Unfortunately, I no longer maintain this guide. Being that I myself now use Fedora for the Acer Aspire One, I don’t spend much time investigating how to tweak Linpus. All things you try based on this guide are at your own risk! I still recommend using http://www.aspireoneuser.com/forum/ for further questions about the Acer Aspire One. If you need help on IRC, you can find me on the channel #linuxhjelp on the IRC-network DALnet (irc.dal.net).
I have, well had, a Powerbook G4 which was driving me nuts. Having been using Linux for a such a long time, I wasn’t quite able to adjust to how a Mac dealt with software – most of the stuff out there isn’t free. That was just one of the problems I had with a Mac. Making a long story short, I ended up with giving my Powerbook to my parents. I’m sure they’ll enjoy it way more than I do.
So, having gotten rid of that laptop, I suddenly found myself laptop-less, which, to be honest, left me feeling quite naked. I did find a solution though! Getting hold of an Acer Aspire One.
I’ve now ordered it, and it should be in my hands in about a week. Till then, I’ll just gather some tips and tricks concerning it and its system. The machine is finally in my hands. :) You can find the following tips and tricks here:
- Adding your own Desktop-icons
- Changing the keyboard layout to Norwegian
- Changing to the default desktop
- Disabling autologin (and enabling GDM)
- Enable Circular Scrolling
- Enabling the right click menu
- Improving read and write performance
- Installing Firefox 3
- Installing other packages with yum
- Managing the (noisy) fan speed
- Removing the Search Bar
- Setting the right resolution on an external monitor
- Troubleshooting
- USB Recovery Image
- Wallpaper for the Acer Aspire One
If you need any sort of help “live”, I recommend using the channel #onelinux on the IRC Freenode-network (irc.freenode.org). You can find me there under the nick jbg. :)
Please keep in mind that most changes done to the system will require you to have root-access. So unless specified otherwise, run all the commands as root. Whether you are root or not is indicated by the first character in your terminal. $ signifies that you’re a regular user, # is for when you are root.
Oh, and if you’re wondering about what the root password is, I believe it is the same as your regular user password. If you’d like to change it though, do the following:
$ sudo su - # passwd root New Unix password: Retype new Unix password: passwd: all authentication tokens updates successfully.
Before we proceed though, I need to emphasize that every instruction here is done at your own risk. There is no guarantee that any of this will work on your Acer Aspire One. Most people have reported these instructions to be a success, while others report failure. So, be cautious!
Changing to the default desktop
The Acer Aspire One runs a Linux distribution called Linpus. This distribution comes with XFCE as the default windowmanager. Of course Acer has modified it a bit, which makes it look like this:
Word of caution though. Most websites will tell you to do the following:
su to root:
$ sudo su -
and open the file /etc/xdg/xfce4-session/xfce4-session.rc:
# mousepad /etc/xdg/xfce4-session/xfce4-session.rcand find the line:
Client0_Command=xfdesktopnewChange it to:
Client0_Command=xfdesktop-xfceBut the thing is, when you replace xfdesktopnew with xfdesktop-xfce, a script called xfce-mcs-manager won’t start up, and that is what some people find so “horrible” about the regular xfce-desktop. If we open up the file xfdesktopnew located in /usr/bin/, we find the following:
#!/bin/sh if [ -f /usr/bin/xfce-mcs-manager.new ];then sudo mv /usr/bin/xfce-mcs-manager.new /usr/bin/xfce-mcs-manager fi /usr/bin/xfdesktop2 & >/dev/null 2>&1 sleep 5 if [ -f /usr/bin/xfce-mcs-manager ];then sudo mv /usr/bin/xfce-mcs-manager /usr/bin/xfce-mcs-manager.new fi
As you can se here the script xfdesktopnew starts the application xfdesktop2. What that script contains, I’ve no idea. Try opening the file for yourself, you’ll see what I’m talking about. Anyway, in order for this to work, change the line:
/usr/bin/xfdesktop2 & >/dev/null 2>&1
to:
/usr/bin/xfdesktop & >/dev/null 2>&1
Save it and close it. Next, open up the file /usr/bin/xfdesktop, and change line 6 to look like this:
/usr/bin/xfdesktop-xfce & >/dev/null 2>&1
Save, close, and reboot. You should have a fully working xfce desktop, with icons!
Now, if you’re like me, and would like to have the icons gone from the desktop, create a file named xfdesktoprc in /home/user/.config/xfce4/desktop/ with the following in it:
[file-icons] show-filesystem=false show-home=false show-trash=false show-removable=true
Save and close, and reboot. The result? Something like my desktop:
Have fun. :)
Enabling the Right-click Menu
Usually when you’re in xfce you can right-click on the desktop to bring forth a menu. This isn’t enabled as a standard function with the desktop that comes with the Acer Aspire One. To enable it, do the following.
On your desktop, under the File category, select My Documents. When this opens, select File and then Terminal. When the terminal opens, type:
$ xfce-setting-show
This will bring up the xfce settings manager. Select Desktop, Behavior and click the box named Show desktop menu on right click. Voila, that should be it. :)
Changing the keyboard layout to Norwegian
This can be done in at least two ways. You either put setxkbmap no at the bottom of the .bash_profile-file (located in your home-folder) like this:
$ echo "setxkbmap no" >> bash_profile
Or you can download and install this RPM.
Update: With the new Live Update-patch, this is no longer required.
Disabling autologin
Warning: Take caution when commenting out lines, and inserting new ones. The lack of a single character may render your system useless.
Open the file named /etc/rc.d/rc.S and comment out the following line:
/usr/bin/xinit -- -br>/dev/null 2>&1 &
Like this:
#/usr/bin/xinit -- -br>/dev/null 2>&1 &Below this line, insert the following:
/usr/sbin/gdm
And that’s that. The username is user and the password is whatever you set it to be during the installation.
Should you for some reason be unlucky enough to forget to add /usr/sbin/gdm to the file, but still commented out /usr/bin/xinit — -br>/dev/null 2>&1 &, and rebooted, do what David here did. Thanks David. :)
Installing Firefox 3
If you want Firefox 3 to be installed properly (via yum), you should add the remi repository:
# wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/remi-release-8.rpm # rpm -Uvh remi-release-8.rpm
Edit the file /etc/yum.repos.d/remi.repo, and set enabled to 1 under [remi] and NOT [remi-test].
Then we proceed with removing the old Firefox and installing the new one. Now, a regular yum remove firefox won’t work, as it’ll drag a buttload of dependencies with it. However, this will only remove Firefox, without its dependencies:
# rpm -e --nodeps firefoxThen install the new one:
# yum install firefoxThat’s all there is to it. :)
Now, having said that, a friendly chap named Nacho Marin made me aware of a problem that had totally slipped my mind. It seems that there are several programs that are depending on some libraries that Firefox 2 has, and not Firefox 3. The Acer Aspire One e-mail client being one of them, and the RSS reader too. The missing libraries are libgtkembedmoz.so, libmozjs.so, libxpcom_core.so and libxpcom.so.
