pavelmachek (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} pavelmachek) wrote,@ 2008-04-27 20:16:00 |
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Asus EEE to play with
Asus EEE is a pretty cool machine. It actually has an usable keyboard, and its linux distribution is very nicely done, and well integrated with the hardware.
Unfortunately, its ACPI BIOS is crap: no thermal zones, and battery values completely off. (It seems to only report values in percent, but it does so by claiming battery is 100mAh and counting from that. Oops).
It took me a while to figure out touchpad really has two buttons... it is one big button, and depending on you pressing left or right side it means left or right click. Unfortunately that means you can't even use X's 3 button emulation, and I have not figured out how to copy & paste between xterm (well hidden behind ctrl-alt-t) and browser.
...speaking of which, this is actually my first machine where flash works including audio, and I did not even have to agree to stupid EULA. Skype also works, which is a plus (had to deal with ugly EULA there :-().
Asus EEE is a pretty cool machine. It actually has an usable keyboard, and its linux distribution is very nicely done, and well integrated with the hardware.
Unfortunately, its ACPI BIOS is crap: no thermal zones, and battery values completely off. (It seems to only report values in percent, but it does so by claiming battery is 100mAh and counting from that. Oops).
It took me a while to figure out touchpad really has two buttons... it is one big button, and depending on you pressing left or right side it means left or right click. Unfortunately that means you can't even use X's 3 button emulation, and I have not figured out how to copy & paste between xterm (well hidden behind ctrl-alt-t) and browser.
...speaking of which, this is actually my first machine where flash works including audio, and I did not even have to agree to stupid EULA. Skype also works, which is a plus (had to deal with ugly EULA there :-().
