Monday June 09, 2008 Eee PC With Ubuntu And Orca
|
I got an Eee PC for my birthday; one of those with 1GB on memory and 8GB of "solid state" disk. I played around with the kiosk-mode Linux that came with it. I know you can fairly easily get out of that mode, but as I really didn't want to learn yet another version of Linux, I decided to install Ubuntu Hardy on it. |
I upgraded my previous created Ubuntu Gutsy bootable thumb drive to contain Hardy. These instructions helped out (thanks Ryan). I did the:
$ sudo lilo -M /dev/sdd
at the end just to be safe.
There's still some problems:
- Battery Monitor: "Battery may be broken: Your battery has a very low capacity (1%) which ..."
- Wireless connection not working.
- Microphone not working.
- SD card reader not working.
- Webcam not working.
but I'll leave them for another day. Hopefully this page should be a great help in fixing some of them.
For now, I've just hooked up the Eee to an external monitor, USB keyboard and mouse. I'm using a wired network connection and I've plugged in a nice set of speakers. I've also installed all the updates from the network repositories to get this up to GNOME 2.22.2.
I followed the Orca setup instructions and installed the nice Cepstral Callie voice, and voila! I have Orca running on yet another computer.
The potential here is that it's running on such a nice small portable machine though.
( Jun 09 2008, 01:25:25 PM PDT ) [Listen] Permalink Comments [6]
Comments are closed for this entry.
![[ Registered ]](http://www.diarist.net/registry/button.gif ){kind=small}
"but I'll leave them for another day. Hopefully this page should be a great help in fixing some of them."
Or you could just install Mandriva. All that stuff works out of the box.
Sorry, couldn't resist. :)
I'd definitely recommend the EEEuser wiki, though:
http://wiki.eeeuser.com/
it has a page for Ubuntu, if you really insist on using it. ;)
http://wiki.eeeuser.com/getting_ubuntu_8.04_to_work_perfectly
Posted by Adam Williamson on June 09, 2008 at 02:16 PM PDT #
I would start here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EeePC
Or go to www.eeeuser.com for more general stuff. Lots of good general and specific info.
Posted by Justin on June 09, 2008 at 02:16 PM PDT #
Thanks Adam/Justin! I had a feeling that all
this stuff would be "out there" somewhere.
I guess I know what I'll be doing tomorrow. :)
Ubuntu have got more interested recently
in these sub-notebooks too. I'm confident a lot
more of this will just work "out of the box"
for their Intrepid (GNOME 2.24) release.
Posted by Rich Burridge on June 09, 2008 at 02:30 PM PDT #
With thirty minutes more work, and using some of
the suggestions on:
http://wiki.eeeuser.com/getting_ubuntu_8.04_to_work_perfectly
I now have the wireless connection and the SD card
reader working nicely. Also my volume control in
the top GNOME panel seems to be good now too.
The http://www.x2on.de/eeepc/ubuntueeetweak.sh
script doesn't seem to want to fix the Battery
monitor warning, and I haven't tried the mic or
webcam yet, but hopefully all this won't take
to much more effort.
Posted by Rich Burridge on June 09, 2008 at 03:13 PM PDT #
If you follow Mark Shuttleworth's blog, you probably already know this, but his post today is probably of interest to anyone running Ubuntu on an eeePC. There's a repository link with some stuff that sounds like it'd be really handy on such a small screen.
http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/151
Posted by Dennis Fisher on June 09, 2008 at 03:51 PM PDT #
Nice! Thanks Dennis.
Posted by Rich Burridge on June 09, 2008 at 04:58 PM PDT #