[LAU] Asus EEE 1000 as new softsynth?

[Ken Restivo]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 09:15:52AM +0000, James Stone wrote:
> 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....
> 

 16:        164          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   uhci_hcd:usb4, HDA Intel, i915 at pci:0000:00:02.0
 18:          0          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   uhci_hcd:usb3
 19:       8209          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   uhci_hcd:usb2, ra0
 23:      31899          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   uhci_hcd:usb1, ehci_hcd:usb5


Common design flaw of Intel architecture laptops. I've been through this dance before on my other ASUS lappy.

I have an M-Audio FastTrack which is what I use for live work. It's bulky but doesn't weigh much. The USB interrupts are mostly free.

I'm shocked that the hda-intel works *at all* on this netbook. I'm perfectly happy to use it for VoIP and websurfing, and not for anything serious.

-ken