Hi, i have just installed elive 1.9.22-compiz on my eeepc.... wonderful !!!...
I two important things to say: first, i'm italian, and the system (and the software i have installed via synaptic) is in english...
SOLVED !! I have installed via USB, using the unelivebootin to prepare the USB key: simply edit /boot/grub/menu.lst in the key and change
"title Special Machine: EeePC
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26.8-elive-686 boot=eli quiet vga=785 eeepc
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26.8-elive-686"
adding "lang=it" after "quiet vga=785"; must be this way:
"title Special Machine: EeePC
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26.8-elive-686 boot=eli quiet vga=785 eeepc lang=it
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26.8-elive-686"
Be sure that "vga=785", not "vga=788"
obviously is the same for each language (french is "lang=fr", german is "lang=de" etc).
THEN install the system
Second thing: when you install, you can configure the graphic system: select colour depth to 16, not to 24: your graphic system will be faster, and you surely don't need 24-bit colour.
I don't know how to make this changes on an installed system: dpkg-reconfigure locales and dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg doesn't work well. Any idea?
Excuse me for my bad english.