aspire one remaster

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aspire one remaster

#1 Post by iscraigh »

2nd remaster

http://puppylinux.ca/members/aspirepup/

added
skype
pidgin
java
petch
lucview

webcam works
wifi light works
some hotkeys work

Please test it out

Thanks

Craig
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#2 Post by hayagix »

I would love to try out your remaster. Does the card reader work too? I'm guessing the microphone works properly too as you added Skype.

There is a real demand for a working linux distro on these things other than linpus and Puppy has all the right stuff.

Unfortunately, humyo will not allow me to use a download manager.

I can only download during certain hours and I have to limit speed.

Would it be too much trouble to upload elsewhere?

I can't specify an alternate but maybe someone else could please?

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upload site

#3 Post by raffy »

Try ftp://puppy:puppylinux@ftp.servage.net
and create an Aspire directory there.

EDIT: Hosting is compliments of GermanPup.
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#4 Post by iscraigh »

Yes the mic works thanks to temptuous compiling a patched alsa for me. Thank you Raffy I will upload tonight.

Craig

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#6 Post by hayagix »

Thankyou very much. Looking forward to running it in the next few days.

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#7 Post by iscraigh »

For the mic you will need to use alsa mixer to unmute internal mic and turn up mic boost.
Let me know if the cardreader works. The card may need to be inserted before boot up, I don't have a card to test.

Craig

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#8 Post by valpy »

Excellent, it will be great to try this out. Many thanks.

Please could you post an md5sum for the iso so I can check the download is good?

valpy

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#9 Post by frenchie1000 »

My first post, so hello to everyone :)

This looks really good for the one, and works a treat for me, except it fails to boot with an sd card in either of the slots, which with a lowly 8gb version, is a bit of a sod.

Other than that its really good, and only having bought my one a week ago, and being a bit of a Linux noob, its great to have discovered the mine of information that these forums are.

Best regards

Frenchie

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#10 Post by MTLPhil »

Hi everyone.

New to Puppy, been using Ubuntu for a while on my main laptop.

Looking forward to trying this out on my new Acer Aspire One when I'm home from work and contributing to working out any kinks as much as I can.

One quick question regarding the remix, is it setup to reduce SSD wear by default (i.e. no filesystem journaling, temporary RAM partitions for logging, etc...)

If not the Ubuntu Acer doc has some good info on configuring these, would that all apply under Puppy as well?

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#11 Post by frenchie1000 »

Just one small thing that is bugging me, the clock in the taskbar is showing as a mixture of 12 and 24h, ie 09:02pm.
I have been looking for ages to find the setting for just 24h without success, can anyone help? I have gone through the set-up menu a few times, but it does not change


tia

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#12 Post by iscraigh »

Just an update
Almost ready for another release based on MU's .27 kernel pup.

Audio works volume is low
wireless including wep works
openbox with cairo-dock and pwidgets

I had a question about extra function keys and have started looking in to this. What I had included in the last realease was useless but I am gaining an understanding of the system and have updated some programs to help with this. I hope to have this working in the next couple of days.

Here is a peek
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#13 Post by Ted Dog »

I like what I saw, can't wait.. pant, pant, pant, drool.

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#14 Post by elling »

If it can help to fix the volume...the only distro I have tried with "normal" volume is mandriva one 2009.
I look forward to run Puppy on my little Acer :D

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#15 Post by iscraigh »

Volume seems much better!
all hardware works except some function keys that is what I am working on.
The wireless switch works, but after you turn it off and then back on you need to run the connection wizard again.

Both sd card readers work if the card is in @ boot.

No wifi lights due to ath5k driver not supporting it.

Still working on a way to get the external monitor function key to work without killing X or Rebooting. Any suggestions would help.

I will probably try to get a lid close to trigger a shutdown as I haven't played with hibernate at all yet.


Craig

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#16 Post by elling »

Sounds good :)
What about the fanspeed control?
The fan sounds like an airplane :roll:

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#17 Post by iscraigh »

haven't played with fan control yet. May try before release if I get the other items working, if not maybe next one. If anyone has had any luck with fan control in puppy let me know how you did it.

Thanks
Craig

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#18 Post by tempestuous »

elling wrote:What about the fanspeed control?
Fanspeed control requires being able to read/write to the AAOne's embedded controller, and so far no one has written a utility or module to do this, but it can be done with a Perl script.
There are two approaches. The first is the "acerfand" shell script which manages a perl script called "acer_ec.pl" -
http://the.taoofmac.com/media/Acer/Aspi ... notes.html

The second approach is a series of perl scripts (fanlow, fanhigh, fanoff) which are activated by hotkeys.
http://www.aspireoneuser.com/forum/view ... =39&t=3189

In both cases you would need to install perl, possibly from Petget, although this is a stripped down version of perl.

UPDATE May 25 2009:
Acer fan control driver now available here
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 940#308940
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#19 Post by elling »

Could those 2 downlodable scripts be used for Puppy?

They work fine in Ubuntu and Mandriva..but I tried in Puppy,and nothing happend.
Maybe because of I didnt had Perl installed :?

http://n00.be/archives/758/

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AspireOne loud fan = failure

#20 Post by Ted Dog »

The first ACER AspireOne I had also had a very loud FAN (Windows & puppy) so loud the speakers had a hardtime being heard. I ran regular puppy version from RAM setting. And Just powered off without regular shutdown. Flipped it on its' front (fan side up) allowed it to cool. And after a few minutes I needed to do sometime in windows and the little guy did not even make it pass boot.
Just three weeks, Costco allowed me full refund which I used the pay for another just like the last. The second ACER fan is MUCH quieter (like you should expect for such a low power machine)
Hope You saved the store slip, get it replaced!!!!!

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