Comments on: Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) on the Eee PC 701

By: Marshall

Marshall — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 22:16:53 +0000

Dave @3-20-09: this is *exactly* what I was trying to find, lucky for me the frantic googling brought me here. Even being new to Ubuntu I was trying to do as many of my own tweaks as possible without installing any unnecessary .debs, and I’m glad to find that fixing the volume could be done in such a clean and straight-forward manner. Thanks muchly!

By: dave

dave — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 06:32:07 +0000

Here’s how I got the volume function keys (volume hotkeys) working on my Asus Eee PC 1000HE with stock Ubuntu 8.10 installation (no special kernel or drivers installed).

1. sudo gedit /etc/acpi/if-asus-eee.sh
(this file did not exist on my system by default.. I guess Ubuntu 8.10 no longer includes it)

2. I added these lines to the file:
#!/bin/sh
/etc/acpi/$1

3. sudo chmod 755 /etc/acpi/if-asus-eee.sh

…and now my volume function keys work, F10-F12

The if-asus-eee.sh is called by a couple scripts under /etc/acpi/events, so looks like it needs to be there on an Eee PC.

By: oliwek

oliwek — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 14:26:09 +0000

sorry for the (mis)spelling, but you know how fabulouus the keyboard on the 701 is…

;-)

By: oliwek

oliwek — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 14:24:25 +0000

hello,
I’ve just read you sou said side scrolling was an annoyance with your eee-pc 701 (I’m typing this on the same model)…
the best thing to try is another web browser : try opera 9.6 (then in options/vew, select the one adjusting width to the screen resolution)

to install opera, just download the package for your distribution from their website :
http://www.opera.com/browser/download/

save the .deb package in yyour home directory, open a console (terminal) and just type :
sudo dpkg -i opera (press TAB to autocomplete name of the package then ENTER, then follow indications)

I hope it will help you as it does for me

regards,

oliwek

By: Leandro

Leandro — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:29:18 +0000

I’ve just installed Kubuntu Intrepid on my 701 4G. At first, wireless didn’t work, but when I installed the custom array kernel for the eeepc (eeepc-lean), it all came to life. It’s pretty satisfatory the speed and KDE4 is almost a full-usable desktop. The only issue that is annoying me is the microphone: the buit-in stops working after some seconds in skype and the external won’t replace the built in automatically, as it should. The external also does not work properly: the sound is not clear and continuous, making it impossible to talk on skype. Are you experiencing something like this?

By: Twich

Twich — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:56:37 +0000

I recently installed Intrepid ibex on an eee pc 1000hd. I also installed an eee pc kernel. Everything works great. The only issue is shutdown. But that was easy to fix by editing the halt file.

I find this works better than ubuntu eee 8.4. On ubuntu eee it would take FOREVER to boot, to the point that looked like it was locked up. Also my USB wifi dongle wouldn’t work. With Intrepid it boots up just fine and my dongle works.

If you own an eee pc, I would give intrepid with the eee pc kernel a try.

By: ubuntucat

ubuntucat — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:44:53 +0000

Yeah, I had the same problem. Intrepid seems to work just fine without that package, though, so I didn’t bother trying to track down the dependency.

By: Breno Peck

Breno Peck — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:31:14 +0000

Hi there! I just clean installed Intrepid in my EEE (700 4G), but I just can’t install the EEE-specific packages. Actually, I just found one (eeepc-acpi-scripts), but it fails when trying to install (“Depends: acpi-support-base but it is not installable”).

How did it go there?

By: ubuntucat

ubuntucat — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:06:17 +0000

It ain’t broke for you, Karim, but many of us are dissatisfied with the limitations of the Eee version of Xandros.

My main gripes were too many QT libraries needed for essential functions; no reliable, easy, and comprehensive software repositories; no password prompt for sudo; only one user account that has to be called user instead of an actual username you choose. I’m sure you can find other gripes people have with Xandros if you look hard enough.

Bottom line: use what works for you. If you, Karim, like Xandros, keep it. No one is forcing you to try anything else. But if we, other people, don’t like Xandros, let us try something else. We don’t have to defend our choices to you. If we like something else better, we’re entitled to that preference.

By: Karim

Karim — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:27:19 +0000

What is wrong with the Xandros distro that comes with the eee pc? Why put something that doesn’t quite work as well on it?! It’s fairly straight forward to get FF3 installed and then everything is fine including function keys and networking. If it ain’t broke……