Mandriva supports eee

[Paul W. Frields]

On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 22:02 +0200, Jonathan Dieter wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 19:28 +0200, Nicu Buculei wrote:
> > Jonathan Dieter wrote:
> > > FWIW, I have an Eee PC, so I'll try to answer this:
> > > 
> > > When I first got the Eee PC, none of its network interfaces were
> > > supported by Fedora.  I needed both the atl2 driver for the wired
> > > network and madwifi for the wireless.
> > > 
> > > As the Eee PC doesn't have a CD drive, that left no easy way to get it
> > > installed.  In the end, I downloaded and installed Eeedora, and then
> > > reverted any changed packages back to Fedora (bringing me back to a
> > > standard Fedora install).
> > 
> > But now with the livecd-iso-to-disk helping to create a bootable USB 
> > stick I expect this in not such a hassle, right?
> 
> I would expect not.  Also, as mentioned below, atl2 is now in Fedora,
> which means you should be able to do a network install with F9+.
> 
> > > I also went back to Gnome (mainly because it's familiar), set up a swap
> > > partition for hibernation (setting sys.vm.swappiness to 0 so it doesn't
> > > swap unless absolutely necessary), and installed compiz-fusion.  It
> > > works great for me, and I've had no problems using it to connect at
> > > various miscellaneous hotspots.
> > > 
> > > ATM the only non-Fedora bits I have on it are the patched madwifi driver
> > > for wireless and the asus_acpi_eee driver so the hotkeys work.  The atl2
> > > wired driver is now included in the latest Fedora kernels.
> > 
> > So if I understand correctly, the main remaining problem is the madwifi 
> > driver, for which we can't do much about and the rest is pretty smooth.
> 
> That's my take, anyway.  FWIW, the F8 rhgb doesn't scale properly on
> 800x480 and the gdm login screen just *barely* fits.  But those are both
> minor details.

So how do you guys propose to get some of this information past the
small audience on this list and into a larger domain?  If there's call
for it, why not a EeePC SIG and some wiki pages that will be of use to
Fedora lovers who have this hardware, or for that matter, EeePC lovers
who want to try Fedora?  The previously suggested blog postings?
Connecting these two dots in the googlemind is a big win.

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