing.

If someone has it working properly, please drop me a line :-)

Can this help (haven't tried myself)?

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EeePC/Fixes#Microphone

Found that one here, some other tips/tweaks mentioned:

http://forum.eeebuntu.org/viewtopic.php?p=617#p617

All EEE PCs support SDHC, I have an 8GB one in my now outdated 701 with no problems. The 900 is just a 700 with a bigger screen.

Usually a garbled screen is a hardware fault with the cable between the screen and motherboard working loose or breaking internally.

I think you are right! I'm now waiting for the courier to collect it to take it back for repair!

I understand it'll take at least 2 weeks, so I'm wondering if my son will gain this on it's return & if i should just go & get another one! Which version would be a good bet now? And where is the best place to buy from?

From what I've seen, the eee 1000HE seems competitive. 10" screen,160GB hard disk, wireless and bluetooth. Comes with WinXP. Long battery life.

Offers from just above £300, see Buy Asus Eee PC 1000 HE | Compare Prices Laptops

(but there might be better offers of course).

Just got my 900 back from being fixed! New motherboard & video cable, yeah!

Garbled grey screen on boot up still there

So new RMA and back it goes! Guess it will nearly be a new machine by the time they have done!!!

I’m interested in one of these and just want to check that what I want to do with sounds well within its capabilities.

It’s a 900A 1Gb/8Gb that I want to use for portable in-car/flight entertainment. Initially I’ll keep the oem Xandros install (I’ve never even seen Linux before and don’t want to mess it up before my hols) and running music/video from USB stick/SD card. Will .avi/mp4 be ok to run? I’ve read that the std Xandros install is limited to 1Gb of RAM so I won’t be adding to that in a hurry and I don’t want to replace the battery so I’m hoping the 900A can run video off a card/stick for 2+ hours on the standard battery.

Speaking to the chap, Ubuntu looks like the way forward for me (more windows like). I’d love to make it XP but wouldn’t know where to start and don’t have a licence :( Also something about the white 900A being harder to do a RAM upgrade than the black ones :confused: But none of that will be till after my hols.

Both .api and .mp4 should run with the original install and the pre-installed player.

That it should be harder to do a RAM upgrade on a white than on a black sounds like an urban myth, but you'll never know...

The standard xandros setup is a bit odd for a win user at first sight, but it works - and it boots fast!

I've learnt a lot on EeeUser.com ? The Eee PC Community so can recommend that forum.

For eee users running Linux:

I'm currently testing a new distro, the slackware-based fulxflux-sl. So far everything has worked excellent, and that includes setting up a connection to a encrypted wifi network (WPA/PEAP), it took less than 30 seconds :eek:

Comes with FF3.5, OO3.1, GIMP2.6, and applications for photo/video/music, thunderbird, pidgin and whatever one can need.

See www.lin2go.com

I've made a full linuxinstall on a bootable SDcard but one can also make a live install on USB or SD - and it is possible to save personal settings in the liveinstall too.

Eeebuntu 3 here, works flawlessly on my 901.

Time to revive this thread methinks...

Still very pleased with my 900, enough to worry a bit about what to do when/if it gives up. Lots of netbooks out there but they get bigger and bigger (10" screens, 11" screens). So today I got myself another (second hand) 900, sparsely used, and with an external DVD r/w unit thrown in, to store until needed

What about you other eee owners - still happy bunnies?

I've got a 900 Celeron model, bought it in May 2008.

Upgraded to 2GB RAM, 64GB internal SSHD, external DVD writer (which I've used twice!), Bluetooth dongle, heavily patched Windows XP with full MS Office on it. Additional high capacity battery. WiFI dongle shared between this and my work laptop.

Still love the thing, boot time beats my HP Pavillion desktop hands down (and thats a Quad Core with 3GB RAM). Still take it away when I travel rather than my work laptop as its so much more convenient and with bigger HD enough capacity to carry what I need.

Fitting the SSHD was a pain as there were some teething issues with them working with Celeron based models (as opposed to the Atom based ones) but now that its working its great.

Time to revive this thread methinks...

Still very pleased with my 900, enough to worry a bit about what to do when/if it gives up. Lots of netbooks out there but they get bigger and bigger (10" screens, 11" screens). So today I got myself another (second hand) 900, sparsely used, and with an external DVD r/w unit thrown in, to store until needed

What about you other eee owners - still happy bunnies?

I'm guessing you were on ebay then... I'm sure I has something similar on my watched items...