A big thank you to Nacho for the heads up about the library-files.
Update: It seems that several people were complaining about how the e-mail program kept shutting down for no apparent reason. It seems that they need more than simply the library-files. I believe I’ve located the files, and that you now should be able to have both Firefox 3, and the email client working. Give me some feedback to let me know how the script turns out.
I (Jorge) have made a script to make this a bit easier to fix, so stay tuned.
Update: Script is finished, instructions are as follows:
Become root and open a file named recover_firefox_libraries.sh:
$ sudo su - # mousepad recover_firefox_libraries.sh
Place the following in it:
#!/bin/bash # ## Script to recover Firefox 2 libraries ## Jorge Barrera Grandon <jorge@atlantiscrew.net> ## Version 2 # # ## Usage: ./recover_firefox_libraries.sh WGET=`which wget` RPM_URL="http://jorge.ulver.no/files/firefox-files.tar.gz" MV=`which mv` CHOWN=`which chown` CHMOD=`which chmod` RM=`which rm` TAR=`which tar` MKDIR=`which mkdir` RMDIR=`which rmdir` cd /root/ echo "## Getting hold of the Firefox-files.." $WGET $RPM_URL echo "## Unpacking the library-files.." $TAR zxvf firefox-files.tar.gz echo "## Moving library-files.." $MV /usr/acer/bin/AME /usr/acer/bin/old.AME $MV /root/firefox-files/AME /usr/acer/bin/AME $MKDIR /usr/lib/firefox-files/ $MV /root/firefox-files/* /usr/lib/firefox-files/ echo "## Changing permissions and cleaning up.." $RM /root/firefox-files.tar.gz $RMDIR /root/firefox-files/ $CHOWN -R root.root /usr/lib/firefox-files/ $CHMOD -R 755 /usr/lib/firefox-files/ echo "## Done!"
What the script basically does is to get hold of the file firefox-files.tar.gz (so be online when running it), moves the libraryfiles, changes the permission, and removes the file and the unnecessary directories it creates. Make the file executable, then run it:
# chmod +x recover_firefox_libraries.sh # ./recover_firefox_libraries.sh
Enjoy!
Installing other packages with yum
If you want to install other packages with yum, a repository I can recommend is http://rpm.livna.org. You can add this repository by following these instructions. First, become root. You should be able to either do sudo su - and then entering the password for user, or just do su -, and entering the root-password (which I think is the same as for user):
$ sudo su - # yum -y install yum-priorities
Open and edit the file /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/priorities.conf. Change vim to whatever editor you prefer (nano is one of the easier ones):
# vim /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/priorities.confMake the contents of the file look like so:
[main] enabled = 1 check_obsoletes = 1
Save and close the file. Now finally, install this package and you should be set:
# rpm -Uvh http://www.fedorafaq.org/f8/yum http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm
Removing the search-bar
Removing the search-bar is very simple as well. Open the file /usr/share/search-bar/start-search_bar.sh and comment out each line to make the content look like so:
#!/bin/sh #resolution=`xrandr |grep *|awk '{print $1}'` #resolution=`xrandr |grep current|awk -F"current" '{print $2}'|awk -F"," '{print $1}'|sed 's/ //g'` # #if [ $resolution = "1280x800" ];then # acer-search-desktop --x=650 --y=90 --width=490 --height=31 #elif [ $resolution = "1024x600" ];then # acer-search-desktop --x=510 --y=65 --width=490 --height=31 #else # acer-search-desktop #fi
Enable Circular Scrolling
I doubt that this part is Linpus-specific, but after having had an Acer Aspire One for a few days, you’ll come to notice that the scrolling is damn annoying. The way to scroll as default is by dragging your finger along the right-hand side of the touchpad. And it isn’t even on the edge either, but a bit inside the edge. I personally found circular scrolling to be easier to use. Enable it like so.
Either press Alt+F2 and type gsynaptics or open a terminal and type the same. Go to Scrolling and select Enable Circular Scrolling. Enjoy!
Adding your own Desktop-Icons
You’re probably not going to use some of the the default applications listed on your Acer One-desktop. I know I’m not going to. But wouldn’t it be nice to be able to specify what programs you would like displayed on your desktop? Good thing it IS possible then. Have a look:
There you see that I’ve added two applications of my own – VLC and audacious. Here’s how you do it.
First off, you need to have the programs installed. :) In most cases you’ll already find that once you install the program, icons for it will come along. Check /usr/share/pixmaps/ for them. But should you need an icon for some program that hasn’t any at some point, it has to be 90×90, and be placed in that folder.
If you installed VLC through yum, like I did, then you’ll find the file livna-vlc.desktop in /usr/share/applications/. Now, for the sake of tidiness, I renamed the file to vlc.desktop:
# mv livna-vlc.desktop vlc.desktopThis file looks something like this:
[Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Name=VLC media player Name[fr]=Lecteur multimédia VLC Comment=Read, capture, broadcast your multimedia streams Comment[fr]=Lire, capturer, diffuser vos flux multimedia Name[sv]=Mediaspelaren VLC Comment[sv]=Allmän uppspelare av film och musik Name[ru]=Медиаплеер VLC Comment[ru]=УниверÑальный проигрыватель видео и аудио Exec=vlc Icon=vlc.png Terminal=false Type=Application Categories=AudioVideo;Player; MimeType=video/dv;video/mpeg;video/x-mpeg;video/msvideo;video/quicktime;video/x-anim;video/x-avi;video/x-ms-asf;video/x-ms-wmv;video/x-msvideo;video/x-nsv;video/x-flc;video/x-fli;application/ogg;application/x-ogg;application/x-matroska;audio/x-mp3;audio/x-mpeg;audio/mpeg;audio/x-wav;audio/x-mpegurl;audio/x-scpls;audio/x-m4a;audio/x-ms-asf;audio/x-ms-asx;audio/x-ms-wax;application/vnd.rn-realmedia;audio/x-real-audio;audio/x-pn-realaudio;application/x-flac;audio/x-flac;application/x-shockwave-flash;misc/ultravox;audio/vnd.rn-realaudio;audio/x-pn-aiff;audio/x-pn-au;audio/x-pn-wav;audio/x-pn-windows-acm;image/vnd.rn-realpix;video/vnd.rn-realvideo;audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin;application/x-extension-mp4;audio/mp4;video/mp4;video/mp4v-es;x-content/video-vcd;x-content/video-svcd;x-content/video-dvd;x-content/audio-cdda;x-content/audio-player; X-Desktop-File-Install-Version=0.13
The next step is opening up the file /home/user/.config/xfce4/desktop/group-app.xml. Go through the file, you’ll see it’ll make sense. Now, I assume that you want VLC to be placed under the category Fun. Open the group-app.xml-file, and search for:
<id>7</id>
Somewhere in between there, add the following:
/usr/share/applications/vlc.desktop
Save and close the file, reboot, and your VLC-icon should be there. :) If you want your VLC-icon to be visible, like I did on my desktop, swap the sequence=”6″ with a more appropriate number (like 1-3), just make sure that two objects in the file don’t have the same sequence number.
