Asus EEE HowTo | Asus EEE 如何

After so much issues I encountered installing and configuring Ubuntu Eee on my Eee PC, I was finally able to make it work like complete OS. Compiz Fusion is also working but apparently, it crawls easily. I’m running it on my 630Mhz, 512MB Asus Eee PC.

After a fresh boot up with compiz-fusion, the system was smooth at 12-13% actual usage. Though I guess it could be lower. There was a very high bump on the graph but I think it’s just trying to load something but after that, it will continuously go at 12% as long as I am idle.

When I started opening applications like Picasa, Firefox, OpenOffice, rotate the desktop cube, etc… (not opened all at once), the CPU went bumpy. It doesn’t look too high but the system crawls already. Scrolling pages on Picasa as well as in Nautilus file explorer causes delays and when it scrolls, it’s really wavy, like I don’t have the video driver configured properly. I checked glxgears and it rotates and +400 fps so I guess it’s no problem.

Apart from it being slow, a lot of times, I also experience the monitor to shutdown just suddenly when it’s too busy. I can’t say that the system went down totally since the system LEDs don’t went off and they seem to respond whenever I type or do something on the keyboard. I have no idea what happens and I always end up with force shutdown.

Another thing I did not like about Ubuntu Eee is that the microphone don’t work OOTB. I know it could work with some configuration so I tried several things to make it work to no avail. IMHO, it should work right after Ubuntu Eee is installed, right?

Now, here’s the thing I liked about Ubuntu Eee. It comes with useful applications that I did not need to install much after the OS. But the thing is, how am I able to enjoy the pre-installed applications if the OS doesn’t work perfectly?

After all, I still hope Ubuntu Eee comes smooth and stable on its final release.

In the meantime, I’m going to uninstall Ubuntu Eee 8.04 and head on to the next OS to test. Which goes next?