[ubuntu-uk] Powertop - any advice?
Before I start messing with Powertop, has anyone got any advice, warnings, gotcha's? mac -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] dead netbook
Pressed the power button on my Acer Aspire One this morning and the button light goes on followed by the whirring of the fan but that's it. Not even a BIOS to hack into. Any ideas? Anyone heard of this happening to other Aspire Ones? It's currently got Jaunty installed which was running fine - the only different thing I've done was play with a live USB Puppy Linux yesterday evening. Seems unlikely that that fried everything. Cheers Bruce -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] dead netbook
Bruce Beardall wrote: Pressed the power button on my Acer Aspire One this morning and the button light goes on followed by the whirring of the fan but that's it. Not even a BIOS to hack into. Any ideas? Anyone heard of this happening to other Aspire Ones? It's currently got Jaunty installed which was running fine - the only different thing I've done was play with a live USB Puppy Linux yesterday evening. Seems unlikely that that fried everything. Cheers Bruce Hi Bruce, I've heard about Aspire One machines dying before, IIRC it was something to do with the BIOS. You could try this - http://macles.blogspot.com/2008/08/acer-aspire-one-bios-recovery.html Worth a shot, and it appears it can be done through Linux (just put the files on a FAT formatted USB stick). Hope this helps. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] dead netbook
Thanks Rob I'll have to wait until this evening but I'll give it a go. Cheers Bruce 2009/9/8 Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk Bruce Beardall wrote: Pressed the power button on my Acer Aspire One this morning and the button light goes on followed by the whirring of the fan but that's it. Not even a BIOS to hack into. Any ideas? Anyone heard of this happening to other Aspire Ones? It's currently got Jaunty installed which was running fine - the only different thing I've done was play with a live USB Puppy Linux yesterday evening. Seems unlikely that that fried everything. Cheers Bruce Hi Bruce, I've heard about Aspire One machines dying before, IIRC it was something to do with the BIOS. You could try this - http://macles.blogspot.com/2008/08/acer-aspire-one-bios-recovery.html Worth a shot, and it appears it can be done through Linux (just put the files on a FAT formatted USB stick). Hope this helps. Rob -- 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] Powertop - any advice?
2009/9/8 mac ammonius.grammati...@gmx.co.uk: Before I start messing with Powertop, has anyone got any advice, warnings, gotcha's? mac Nope. I don't think it's possible to break anything. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Printer prob
9.04 detected and enabled my HP1440 printer automatically. My Lexmark Z34 was not detected, after adding it, a print request just returned blank pages. Any suggestions please, (apart from use the HP one) ? Thanks, Michael -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Printer prob
mike daniels wrote: 9.04 detected and enabled my HP1440 printer automatically. My Lexmark Z34 was not detected, after adding it, a print request just returned blank pages. Any suggestions please, (apart from use the HP one) ? Thanks, Michael Too be honest the Lexmark printers are notorious for being badly supported. It appears there isn't an open source driver available which may explain why the printer doesn't work as standard. There are some instructions for Ubuntu 8.04 which may help although rather than logging on as root you'd need to use the sudo command... http://techscope.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/how-to-install-lexmark-z24-z25-z35-in-ubuntu-804/ Good luck. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Powertop - any advice?
Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: 2009/9/8 mac ammonius.grammati...@gmx.co.uk: Before I start messing with Powertop, has anyone got any advice, warnings, gotcha's? Nope. I don't think it's possible to break anything. Thanks, Jonathon, that's reassuring. So I guess I'll try the suggested fixes for the session to see if they help, and decide whether to adopt them permanently later. Search results suggest that Powertop is widely used by experienced Linux devotees; but I never came across anyone mentioning it here, though it's in the Ubuntu repos, so I wonder. Any thoughts? mac -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Powertop - any advice?