Or even easier – click and drag the icon you want displayed into one of the first three slots. :)
The right resolution with an external monitor
If you’ve plugged in an external monitor, you’ve probably noticed that 1024×600 doesn’t look too good on a 17″. There is a remedy for this though, but you need to modify your xorg.conf-file.
First, take a backup of your current xorg.conf, in case something goes wrong:
# cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /root/Now open the file:
# mousepad /etc/X11/xorg.confFind the Screen-section – there should be a line there that says:
Virtual 1024 600
Change it to:
Virtual 2304 1024
Also add the resolutions “1280×1024″ and “1024×768″ to the Modes-line above. This will make sure that the virtual screen space is big enough to accomodate a 1280×1024 screen beside a 1024×600.
So that part of your xorg.conf should end up looking like this:
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "1024x600" "800x600" "640x480" Virtual 2304 1024
Save and close the file, and reboot to activate the virtual screen size.
Now, to be able to clone your desktop to the external monitor, press Fn-F5. If you however would like to use BOTH your Acer One Aspire, and your external monitor, open a file named dual_desktop.sh and put the following in it:
#!/bin/bash xrandr -s 1280x1024 xrandr --output LVDS --left-of VGA --auto
Save, close, and do a chmod +x on it:
$ chmod +x dual_desktop.shPress Fn-F5 till both your Acer Aspire One and the external monitor are active. Then run the script:
$ ./dual_desktop.shNow when you run it, you should be able to drag applications between your Acer Aspire One, and your external monitor. :) Just change –left-of to –right-of if your Acer Aspire One is on that side. Change the resolution in the script to something else as well if you should need it. If you don’t feel like doing it though, here’s a script I’ve made that’s a little more advanced:
#!/bin/bash # ## Script to extend your Acer Aspire One (AA1) desktop ## Jorge Barrera Grandon <jorge@atlantiscrew.net> # # ## Press Fn-F5 on your AA1 till both monitors are ## active then run this script. Usage is like so: ## ./dual_desktop.sh <resolution> <position of the AA1> ## ## Example: ./dual_desktop.sh 800x600 left XRANDR=`which xrandr` if [ "$1" = "1280x1024" ] || [ "$1" = "1024x768" ] || [ "$1" = "800x600" ] && [ "$2" = "left" ] || [ "$2" = "right" ]; then echo "Setting resolution to $1 and alignment to $2." $XRANDR -s $1 $XRANDR --output LVDS --$2-of VGA --auto else $XRANDR -s 1280x1024 $XRANDR --output LVDS --left-of VGA --auto echo "No or invalid resolution given - setting resolution to 1280x1024 and alignment to left." fi
If you want a resolution of 800×600 on your external monitor, and your Acer Aspire One is on your right-side, run the script like so:
$ ./dual_desktop.sh 800x600 right
Managing the (noisy) fan speed
At first my Acer Aspire One was working just fine. I never had any problems with it, nor the fan. But of late the thing has been making such a sound that it’s driving me nuts. Solution, solution, where art thou solution?! Well, there is a solution. :)
Download the scripts acer_ec.pl and acerfand. Once downloaded, do a chmod +x on them, and place them in /usr/local/bin/. Add an entry in /etc/rc.d/rc.local to start acerfand, and create the configuration-file needed. So:
$ sudo su - # wget http://jorge.ulver.no/files/{acer_ec.pl,acerfand} # chmod +x acer* # mv acer* /usr/local/bin/ # echo "/usr/local/bin/acerfand" >> /etc/rc.d/rc.local
Then create the file acerfand.conf in /etc/ with the following options:
INTERVAL=5 FANOFF=55 FANAUTO=65
INTERVAL is the polling interval in seconds.
FANOFF is the temperature in Celsius at or below which to turn the fan off, if it’s currently on auto.
FANAUTO is the temperature in Celsius at or above which to turn the fan to auto, if it’s currently off.
Righty, so when the default temperature reaches 55C, the fan works again. According to Intel, the Atom Chip could work at 99C. But I doubt anyone is willing to risk it. Heck, I know I don’t. Simply modify the values in acerfand.conf to your own liking. Enjoy!
USB Recovery Image
A big thanks to gouki from the aspireoneuser.com-forums for providing some space for the image. :D
You can find the image at http://onelinux.org/recovery/aa1_usb_recovery_image.gz.
Now, the instructions.
I had to use an external USB drive for this, as I don’t have a USB-pen that’s above 125MB, but it works just the same. Besides the Acer One Aspire, I’ve another machine with Fedora 9 on it. Once the external drive was plugged in, this is what dmesg came up with:
usb 2-2.1: New USB device found, idVendor=1058, idProduct=0702 usb 2-2.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 usb 2-2.1: Product: External HDD usb 2-2.1: Manufacturer: Western Digital usb 2-2.1: SerialNumber: 575845363037433636303733 usb-storage: device found at 14 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning usb-storage: device scan complete scsi 16:0:0:0: Direct-Access WD 1200BEVExternal 1.02 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 sd 16:0:0:0: [sdb] 234441648 512-byte hardware sectors (120034 MB) sd 16:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off sd 16:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00 sd 16:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through sd 16:0:0:0: [sdb] 234441648 512-byte hardware sectors (120034 MB) sd 16:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off sd 16:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00 sd 16:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through sdb: sdb1 sd 16:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk sd 16:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
So now we know that the drive has been assigned /dev/sdb. Let’s make the recovery usb drive then.
WARNING: This next command will end up erasing your WHOLE drive, so be cautious when you type it. As root, type:
# zcat aa1_usb_recovery_image.gz > /dev/sdbNotice that it’s /dev/sdb and NOT /dev/sdb1, as we’re overwriting the whole disk, and not just a partition of the disk.
That did the trick for me. Once the command was completed, remount the external drive and you’ll see that the new contents is there. Unmount it again, plug it into your Acer Aspire One, boot the machine, and press F12 during boot to select the USB-pen/external harddrive as the device to boot. You should be on your way towards recovery. :)
If someone happens to know how to do this in Windows, please give me a shout so that I can add it to this post. :)
Improve read and write performance
According to this post I found, concerning SSD, the following will greatly increase read and write performance on your SSD-disk (which happens to be the type of disk the Acer Aspire One has, the Linux-version anyway).
Simply do the following:
$ sudo su - # mousepad /boot/grub/grub.conf
Now, add the elevator=noop option to the kernel-line, making this line:
kernel /boot/bzImage ro root=LABEL=linpus vga=0x311 splash=silent loglevel=1 console=tty1 quiet nolapic_timer
look like this:
kernel /boot/bzImage ro root=LABEL=linpus vga=0x311 splash=silent loglevel=1 console=tty1 quiet nolapic_timer elevator=noop
Save the file, close it, and reboot. Some have reported that there’s an increase in writespeeds going from 7.1MB/s to 9.1MB/s by adding this change. If it works or not, well, you can be the judge of that. :)
Another thing you can do to improve performance, is disabling Firefox’s cache. With IO (Input/Output) being the real bottleneck on the Acer Aspire One, disabling writing to the disk might be a good idea. When a page is loaded, Firefox will cache it into the hard disk so that it doesn’t have to be downloaded again for redisplaying. If you browse enough sites, you’ll experience that Firefox might freeze for a few seconds or so.
