So tonight i pretty much spent all night reconstructing my eeepc and i think im almost done.

I first installed the default eeeXubuntu build found here. I didn’t want to use the internal 4g drive, so i used the 8g SD card i have as the main storage.

I didn’t mess around with many of the modifications, my wireless pretty much worked right out of the box so i didn’t mess with it. The eeeXubuntu isn’t 8.04 and i wasn’t ok with that.

I wasn’t able to upgrade to 8.04 on the internal 4g drive, maybe because of space, doesn’t matter.

Prior to upgrading, i decided to not fuck myself and actually research something that involves me doing lots of stuff that i don’t completely understand, so i found this script to fix lots of things.

I just updated as you would normally through the update manager, it took a hell of a long  time, like 3 hrs. Maybe my connection…the SD card doesn’t appear to be slow at all.

Oh, and yea, i installed off a 1g usb stick, guided the whole 8g sd card and let it do it’s swap thing. Pretty much just left that alone, defaults. No probs yet.

Upon reboot, the wireless was a goner, so i tried the script. Didn’t seem to do anything so i rebooted and tried it again. (Like it would matter..) nothing. So i found where the script was extracting the madwifi drivers to and did a make && make install and rebooted. Upon reboot my hotkeys worked and the wireless was ready to roll.  Sweeet.

I enabled community sources and grabbed the basics: compiz, emerald, nmap, cryptcat, wireshark, gnome-do, pork, awn, wine, and conky. I dig my conky config. It’s pretty standard, but it looks sweet. I spent a lot of time last week trying to get pork to exec or execp in conky, but i eventually decided to just have it auto start with the xfce4-terminal window fully transparent, no menu, no slider, no borders. Looks like it’s a part of conky. If i would have figured out how to do it i would have called it porky. Damn. So good. I made it autostart with a little batch script to sleep past compiz loading. standard stuff.

I like adobe air apps so i installed the prog by following the following instructions.

I get my emerald/beryl themes and wallpapers here.

Cranked the fonts down to Sans size 7, and made my launcher as small as i could and hide at the top and awn hide at the bottom.  (I only pretty much use it for the terminal launcher) Shortcutted the term to launch with crtl+z. Downloaded flash and made sure my orb was streaming stuff from home properly, yup yup.

Turn off snap. God thats annoying on a little screen. I guess thats pretty much it. If i have the energy, i’ll try to get slingbox and joost working with wine. Also need to get songbird on there and figure out why my cruzer won’t mount. Last.fm as well. Phew.

The 100 dollar question, will it suspend and resume properly? Answer is YES.

I’ve been awake since 8am yesterday.