[LAU] Asus EEE 1000 as new softsynth?

[James Stone]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 6:59 AM, Ken Restivo <ken at restivo.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 10:36:00AM +1100, Roger E wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > If there is room for complaining then that would be:
>> >
>> > 1) 1024x600 resolution at times is cumbersome as some dialogs/apps by
>> > default have windows that don't allow resizing below ~650 pixels height-wise
>> > (cough, cough, ardour mixer? :-) making it a bit annoying to deal with as
>> > taskbars end-up covering the ok/cancel buttons
>> >
>> >
>> I use DebianEEE with Xfce on my EeePC900. You can auto-hide the taskbar
>> so it pops up when you move the cursor to the bottom. You can do this
>> with KDE too.
>> I know it still leaves at least 50px hidden, but it helps. Avidemux has
>> the same problem.
>>
>
> So far, the only real problems I've had that I haven't been able to solve with a quick Wiki/Google/FAQ read or from rote memory, are these two:
>
> 1) Aggh, fonts in rxvt and mutt! http://www.restivo.org/misc/ugly-fonts.png
>        I solved this problem once before, somehow (LOCALE?), when I first set up my other Asus laptop, but I don't remember how exactly.
>
> 2) Suspend to disk works, but sudo /etc/acpi/sleep.sh does nothing. I've no idea why. I'd sure like to have RAM sleep working, since suspend-to-disk thrashes the SSD unnecessarily.
>
> Not too bad. Once I get the above resolved, I'll try the 2.6.26-rt11 kernel and see how it goes.
>


If the eeePC that you have is anything like the 701 I have, you might
find you need a small usb sound device to get over problems with xruns
from the rather dodgy intel soundchip on the same interrupt as the
graphics device....

James