To disable Firefox’s caching, fire up your Firefox, and in the URL-field, type:
about:config
Search for browser.cache.disk.enabled, and if set to True, doubleclick it to set it to False.
Wallpaper for the Acer Aspire One
I found the following wallpaper in this post, but I thought to post them here as well for easy access. The regular wallpaper on your AA1-desktop can become quite a drag with time. So why not spice it up a bit with some color?
The way to change the wallpaper is like so. Right-click on your desktop, select Settings then click on Desktop Settings. Next to File:, just enter the new path of your wallpaper. :)
Blue
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Red
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Green
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Purple
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Royale
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Sepia
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VLC
The Fedoraproject-pages say the following:
The Fedora Project recently re-signed all of its packages with a new key. Background details regarding the key change are found here. This page exists to aide users in the transition to the newly signed content and further updates for Fedora 8 and Fedora 9.
I assume many (if not all) of you have by now experienced the following problem when installing VLC:
Error: Missing Dependency: libpulse.so.0(PULSE_0) is needed by package vlc Error: Missing Dependency: libopendaap.so.0 is needed by package vlc-core Error: Missing Dependency: libdvdnav.so.4 is needed by package vlc-core
The solution to this is to install the new key distributed by fedora. This is how you do it.
Download, verify and install this RPM-file:
$ sudo su - # wget http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/fedora-release/8/6.transition/data/signed/4f2a6fd2/noarch/fedora-release-8-6.transition.noarch.rpm
Now verify that the package sha1sum matches 9a684ad36f4c1f49df7c569d5990d00f7da2cb9c:
# sha1sum fedora-release-8-6.transition.noarch.rpmOnce that is verified, install the package through rpm:
# rpm -Uvh fedora-release-8-6.transition.noarch.rpmNow import the new GPG-key like so:
# rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-8-and-9And that should be it. You should now be able to download and install VLC (among other things) as normal. :)
ssh-agent
ssh-agent is quite a nifty thing to have running in the background. I thought that adding some lines of code to your .bashrc or .bash_profile would do the trick. But apparently not. The code I added was this:
SSHAGENT="/usr/bin/ssh-agent" SSHAGENTARGS="-s" if [ -z "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" -a -x "$SSHAGENT" ]; then eval `$SSHAGENT $SSHAGENTARGS` trap "kill $SSH_AGENT_PID" 0 fi
Adding it to either file didn’t work, because upon doing an ssh-add, I got the following error:
$ ssh-add
Could not open a connection to your authentication agentAnd this happened even if ssh-agent was running:
$ ps aux | grep ssh-agent user 2709 0.0 0.0 6332 604 ? Ss Aug28 0:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent -s
The solution to this isn’t very intuitive. Open the file /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc, and remove the comment from the following lines:
Line 72 – 77
#sshagent=`which ssh-agent` kill_sshagent=0 #if test -z "$SSH_AGENT_PID" -a "$sshagent" -a "x$sshagent" != "xno"; then # eval `$sshagent -s` # kill_sshagent=1 #fi
Line 100 – 102
# if test $kill_sshagent -eq 1; then # eval `$sshagent -k` # fi
When done, save and close the file, and reboot. ssh-add should now be working properly. :)
Tried to follow the instruction on disable auto login, but being careless as to miss to add the last line on /usr/sbin/gdm and hit reboot. So I am stuck now, cannot get back to the ui or any prompt to add that extra line. Please help. Thanks a lot in advance!
David
Comment by David — August 18, 2008 @ 21:18
Problem solved. While in the blue screen during start up after hitting F2, it won’t take in any commands, only showing the characters on screen. However, if hitting ctrl-C, it will give back a prompt. So I edit the file and add the missing line.
Your instructions works well!
Thanks!
Comment by David — August 18, 2008 @ 22:30
Hi! Glad to hear that you solved your problem. :) I apologise for the late reply, had to head to bed early due to work. But thank you for posting the solution! I’ll add it to the post, credit to you of course. :)
Comment by jorge — August 19, 2008 @ 05:39
No problem and you are most welcome! Sharing both our failure and success usually helps others as well.
May I ask you a different question? I’ve trouble connecting my A1 to my external projector, and I think it’s to do with its screen resolution. But I can’t change the resolution via the Settings->Display, since there is only one option: 1024×600. Any help is greatly appreciated!
Comment by David — August 19, 2008 @ 21:12
I really want to switch to the default desktop, but when I try to open the file it says “permission denied”
I’ve spend an hour and got nowhere. You say to open thr file ad root. I’m at [root@localhost but when I put that file string in it just denies permission.
Gav
Comment by Gavin Seim — August 19, 2008 @ 22:52
Oh well… I tried your trick to get default XFCE desktop and now I can’t even right click on the desktop… so I can’t access any apps. The only thing I can do is searching for files from the desktop searchbar and start firefox that way. I don’t know any way to pop a command line prompt to get default settings back. Can someone help?
Comment by 11touche — August 20, 2008 @ 08:11
11touche: Do you still have the default searchbar? If so, search for xterm on it, while having Desktop selected. When you find xterm (it should be located in /usr/bin), then you’ll have a command line prompt. Where you even able to get the default desktop? The way to open the file needed is like this:
Search for:
Client0_Command=xfdesktopnewand replace it with:
Client0_Command=xfdesktop-xfceSave and close the file, and reboot. Have you done this as well, Gavin? If your right-click menu doesn’t work either, bring up a terminal in the same way I’ve explained above, and run (as root):
# xfce-mcs-managerand then run:
# xfce-setting-showProceed to Desktop, click Allow Xfce to manage the desktop, then click Behavior, and select Show Desktop Menu on Right click.
Comment by jorge — August 20, 2008 @ 08:23
David, I’ve updated the post about what you were wondering about. Let me know if it helps. :)
Comment by jorge — August 20, 2008 @ 09:16
Thanks for updating. I was in root, but that it was typing “mousepad” before the filename in the terminal that allowed it to open, and I had no idea. Linus seems to confusing. I can’t even find a straightforward way on making it install apps like Windows, or os x do, sigh.
Anyways I got the default desktop. Is that search bar from the Acer theme supposed to be sitting in the upper right like that? it looks kinda odd.
