I've got the 1000HE and I love it, works great and does everything I need. But my question is: when did Linux become better with drivers and video than everything else? <br><br>So I've got an HP all in one printer I wanted to print and scan from, plug it into windows: game over, go get the >100MB driver from HP that fills your system up with CRAP and makes it unstable. 1000HE running Ubuntu NBR: I've setup your printer sir and you are fully ready to print. Same thing keeps happening to me so now I always use it to connect/scan/print anytime I run into a new printer. Same thing with monitors/peripherals/etc... <br>
<br>Whats the deal? I kind of miss the old linux of having to go find obscure apt sources or downloading random source code to compile and hope it works. Kept it real, you know?<br><br>--j<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 1:59 AM, Mike Miller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mbmiller%2Bl@gmail.com">mbmiller+l@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I got that Asus EeePC 1005HA and installed Netbook Remix on it. It would<br>
be easy to do it a second time, but if you have never done it, there are a<br>
few things to learn, so it took me awhile.<br>
<br>
Here are a couple of cool things about it: It can read SD cards, so I<br>
pulled the card from my camera, popped it in there and I could instantly<br>
see my photos. Couldn't have been easier. The built-in camera worked<br>
instantly using a program called "Cheese".<br>
<br>
It has a VGA out, of course, so I hooked it up to my HDTV (1920x1080).<br>
Then I opened "Display" from the Systems menu and it was already<br>
configured just the way I'd want. Brilliant.<br>
<br>
So I used sshfs to connect via WiFi to a machine in the home that has some<br>
DVD ISOs on it and I used VLC to play them onto the HDTV from the Asus<br>
netbook. It worked and it looked amazingly good. The audio was going<br>
into the stereo system and that also worked great. One trick: If you use<br>
VLC for video, you have to have only one monitor on. If both are on, it<br>
shows only black. So to play the DVD ISOs on the HDTV I had to turn off<br>
the laptop display.<br>
<br>
For some DVD ISOs the video would hang for a second every minute or so,<br>
but I don't thinkt that was really a problem with the Asus, though it<br>
might have been, I think it was the WiFi connection in the basement to the<br>
router upstairs that caused that. More research is needed.<br>
<br>
I'm going to be hooking up a desktop machine DVD out to the HDMI in on the<br>
HDTV, so I won't be using the laptop much for DVDs in the house.<br>
<br>
Mike<br>
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