Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia driver problems
On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 19:34 +, Neil Greenwood wrote: 2009/1/30 Dianne Reuby pramc...@yahoo.co.uk: OK, ignore me - I've reinstalled .09. rebooted and it's OK. Apart from my username/logoff button being missing. But who'd want to log off anyway? :-) Seriously though, if you want it back and it's still missing after a reboot, you can probably do it by right-clicking the mouse on the Panel where you want the button to be. Choose Add to Panel... from the menu that appears and pick the button. I'm just guessing, since I'm still on 8.04, but I think the two buttons that are missing are Quit and User Switcher. Added that OK, and finally remembered how to move it to the place I wanted. No special effects though ... until I was given a (used) flat-screen monitor by my daughters boyfriend yesterday. Fiddling with the Ubuntu hardware settings, I discovered my Nvidia driver was installed, but not activated. Now it's activated, I have everything back just as on 8.04 :) Don't know why it doesn't ask if you want to activate when you install. Dianne -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Buying a Acer Notebook.....
2009/2/2 Dr James Stevens-Turner ja...@btguk.org John, Maplin are offering a laptop at £99.99 plus one at £129.99, with Linux on! James. I have played with one of these, a branded Elonex one and the quality is terrible. The keyboard is just 'too' small. At least with an Acer or Asus netbook you can adapt to the smaller useable keys. I don't think the Maplin £99 laptop is worth the plastic it's made from. Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Buying a Acer Notebook.....
On 02/02/2009 14:02, Dr James Stevens-Turner wrote: John, Maplin are offering a laptop at £99.99 plus one at £129.99, with Linux on! James. From what I understand they have a MIPS CPU (which rules out running Ubuntu) and it doesn't support things like Flash properly. To be honest I'd rather pay the extra for an Aspire or EeePC. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Buying a Acer Notebook.....
I wondered if that was a good deal, also I wondered how easy it would be to install Ubuntu on it. As it doesnt have a dvd/cd player, would Ubuntu work on it, and how would I install it? I have an Aspire One 150 and I'm very satisfied with it. I immediately wiped out Linpus and put generic Ubuntu Intrepid on it. After only a small amount of tweaking (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne is invaluable), nearly everything works perfectly. The only bit that doesn't are the card slots for certain types of HD card, though I consider that minor. Otherwise the screen, wifi and webcam are all fine. It's not brilliantly fast but not bad for a netbook. Admittedly, an extra 512Mb would be good but I gather it's something of a nightmare to install it - apparently you have to essentially dismantle the entire machine to do so! The default battery only gives about 2h time, so I've ordered a larger one which should give up to 6h. Finally, to install ubuntu, use the UNetbootin utlity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNetbootin) to transfer the ISO onto a pen drive and boot from USB. Worked fine for me. Anything else, just ask! Regards, Robert. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Buying a Acer Notebook.....
On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 17:04 +, Robert Longstaff wrote: I wondered if that was a good deal, also I wondered how easy it would be to install Ubuntu on it. As it doesnt have a dvd/cd player, would Ubuntu work on it, and how would I install it? I have an Aspire One 150 and I'm very satisfied with it. I immediately wiped out Linpus and put generic Ubuntu Intrepid on it. After only a small amount of tweaking (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne is invaluable), nearly everything works perfectly. The only bit that doesn't are the card slots for certain types of HD card, though I consider that minor. Otherwise the screen, wifi and webcam are all fine. It's not brilliantly fast but not bad for a netbook. Admittedly, an extra 512Mb would be good but I gather it's something of a nightmare to install it - apparently you have to essentially dismantle the entire machine to do so! The default battery only gives about 2h time, so I've ordered a larger one which should give up to 6h. Finally, to install ubuntu, use the UNetbootin utlity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNetbootin) to transfer the ISO onto a pen drive and boot from USB. Worked fine for me. Anything else, just ask! Regards, Robert. You do have to dismantle it but it's not that hard as long as you take your time and are methodical. It's a really nice machine to dismantle see the youtube videos -- Seek That Thy Might Know http://www.davmor2.co.uk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Buying a Acer Notebook.....
