Comments on: CrunchEEE 8.10.02 Review

By: thedude13

thedude13 — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:50:24 +0000

@Panu Sorry I didn’t cover all of those things. Most of that stuff aren’t things I do often on my eee pc so I didn’t think to go through and test that, but I will keep that in mind for future reviews so they will be more complete.

As far as the function keys go, the brightness keys work fine, but the volume keys need some extra packages and a little editing to make work (descibed in this thread http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic/900/volume-buttons-on-laptop/)

The wifi toggle also needs an extra package installed to work properly, solution is at the bottom of http://crunchbanglinux.org/wiki/cruncheee_partitioning_and_postinstall_tips

The battery left/charge % will auto-appear if you unplug the system or it is in charging mode.

The current cpu scale can be seen in the default conky that launches on login.

By: Boycott Novell » Links 23/02/2009:

Boycott Novell » Links 23/02/2009: — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 06:08:45 +0000

[...] CrunchEEE 8.10.02 Review After buying my Asus EEE PC 1000HA, I initially installed Ubuntu Netbook Remix on it. After learning more about (#!) CrunchBang Linux and seeing that they had released an optimized version for the EEE PC called CrunchEEE. I’ve been using CrunchEEE on my EEE PC for the last week and decided to do a review. [...]

By: Panu

Panu — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:11:41 +0000

Well, you could have reported a bit more precisely whether *ALL* EEE PC functions work, and which don’t? Does all the Fn+Function keys work? Do they display the messages on screen (mute/unmute/wireless on etc). Do the CPU scaling & battery left show automatically somewhere, or are tweaks needed?

By: Rambo Tribble

Rambo Tribble — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:24:08 +0000

I’ve had excellent results with Eeebuntu: http://www.eeebuntu.org/

It offers three different configurations and UIs, along with superb hardware compatibility.