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I have just received my new laptop, and have already installed Ubuntu as my default OS. Only one thing remain unreachable, the Brigthness control :(
Ubuntu 10.04 bring a lot of interesting features on social side, twitter, facebook, and so on. But...
The new Look of the gnome interface contains a strange choice about User interface: The window buttons side !
Left side for window size and action management is, IMHO, a wrong choice.
Right side is what human kind is usefull with.
So to bring back old uses :
Start gconf-editor, and go to the apps/metacity/general configuration to edit the button_layout key, and set:
menu:maximize,minimize,close
(full story and guide here: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/13535/move-window-buttons-back-to-the-right-in-ubuntu-10.04/). and get your window with the right side ;)
Note:
First thing to get it working is to be sure you will be able to connect your netbook to ethernet in wire mode.
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Installation of Ubuntu 8.10 Live on a USB key.
The best way to do rule this part is to use the famous UnetBootIn. this tool will allow you to install easily your prefered Linux Distro, here we will choose Ubuntu 8.10 live, on a USB key. Please choose a 1Gb sized k
The best way to do rule this part is to use the famous UnetBootIn. this tool will allow you to install easily your prefered Linux Distro, here we will choose Ubuntu 8.10 live, on a USB key. Please choose a 1Gb sized key to be quiet.
So just download unetbootin (twin versions exists : a windows and a linux version), and run it. If you are on Linux, you will be asked to install another debian package containing 7z. You will find a page on the official french Ubuntu site, on in the Ubuntu-eee site explaining how to use it.
EeePC 900: get it work !
Now the easiest part of this how-to: install Ubuntu 8.10 on your EeePC. Just click on the Install icon the Desk after booting on just prepared before USB Key. To boot on it, push the ESC key and choose the USB Device, while your Eee PC is just switch on and you get the grey screen with the EeePC logo.
After installing this, connect your Ethernet wire and update your just installed Ubuntu. now you are ready to customize your netbook OS accordingly to the EeePC capacities (Wifi, CPU frequency tools, Energy saving, etc...)
Wifi
We will have 2 steps to do:
Remove the existing modules:
sudo modprobe -r ath_pci
sudo modprobe -r ath_hal
Add to the balck list these 2 modules:
edit the file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and add the 2 following lines at the end:
blacklist ath_pci
blacklist ath_hal
Connect to the internet through ethernet (get wired !) and backport modules from Hardy Heron:
sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-intrepid-generic
Now, just reboot, and you will get the wifi running, and will be able to configure your wireless connection via NetworkManager.
CPU frequency managing
To activate the cpu frequency selector, you will have to install the following:
sudo apt-get install gnome-cpufreq-selector
And now edit /etc/modules and add this line at the end:
load p4-clockmod
Energy Saving
To enable the cpu frequency adaptor following energy mode, you will have to modify registry with gconf-editor.
dpkg --reconfigure gnome-applets
powertop will could easily help you reducing energy consumption by analyzing actual energy wasts and give you useful tips on how to save.
sudo apt-get install powertop
For more information on the Gnome Power management, see this page.
And that's all folk !
to be continued ....
Micro blogging, updated sites detection, and fast launching anything on my netbook running Ubuntu eee 8.04.1 is what is now possible thank to the following fabulous tools:
It's a webkit based poster for any blog/twitter/facebook platform. Well rendered, the tool use the apple opensourced version of webkit, the HTML renderer. with a userfriendly interface, anybody can now feed its muti sourced blogs and be advertized when a known and wel configured site was updated.
It's an old tool, but nothing replace this llittle thing which permit you tobe informed when a site was updated, giving a little mesage from the gnome panel that the site John Doe was updated.
the faster way to start anything on your laptop ! Just push the "super"+"space" combination keys and you'll just have to input some first letters of what you want to do, "facebook" for exemple will open your bookmark from firefox or epiphany to te facebook site, "text" will route you to the "OpenOffice Text writer" and if more than one item respond to your input, a list will appear pressing "down key", and then, just hit the "enter" or "return" key and that's all !
[edit] Add the --mini parameter to the gnome-do command and you'll get a well netbook feated UI ! great, thanks to Alex for the tips.
Thanks to opensource software to solve all these every day life problems ;)
A you now, I've recently bought an ASUS EeePC 900 with a 16Gb SSD, with the Xandros Linux modified version. But as I'm a Geek, I've installed an Ubuntu version designed for this micro laptop (netbook in good engish): ubuntu-eee.
But, crowling on the net, I've found a blog post very interesting, explaining how to install a standard version of Ubuntu on is:, thanks to the; www.tommcfarlin.com blog.
All the needed steps, before installation, installation, and post installation are discribed in details. It's in these details I've found the tips to aoid the anoying bug on the sound card after suspend. Thanks Tom !
So, good luck and good play !