UNetbootin works fine but if you're able to run Ubuntu elsewhere, go to System/Administration/Create a USB startup disk - with that you'll need a USB memory stick of at least 1 Gig and a linux ISO image. Once done, reboot (change bios if needed and from that point on it's just like using a live boot cd). I got my Aspire One from Amazon with the 1 gig ram pre-installed (120 HDD) for £210 and I've never looked back. The tweaking link on the Ubuntu Community site that most have listed gives you everything you need. Frankly, I don't see why Acer are wasting their time with Linpus when having Ubuntu out of the box would put them leagues ahead of all other netbook manufacturers. The hardware is superb, if they just stopped playing around and installed a decent distro, it would be a 5 star machine. 2009/2/2 Robert Longstaff dreamf...@dreamfish.org.uk I wondered if that was a good deal, also I wondered how easy it would be to install Ubuntu on it. As it doesnt have a dvd/cd player, would Ubuntu work on it, and how would I install it? I have an Aspire One 150 and I'm very satisfied with it. I immediately wiped out Linpus and put generic Ubuntu Intrepid on it. After only a small amount of tweaking (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne is invaluable), nearly everything works perfectly. The only bit that doesn't are the card slots for certain types of HD card, though I consider that minor. Otherwise the screen, wifi and webcam are all fine. It's not brilliantly fast but not bad for a netbook. Admittedly, an extra 512Mb would be good but I gather it's something of a nightmare to install it - apparently you have to essentially dismantle the entire machine to do so! The default battery only gives about 2h time, so I've ordered a larger one which should give up to 6h. Finally, to install ubuntu, use the UNetbootin utlity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNetbootin) to transfer the ISO onto a pen drive and boot from USB. Worked fine for me. Anything else, just ask! Regards, Robert. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Buying a Acer Notebook.....
I got myself one of those. It's got a very dated an unattractive looking interface, and firefox 2 beta. It runs a 2.4 kernel on a MIPSEL processor. You cant reach the TTY or a graphical shell, andthe pacakge management/upgrade system doesnt work. The OS is a lockdown so you cant install anything else, except xenium linux which is hacked to work on it. When I tried xenium, it made it permanently unbootable. Then the battery exploded/melted. After a lot of arguing, i got a refund, but only for the notebook itself, and not the 16 quid postage both ways. 2009/2/2 Dr James Stevens-Turner ja...@btguk.org: John, Maplin are offering a laptop at £99.99 plus one at £129.99, with Linux on! James. - Original Message - From: John To: British Ubuntu Talk Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 1:56 PM Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Buying a Acer Notebook. I finally found a relatively cheap notebook with what seems like good specs, and was wondering what people though of it. The only thing it hasnt got is a dvd/cd player. I cant even find one that has. If anybody knows of a notebook that has one can they let me know? The specs are Acer Aspire One A150-Aw Netbook, Linpus Linux Lite version, 512MB DDR2 RAM, 120GB HD with a Kingston Technology 1GB 667MHz DDR2 Non-ECC CL5 SODIMM Insert as an extra, the whole package costs £200. I wondered if that was a good deal, also I wondered how easy it would be to install Ubuntu on it. As it doesnt have a dvd/cd player, would Ubuntu work on it, and how would I install it? Thank you. John -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Buying a Acer Notebook.....
Contact your Trading Standards Department, you are not expected to be out of pocket due to defective goods. Michael --- On Mon, 2/2/09, Alec Wright ale...@gmail.com wrote: From: Alec Wright ale...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Buying a Acer Notebook. To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Date: Monday, 2 February, 2009, 5:27 PM I got myself one of those. It's got a very dated an unattractive looking interface, and firefox 2 beta. It runs a 2.4 kernel on a MIPSEL processor. You cant reach the TTY or a graphical shell, andthe pacakge management/upgrade system doesnt work. The OS is a lockdown so you cant install anything else, except xenium linux which is hacked to work on it. When I tried xenium, it made it permanently unbootable. Then the battery exploded/melted. After a lot of arguing, i got a refund, but only for the notebook itself, and not the 16 quid postage both ways. 2009/2/2 Dr James Stevens-Turner ja...@btguk.org: John, Maplin are offering a laptop at £99.99 plus one at £129.99, with Linux on! James. - Original Message - From: John To: British Ubuntu Talk Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 1:56 PM Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Buying a Acer Notebook. I finally found a relatively cheap notebook with what seems like good specs, and was wondering what people though of it. The only thing it hasnt got is a dvd/cd player. I cant even find one that has. If anybody knows of a notebook that has one can they let me know? The specs are Acer Aspire One A150-Aw Netbook, Linpus Linux Lite version, 512MB DDR2 RAM, 120GB HD with a Kingston Technology 1GB 667MHz DDR2 Non-ECC CL5 SODIMM Insert as an extra, the whole package costs £200. I wondered if that was a good deal, also I wondered how easy it would be to install Ubuntu on it. As it doesnt have a dvd/cd player, would Ubuntu work on it, and how would I install it? Thank you. John -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Buying a Acer Notebook.....
