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DonnieP

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From: Nashville, TN USA

Registered: 2009-04-05

Posts: 19

Installation Notes for CrunchEee on 900A

I've used Ubuntu for several years on several different machines, but I'm constantly playing around with other distros just for fun.  After a couple of false starts, here's how I've set up my CrunchEee EeePC.  I installed Ubuntu Intrepid on this machine to the HD as soon as I bought it and use it mainly at work or when traveling primarily for note taking, email and webapps.  I have now installed CrunchEee directly to an SD card using unetbootin and select the card at boot by hitting Esc.  Most of what follows is simply a matter of personal preference.

1.  The installed /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume defaults swap to /dev/sda5 even when you did not select any swap file during install. This causes performance problems and drops the splash screen during boot. So I deleted the "resume" file. You can also less destructively edit it to remark out the sda5 line. (Note: I do not use hibernate.)
2.  Crunch defaults to UK English and UK repositories. So, I have to remember to change the language on first boot after install in the gdm screen and then to go into synaptic and change the repositories.  (Sorry, no chauvinism intended.)
3.  The default eeepc-lean kernel causes problems of which a minor but annoying one is the NO_REBOOT message at boot prior to splash. There's also reports in the forums of video issues. So I installed the regular eeepc kernel from synaptic and made it the default in grub.
4.  Install the full vim from synaptic.  Also python-moin for personal wiki.
5.  Font smoothing is not the default. So I followed instructions in the forums to create a ~/.fonts.conf that enables anti-alias, hinting, etc. You can also divine this by examination of what's in /etc/fonts/conf.avail.
6.  Terminator defaults to "Mono 8". I prefer DejaVu Sans Mono 9 so I edited ~/.config/terminator/config. I also don't like the default black background so I remarked the foreground and background defaults and enabled the theme setting.
7.  To get my AT&T QuickSilver broadband modem working I have to install ozerocdoff from a PPA and hso.ko from the PHARscape forums using dkms from synaptic.
8.  Unfortunately the CrunchBang OpenBox themes just don't work for me, so I change them in User Interface Settings and in OpenBox Config both to TropicBomb. (Note:  with the default theme I have to disable display dim when on battery which is a bummer.)  Also tweak the font defaults from 7 up to 8.
9.  Enable compositing from the menu.
10.  Install OpenOffice from synaptic and enable the OpenOffice setting in autostart.sh. Edit rc.xml to add a keybinding shortcut for OpenOffice - Super+o. Edit conky to show the new shortcut.
11.  Install the Hide Menubar add-on in Firefox to reduce its footprint.
12.  Edit autostart.sh to enable correct keyboard map and to enable eye candy. The eye candy setting allows compositing to survive a reboot.

Last edited by DonnieP (2009-04-10 17:40:48)

artay

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Registered: 2009-04-07

Posts: 42

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Re: Installation Notes for CrunchEee on 900A

Hi!

5.  Font smoothing is not the default. So I followed instructions in the forums to create a ~/.fonts.conf that enables anti-alias, hinting, etc. You can also divine this by examination of what's in /etc/fonts/conf.avail.

Can you post your .font.conf please.
Thanks.:)

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DonnieP

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From: Nashville, TN USA

Registered: 2009-04-05

Posts: 19

Re: Installation Notes for CrunchEee on 900A

Can you post your .font.conf please.
Thanks.:)

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
 <match target="font">
  <edit mode="assign" name="rgba"><const>rgb</const></edit>
  <edit mode="assign" name="hinting"><bool>true</bool></edit>
  <edit mode="assign" name="antialias"><bool>true</bool></edit>
  <edit mode="assign" name="autohint"><bool>false</bool></edit>
  <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle"><const>hintfull</const></edit>
 </match>
</fontconfig>

artay

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Re: Installation Notes for CrunchEee on 900A

Thanks DonnieP.:)

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sionide

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Registered: 2009-03-15

Posts: 2

Re: Installation Notes for CrunchEee on 900A

1.  The installed /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume defaults swap to /dev/sda5 even when you did not select any swap file during install. This causes performance problems and drops the splash screen during boot. So I deleted the "resume" file. You can also less destructively edit it to remark out the sda5 line. (Note: I do not use hibernate.)

Ohh I was wondering what caused the splash to disappear half way through this morning... Thanks for the tip.