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BillW50
Flightless Bird
AJL wrote on Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:27:05 -0700:
> BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> wrote:
>
>> AJL wrote on Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:403 -0700:
>
>>> And that may become necessary someday for my Xandros powered Eee PC 2G
>>> Surf netbook. It won't recognize my newer HP slimline external DVD
>>> drive. And I've never been able to find a driver to get it to work.
>>> But it still recognizes my several year old monster sized externally
>>> powered HP DVD drive so I'm OK for now...
>> Xandros doesn't recognize it or the BIOS doesn't?
>> You can tell if the BIOS sees it by hitting the ESC key before Linux
>> boots up. That kicks in the boot menu. And it will show up in the list
>> if the BIOS sees it.
>
> Just tried your suggestion. The boot menu *does show* the slimline
> drive. So Xandros is the culprit.
>
> I never worked on the problem too hard since my old HP external drive
> works fine so I just use it. Out of curiosity (at the time) I did a
> little research about using the slimline drive with the Surf but came
> up empty. And really I would hate to rock the boat installing and
> trying drivers even if I found one cause that little 7" box hasn't
> crashed in months, it really works well with the original setup.
> Course that just proves AJL's laptop theory#1...
Oh okay. My Samsung slimline SE-S084 DVD burner works fine under
Xandros. And it even plays non-copy protected DVDs too. Well smooth for
the first 5 seconds then choppy and the sound breaking up on this
1140x900 external monitor after that. Needs more CPU power is my guess.
Works fine with Windows XP on the same machine though.
--
Bill
Asus EEE PC 702G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC
Xandros Linux (build 2007-10-19 13:03)
> BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> wrote:
>
>> AJL wrote on Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:403 -0700:
>
>>> And that may become necessary someday for my Xandros powered Eee PC 2G
>>> Surf netbook. It won't recognize my newer HP slimline external DVD
>>> drive. And I've never been able to find a driver to get it to work.
>>> But it still recognizes my several year old monster sized externally
>>> powered HP DVD drive so I'm OK for now...
>> Xandros doesn't recognize it or the BIOS doesn't?
>> You can tell if the BIOS sees it by hitting the ESC key before Linux
>> boots up. That kicks in the boot menu. And it will show up in the list
>> if the BIOS sees it.
>
> Just tried your suggestion. The boot menu *does show* the slimline
> drive. So Xandros is the culprit.
>
> I never worked on the problem too hard since my old HP external drive
> works fine so I just use it. Out of curiosity (at the time) I did a
> little research about using the slimline drive with the Surf but came
> up empty. And really I would hate to rock the boat installing and
> trying drivers even if I found one cause that little 7" box hasn't
> crashed in months, it really works well with the original setup.
> Course that just proves AJL's laptop theory#1...
Oh okay. My Samsung slimline SE-S084 DVD burner works fine under
Xandros. And it even plays non-copy protected DVDs too. Well smooth for
the first 5 seconds then choppy and the sound breaking up on this
1140x900 external monitor after that. Needs more CPU power is my guess.
Works fine with Windows XP on the same machine though.
--
Bill
Asus EEE PC 702G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC
Xandros Linux (build 2007-10-19 13:03)