On 13/04/2009, Ben Armstrong <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:25:14 -0500 > John <[email protected]> wrote: >> Tested today on my spanish keyboard 701. >> Downloaded, dd'ed to micro SD card and booted without troubles. >> Impressive that you've got it inside 256MBs. >> Spanish locale/ keyboard layout would be nice? > > Should be able to boot with keyb=es locale=es (or the full name of your > locale). Feel free to add notes to the wiki about this or anything > else non-obvious. Could be a draft for a little bit of doc to show (as > a local page) in iceweasel upon login.
Wiki page down as a users guide to the live OS http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/Live/UsersGuide I've noted there the results of my exercises today. > >> Sound is fine. >> Camera use not working - smplayer > Open > URL > tv:// gives me nothing. > > Enabled in bios? Try from command-line: > > mplayer tv:// > >> No messenger/IRC client's included. I recommend aMSN - check the camera >> config. > > Noted. But amsn only handles one protocol, so I have ruled it out. I > considered pidgin, but oh, the bloat! I figured people could use > webchat from somewhere (mibbit?) or else download the client of their > choice (a highly personal thing, I've found). This is a demo only. > Don't need to include everything. > >> However much you hate skype - it's needed by travellers. Recommended, >> or a substitute open-source telephony system. > > Not in a demo that's supposed to be as much from Debian main as > possible, no. For the same reason, I don't include Acroread or > Flash Player. > >> Iceweasel is ok , needs littlefox theme and doctored tool/menu bars >> and set "undecorate" and zoomed out. > > Noted. I'll extract my configuration when I get a minute and see if you like it enough to use it. > >> Lid close to sleep ok, but on wake up it wants a password - had to >> Ctrl,Alt,Backspace to get the system up again. > > Yeah, I noticed that. I suppose I could just disable xscreensaver on > suspend in /etc/default/eeepc-acpi-scripts (btw, the username is 'user' > and password is 'live'). > What's root? There's no sudo. >> Wifi dies during sleep, had to reconnect, so no downloading possible >> with lid closed. Could sleep be dependant on nothing running? > > Eh? You can't download when asleep anyway :) and yes, when it wakes up > again you'll have to reconnect. That's just the nature of wicd, I > guess, unless you configure it to 'autoconnect' perhaps? untested. > Network Manager is another possibility, but not the one in Lenny. > >> Another good job Ben - thanks:) > > Thank you for testing, John, and for your suggestions. > > Ben Always a pleasure - more as it happens.. John > > _______________________________________________ > Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel > -- My house for sale in Peru. http://www.580elbosque.idimo.net --------------------------------- Become a serious teacher by clicking this link and registering here - I did and now I am earning - http://www.seriousteachers.com/teachers.asp?IdTeacherPartner=1085695 ################################# Ayer es historia. Mañana un misterio. Hoy es un regalo. Es por ello que es llamado el presente!! Creo que esta vida es especial Vivela..........!!!!!!!! _______________________________________________ Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel
