[Debian-eeepc-devel] Installation report on eee 900

[Davide Cavalca]

Hello everybody,
I just got a shiny new Asus EEE 900. I kept xandros for few days (it was
actually much better than I expected), then performed a full debian
installation using the installer linked on the wiki. I used the internal
4gb ssd for / and the additional 16gb for /home. The installation went
fine and was totally painless. These are the problems I noticed with the
installed system:

- on logon, message "You battery is very low or could be damaged"; the
battery is obviously fine, and gnome-power-manager correctly reports its
status.
- osd: I installed aosd-cat and enabled it in the scripts; it kind of
works, but writes "volume" instead of "volume +" and similar; the
original asus osd is IMHO much nicer, it is available here
http://eee-osd.googlecode.com/
any chance of getting it in debian?
- webcam: works (following instructions on the wiki, a new user would
probably be scared); xandros webcam program is IMHO much nicer than
luvcview, but I forgot its name :)
- audio: sound card is detected but no sound can be heard; I read in
prevoius posts the 2.6.25 kernel in sid should fix it but haven't tried
yet. 
- sometimes the eee locks on shutdown; I added "rmmod snd_hda_intel" to
halt script and it hasn't happened since
- xorg ships with DRI disabled; adding 
Section "Module"
	Load "glx"
	Load "dri"
	Load "dbe"
EndSection
Section "DRI"
	Mode 0666
EndSection
at the bottom of xorg.conf makes glxgears much happier. I still have to
try compiz.
- suspend to ram: works, but brightness is stuck at max on resume
- suspend to disk: works (I have a 1gb swap partition on the 16gb ssd);
resume is very fast, but suspend is quite slow
In both cases (s2ram and s2disk) the wireless doesn't work on resume.
Disabling and re-enabling it does the trick, but it's annoying.

All in all, debian works great and was really easy to install: you've
done great work guys!

Best regards,
Davide Cavalca
davide125(at)tiscali.it