I will say I’m a bit disappointed. I expected a normal desktop I could place icons on, save file to etc. All it gives me is an empty desktop with no icons, a search bar, and a right click menu. Maybe I’m missing something, but if that’s all the better the XFCE desktop is I can see why acer made their own :)
Comment by Gavin Seim — August 20, 2008 @ 10:05
Hehe, yeah, I’m starting to see that myself as well. At first I found it odd, but now I’ve come to realize that the Acer desktop isn’t that bad. It was created to go with the Acer Aspire One perfectly. By changing to the default xfce look, you lose a few modified applications, and there again you lose some functionality. But hey, the Acer desktop isn’t that bad. You can still enable the right click menu through it, remove the search bar and such. Personally I just use the Acer desktop, and I’ve removed the search bar. Added my own icons to the desktop as well, works like a treat. :)
Comment by jorge — August 20, 2008 @ 11:05
Hitting Fn-F5 solved my problem. The aspect ratio on my projector is different, thus giving me a horizontally compressed image, but at least it works.
Your notes helps me understand more about X11. I haven’t yet try it, as I don’t yet know what’s the best resolution to put there. But thanks a lot for your effort to help others!
Comment by David — August 20, 2008 @ 23:25
hi jorge,
only one question: have you try to completety disable xfce and start in console mode?? i’ve try several things like /etc/inittab and so on, and no way to disable desktop durting startup ;(
Comment by paco — August 20, 2008 @ 23:25
My father just got an Aspire One, very cool little device. While it appears to be working fine, it simply won’t LiveUpdate. I’m online with it now, both via wired as well as wireless and that works fine.
LiveUpdate claims that there are 3 updates available, but it won’t connect to the remote servers – consistently fails to connect.
Tried a “yum update” as root (via sudo bash) and that looks to have a TON of updates to apply. But it fails at the end with a conflict …
–> Processing Dependency: gecko-libs = 1.8.1.16 for package: yelp
–> Processing Conflict: notification-daemon-xfce conflicts notify-daemon
–> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: notification-daemon-xfce conflicts with notify-daemon
Error: Missing Dependency: gecko-libs = 1.8.1.16 is needed by package yelp
What to do ?
Final question … Saw the tnkgrl post about doing internal bluetooth – very slick. Don’t need it to be internal, so just got the Kensington Micro BT dongle. Pops in fine, but doesn’t appear to be seen. How to get it working ?
Ta -
D.
Comment by Dean Carpenter — August 21, 2008 @ 03:21
Hehe, no problem David. :) What is the aspect ratio of your projector? I can give you a hand with editing your xorg.conf to make it work better if you’d like.
Comment by jorge — August 21, 2008 @ 05:49
Paco: I’ve no immediate answer to that, but I’ll try to test a few things out and get back to you. :)
Dean: Although a yum update seems tempting, I strongly recommend you to not do so. A co-worker of mine attempted that, and he ended up with broken packages that didn’t suit the Acer Aspire One at all. As for your LiveUpdate issue, take a look at http://www.aspireoneuser.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=737&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&hilit=live+update. Unfortunately I haven’t tried the bluetooth-thing myself, and don’t have the opportunity to do so either. =/ But I’ll crawl through google later, see what they come up with. :)
Comment by jorge — August 21, 2008 @ 08:17
I installed amarok on my ONE to get at my mp3’s collection over wifi, and amarok works fine. Unfortunately the nonfree mp3 packeges are not installed or in the repositories from livina. Also adding the repositories you mentioned above has somehow broken the update function (there is some kind of conflicting software). Is there a way to get mp3 support on the ONE? And thanks a lot for your other helpful hints!
Comment by Alexander J. Pirchl — August 21, 2008 @ 09:31
Alexander: Which conflicting software would that be? You wouldn’t happen to be getting the error about some notification-daemons conflicting and gecko-libs?
As for Amarok, I haven’t really given it much of a try. What I use to play my music is audacious, and by installing the package audacious-nonfree-mp3, I am able to play my mp3s with no problem. But I think I might have found a solution to your problem. Try searching for the package “amarok-extras-nonfree”, you should be able to play mp3s and such by installing it. :)
Comment by jorge — August 21, 2008 @ 09:56
Ha, thanks for the fast reply. Yes, the error was some notification daemon conflicting with some other notification daemon. I am at work currently, and will look it up exactly when I get home. I’ll give the amarok package a try then too! Thanks..
Comment by Alexander J. Pirchl — August 21, 2008 @ 10:44
The error you’re getting about the notification daemons would’ve happened anyway, even if you didn’t add the extra repositories I’ve mentioned on this page. There’s not much to do about it really – I’m sure there is a workaround to be able to do a ‘yum upgrade’, but it would pretty much render your system useless, as it wiil download new packages, and probably you’ll lose a lot of the default Acer Aspire One-configuration. To work around the gecko-libs issue at least, simply exclude yelp from the upgrade process. As for the notification daemons, I don’t know. =/
Good luck!
Comment by jorge — August 21, 2008 @ 11:00
jorge: ten cuidado que ya he tenido que recuperarlo dos o tres veces!!!
doesn’t work:
initdefault=3 in /etc/inittab
comment startxfce4 in /home/usr/.bash_profile
comment “/usr/bin/xinit — -br>/dev/null 2>&1 &” in /etc.rc.d/rc.S
Comment by paco — August 21, 2008 @ 13:30
Dos o tres veces, ouch. =/ What about trying to comment out “/usr/bin/xinit — -br>/dev/null 2>&1 &” in /etc.rc.d/rc.S, adding /usr/sbin/gdm, and changing id:5:initdefault: to id:3:initdefault in /etc/inittab?
Update: Doesn’t seem to work either. =/
Any particular reason as to why you’d want the machine to boot up to runlevel 3?
(Eres por casualidad de Almería en Malaga?)
Comment by jorge — August 21, 2008 @ 13:51
“What about trying to comment out “/usr/bin/xinit — -br>/dev/null 2>&1 &” in /etc.rc.d/rc.S, adding /usr/sbin/gdm, and changing id:5:initdefault: to id:3:initdefault in /etc/inittab?”
doesn’t work either. you only have the login screen, but also desktop ;( If gdm is not added, then black screen (like david)
I want to run it as a server, so I don’t want desktop at all. Even, yum remove xcfe, make the system unrecoverable.. it seems like acer’s linpus modification try to start a desktop session, thouhg xfce is not present!!!!
Sí, soy de Almeria, y estoy en Almeria (Malaga queda cerquita, y tengo muy buenos amigos por allí) ;)
Comment by paco — August 21, 2008 @ 14:30
Ah, los padres de mi novia (que son de Noruega) tienen una casa en Sayalonga. :)
Comment by jorge — August 21, 2008 @ 14:44
bonita zona en la Axarquia Malagueña!!!
algún progreso?? ;)
Comment by paco — August 21, 2008 @ 15:44
Thanks for your great tips!
Unfortunately, changing the screen resolution doesn’t work for me. I changed everything the way you described, but I still dont’s have any change in resolution. The dual screen script also works, but terminal tells me that “Size 1280×1024 not found in available modes” and the external monitor is still 1024×600. I’ve rechecked everything for typos so I don’t think there are any.
Do you have an idea what I could do?
Thanks!