On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 13:56 +, John wrote: I finally found a relatively cheap notebook with what seems like good specs, and was wondering what people though of it. The only thing it hasnt got is a dvd/cd player. I cant even find one that has. If anybody knows of a notebook that has one can they let me know? The specs are Acer Aspire One A150-Aw Netbook, Linpus Linux Lite version, 512MB DDR2 RAM, 120GB HD with a Kingston Technology 1GB 667MHz DDR2 Non-ECC CL5 SODIMM Insert as an extra, the whole package costs £200. I wondered if that was a good deal, also I wondered how easy it would be to install Ubuntu on it. As it doesnt have a dvd/cd player, would Ubuntu work on it, and how would I install it? Thank you. John There are a couple of issues with Ubuntu on the acer all relatively minor https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne110L should give you an idea. It's easy to install you just use create a usb startup disc under system admin on your ubuntu system with the cd in the machine. My 110 is running almost flawlessly. Hope that helps. -- Seek That Thy Might Know http://www.davmor2.co.uk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Buying a Acer Notebook.....
On 02/02/2009 17:27, Alec Wright wrote: I got myself one of those. It's got a very dated an unattractive looking interface, and firefox 2 beta. It runs a 2.4 kernel on a MIPSEL processor. You cant reach the TTY or a graphical shell, andthe pacakge management/upgrade system doesnt work. The OS is a lockdown so you cant install anything else, except xenium linux which is hacked to work on it. When I tried xenium, it made it permanently unbootable. Then the battery exploded/melted. After a lot of arguing, i got a refund, but only for the notebook itself, and not the 16 quid postage both ways. I presume you're on about the Maplin netbook rather than the Aspire One? I did consider one of those Maplin netbooks when they were nearer to £150 but after reading that they didn't have an x86-compatible processor I decided against it. There's one thing about getting a netbook that is capable of running XP, at least you know it's pretty likely that Ubuntu will run on it without much messing around. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Buying a Acer Notebook.....
John, Maplin are offering a laptop at £99.99 plus one at £129.99, with Linux on! James. - Original Message - From: John To: British Ubuntu Talk Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 1:56 PM Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Buying a Acer Notebook. I finally found a relatively cheap notebook with what seems like good specs, and was wondering what people though of it. The only thing it hasnt got is a dvd/cd player. I cant even find one that has. If anybody knows of a notebook that has one can they let me know? The specs are Acer Aspire One A150-Aw Netbook, Linpus Linux Lite version, 512MB DDR2 RAM, 120GB HD with a Kingston Technology 1GB 667MHz DDR2 Non-ECC CL5 SODIMM Insert as an extra, the whole package costs £200. I wondered if that was a good deal, also I wondered how easy it would be to install Ubuntu on it. As it doesnt have a dvd/cd player, would Ubuntu work on it, and how would I install it? Thank you. John -- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Buying a Acer Notebook.....
On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 14:02 +, Dr James Stevens-Turner wrote: John, Maplin are offering a laptop at £99.99 plus one at £129.99, with Linux on! After a lot of research I discovered that these are arm based and no good for any of the mobile versions of Ubuntu. The acers are about the cheapest for an ubuntu install -- Seek That Thy Might Know http://www.davmor2.co.uk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Buying a Acer Notebook.....
I finally found a relatively cheap notebook with what seems like good specs, and was wondering what people though of it. The only thing it hasnt got is a dvd/cd player. I cant even find one that has. If anybody knows of a notebook that has one can they let me know? The specs are Acer Aspire One A150-Aw Netbook, Linpus Linux Lite version, 512MB DDR2 RAM, 120GB HD with a Kingston Technology 1GB 667MHz DDR2 Non-ECC CL5 SODIMM Insert as an extra, the whole package costs 200. I wondered if that was a good deal, also I wondered how easy it would be to install Ubuntu on it. As it doesnt have a dvd/cd player, would Ubuntu work on it, and how would I install it? Thank you. John -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google blocking the Ubuntu home page
Including itself. I suspect someone may have typed Google into Google, and that can break the Internet, as every IT manager knows. On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 8:01 PM, mac ammonius.grammati...@gmx.co.uk wrote: Simon Wears wrote: Google had about a 15 minute period where it flagged the entire internet as Malware. Now there's an interesting philosophical proposition! Mac -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
