Hello... Its good to be back. Is this the place to be or is the forum now it?

[Bob Hartley]

Ben Rubinstein wrote:
>
> We've just got an EEE to play with - the 900, which has 1024 x 600 
> screen (btw Bob, where did you find System Requirements? - I've looked 
> on the RunRev site and couldn't find them anywhere).

When you laqunch rev 2.9 it then says that the resolution needs to be
1024x768. However, since you have a 900 you probably wont see the popup.
>
> I've not yet got further than figuring out how to get to 2.9 to launch 
> (the EEE comes stock in 16-bit mode; there's no GUI support - that 
> I've found - for changing the screen depth; launching Rev from the GUI 
> fails silently; but if you launch Rev from the terminal, it fails with 
> an error that it requires 32 bit display.  The helpful interweb 
> reveals that you can edit a config file to restart the EEE in 24 bit, 
> and this is sufficient to get Rev to launch. Phew!)   After getting 
> that far I've not had the energy to play further with Rev - but I'm 
> planning to take the EEE on vacation instead of my MBP, and give it a 
> proper test then.
I simply went to the rev folder using the fiel manger. Then  right
clicked on the app and set it to executaable.  then it worked with a
double click (and also when added to the start menu)

I use xandros full desktop. You can get info on the install including
kicker etc here
http://wiki.eeeuser.com/#full_desktop_advanced_mode

All the best
Bob