Comment by Markus — August 21, 2008 @ 20:18
Heya Markus! I’ve experienced the same problem myself, and I think I’ve found a workaround. When you’ve connected the external monitor, press Fn-F5 till both the Acer Aspire One and the external monitor are active. Once they both are active, try to run the script. It should work then. :)
Comment by jorge — August 21, 2008 @ 20:29
Hello Jorge, I tried the crack you posted on how to use the xfce GUI as opposed to the Acer one. I have switched it back after a couple of minutes of poking around, but now my computer will not restart all it does hang up if choose to restart.
Comment by Oliver Sainsbury — August 22, 2008 @ 01:36
It won’t shut down either. I can turn it off by holding down the power button but that just does not seem like a long term solution.
Comment by Oliver Sainsbury — August 22, 2008 @ 01:38
Hi Jorge, I need to do a recovery on my AAO and I notice the usb recovery image is 958 megabytes which I downloaded onto my AAO desktop coz this is the only linux platform I have.
My question is how big are the files after you do the uncompressing using zcat??
I only have a 1 Gb flash disk.
Do I need a bigger flash disk to store the uncompressed files??
Comment by Andy — August 22, 2008 @ 04:42
Oliver: Unfortunately I’ve come to notice that the Acer Aspire One is like that. I myself have had successful tries switching from the Acer desktop to xfce, and unsuccessful tries as well. I know of no other solution to that other than doing a recovery. Having tried various things myself, I have at least had to recover my machine 5-6 times. =/
Andy: I’m not really sure of how big the uncompressed image is. I’ve read reports of people saying that 1GB should do, while others say that they had to use a larger storage device. Mounting the USB recovery disk here in my other Linux system, it says 960MB, but I can’t be sure if that’s correct or not. I’ll ask some of my co-workers during the day if they know of a method to write the image to a storage device from Windows. :)
Comment by jorge — August 22, 2008 @ 05:47
Hi Jorge,
unfortunately, it doesn’t work for me. I get the dual desktop, but the terminal still says that the size is not found in available modes. I also entered the 1280×1024 in the resolution file, but it didn’t make a difference.
Is there anything else I could do? The externall resolution is the only argument fpr me to keep my old PC ;-).
Thanks!
Comment by Markus — August 22, 2008 @ 07:05
Markus: Sorry to hear it isn’t working out. =/ Could you copy and paste your xorg.conf here please?
Comment by jorge — August 22, 2008 @ 08:00
Hi thx for your answer jorge, I think i’ll just buy a bigger flash disk and see how it works..
Will post if there’s any success..
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Many thanks for your help and support! Here is my xorg.conf.
# 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
InputDevice “Mouse0″ “CorePointer”
InputDevice “Synaptics Mouse” “AlwaysCore”
InputDevice “Keyboard0″ “CoreKeyboard”
EndSection
Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Keyboard0″
Driver “kbd”
Option “XkbModel” “pc105″
Option “XkbLayout” “de”
Option “XkbOptions” “grp:alt_shift_toggle”
EndSection
Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Synaptics Mouse”
Driver “synaptics”
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 “1024×600″ 48.96 1024 1064 1168 1312 600 601 604 622 -HSync +VSync
# Option “Above” “Monitor1″
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
EndSection
Section “Screen”
Identifier “Screen0″
Device “Videocard0″
Monitor “Monitor0″
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection “Display”
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes “1280×1024″ “1024×768″ “1024×600″ “800×600″ “640×480″
Virtual 2304 1024
EndSubSection
EndSection
Comment by Markus — August 22, 2008 @ 12:37
That seems about right Markus. Could you tell me, step by step, what it is you’re trying to do, and how you go about doing it?
Comment by jorge — August 22, 2008 @ 13:02
I just did the changes as you described, but just the external monitor changes. The root pw change and the right-click-menu I did with tips from another website.
I was wondering if perhaps my monitor (BenQ 19″) doesn’t tell the correct resolution (or no at all) so that the One can’t switch to that. I will try to connect to another monitor at work on Monday and give you feedback.
Have a nice weekend :-)!
Comment by Markus — August 23, 2008 @ 10:41
Excellent post, Jorge! I would like to point that Acer’s email client stopped working since I removed the default Firefox installation and replaced it with the Firefox 3 from the remi repository which you suggested.
It looks like the acer mail client -onemail- depends on some Firefox libraries (maybe for messages with HTML content?) so you need to restore missing libraries.
These libraries are libgtkembedmoz.so, libmozjs.so libxpcom_core.so and libxpcom.so. In order to restore them, I downloaded ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/Packages/firefox-2.0.0.8-2.fc8.i386.rpm and then extracted the fpur libraries one by one and then copied them to /usr/lib.
The instructions to extract individual files from RPMs are:
1) Find the full path where each library would be installed by the RPM package: e.g., rpm -qlp firefox-2.0.0.8-2.fc8.i386.rpm | grep libgtkembedmoz.so
2) After the previous commands provide the target path of each library (/usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.8/libgtkembedmoz.so, in the previous example), you have to run rpm2cpio rpm -qlp firefox-2.0.0.8-2.fc8.i386.rpm | cpio -ivd PATH_FOR_THE_LIBRARY. In the example, the full command should be rpm2cpio rpm -qlp firefox-2.0.0.8-2.fc8.i386.rpm | cpio -ivd ./usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.8/libgtkembedmoz.so.
The period beginning the final path for the library is intentionally there for users to have the libraries within their user directory, check everything is OK and then copy it to /usr/lib, for instance. Do not forget to check that the files are chown’d and chgrp’d to root/root when they are in /usr/lib and with permissions set to 755.
Thanks once again for this great post!
Comment by Nacho Marin — August 23, 2008 @ 15:52
Thanks for the information Nacho! I’ve actually been wondering about that. :) I noticed that the RSS-reader wasn’t working, but didn’t know that it stopped the email-client from working as well. I’ll add that to the post, credit to you of course. :)
Comment by jorge — August 23, 2008 @ 17:19
Hi Jorge, I’ve finally restore my AAO.
The only problem was a 1G flash disk is not big enough for the recovery file. So I went down to get myself a 2G Sandisk Micro Cruzer.
After booting the recovery DVD in my other notebook (which has an optical disc drive of course), I followed the instruction from the manual to create the Recovery USB.
After the recovery DVD was successfully copied to the 2G Sandisk Micro Cruzer, I checked the remaining space and it showed 800M plus. So in conclusion, a 1G thumbdrive will not have the full recovery files, and when you do try to recover from an incomplete recovery files, the screen will go BB BB BB BB BB BB and so on..
Okay, after that, I plug in the 2G Sandisk and change the boot order to boot from USB.
And you should have that Aspire splash screen, wait for a moment and you will be on your way to recovering the AAO in no time.
Andy
Comment by Andy — August 24, 2008 @ 04:08
Great to hear that things went well Andy, and thanks for the information!
