Ubuntu Netbook Remix on Acer Aspire One Ugraded version.

[alfred]

-----Original Message-----
From: John Gill <swfiua at gmail.com>
To: alfred.s at nexicom.net
Cc: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: Ubuntu Netbook Remix on Acer Aspire One Ugraded version.
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 09:15:24 -0500



On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 2:14 AM, alfred <alfred.s at nexicom.net> wrote:
         
        Version ZA3, I didn't have the time to do all this reading, and
        it
        looks like there will not be Drivers for this netbook to be able
        to
        make use of Ubuntu Netbook Remix. I read through Several other
        pages on
        UNR and this one.
        http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1253406 up
        to page 9, and although other people managed to get it working
        on a
        variety of Netbooks, looks like I may be using Vista Basic, with
        "M".
        :( Intel says that because the poulsbo chip set has a
        proprietary
        component it can't be given to Linux. There are commercial
        Codecs
        available now to Ubuntu costing about $40.00. Perhaps an option
        to use
        the proprietary Drivers could be made available for a fee,
        similar to
        the Codecs in the Ubuntu Software Catalogue. I'd like to make
        use of
        UNR, and if they are at a reasonable fee, then I could. You made
        mention that you got it working on the 11.6" model of Acer
        Aspire One,
        which Model was that? Sorry for being a Heretic! :)

Mine is the 11.6" ZA3 model.



        
        I read your second link after the above, looks like you got it
        working!
        Might give it a try, although I'm not that good with Code.

It is working well.   No real coding needed -- this incantation installs
and configures the poulsbo drivers (taken from the thread my blog linked
to).   Probably worth running as two commands so you can take a look at
what the script actually does.

wget http://gma500re.altervista.org/scripts/poulsbo_ppa.sh &&
sh ./poulsbo_ppa.sh

Only issue I have had is that I can't turn on the compiz effects without
breaking sound -- no biggy for me.

Also, I went for a normal Ubuntu desktop in the end, rather than the
netbook release, since with a 1366x768 screen you really don't need the
netbook interface.
 
        If I can format that Pata 2.5" to USB Drive, I could try it as a
        Dual Boot with
        Windows Vista Basic as the first option and Karmic UNR as the
        second
        option. If it don't go, then just remove the USB Drive and Fix
        Grub, on
        the internal drive. Would this work? Or use the Bios Boot
        Sequence
        option to pick the second drive with UNR on it. That way no
        messing
        with Grub if I want to revert to Vista and no getting rid of
        Vista either.

I'd guess this ought to work -- only one way to find out ;)

John 

Hi again:

I got a USB interface that attaches to Sata Drives, IDE Drives and PATA
Drives that does not need, drivers if used in Windows. So the advice
was, Format the PATA Drive in NTFS first with Windows, so that Linux can
see the Drive, to be able to format it, with Gparted in EXT3. At the
moment it is Blank and Linux does not see it. So I'll try this latter
today. (There is also a Gnome Format Command, which can Format Flash
drives, External HDD, and USB Devices in Fat 32 and EXT 2, but when I
tried it there was no easy way to get into Root to be able to use it.)

I got the Karmic Netbook Install CD from 
www.thelinuxstore.org about $9.00. We don't have High Speed Internet
here, and anything over 30 Megs just does not download without errors on
it. 

I bought the ZA3 Acer so I can go to one of the two Internet Cafes in
town here to be able to make use of their WIFI Internet to get the files
that are too big for Dial up. Putting the data on a Flash Drive. No one
knew of the problems with ZA3. 

I buy the DVD Editions of each Version of Ubuntu, so I can have all the
repositories on DVD, and not have to download much. In Karmic 9.10 again
it reads the DVD index files, then allows you to give it a name, but
then does not add them to the Software Sources List under "Other" when
Add CD is used. Doing it from the terminal just gets you to the Software
Sources Program which does not work. In 9.04 I used 2 variations of the
Find Command, that striped out all the deb packages from the folders on
the 8 DVD's, so I could put all the deb Packages into just one folder.
Then I used Gdebi to install the software that I wanted to install off
the DVD's, that are in that one big folder. I tried to do a search in
Evolution to find the two Find commands, but it came up with nothing, I
don't remember what the two commands were. They worked very well, it
took about 20 minutes to make that one folder with, 26,939 deb packages,
in 9.04. I entered a bug in the Bug list way back in 6.06 I think it
was, but I could not provide the kind of detail that the Bug List people
wanted (I was still a Ubuntu Newbe), so this bug never got fixed. Doing
things this way is slow, but for files of 200 Megs or more it's very
fast. 200 Megs takes me about 9 days to download. This way I can do it
in about 10 minutes. My IP provides a 19X increase in speed but only
Windows and now Mac can use it. Linux NO GO! So most days I'm lucky to
get speeds of 102 Baud, up to 33K Baud when it is a 56K service. My Wish
list is that Linux can use this 19X too. I'd rather not use Windows on
the web. I had very bad experiences doing this up to about 5 years ago
when I switched to Ubuntu. Only ever had one problem with Linux, and
Malware. (One Time only) If someone there on the list knows what these
Find Commands are, please let me know!

TIA

Alfred!