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Fedora Linux on Asus Eee PC 1001HA: kernel, Plymouth, compositing, desktop, Virtual Box, awn

Kernel parameters

Add kernel parameters acpi_osi=”!Windows 2009″ and acpi_backlight=vendor.

There is an interesting article at http://www.cnpbagwell.com/linux/fedora-13-and-asus-eee-pc-1005peb but the scripts will not work in Fedora 12 with the Eee PC 1001HA model.

The newest 2.6.32.13-120 Fedora kernel optimized for netbooks is available at fedora-netbook.com since the 22nd of May.

Yum Groups

sudo yum groupinstall “Sound and Video” “System Tools” “GNOME Software Development” Fonts “KDE (K Desktop Environment)” “KDE Software Development” “Ukrainian Support” “Russian Support” “Office/Productivity” “Administration Tools” “Authoring and Publishing” “Editors” “Educational Software” “GNOME Desktop Environment” “Games and Entertainment”

E17 (aka Enlightenment)

Enlightenment tested and forsaken because of multiple bugs, both from the official yum repo and Professor Gregory R. Kriehn’s repo . easy17.sh does not build several components because of bugs which were reported back in 2009 and still unfixed. Sad to see the used-to-be friendliest WM in such a state. Do not waste your time.

Plymouth

su -
yum install plymouth-plugin-{fade-throbber,label,space-flares,throbgress,two-step} plymouth-theme-{charge,fade-in,solar,spinfinity} plymouth-utils
plymouth-set-default-theme spinfinity
/usr/libexec/plymouth/plymouth-update-initrd

Plymouth graphical boot rocks.

Virtual Box

Oracle Virtual Box works, I manages to install my licensed copy of Windows Xp on it. However, it is too slow to say it reasonable enough to keep Windows virtual guests for gaming, use double boot instead if you want something sane.

Oracle Virtual Box on Eee PC

Oracle Virtual Box on Eee PC

Microphone

The problem persists, the internal microphone still does not work, APLA in dmesg reports unrecognised sound card. The external microphone works.

Bluetooth

Now comes the most interesting part, the bluetooth hardware is fully recognized, the service starts and runs without any messages but GNOME and KDE software report the cannot find any hardware. An external bluetooth dongle works.

dmesg

eee pc 1001ha dmesg output

Compositing

Works out of the box, just install all components from the official repo (do not forget the fusion-icon package if you want more control over it).

Compoziting in Eee PC, Fedora 12, GNOME

Compoziting in Eee PC, Fedora 12, GNOME

AWN

Works satisfactory after compositing is enabled.

Running avant window navigator with compoziting on Eee PC

Running avant window navigator with compoziting on Eee PC

GNOME without panels

The bottom panel can be closed from the right-click menu. To close the top one, run gconf-editor and delete “gnome-panel” entry as shown at the picture below. The top panel disappears after X restart.

How to get rid of gnome panel

How to get rid of gnome panel

Final look of my desktop

GNOME without panels, conky, compositing, awn

Final look of the Eee PC desktop: GNOME, compiz, conky, awn

Final look of the Eee PC desktop: GNOME, compiz, conky, awn

Stay tuned for more next week, secure ssh connections on home network, custom grub image, my conky config and other hacks are coming up.

Filed under: Hardware, Linux, Linux Desktop, Migration To Linux, Other, Software, Upgrade · Tags: Asus Eee PC 1001HA, awn, Bluetooth, compiz, conky, Fedora, Fedora 12, gnome, how-to, Kernel, Linux, Memory, Microphone, netbook, pictures, Post Installation, Software, Tweak, Virtual Box

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