OK: at the risk of being arrogant or incomplete, I've pinned this and renamed. Anyone with a better fix or addition please post and I'll add it to the start.

As far as I've read, we're pretty much all having the same few, and easily fixable, issues.

Is it worth putting those in a nice post for all to see before asking? I'd be happy for this post to end up as that, but I'm not confident that all the fixes I've seen are actually 'friendly' for want of a better word, to what's no doubt going on behind the scenes to fix them all properly.

Either way, I figured I'd list out the ones I've seen, and let people correct, amend, add or whatever.

1. Ubiquity prompts for a password at login, then the installer starts on every reboot.
Solution: remove Ubiquity from starting up.
Method: Either disable it starting in Preferences > Sessions, or Uninstall it in Administration > Synaptic.

2. Mute and Volume Up/Down keys don't work properly
Solution: change how eeepc-config processes them.
Method: as described by line 72 here: viewtopic.php?f=12&t=491
1. sudo gedit /etc/default/eeepc-config
2. Comment out the volume stuff by editting lines 50-52 from:

to

3. sudo /etc/init.d/eeepc-config restart

3. Skype audio doesn't work
Solution: change Skype hardware options
Method: As per bcurry here: viewtopic.php?f=12&t=538
Open Skype, go to options, Sound Devices. Change all settings to HDA Intel (hw:intel,0). Untick "allow Skype to manage mixer levels".

4. Audio levels too low, and/or muting results in crackling noises
Solution for 901: Tweak the audio settings
Method:
1. Go to Preferences > Sound.

In order, make the boxes say this:
Autodetect
Autodetect
Autodetect
HDA Intel ALC269 Analog (ALSA)
Playback: ALSA PCM on front 0 (ALC269 Analog) via DMA (PulseAudio Mixer)
Make sure "Master" in the box below is highlighted.

2. Right-click the volume icon on the Panel, select Open Volume Control
In Device, select HDA Intel (ALSA Mixer)
Make sure the sliders for PCM and LineOut are at maximum.
In Device, select Playback: ALSA PCM on front 0 (ALC269 Analog) via DMA (PulseAudio Mixer)
The Master slider should also be at maximum.

From my experiments, top volume should now be very loud, and the volume keys and mute should all work (providing the earlier fix above was applied) and mute doesn't crackle, and everything is lovely.

5. Fn + F2 doesn't enable wireless
Solution: No solution known with default build
Workaround: Installing eee-control appears to resolve this issue. Be aware that installing eee-control requires you to remove eee-config.


6. Network manager prompts for keyring at login
Solution: Follow the instructions here to give the keyring your login password.
I've had a report that this was followed on EP1.0, and caused login problems. I guess caution is advised!


Do we have any others? I've not mentioned the backdrop that people dislike, because it's not really an issue (ie it doesn't break anything) or little tweaks like, for example, getting the little home key to focus on desktop.

yes, make a sticky

Not only make it sticky but if it can be kept up to date with all issues and resolutions, that would be even better for folks who are just installing for the first time.

I'm glad you took the risk Uncle Mike !

This is Very Important Stuff !!

It saves a lot of time to have the fixes in one place.

Don't worry though...

Admin is very efficient and will pick up on it soon.

It's just they are getting slammed now with a heavy workload.

Cheers,

Burt B.
P.S. I really don't know what pinning means or how it works... care to elaborate ?

By the way, I'm not convinced about the Audio levels one. I just upped the volume on the normal volume preferences for LineOut, and added Capture and upped the volume on that. Does anyone know for sure?

Right, I think I've sorted the audio stuff (at least on my 901, anyway.) It was convoluted and I don't know why this works, but can anyone verify?

1. Go to Preferences > Sound.

In order, make the boxes say this:
Autodetect
Autodetect
Autodetect
HDA Intel ALC269 Analog (ALSA)
Playback: ALSA PCM on front 0 (ALC269 Analog) via DMA (PulseAudio Mixer)
Make sure "Master" in the box below is highlighted.

2. Right-click the volume icon on the Panel, select Open Volume Control
In Device, select HDA Intel (ALSA Mixer)
Make sure the sliders for PCM and LineOut are at maximum.
In Device, select Playback: ALSA PCM on front 0 (ALC269 Analog) via DMA (PulseAudio Mixer)
The Master slider should also be at maximum.

From my experiments, top volume should now be very loud, and the volume keys and mute should all work (providing the earlier fix above was applied) and mute doesn't crackle, and everything is lovely.

Skype, I found is also usable, and audio capture is clear, if still a little quiet.

Nice post,
thanks!

Nice! I wasn't paying enough attention to the volume control on the menu bar. If I'd actually though about it, I'd have gone that route, rather than downloading the ALSA controls. That's just the way I did it on 8.04.1

Thanks!

bc

Uncle Mike, other issues you can add are:
1. Fn-F2 (wireless enable/disable) not working
2. Cheese app not working, no pictures or video available with the webcam
3. User is prompted for password to establish wireless network connection

All of these were discovered on the 701 4G, maybe other models affected to. Thanks for taking this task on, it's a big help!

Thank you very much, Mike.

Now running Easy Peasy 1.0 on my Acer Aspire One 110L 8gb SSD netbook, and EP (Easy Peasy) is simply great on this little machine.

A big thank you to everyone who's been involved with the creation, bug fixing and testing of this distro. This is a killer distro.