[indiana-discuss] OS 2008.05 on EeePC 900

[Qingye Jiang (John)]

Today I got some spare time and have OS 2008.05 installed on my EeePC
900. Several key points:

(1) keyboard did not work originally, but after add the "-v" option to
the grub menu (the kernel line, not the other lines) it worked.

(2) Wireless did not work originally, but after installing the driver
from http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/wireless/ath/ it worked.

(3) Wired NIC is not working yet.

(4) Audio is not working yet.

(5) Projector works! When I connect a SONY projector to the EeePC, it
just worked. The laptop side got a trim-off screen (the lower part was
cut off), but the projector side got 1024x768! So, I can do
presentations with the cute machine now.

(6) Got OpenOffice 2.4 working via IPS. The slide show is actually very
nice.

(7) The SD slot works. I put a 16-GB SD card into the slot, then a "NO
NAME" drive appeared on the desktop. Now I have a base system of 15 G,
and a storage of another 16 G of storage. So, this is actually a very
nice system to carry around.

I did not have enough time to test its battery life with OS 2008.05.
Will do that when I have the opportunity.


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