Aspire one 110L as microdesktop replacement

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  1. jbesada

    jbesada

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    I want to share with you my current configuration:
    - Aspire One 110L
    - Basic installation from Aspire One comunity wiki (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne), it covers madwifi and alsa perfectly for my basic uses (using options snd-hda-intel model=acer).
    - 16 Gb SDHC, mounted as /home (kernel recompilation, using "old debian" method). Suspend works perfectly (see other threats regarding this problem and its solution http://www.aspireoneuser.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=2311#p15547). kernel recompilation took around on hour in the own Aspire one.

    - I use deadline elevator instead of noops, i found it somewhere and think it is fastest now, but maybe its just me.

    - VGA output for 1680x1050 22'' LCD. Also, correct functioning of Touchpad. It is attained using the following xorg.conf
    Code:
    # Xorg configuration created by system-config-display
    Section "ServerFlags"
       #Option "DontZap" "yes"
       #Option "DontVTSwitch" "yes"
    EndSection
    
    Section "ServerLayout"
       Identifier     "Default Layout"
       Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
       Screen      1  "Screen1" 1 0
       InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
       InputDevice    "Synaptics Touchpad" 
       InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    EndSection
    
    Section "InputDevice"
       Identifier  "Keyboard0"
       Driver      "kbd"
       Option          "XkbRules"      "xorg"
       Option          "XkbModel"      "pc105"
       Option          "XkbLayout"     "es"
    EndSection
    
    Section "InputDevice"
            Identifier      "Synaptics Touchpad"
            Driver          "synaptics"
            Option          "SendCoreEvents"        "true"
            Option          "Device"                "/dev/psaux"
            Option          "Protocol"              "auto-dev"
    	Option 		"LeftEdge" 		"1700"
    	Option 		"RightEdge" 		"5300"
    	Option 		"TopEdge" 		"1700"
    	Option 		"BottomEdge" 		"4200"
    	Option 		"FingerLow" 		"25"
    	Option 		"FingerHigh" 		"30"
    	Option 		"MaxTapTime" 		"180"
    	Option 		"MaxTapMove" 		"220"
    	Option 		"VertScrollDelta" 	"100"
    	Option 		"MinSpeed" 		"0.09"
    	Option 		"MaxSpeed" 		"0.18"
    	Option 		"AccelFactor" 		"0.0015"
            Option          "SHMConfig"             "on"
    EndSection
    
    Section "InputDevice"
       Identifier  "Mouse0"
       Driver      "mouse"
       Option       "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
       Option       "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
       Option       "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
       Option       "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    EndSection
    
    Section "Monitor"
       Identifier  "Monitor0"
       Modeline  "1024x600" 48.96 1024 1064 1168 1312 600 601 604 622 -HSync +VSync
       
       #Modeline  "1920x1200"
    #   Option   "Above"   "Monitor1"
    EndSection
    
    Section "Monitor"
       Identifier  "Monitor1" 
       Modeline "1680x1050_60.00"  147.14  1680 1784 1968 2256  1050 1051 1054 1087  -HSync +Vsync
    EndSection
    
    Section "Device"
       Identifier  "Videocard0"
       Driver      "intel"
       Option      "monitor-LVDS" "Monitor0"
       Option       "monitor-VGA" "Monitor1"
       Option       "Clone" "true"
       Option   "MonitorLayout"   "LVDS,VGA"
       BusID   "PCI:0:2:0"
    #   Screen   0
       Option "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"
    EndSection
    
    Section "Screen"
       Identifier "Screen0"
       Device     "Videocard0"
       Monitor       "Monitor0"
       DefaultDepth     24
       SubSection "Display"
          Viewport   0 0
          Depth     24
          Modes    "1024x600"
          #Virtual   1024 768
       EndSubSection
    EndSection
    
    Section "Screen"
       Identifier "Screen1"
       Device     "Videocard0"
       Monitor       "Monitor1"
       DefaultDepth     24
       SubSection "Display"
          Viewport   0 0
          Depth     24
          Modes    "1680x1050_60.00"
       EndSubSection
    EndSection
    
    
    - Webcam: This was tricky. I needed to install, apparently, linux-ubuntu-modules. by compiling it. It did not work, I spent several hours fighting this problem, but I found in ubuntforums.org the sources for a working driver. Look for it at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=715366

    I have some other tweaks I cannot remember at rc.local, laptop-mode enabled, ... If you want I could look for it later. 55 seconds to have an operational ubuntu system, with posibility to perform suspend/resume and 16Gb of user files, its perfect for me.

    As a conclusion, the system is perfectly operative now, really fast and i will almost never take my other laptop home from my job. I will use this as my desktop replacement.
    Just an opinion, there are many people saying you to use linpus, to use it as a raw core netbook, this is the "concept" they say. I prefer having a desktop replacement and control the system functioning.
    It is much more powerful now. This tiny laptop is approximately as functional as my desktop five years ago!
     
    jbesada, Aug 30, 2008
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