Install Ubuntu Hardy (8.04.1) Guide

Hi,

I am very pleased with this guide, and really appriciate your effort for optimizing the aspire one, ubuntu edition

I have some input though:

1. lm-sensors won't work until some new kernel releases (as understood from the bug mailing list). Guys over at debian figured out where the CPU temp info register was (number 58) in HEX value. This script returns it in DEC, wich is more readable (to most of us ...)

Here is a little script that will return your current CPU temperature:

Code:

watch -n 60 'echo Temp: $[$(/usr/bin/./acer_ec.pl ?= 58 | cut -f 3 -d" ")] C'

This implies that you have the acer_ec.pl executable in /usr/bin/ like explained below:

Go to wherever you downloaded the acer_ec.pl perl script, and do:

Code:

chmod u+x acer_ec.pl
sudo mv acer_ec.pl /usr/bin/

if you want to make a short script for monitoring your temperature just do a sudo gedit /usr/bin/temp and add the following lines to this file:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
watch -n 60 'echo Temp: $[$(/usr/bin/./acer_ec.pl ?= 58 | cut -f 3 -d" ")] C'

the "-n 60" is the variable interval in seconds for when the script checks the CPU TEMP register, you can set this to whatever you want.

again do a

Code:

sudo chmod u+x /usr/bin/temp

Now you are able to do write "sudo temp" in a shell whenever you want to monitor your temperature.

The other input/feedback I wanted to give was at wich temperatures you guys set your fan to turn on? I did some testing yesterday, and found out that the AAO appeared stable at 70 C, though it was kinda hot Therefore I am currently running FAN ON at 65 C. Any experiences with this?

 

FANOFF=50 / FANAUTO=60
depending on the weather :lol: the fan doesn't run too much and the A1 is kinda cool

 

could some one post the script with will made all this modifications in ubuntu for us ? everyone can install ubuntu by him self but copy and pasting compiling and downloading take some time ;/ why loose so much time ?

 

You may want to try the OneLinux beta (http://onelinux.org/download/beta/onelinux-beta-1.iso). That should have the bulk of the tweaks already done.

Another option - I was planning to back up my new install (incorporating the wiki tweaks) tonight. If someone wants to host it I could upload the image. AAO SSD 8GB users could then just copy the image onto their drive from within a LiveUSB session.

Allan

 

I dont know whether this was posted before:

from: http://www.aspireoneuser.com/forum/...t=0&sk=t&sd=a&hilit=card+reader+module#p15071

 

Bittorrent might make sense. i'm happy to grab your image and create a torrent if you don't fancy doing it yourself.

Ian

 

I'll try and get one ready by the weekend then pm you. I'm a bit of a bt noob

 

Here looks like a good place to upload the torrent. Creating an account is free and instant.

http://linuxtracker.org

You then use your BT client to create a .torrent from your file (get the announce URL from the linuxtracker upload page), upload the .torrent file to linuxtracker, and then start seeding the torrent by opening it and pointing your client at the original file (some clients do this last bit automatically)

Ian

 

I'm wondering why it was not add to the guide?

 

I can't get this to work. Booting off the liveUSB I get an errror = udevd-event [1444] run_program 'sbin/modprobe' abnormal exit...

 

I seem to have an issue that is was never mentionned here. During the install of ubuntu i had an external usb mouse connected. I installed and updated ubuntu (and i'm very happy with the netbook remix packages). But I can't use the trackpad. I did not notice at first because i was using the external mouse.

So can anybody help me with getting my trackpad to work? Could it be the xorg.conf? Or which drivers are you guys using?

Thanks a lot.

 

Thanks for your reply TEEWEE. Your English is better than my French.

Regards

Baudwalk

 

Did you try Fn-F7?

 

First off, thanks to everyone on this forum, My AAO is running Ubuntu very well thanks to all of you

Now an issue I cannot solve.

I tried the command to check the temperature, and this was the result

Code:

# watch -n 60 'echo Temp: $[$(/usr/local/bin/./acer_ec.pl ?= 58 | cut -f 3 -d" ")] C'
sh: /usr/local/bin/./acer_ec.pl: Permission denied

this happens if I use sudo, or in a root shell. root has read/write access to the file, and my fan control seems to work. Any ideas?

 

what are the exact permissions of the file, try:
chmod +x acer_ec.pl

 

Thanks for the tip. Fixed my problem.

 

Looks like my install isn't as trouble free as I hoped. I've had major issues getting microphone and sound to work at the same time. Not sure what is different. My previous install had both working fine using alsa 1.0.17 and model=acer. This time around it seems borked.

Probably best not to use my install as a base.

Allan

 

Unfortunately the last update:

on Install Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04.1) on the Acer Aspire One apparently didn't work for me :cry:

 

The script seems to run for me, but still returns Hex values under the temp, as quoted below

any ideas?

 

Same problem here.