Comment by jorge — August 24, 2008 @ 08:47
After some hours reading email without any problems, onemail started crashing when opening any email. It reports the following segmentation fault:
——-
/usr/lib/firefox-3.0.1/run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 29720 Segmentation fault “$prog” ${1+”$@”}
——-
onemail also provides the following errors (you can see it by launching it from command line) at start time:
——-
** (AMEbin:29720): CRITICAL **: atk_object_set_name: assertion `ATK_IS_OBJECT (accessible)’ failed
bAnotherAME:0
sqlite3_exec fail! Error (1): table MAIL already exists
sqlite3_exec fail! Error (1): table TASK already exists
sqlite3_exec fail! Error (1): table UID already exists
(AMEbin:29720): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_window_add_accel_group: assertion `GTK_IS_WINDOW (window)’ failed
Time: 0,001503s
Time: 0,001221s
Time: 0,000665s
Time: 0,000997s
Time: 0,001256s
Time: 0,001217s
——-
I tried deleting and creating the POP3 account again in order to fix the sqlite problems but they remain. Anybody else suffering that? Any idea about how to fix it? Thanks in advance!
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Pingback by The Acer Guy » Aspire One Tips and Tricks you should know about — August 24, 2008 @ 19:53
Hi,
excellent guide, but xfce-settings-show (as user and root) gives xfce-settings-show: command not found
Any suggestions?
Thanks.
Comment by Natalie — August 25, 2008 @ 18:14
Q: Installing Firefox 3
Hi – followed your “Installing Firefox 3″ guide exactly.. but when doing the yum install firefox step FIREFOX 2.0.x.x is installed. Not firefox 3
Any clues why? (I did add the remi rep.)
Comment by Chris — August 25, 2008 @ 19:01
Hi,
I’m also getting an error when trying to get the firefox3 rpm:
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 404 Not Found
Not having much (or in fact any) luck here with this stupid machine and dire OS.
Comment by Natalie — August 25, 2008 @ 20:23
Natalie: My mistake, the correct command is xfce-setting-show (not xfce-settings-show). I’ve now corrected the post. :) Let me know if it works!
Chris: Did you enable the remi-repository in /etc/yum.repos.d/? Open the file named /etc/yum.repos.d/remi.repo and set enabled to 1 under [remi] and NOT [remi-test]. Try then to install firefox. Does that do the trick? Have you removed Firefox 2 first by the way?
Comment by jorge — August 25, 2008 @ 22:17
I am trying to install SSH on my Aspire One. SSH needs openssl. I get a number of erros on make test of the form:
“eng_all.c:(.text+0×11): undefined reference to `ENGINE_load 4758cca’”
This is followed by: “*** [link_app.] Error 1″
Could someone help me with this? Thank you.
Comment by Harold — August 25, 2008 @ 23:01
Name Resolution Problem:
What do I need to set to get my Aspire One to recognize domain names from the command line? For instance, if I try ping xyz.com, it won’t work wherea ping xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx will work just fine. I am behind a SuSE firewall. When I connect using a Windows laptop or a SuSE desktop which are set to use DHCP, no problems. Only the Aspire One acts this way. Yet, I can use the browser without problems. Very puzzling. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Comment by Harold — August 25, 2008 @ 23:08
Name Resolution Problem solved. The DHCP server hands out more than two DNS addresses and the Aspire One only accepts the first two, a primary and a secondary, ignoring all others.
Comment by Harold — August 25, 2008 @ 23:52
Hi Jorge,
Thanks for the useful tips!!!
I have exactly the some problem as Markus with my second monitor and I’m also wondering if the problem is with the settings in that monitor. Is there any way to specify the monitor settings in the xorg.conf (e.g. setting it at 75Hz)?
Thanks in advance for any help,
Bruno
Comment by Bruno — August 26, 2008 @ 00:39
Hi jorge,
thanks for your wonderful tips. it really helps me alot. I have a problem here. after doing most of the instruction given by you, then i decided to install Skype for my linux. it works normally, but the problem is that, after the installation, i cannot gain any access to my file manager. everytime i try, the file manager close after less than 1 sec.
I hope you can help me =) thanks
Comment by jepp — August 26, 2008 @ 07:28
Hi! thanks so much! this will come in really handy…i just bought my aspire one yesterday. it’s supposed to come with 8 G hard drive..but when i opened the file manager..it says i only have 3.6 out of 6.4 available space..hm.. i totally didn’t add anything to the new computer..so what should i do??? it’s less than half the space promised….help plz!!!
Comment by Sally — August 26, 2008 @ 07:49
Harold: Could you tell me, step by step, how you are trying to install SSH? If you have manually installed the SSH-package, I recommend you to try through the yum package system instead. Su to root, and install the package openssh-clients if you only want the SSH-client, and openssh-server if you want the server as well:
Let me know if it works for you!
Bruno: I sincerely don’t know why you are having the same problems as Markus is having on his external monitor. =/ The only thing I can say is that you’ll have to keep trying on your own. For documentation on how the xorg.conf-file is built up, take a look at http://www.x.org/archive/X11R6.8.0/doc/xorg.conf.5.html. There you can find the option HorizSync as well. Good luck!
jepp: Which filemanager is that? Do you go to File -> My Files to start it? What you can try to do to see the actual error, and why it shuts down is the following:
Press Alt-F2, and when it asks what program to run, type terminal. You should get a new window up. There type:
You should be able to see why your filemanager won’t start up properly. Post the errormessage here. :)
Sally: I think you do have a 8GB disk, but did you know what the Acer Aspire One comes with a 1GB swap? What is swap you ask? Quoting a website:
To replace pages or segments of data in memory. Swapping is a useful technique that enables a computer to execute programs and manipulate data files larger than main memory. The operating system copies as much data as possible into main memory, and leaves the rest on the disk
So, 6.4GB disk, pluss the 1GB swap, makes it 7.4GB. Now, take this into consideration. 8GB = 8000MB. 1MB = 1024 kilobytes. So, 8000/1024 = 7680 = 7.6GB, or something along those lines. Which actually means that you pretty much have a 8GB drive. :) Where the last 200MB have gone, beats me, I’ll look further into it. :)
Comment by jorge — August 26, 2008 @ 10:06
Jorge, re: ssh installation problem.
“yum install openssh-client” worked perfectly. Thank you very much. My mistake was in trying to use: “yum install ssh” and when that didn’t work, I downloaded the source and tried to install it that way, hence the compilation error. I think I had better get up to speed on yum. Untill now I was mainly using SuSE.
I am more impressed with the little Acer Aspire One all the time.
Comment by Harold — August 26, 2008 @ 13:49
Glad to hear it worked! I’m falling in love with the machine more and more myself. ;)
Comment by jorge — August 26, 2008 @ 15:28
Thanks for the info concerning firefox 3. I had updated the TEST info.. No It installed perfectly.
Great page! And also got SSH installed now! The aa1 is now my perfect tool when off site.
New question: Got a problem with messenger after installing firefox 3 (thoug maybe not releated?). Everytime i send a IM, i get a “unknown error code 419″
Anyone clues to why?
