Fedora 9 on ASUS EeePC 900

[jeff]

Philip Heron wrote:
> Philip Heron wrote:
>> Peter Robinson wrote:
>>>> Is there anything in your kernel that might improve the stability of 
>>>> the
>>>> intel video driver over the stock fedora kernel? I'm getting quite a 
>>>> lot of
>>>> hard lock-ups and random X restarts if I don't disable video 
>>>> acceleration,
>>>> but then playing video is impossible.
>>>
>>> Have you tried disabling FrameBufferCompression?
>>
>> Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it last night but it didn't help.
> 
> For anyone else having this problem, I seem to have solved it by 
> disabling the composite extension. I'm able to play video and games 
> without any crashing or lock ups now.
> 
> I added these lines to my xorg.conf:
> 
> Section "Extensions"
>     Option "Composite" "Disable"
> EndSection
> 
> Not ideal, but I've got a usable laptop again.

You could try this live image for eee 900, which is also installable:
http://freeeee.org/

-Jeff