<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 2:14 AM, alfred <<a href="mailto:alfred.s@nexicom.net">alfred.s@nexicom.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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. <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1253406" target="_blank">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1253406</a> 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! :) </blockquote><div> Mine is the 11.6" ZA3 model. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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.</blockquote><div> 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 <a href="http://gma500re.altervista.org/scripts/poulsbo_ppa.sh">http://gma500re.altervista.org/scripts/poulsbo_ppa.sh</a> && 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. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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. </blockquote><div> I'd guess this ought to work -- only one way to find out ;) John </div></div>