Here’s a handy pointer that is a comment to a UNR blog item I wrote over on MobileContentToday…
You can fix the led issue by installing the linux-backports-modules-jaunty package and restarting.
Originally posted as a comment by heggied on mediabistro.com: MobileContentToday using Disqus.
My UNR Acer Aspire One boot time post over on MobileContentToday.com got a response from Chris. He tried it on a Acer Aspire One retrofitted with a 30GB hard drive. Unfortunately, it looks like the boot time is slow even switching from a Solid State Drive (what my Aspire One has) to an HD.
Hi Todd,
I’ve installed a 30Gb hard drive in my A110, so I installed 9.04 NBR last night and measured boot time to see if it was much faster. I measured from power on to when the desktop appears (auto login) and I got 65 seconds – with a further 5 for the wireless to connect. So that’s 70 total, then perhaps another 10 or more seconds to start Firefox – not great!The distro is definitely the best I have tried yet though, in terms of hardware support. The right-hand memory card reader doesn’t work properly but the left-hand one is fine.
Chris.
Originally posted as a comment by chrisdowey on mediabistro.com: MobileContentToday using Disqus.
Ran into a weird problem with Ubuntu 9.04 Netbook Remix + Firefox 3 + Google Calendar. As you can see above, Google Calendar does not render if I use HTTPS (SSL for a secure connection) with the site. However, it renders fine if SSL encryption is NOT used (plain ol’ HTTP). I don’t see think on Firefox running on Fedora Linux, Windows XP/Vista/7, or Mac OS X when using HTTPS. Very odd…
Anyone who has ever used a notebook or netbook computer understands that battery charge percentage reporting is not even near an exact science. If your notebooks and netbooks are like the ones I’ve used over the years, you’ve probably found your notebook or netbook completely shuts down way before your battery charge gets to 0%. I’ve had some units that failed with a charge over 20% and power management set not to do anything at that relatively high level. So, imagine my surprise when my Acer Aspire One running Ubuntu 9.04 Netbook Remix kept running about 20 minutes after the battery charge indicator hit 0% (see screenshot above).
I spent quite a bit of time learning about how UNR manages battery power on my Aspire One. And, I’ll be sharing that both here and over on MobileContentToday over the next few days.
If you have an Eee PC (I’ve got it in my wish list), ars technica has a how-to article you might be interested in reading…
I watched/read the various articles and blog posts about the recently released…
Ubuntu Mobile Internet Device (MID) Edition
earlier this week. I’ve been working with various Red Hat related distros myself (mostly CentOS and, to a lesser extent, Fedora Core) for most of this decade. But, I’ve downloaded and tried all of the Ubuntu distros when they come out. I have to say that this MID Edition is the one that most interests me the most of any Ubuntu release so far. The irony is that I don’t have any actual MID devices at all (unless you count the OLPC XO). I wonder if Ubuntu is going to provide some kind of ready-to-install ISO file that could be installed in a virtual machine for testing.