ree:

foufymaus:

 

Of course for now, i can't install anything hahaha.   I'll keep you updated.

Any word on your machine yet?

 

I gave up and called them, the nice gentleman said based on my position in the queue it probably wont be shipped until next Tuesday.

*squee*

im totally excited!

yea!

 

Thank you for the response ree :), really appreciate it.

Best Regards,
Aviruth Sachdev

It's here! yea, now im going to tinker.

using the 'wrench button' i can't get my  screen to rotate. :|

hmmm..

 

foufymaus:

It's here! yea, now im going to tinker.

Congratulations.  That was a long wait wasn't it.

foufymaus:

using the 'wrench button' i can't get my  screen to rotate. :|

I assume you are only trying to rotate in 800x480 mode.  Perhaps they haven't worked out all the Intel driver issues or you don't have the updated ones.  What version of graphics driver do you have installed?

JKK, you said rotation worked for you.  What's your driver version?

Driver version that enable rotation is     6.14.10.4545

Nice software for fast rotation here

Interesting.  Mine reports 6.14.10.4545, dated 3/24/2006, and rotation doesn't work.  Well it worked once or twice and now, no longer does. 

Re install your vga software and use urotate to rotate....

done, and so far the urotate works like a dream.

 

The first allocation of units didn't ship with recovery discs or with an image on the hard drive to make one.  I think they wanted to work out the kinks before prepping an image.  They'll be sending out recovery disks to us sometime.  If you crash your system in the meantime and need to reinstall, I'm sure they'll fedex you something to get you running again, but you may be down for a day or so unless you have other install media.

Thanks for that ree. I thought the units were delayed so they could get the image right and supply a recovery partition though.

Cheers
Neil

I'm pretty sure they were delayed after having Intel video driver problems with a bunch of the units.  Many of the people who got them before the delay (myself included) had updated drivers sent out to them by tech support.  Perhaps they were looking to avoid bogging down their tech support staff just to send temporary drivers out to everybody.

Ahhh...ok...thanks ree. I shall await my recovery CD in the post :)

Can't wait for the battery calibration to finish, so I can have a real play :D

Cheers
Neil

Did you get a driver CD BTW?

Not yet.  Supposedly they sent me one on Friday-ish.  I specifically asked for it because I wanted to upgrade to the latest version of Blue Soleil to try and resolve an issue between it and some mapping software I'm using.  If you think you'll be doing OS upgrades/reinstalls, ask and they'll probably send something out for you.