tuning the EeePC 901

installed eee-control on the EeePC 901 (eeebuntu 2) and all hardware is really nicely integrated now. Also installed cheese and webcam tested ok. So far I am impressed.

removing Mono from EeeUbuntu

I removed the Mono stuff from my eeeubuntu (because I can and I want to) with

# sudo apt-get remove --purge mono-common libmono0


this removes Banshee and F-Spot which I then replaced by other applications with

# sudo apt-get rhythmbox gthumb

Installing EeeUbuntu on EeePC second drive

After adding a 16GB SDHC card, used usb pen drive to install eeeubuntu. Hower the only drive seen is /dev/sda which corresponds to the orignal SDD drive used by Xandros Linux.

To have the second drive appear among the available drives within the eeeubuntu installation program, one need to format the second drive (SDHC card) and set the bootable flag. Only then it will appear and so I could install eeeubuntu on it, leaving the original distribution untouched (for now).

CLI dvd copy

You need the package wodim. Then is a matter of ripping

$ readom dev=/dev/scd0 f=/path/to/image.iso

and copying

$ wodim -v -eject /path/to/image.iso

Installing the full desktop (advanced mode) on the EeePC 901

Steps below:

1. "CTRL-ALT-T" to terminal
2. "sudo bash"
3. "apt-get update" to get updates for 900
4. "sudo synaptic" to start Package Manager
5. Click "Settings" , "Repositories"
6. Click "New"
7. URL is "http://update.eeepc.asus.com/p701/"
8. Distribution is "p701"
9. Section(s) is "main"
10. Click "OK" to save
11. Click "Reload" to include p701 in addition to the 900 repositories
12. "File" , "Quit" to exit
13. "apt-get install kicker ksmserver"
14. "exit" to quit terminal
15. now click shutdown and choose reboot to "Full Desktop" from menu

also tried to use the p901 and p900 repos but no luck, p701 seems to be the only way to go.

Getting Acrobat reader in english on EeePC

To have Acrobat Reader in english on a german EeePC run

# apt-get remove acroread-de

then only the acroread package will be left on the system and Acrobat Reader now will be in english.

changing default language in EeePC

Just receive my EeePC 901 GO (Linux version) and being in Germany it came with an out of the box german user interface, fair enough. Hower I wanted to have all software in english so after some research this is what I did to achieve this:

edit the file /etc/default/locale and replace

LANG=de_DE.UTF-8

with

LANG=en_EN.UTF-8

then reboot, and you will be greeted in english and all applications including the custom ASUS user interface) will be in english.