Since January 24th 2008 the eee PC 4G 701-model is available in Germany. Other models are not announced.

German Eee PC's hardware does not differ from the current US-models, except for:

• German keyboard layout
• Charger comes with an adapter for European plugs, if the adapter is installed, it is not possible to flip the connectors

Everything else is the same, this means:

• there is no additional mini-PCI connector
• CPU runs at 630 MHz
• small neoprene bag is included

The German model misses some software, the following applications are not installed:

• Crack Attack!
• FBReader
• Frozen-Bubble
• GNOME Sudoku
• KPresenter
• Letter Game
• LTris
• Periodic Table
• PlanetPenguinRacer
• Tux Typing

In addition to that, some system-related packages are missing, for example python-gtk2 and python-imaging. As a result, the user-partition is a little bit larger, capacity: 1420 MB. The system partition is 2353 MB.

• hit Strg+Alt+T to open a terminal-window

Determine the correct name of the application you want to install:

• update your cache:

sudo apt-get update [ENTER]

• search for your desired application:

apt-cache search <part of application name> [ENTER]

• you will see a list of applications, containing your keyword in their name or description
• the name witch is needed to install an application is in the first column

• to install one of the missing applications type:

sudo apt-get install <application name> [ENTER]

• answer the upcoming questions with yes/ja

j [ENTER]

Example:

Determine name:

  /home/user> apt-cache search frozen
  frozen-bubble - Pop out the bubbles !
  fb-music-high - High quality large music files for Frozen-Bubble
  frozen-bubble-data - Data files for Frozen-Bubble

Install application:

   /home/user> sudo apt-get install frozen-bubble

The following applications do not work correctly:

• Sprachbefehl / speechcommand: Command “Computer Internet” returns a voice saying “Musik” and nothing happens
• Longman Dictionary: Translations are wrong
• No german dictionary in firefox and thunderbird
• Maximum screen resolution for external displays is 1024×768

Launcher Tools from http://www.3eportal.com require the packages python-gtk2 and python-image, witch are not installed on the German model.

• Install python-gtk2 and python-image:

sudo apt-get install python-gtk2 python-imaging [ENTER]

• Download Launcher Tools from http://www.3eportal.com, right click the altools deb-file in filemanager and select “DEB-Datei installieren…”

For unknown reason, the resolution of the VGA-out is limited to 1024×768. This is caused by a setting /etc/X11/xorg.conf and can be fixed easily.

Change virtual resolution:

• hit Strg+Alt+T to open a terminal
• open xorg.conf in editor:

sudo kate /etc/X11/xorg.conf [ENTER]

Replace the following entries under the line 'Section “Screen”'

• Change virtual resolution, replace the following line in each of the four 'SubSection “Display”' sections:

	Virtual  1024 768

becomes

	Virtual  1680 1680

• If you want to change colour-depth as well, replace

DefaultDepth     16

with

DefaultDepth     24

• Your 'Section “Screen”' section should now look like this:

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen1"
	Device     "Device1"
Monitor    "Monitor1"
DefaultDepth     24
SubSection "Display"
	Depth     8
	Virtual  1680 1680
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
	Depth     15
	Virtual  1680 1680
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
	Depth     16
	Virtual  1680 1680
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
	Depth     24
	Virtual  1680 1680
EndSubSection
EndSection

• Save the file
• Restart X by pressing Strg+Alt+Backspace (THIS WILL CLOSE ALL YOUR OPEN PROGRAMS!)
• Go to Einstellungen > Desktop-Mode and select your desired resolution

Note for Beryl users: If Rendering path is set to Copy when DefaultDepth is 16, Beryl will fail. This is fixed by setting DefaultDepth to 24.

To change the language from German to English: follow the manual way of: http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:changelanguage