I recently got hold of an Asus Eee PC 900 – the newer version of the Eee 701. It’s a lovely piece of kit, which I’ll probably review more fully on the podcast.
After playing with Zattoo on my Ubuntu laptop, I thought I’d give it a go on the Eee 900 which is running the default Xandros Linux distribution (which I actually quite like).
Here’s what it looks like once installed:-
Unfortunately the Asus software repositories don’t contain the Zattoo package, or the dependency that allows Zattoo to install cleanly. However as Xandros is based on Debian Etch, so it’s possible to fix this issue quite easily.
Here’s what I did:-
- Download the zatto deb package.
- Download libgtkglext1 from the Debian Etch repository.
- Open a terminal with [CTRL]+[ALT]+t
- Install the two deb packages downloaded using the following command
- dpkg -i *.deb
Then you can run zattoo from the command line.
You can of course zoom in.
Full screen works very nicely.
One thing I have yet to figure out is how to add an icon to the big “telly tubby” menu.
Update Found out that editing /opt/xandros/share/AsusLauncher/simpleui.rc enables me to maintain the graphical the icon for the zattoo_player executable.
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Hope they will open it for international disposal soon
Argh. I want one too.
There’s an article in this months LXF which talks about the eee and includes details about adding to the menu. (Well – it covers the “start” menu, which is a standard icewm menu I believe, not sure about the big icons – I’ll check for you at some point)
*strains*….you don’t want the EEE 900. You want to give it to me instead….
(here’s to hoping that worked…)
*jealous* you have a EEE900
How’s the laptop overall?
it’s worth saying that the exeutable to run from the command line once installed is zattoo_player – it took me a while to figure this out after following the instructions at the top of the page. Otherwise this works great – thanks!