Fedora 11 (Preview Release) on Eee PC 1000

Here's a quick list of the good and the bad of Fedora 11 (Preview Release) on the Eee PC 1000.

The bad:

1. The wireless drivers till have to be downloaded and compiled from http://www.rpmfusion.org

a. Install Repo

su -c 'rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-rawhide.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-rawhide.noarch.rpm'

b. Install drivers (as root):

yum install akmod-rt2860

c. Reboot Eee PC twice. Once to build the drivers (automatically), second to load drivers (automatically).

2. PulseAudio volume control SUCKS!!! You lose control over the different channels and the sound on the Eee PC comes out much slower than usual.

a. The workaround (less than optimal):

alsamixer -c0

3. Mouse clicks with touchpad is disabled by default.

a. The workaround:

On Gnome go to System -> Preferences -> Mouse. Choose the 'Touchpad' tab, and click on 'Enable mouse clicks with touchpad'

The good:

1. Compared to F10, the biggest improvement on my Eee PC 1000 has been suspend/resume feature. It actually works 100% of the time now. And NetworkManager restores the connection really really fast!

2. All other parts of the Eee PC work out of the box.