Linux Mint eee pc edition

[dswaim91]

An edition dedicated to the eee pc and eee box computers would be great. I have an eee box and eee pc 1000h and would love to have mint on them rather than ubuntu eee. Does anybody know of future plans?

[merlwiz79]

You could use the documentation for installing Ubuntu on Eee PC.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EeePC
After installing Mint you will have to do the same to fix hardware: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EeePC/Fixes

[dswaim91]

I really hope that someone takes this up as a project because I looked at the workarounds required and found them rather complicated to risk trying. Many of us would love to see an "out of the box" mint that works with the Asus Eee PC. Mint 5 would not pick up my wireless or eth0 connections when I tried it on the 1000h model.

[Koss]

Agreed, I just recently recieved my 1000HA, and would love to have mint linux on it, like I do for all my other computers in the house.

[gemneye]

I installed Linux Mint 5-rc1 fluxbox community addition on a eee box. I had to modify my xorg.conf (found by googling) and compile a driver for the wireless adapter (ralink 2860), but more or less everything works out of the box. I installed wbar for my dock, and I am using wicd for my network manager. I also installed conky and lm_sensors from the repositories for simple light weight system monitoring.

xorg.conf

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Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver          "kbd"
        Option          "XkbRules"      "xorg"
        Option          "XkbModel"      "pc105"
        Option          "XkbLayout"     "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "Configured Video Device"
        Driver          "intel"
        Option          "monitor-LVDS" "LVDS"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier      "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier      "LVDS"
        Option          "Ignore"        "True"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier      "Default Screen"
        Monitor         "Configured Monitor"
        Device          "Configured Video Device"
        SubSection      "Display"
                Depth   24
                Modes   "1440x900@60" "1024x768@60" "800x600@60"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier      "Default Layout"
        Screen          "Default Screen"
EndSection


ralink 2860 drivers
install build-essentials and kernel headers in order to build the wireless network drivers. Follow the instruction in the readme file carefully (you will want to do a 'sudo make install' after driver compiles).
http://web.ralinktech.com/ralink/Home/Support/Linux.html

Google for the wicd repository and add it to your sources.list file and then install wicd and wpa-supplicant.

wbar
http://www.tecapli.com.ar/rodolfo/wbar-1.3.3.tbz2

[McMacHack]

Or, you could just install all the EEEPC tools and the modified kernel from the Package Manager. I got the old Mint 5 KDE version to run extremely well on an EEEPC doing such.