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Ubuntu on Asus Eee Top ET1602 ?

Asked by Ben Andersen

What works and what not on Asus Eee Top ET1602 using Ubuntu 9.04?

Which version of Ubuntu works best? Desktop or Netbook remix?

I'm specially interested to know if the the touch screen works or what can be done to make it work.

I'm thinking of buying one but I need to know if it works reasonably good first..

Do I need some drivers or ?

Thanks for any hints!

Ben

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midnightflash (midnightflash) said : 		#1

Looks not to good... this new Eee Top ET1602 is what we call: "exotic hardware".

I'd prefer the normal Ubuntu
Before I'd buy such one I'd try to run an Ubuntu-9.04-Live-CD (or -USB/flash) on such a machine. There you will see if the right drivers, f.e. for the touchscreen, are available and working in Ubuntu for that machine.

Greetings

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Best Michael Z. Krog (mic-apaq) said : 		#2

I saw a guide on a danish site on how to get the top working under ubuntu.

This is translated from danish to english via Google Translate:
http://74.125.79.132/translate_c?hl=da&sl=da&tl=en&u=http://www.linuxin.dk/node/14483&prev=hp&rurl=translate.google.com&usg=ALkJrhhZCXgc17PfJYQfirYOD4Ch4L9rqg

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midnightflash (midnightflash) said : 		#3

Fine! this is good news!
I really didn't expect it to work that easily.

Greetings

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Michael Z. Krog (mic-apaq) said : 		#4

Me neither.

Just tried it with ubuntu remix and it works fine.

Only need to figure why it asks for keyring password
everytime it connects to wireless.

But that is another topic. :)

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midnightflash (midnightflash) said : 		#5

@ Michael Z. Krog

It's normal, if your keyring-password differs on the login-passwd, or you login automatically.
The WLan-Passwords are stored safely behind the keyring-password.

Greetings

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Ben Andersen (ben72) said : 		#6

Thanks a lot Michael! I can confirm that it works well here as well! I didn't even have to calibrate the touch screen. I tried the commands calibrate_touchscreen and ev_calibrate but they don't work.. I just get a dialog saying that I don't have a evtouch capable touch screen and for ev_calibrate I get Error opening FIFO "/tmp/ev_calibrate". It's not that important but do you get the same?

What do you think about the UNR compared to Ubuntu-desktop version? The UNR might be less supported?

Thanks again!

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Ben Andersen (ben72) said : 		#7

Thanks Michael Z. Krog, that solved my question.

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laurens (laurens-pz) said : 		#8

hmm ... be carefull not to copy paste the danish translation etc cause the translation screws up the "Monitor" part and translatates ModeLIne into Line Mode. Copy and paste from tha orignal danish website instead ... also the install for the xserver-xorg-input-evtouch didnt worked out of the box on the me Jaunty installation, so i had to install it manually from http://appnr.com/package/xserver-xorg-input-evtouch