That is correct; eee pc support has been added "upstream" so that an eee-specific release is no longer necessary. That being said, a few people on the #! forums are experimenting with various eee kernels and scripts.

FYI there was some buzz about a #! netbook version with the lpia kernel (optimized for atom processors) but early experiments were not promising: http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … ll-mini-9/

khorton wrote:

Has Crunchbang added an auto hiding panel yet?  That was the biggest thing that pushed me to try other things, as I hated wasting all those pixels on the bottom of the screen to display a full time panel.  I eventually ended up with a minimal ubuntu install + XFCE, as its panel will auto hide.

Crunchbang has used many panels through the years (bmpanel, pypanel, lxpanel, currently tint2). You can use the Xfce panel in #! if you like, just add it to your ~/.config/openbox/autostart in place of the default panel. It's totally modular that way...

Personally I prefer my #! with no panel....

Last edited by snowpine (2009-07-09 11:30:44 am)

v1k1ng1001 wrote:

Nice!  I thought that there was always a lite version of crunchbang and that cruncheee was something different.  Some of the earlier discussion on their forums indicated that cruncheee would be redundant since 9.04 works with the eeepc.  Not sure if that is true but it will be interesting to see what happens.

I am going to try to use the array kernel with the lite .iso some time tomorrow.

Unfortunately 9.04 only works with one model of Eee though.  Sure, most of the hardware works but that doesn't get you 9.4 hours of battery life. :-D

fewt wrote:

Unfortunately 9.04 only works with one model of Eee though.

Can you tell us which model this is?
Dave

Last edited by davesurrey (2009-07-10 7:21:14 am)

Hi I have been an earlier unnoffical version of crunchbang 9.04 and it works great on my 901. This is my joint favourite distro with eeebuntu. MY  early version uses bmpanel which doesnt autohide but selecting full screen view in firefox - covers it.

this new version uses tint2 - I dont think that autohides but you might be able to move it to the left of the screen I cant remember. (Its very easy to change panels in crunchbang - just a matter of editing autostart which is an option on the main menu)

On the unofficial version the machine is in powersaver mode so the chips only increase to 1.6 when they need to - eee-applet was included in the early version but while it gives you power to control the fan and disable camera wifi etc it doesnt seem to use all the hotkeys or the ability to switch chp speed apart from overclocking, so Id quite like to use fewts or elurmatos scripts.

I have run the new official version in live mode and it works fine - hooks up my wifi automatically. Not sure about installing it tho as my unoffical one is working perfectly apart from the scripts. also I have customised conky to suit my needs and to pick up the 2 chips the ootb version only looks at one of them

cimh
901

Last edited by cimh (2009-07-11 11:16:53 am)

fewt wrote:

I think it was tested on the 1000.  I don't know of any others that the hardware keys work on out of the box (none that I've had my hands on do).

Hi fewt

I'm pleased to say your scripts work well on crunchbang 9.04, I dont see a tray, but thats not a problem for me.  I think it would be worth creating a cruncheee that encorporates them. 

I think on the 901 with 9.04 most of the function keys work ootb (not sure about wifi toggle) the silver keys dont but then I suppose they are unique to the eee so a special script would be necessary for them.

thanks for all your work 

cimh
901 crunchbang 9.04 k=2.6.28-13

fewt wrote:

My scripts are integrated in crunchbang?  (are you sure?).

Sorry Fewt I confused you - no theyre not I have to get them from your repositories. I've just emailed to another thread saying that there still is a need for a 9.04 cruncheee - which has the scripts embedded and the hotkeys set up. Your system of editing the text file to configure the utilities is very #! so I think your scripts could be packaged into a cruncheee rather nicely.

shengchieh wrote:

I have already created the eee #! wiki page

Thanks for doing this. WRT the various eee controls it all depends on what repositories you have installed so I dont see eee-control or eeepc-config in mine.

I am most happy with fewts scripts - they work best for me on the 901. but to get these you have to add his repository first. Details at  http://www.statux.org/wiki/index.php?title=EeePC

I think these are the scripts used by default in eeebuntu and considering eeebuntu is probably the best eee specific distro thats a good enough accolade for me.

Fewt - the scripts work well on #! but any ideas how I get the eeepc-tray to launch? I have downloaded it using synaptic but when I type 'eeepc-tray' in the terminal I get 'command not found'

I am using the tint2 panel


cimh
901 #! 9.04

Last edited by cimh (2009-07-12 12:44:37 pm)

shengchieh wrote:

Can you add your tips to

http://crunchbanglinux.org/wiki/crunche … all_tips?s ?

Hi - I have added a section customising the 901 - hope its ok

cimh

how does it compare with fluxflux sl?

I havent insalled flux yet - but interested in your views as you have got both running flux certainly looks great in live mode but interested in how it compares speed wise

cimh

The_Kid wrote:

I used it for a week then reinstalled #! 8.10.02, better overall imo, the OSD was what really pushed me to switching back.

In the #! forums, the same issue is happening.  I'm planning to stick with 8.10.04 (I thought it was 04, not 02) until the problem is fixed
or an even newer version is out).

Sheng-Chieh

The latest #! page is now linked to the main page.  And the cruncheee link is removed.
#! is now under "Standard" Linux Distros (scroll 3/4) in the main wiki page.

Sheng-Chieh