I've got the 1000HE and I love it, works great and does everything I need. But my question is: when did Linux become better with drivers and video than everything else? So I've got an HP all in one printer I wanted to print and scan from, plug it into windows: game over, go get the >100MB driver from HP that fills your system up with CRAP and makes it unstable. 1000HE running Ubuntu NBR: I've setup your printer sir and you are fully ready to print. Same thing keeps happening to me so now I always use it to connect/scan/print anytime I run into a new printer. Same thing with monitors/peripherals/etc... Whats the deal? I kind of miss the old linux of having to go find obscure apt sources or downloading random source code to compile and hope it works. Kept it real, you know? --j On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 1:59 AM, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com<mbmiller%2Bl at gmail.com> > wrote: > I got that Asus EeePC 1005HA and installed Netbook Remix on it. It would > be easy to do it a second time, but if you have never done it, there are a > few things to learn, so it took me awhile. > > Here are a couple of cool things about it: It can read SD cards, so I > pulled the card from my camera, popped it in there and I could instantly > see my photos. Couldn't have been easier. The built-in camera worked > instantly using a program called "Cheese". > > It has a VGA out, of course, so I hooked it up to my HDTV (1920x1080). > Then I opened "Display" from the Systems menu and it was already > configured just the way I'd want. Brilliant. > > So I used sshfs to connect via WiFi to a machine in the home that has some > DVD ISOs on it and I used VLC to play them onto the HDTV from the Asus > netbook. It worked and it looked amazingly good. The audio was going > into the stereo system and that also worked great. One trick: If you use > VLC for video, you have to have only one monitor on. If both are on, it > shows only black. So to play the DVD ISOs on the HDTV I had to turn off > the laptop display. > > For some DVD ISOs the video would hang for a second every minute or so, > but I don't thinkt that was really a problem with the Asus, though it > might have been, I think it was the WiFi connection in the basement to the > router upstairs that caused that. More research is needed. > > I'm going to be hooking up a desktop machine DVD out to the HDMI in on the > HDTV, so I won't be using the laptop much for DVDs in the house. > > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20091118/22fa4eac/attachment-0001.htm