mac wrote: Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: 2009/9/8 mac ammonius.grammati...@gmx.co.uk: Before I start messing with Powertop, has anyone got any advice, warnings, gotcha's? Nope. I don't think it's possible to break anything. Thanks, Jonathon, that's reassuring. So I guess I'll try the suggested fixes for the session to see if they help, and decide whether to adopt them permanently later. Search results suggest that Powertop is widely used by experienced Linux devotees; but I never came across anyone mentioning it here, though it's in the Ubuntu repos, so I wonder. Any thoughts? mac Interesting application. I didn't know about it myself until you mentioned it. I've installed it and enabled a couple of it's suggestions, will be interesting to see if it makes any difference (although I generally run my laptop in power saving mode anyway so it's generally running at 1GHz). Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Powertop - any advice?
Rob Beard wrote: mac wrote: Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: 2009/9/8 mac ammonius.grammati...@gmx.co.uk: Before I start messing with Powertop, has anyone got any advice, warnings, gotcha's? Nope. I don't think it's possible to break anything. Thanks, Jonathon, that's reassuring. So I guess I'll try the suggested fixes for the session to see if they help, and decide whether to adopt them permanently later. Search results suggest that Powertop is widely used by experienced Linux devotees; but I never came across anyone mentioning it here, though it's in the Ubuntu repos, so I wonder. Any thoughts? mac Interesting application. I didn't know about it myself until you mentioned it. I've installed it and enabled a couple of it's suggestions, will be interesting to see if it makes any difference (although I generally run my laptop in power saving mode anyway so it's generally running at 1GHz). Rob Hi, are there any instructions on how to use this, I Installed it, but have no idea about how to start it, to even look at program. Thank you. John. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Powertop - any advice?
2009/9/8 John Matthews jake...@sky.com: Hi, are there any instructions on how to use this, I Installed it, but have no idea about how to start it, to even look at program. It's a terminal based program. Open a terminal (Applications - Accessories - Terminal) and run:- sudo powertop The gramattically incorrect http://lesswatts.org/ has some info about what it does. Specifically at http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/powertop/ Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Powertop - any advice?
John Matthews wrote: Rob Beard wrote: mac wrote: Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: 2009/9/8 mac ammonius.grammati...@gmx.co.uk: Before I start messing with Powertop, has anyone got any advice, warnings, gotcha's? Nope. I don't think it's possible to break anything. Thanks, Jonathon, that's reassuring. So I guess I'll try the suggested fixes for the session to see if they help, and decide whether to adopt them permanently later. Search results suggest that Powertop is widely used by experienced Linux devotees; but I never came across anyone mentioning it here, though it's in the Ubuntu repos, so I wonder. Any thoughts? mac Interesting application. I didn't know about it myself until you mentioned it. I've installed it and enabled a couple of it's suggestions, will be interesting to see if it makes any difference (although I generally run my laptop in power saving mode anyway so it's generally running at 1GHz). Rob Hi, are there any instructions on how to use this, I Installed it, but have no idea about how to start it, to even look at program. Thank you. John. I just ran the command sudo powertop from a terminal window. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] dead netbook
What Rob said, thats exactly what happens when the bios fails. Link posted works a treat. 2009/9/8 Bruce Beardall bruc...@gmail.com: Thanks Rob I'll have to wait until this evening but I'll give it a go. Cheers Bruce 2009/9/8 Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk Bruce Beardall wrote: Pressed the power button on my Acer Aspire One this morning and the button light goes on followed by the whirring of the fan but that's it. Not even a BIOS to hack into. Any ideas? Anyone heard of this happening to other Aspire Ones? It's currently got Jaunty installed which was running fine - the only different thing I've done was play with a live USB Puppy Linux yesterday evening. Seems unlikely that that fried everything. Cheers Bruce Hi Bruce, I've heard about Aspire One machines dying before, IIRC it was something to do with the BIOS. You could try this - http://macles.blogspot.com/2008/08/acer-aspire-one-bios-recovery.html Worth a shot, and it appears it can be done through Linux (just put the files on a FAT formatted USB stick). Hope this helps. Rob -- 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/ -- Kris Douglas -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
