Hello all.
I use a laptop at work in which I travel all over London visiting clients for between 90 & 120 mins. Last year I bought an eeepc 1000H because of the battery life. I wanted to keep things simple, so I stuck with the Xandros install which only runs kde 3.4.2 and there seems to be no intention of ever upgrading it. I know I could have used any one of many remixes, but I've got bored of spending days trying different distros and want a kde machine that works (the customisability of kde makes my work life much easier).
Anyway, I discovered that the atom 1.6ghz is very slow and has finally driven me around the bend enough for me to invest in an Acer 4810t dual core, mainly because of its weight and battery life.
I thought I'd document the my experiences here.
1st off I checked the machine and was pleasantly happy at how quickly Vista annoyed me with all it's pop up windows and warnings. I then used GParted to partition the disk (320Gb) so that there was a partition for a Swap too.
I had an old 8.04 cd which I'd burn when it first came out, and used that. The install went fine, except that on first boot it the video drivers were wrong, and though X was starting, I couldn't make out what was going on on the screen. Still being the working week, I went to bed.
By the end of the next day I had resolved not to fiddle an just try 9.04 instead. It all went very smoothly and I was impressed with 4.2, thought the ethernet port failed to work (I used wireless) which I though was disappointing, and neither the sound or brightness worked thought they appeared to be working on the keyboard. Nothing I couldn't fix at the weekend.
So I started to customize it, get my head around kde4 and figured that it was all going rather well.
Then of course it happened, and this always happens at least once on a clean install for me. I shut down the machine, and on reboot got
and a frozen screen when I did manage to load X.
I cast around for three or four hours on this, trying different solutions but nothing came up. As I said above, this machine is for work, so I want something I can trust and that is really stable. 3.5.10 is that, so in the end I burnt a new 8.04 (8.04.2) which had a much better installer and here I am, writing on the machine now. I used GParted again, and this time put the /home directory in a different partition.
It is perfectly usable and seems very stable. The ethernet port worked out of the box and I'm going to document my progress.
At present the functions keys for volume and brightness are working on screen, but they are doing nothing. So my first job is to find out how to get them working.
If anyone can help, that would be great, I'll document the answers here when I find them.
I use a laptop at work in which I travel all over London visiting clients for between 90 & 120 mins. Last year I bought an eeepc 1000H because of the battery life. I wanted to keep things simple, so I stuck with the Xandros install which only runs kde 3.4.2 and there seems to be no intention of ever upgrading it. I know I could have used any one of many remixes, but I've got bored of spending days trying different distros and want a kde machine that works (the customisability of kde makes my work life much easier).
Anyway, I discovered that the atom 1.6ghz is very slow and has finally driven me around the bend enough for me to invest in an Acer 4810t dual core, mainly because of its weight and battery life.
I thought I'd document the my experiences here.
1st off I checked the machine and was pleasantly happy at how quickly Vista annoyed me with all it's pop up windows and warnings. I then used GParted to partition the disk (320Gb) so that there was a partition for a Swap too.
I had an old 8.04 cd which I'd burn when it first came out, and used that. The install went fine, except that on first boot it the video drivers were wrong, and though X was starting, I couldn't make out what was going on on the screen. Still being the working week, I went to bed.
By the end of the next day I had resolved not to fiddle an just try 9.04 instead. It all went very smoothly and I was impressed with 4.2, thought the ethernet port failed to work (I used wireless) which I though was disappointing, and neither the sound or brightness worked thought they appeared to be working on the keyboard. Nothing I couldn't fix at the weekend.
So I started to customize it, get my head around kde4 and figured that it was all going rather well.
Then of course it happened, and this always happens at least once on a clean install for me. I shut down the machine, and on reboot got
Code:
kstartupconfig4 does not exist or failed. The error code is 3
I cast around for three or four hours on this, trying different solutions but nothing came up. As I said above, this machine is for work, so I want something I can trust and that is really stable. 3.5.10 is that, so in the end I burnt a new 8.04 (8.04.2) which had a much better installer and here I am, writing on the machine now. I used GParted again, and this time put the /home directory in a different partition.
It is perfectly usable and seems very stable. The ethernet port worked out of the box and I'm going to document my progress.
At present the functions keys for volume and brightness are working on screen, but they are doing nothing. So my first job is to find out how to get them working.
If anyone can help, that would be great, I'll document the answers here when I find them.
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