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

[Ben Rubinstein]

On 18/6/08 11:37, Bob Hartley wrote:
> 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

Hi Bob,

Thanks for the helpful suggestions - sorry I wasn't clear.  I had in fact 
already got Rev working (having previously installed Xandros full desktop); 
but by the time I'd done everything to get it working, I'd lost the energy to 
do anything with it!  Interestinly I don't recall seeing an alert about 
requiring 1024x768, although since the 900 by default is in 1024x600 you'd 
think it would apply; however, the problem that did stall me for a while was 
the '32-bit' requirement, which isn't reported in the GUI.

regards,

Ben