So, I tried booting on an USB stick, and it works really well. But I have a few questions:
Sound: seems that I get sound in the headphone jack, but not in the speakers (toggling the switch mutes the stereo- jack). Is this an alsa problem, or something else - will the solution just be a new driver, or..? Can I use the driver Asus wrote for the linux version - much point doing so..?
Shortcut keys, light up/down, and disabling wifi, etc: does it work after an install on the drive? Saw one post in the good experiences forum that said it did - is that on the latest stable builds? What about disabling the wifi- module - does it turn it off, or just disable the device in the OS - anyone know how this works?
Had about the same experience with the shortcut keys and sound in eeeUbuntu, until I ran the custom scripts they've included. Then I got sound in the speakers, and it at least seemed to work. ..Does anyone know of a way to do the same with Elive? Or.. is there a good way to customise it manually.. (not afraid of a bit of scripting - I just need to know if all the functions are available, and how).
Hibernation: will it work correctly? Do I need a particular amount of swap? I only have ~4Gb on the primary SSD drive.. will it be possible to fit this in somehow? (So... 1Gb ram.. First SSD 4Gb. Another slower SSD with about 8Gb. ..Any suggestions? ..the win- boot I have now only works now because I don't have swap at all
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Another thing: power- consumption.. Automatic downclock works nicely on the live- boot. Is the fan controlled by software as well (I ask because in ubuntu, there's a burst of fanning every time the temperature hits over some point), and if so, how? Is that just some code in a driver, or a script of some sort? Or will it be another kernel if I want to change this?
And.. will I get a heavy hit on the battery life compared to the windows boot, with the mysterious downclock settings included there (if you presume the computer is mostly idling, not running compiz and emerald, only running mail- fetch, and staying connected to skype, things of that sort). Any good guesses?
..last thing.. sorry for being so long- winded.. video- playback. On the win- boot now, for all the problems, it plays back flash and quicktime via plugins in perfectly watchable framerates. When I tried the same on Elive, I had problems. I have the same problem on my desktop (on gentoo), but sort of learned to live without it. Downloading or streaming mp3s with some other program, using other sources, and so on. But then again.. Anyone had good experiences with that on the Eee (901 model in particular, maybe)?
Lastly, great work on the distro. Absolutely love it.
<- like this. (Will definitively look for a stable release with "compiz".)