Ok guys,

Having toyed with the idea for a while I have just purchased the following:

ASUS Eee PC 901, Intel Atom N270 1.6GHz, 16GB SSD, Windows XP Home, 512 KB - L2 Cache, 1 GB DDR2 SDRAM

It is apparently a refurbished 14 day return but we shall see when it arrives...

Anyhow - the main use is likely to be web-browsing at home via wifi, photo viewing and editing, and possibly the occasional word processing / spreadsheet task .

So are there any 'Must Have' modifications I should do and any suggestions as to software to use. My work laptop and home machine are both Microsoft XP / Office based, as is most of the other software I currently use so I was thinking of something simple like Nikon View for the photos and Microsoft Works?

Cheer

Ok guys,

Having toyed with the idea for a while I have just purchased the following:

ASUS Eee PC 901, Intel Atom N270 1.6GHz, 16GB SSD, Windows XP Home, 512 KB - L2 Cache, 1 GB DDR2 SDRAM

It is apparently a refurbished 14 day return but we shall see when it arrives...

Anyhow - the main use is likely to be web-browsing at home via wifi, photo viewing and editing, and possibly the occasional word processing / spreadsheet task .

So are there any 'Must Have' modifications I should do and any suggestions as to software to use. My work laptop and home machine are both Microsoft XP / Office based, as is most of the other software I currently use so I was thinking of something simple like Nikon View for the photos and Microsoft Works?

Cheer

Ditch XP, install Linux

Seriously, I can see the point in keeping Win if you use it on other computers.

Abiword is a lightweight freeware word processor that works fine when sharing documents with MSOffice if the layout isn't too complicated (if only you remember to save them in .doc format, not Abiword's native .abw)

OpenOffice is also a good freeware alternative giving you documents, spreadsheets, PP presentations - the full Monty. And almost 100 % compatible with MSOffice. More disk space consuming, though (300-400 MB)

Gimp is a competent freeware image editor, but for lighter editing you can of course use one of those programs that comes with a camera, e.g. Nikon View

Due to the limited disk space and RAM capacity you may consider the possibility to install a 'slimmed' XP version using nlite Haven't ever tried it myself, so can't offer advice unfortunately.

Edited 10 March, 201016 yr by swedishskoda

Thanks again Swedish!

It arrived yesterday and appears to have been a demo model somewhere but came in it's OE packaging with all of the bits in thier plastic wrapping.

I had a play last night with it - It connected straight off to my wifi so I dropped Microsoft Security Essentials on it as a starting point based on a recommendation from a work colleague and then updated XP (65 updates!), Skype and Java etc.

It already has Microsoft Works on it along with StarOffice and a few other bits and pieces so they may already suffice. The only down side is they have swallowed 6Gb of memory leaving me with 10Gb :'( . Imay need to see what I can do to free up some moe space but at present I think what I may do is invest in a large SD card for general files and leave the SSD for program files.

So far the only downsides are no Recovery/Restore DVD (will need to source from somewhere) and a slight crack in the lower rear left hand corner of the case that will need a dismantle to glue it. I didn;t know about the latter prior to purchase so am a bit P***ed off about it but it's nothing substantial really - just annoying.

Overall very pleased though - a cracking little toy!

Unless you're going to store a lot of movie/music/image files (and IMHO a 9" screen pc is not the best alternative for that kind of stuff ) 10 GB takes you a long way so I shouldn't worry about that. Just checked the size of my personal file folders here at the office (and there's a lot of useless stuff stored there) - came to 3.5 GB.

And as you say, it's easy to get more storage space with a SD card.

Currently testing Linux Mint 9 and happy with it so far... wifi, Fn keys and so on work OOTB for once Not that my slackware distro has caused troubles, but Mint has received good press and I thought it might be interesting to try. And I must say I'm impressed with the supply of ready-made packages in the debian repositories. So far I've found everything I want except for one very odd application

One loses a bit of that Linux feeling, though, not being forced to struggle with compiling packages on one's own and solve all unmet dependencies troubles that arise :p

Still happy bunnies, the rest of you eee users?

Edited 21 May, 201016 yr by swedishskoda

Still happy bunnies, the rest of you eee users?

Yep - still going great guns and it gets more use at home than either my desktop machine or my work laptop!

My only regret is not taking it on holiday with me when I got trapped abroad due to Icelandic ash... would have been useful for checking on flights etc. and to work and access emails from the hotel using thier wifi... Not realy an eee issue though