Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1233 mails)

[Thomas Meindl <twm.mst@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello all,

I'm currently testing openSUSE 11.1 beta4 on a eeePC 1000H. So far I'm
quite surprised how fast this little machine is and how fast openSuSE
works :)

As far as I'm concerned I encounted the following issues:

While installing the system (from an SD card btw), the fonts of the
buttons are too big, so you have sometimes to guess what they do. In the
manual partition setup, when entering the mountpoints, you write with
white letters on white backgound.

The get the WLan working you need Ndiswrapper and the Windows Realtech
.inf file. The Screen Resolution is set to 800x600 which is quite ok,
but if you setup with Sax2 to 1024x600 most of the fonts of KDE 4 and
Yast will be way too small to read.

The system boots up very fast, but the last stage of KDE 4 seems to hang
forever (about more than 15 sec) - that's the same as on my desktop, so
hopefully this gets better. The power-management works out-of-the box,
but it seems that openSUSE drains the battery faster then the normal
Windows XP installation.
I also encounted a kernel panic when I supended to disk, but
supend-to-ram works flawlessly. The system is very responsive,
OpenOffice start up very fast, Firefox works perfectly so there's a lot
of light if you work with the machine.
A bit ugly is the switching to a new user or the so called 'save-logout
feature' of KDE 4 because there you will have some very ugly screen
artifacts (like something wrote random values into the framebuffer). I
can see a similar issue with the save-logout on my AMD64 desktop machine
so at least this seems to be a common problem. Also there is sometimes a
problem with hiding the KDE panel  - sometimes it just stays on the
screen, sometimes a mouse-over will hide it instead of bringing it up...

(Btw. does anyone know why X is showing the running programs for a last
time if you logged out your session ready?)

So far, I didn't test bluetooth ( I don't own any bluetooth device), the
Lan or the web-cam. Also the function keys need some work to get them
working - no time for that so far.
It's quite exiting that openSUSE 11.1 works so pretty on this nice piece
of hardware. The only really big issue so far is that it seems to drain
the rechargeable battery too fast - but maybe some of you knows to get
rid of this problem too.

Well, maybe there are a few on this list, that have some tips or
knowledge how to improve openSUSE on the eeePC, - if so please write back.

Kind regards,
Tom


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