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[frauke <kttywu@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi!

I have an UL50Ag running Fedora 12. The battery life is usually between 
6-7 hours (powertop squeezes out maybe another hour), using wifi, 
highest brightness and all. The function keys are all working, except 
the brightness control. I managed to 'unflip' the camera in skype with 
the workaround suggested on this list. Microphone doesn't seem to be 
working, but I haven't rechecked in some time now.

It seems like the biggest problem with the UL-series and linux is the 
nvidia-card, which I don't have, so maybe you could disable it and use 
the intel chip? 2 hours of battery life seems awfully low, I'd also 
recommend checking if you have the right battery.

I've already seen some improvement with recent kernels (power-management 
wasn't working initially), so I'm confident that the other stuff will 
also be resolved soon :)

greetings
frauke

On 31/05/10 14:21, ben van 't ende wrote:
> Hey Guys,
>
> I just want to let you know me and my Asus are around as well ;-) I am basically
> very happy with the machine running on Lucid Lynx. The reason I bought the Asus
> is because of it's design and because of the promise of a long battery life. At
> the moment I think I do not even manage 2 hours. I have an eeepc 1005 as well,
> which performs absolutely beautiful with Lucid Lynx. That might also be due to
> the eeepc utilities. Only half of my finction keys are working unfortunately. I
> don't consider that a huge problem though.
>
> I have noticed that some work is being done to let these hybrid machines work
> with Linux. I would like to imagine the situation will have largely improved in
> half a year or a year and that we have these things functioning properly with
> Ubuntu or Linux for that matter. What do you think?
>
> gRTz
>
> ben
>
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