Comment by Chris — August 26, 2008 @ 15:44
Chris: No immediate answer comes to mind. =/ I doubt it is a Firefox-issue though, the Acer Aspire One Messenger works perfectly with Firefox 3 on my Acer Aspire One. Is it the default messenger you are using? And having removed Firefox 2, have you remembered to install the missing libraries (Check the section about missing libraries under the section “Installing Firefox 3″)?
Comment by jorge — August 26, 2008 @ 16:09
Yes I did add the missing lib’s. I create the file and made the script and ran it and it adds the missing 2.0 libs.
I also have a problem with the default mail client now. It runs fine, and downloads mail – but when trying to open a mail – the client dies. I am now only able to view the content of a mail if i choose “reply”. The client also dies immidieatly if I activate “preview”..
Comment by Chris — August 26, 2008 @ 17:45
hey jorge..thank you so much! the other thing i don’t understand is that my computer shows that i only have 3.6G free space out of the 6.4 G. how come? i didn’t install anything onto it yet..
Comment by Sally — August 26, 2008 @ 18:16
Sally: The space that has been used has been for the operating system itself. :)
Comment by jorge — August 26, 2008 @ 19:04
hi jorge
i did what u told me…and the error message was
[user@localhost ~]$ thunar
method return sender=:1.4 -> dest=:1.802 reply_serial=2
boolean true
Segmentation fault
hope you can help…thanks!!
Comment by jepp — August 26, 2008 @ 19:35
and one more thing jorge…
everytime i restart my pc, I have to uncheck and check the box at the desktop appearance for my wallpaper to get it display as my background if not…it will remain as First colour..
Comment by jepp — August 26, 2008 @ 19:46
jepp: Sorry mate, doesn’t ring a bell. =/ Have you considered doing a recovery on your Acer Aspire One? I have at least recovered my system six times, but that’s what you have to expect when trying things out. :) At least now I’ve learned what not to do, hehe.
Comment by jorge — August 26, 2008 @ 20:05
Hi Jorge, thanks for the useful link. I can confirm that it’s something related to that monitor in particular. I’ve tried your script with a 19′ CRT and it worked perfectly. I suspect that I only need to set up xorg.conf to make my second monitor to work at 75Hz, I’ll read the link you sent and see if I can solve it on my own.
Again, thanks for all the help!
Comment by Bruno — August 26, 2008 @ 20:41
Jorge, you are a genius, I am back in my comfort zone, thank you!
Sally, get an SD card, about £13 on play.com (or amazon/ebay..) for 8GB. Fits on lft slot, stays in there all the time, merges with the rest of your storage. Can also get another card for the right side of the machine, although you will probably have to mount it to use it – don’t know coz haven’t tried it yet. Don’t get more than 8GB though as the AA1 will not support it.
N.
Comment by Natalie — August 27, 2008 @ 13:59
Hi Natalie
I bought a 16 Gb SD card, works perfectly and merges fine with the SSD. So it is not correct that the AA1 does not support larger than 8 gb. It is stated so on their site, but it’s not correct. U can even put a 32 gb in. :-)
Comment by chris — August 28, 2008 @ 00:22
I have just purchased a Acer Aspire one 8g PC. This is my first linux pc; can someone please talk me through where to get and install vlc player!
Thank you
Comment by Pete — August 28, 2008 @ 21:25
HI Jorge. you seem competent to field this question.
I messed up my acer one by trying to add applications.
it now will bring me to the command line, but xfce4 will not load.
I have vacation photos of my daughters parked on it and want to move them onto an sd card before i reinstall the OS.
Any hints on how to do this?
not sur ehow to find the directories of the DS card, and not sure of the syntax for moving files.
files are in /home/user
thanks for any help you could provide.
Comment by Modul8 — August 29, 2008 @ 05:44
Modul8: Hi there! I’ll try as best as I can to help you recover those images. So you start right at the console, right? Let’s say that your images are located in /home/user/pictures/. Once I plug in my SD-card, the command dmesg gives me the following output:
When you’re in the graphical mode, this card will be mounted automatically. I doubt that it does the same in console. To mount it, do the following:
The SD-card should now be mounted. To copy things over, copy the folder with the images to the card like this (as root):
# cp -R /home/user/pictures/ /media/card/Once the command is finished, check the contents of the card by doing an ls /media/card/, and if satisfied, unmount the card:
# umount /media/card/Good luck!
Comment by jorge — August 29, 2008 @ 07:06
You’re a lifesaver!! thanks!!
it worked like a charm!
Comment by Modul8 — August 29, 2008 @ 07:15
Great!
Comment by jorge — August 29, 2008 @ 07:21
Pete: Here’s a quick and easy way of doing it. First, if you haven’t added the Livna-repository, do so now:
Open and edit the file /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/priorities.conf:
# mousepad /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/priorities.confMake the file look like so:
Now run this command:
# rpm -Uvh http://www.fedorafaq.org/f8/yum http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpmOnce the command is complete, type:
# yum install vlcAnd that should be it. :)
Comment by jorge — August 29, 2008 @ 09:24
Chris, I wish I had known, I only bought an 8Gb :-(
Comment by Natalie — August 29, 2008 @ 13:55
I guess I’ll get all the laughs…I just read too late that I shouldn’t yum remove FF. I installed opera, was happy with it and thought I’d get rid of FF that was behaving pretty flakily on my aspire one…doing this when I was tired after a long day wasn’t the smartest thing either…so: all the dependencies are gone…I’m on the road, without recovery disk and was wondering whether there would be a “simple” way to restore the dependencies. thanks…I know I’ll come out of this a wiser man
guy
Comment by guy — August 29, 2008 @ 19:44
guy: Hi there! I can’t even count the times I’ve done something without really thinking about it. But – there’s always hope! If you check the file /var/log/yum.log, you should see that it contains information about which packages that were installed/removed. Do a:
..and search for firefox. You should probably see the packages that were removed with it. Once you find out, do a:
# yum install <packagename>That should hopefully sort you out. Good luck!
Comment by jorge — August 29, 2008 @ 20:26
Apologies for the Ignorance – what does the PRIORITIES do? Thanks
Comment by santkhalsa — August 29, 2008 @ 22:13
bless you jorge! this almost got me back on track. the acer desktop has disappeared, but I don’t really miss it, instead I have the plain xfce desktop. I can no longer use alt-F2 to start the terminal, that I do miss, but will look further into it. I reinstalled FF2, curious to see if it is still as buggy as it was, and it still is: it refuses to save any bookmarks and ignores the home page I state in the preferences.
I acted too impulsively, but learned a lot about linux due to my mistake. thank you, Guy
Comment by guy — August 29, 2008 @ 23:38
please help – I seem to have lost my WIFI adapter
dmesg keeps showing linpus “unloading” the atheros driver
I tried yum install madwifi again and again – but no luck, please help
Comment by Sant Khalsa — August 30, 2008 @ 01:23
Hi jorge, I’ve modified the xorg.conf as specified above and adjusts the screen size just fine, but it’s inverted the mouse over highlight, so all the desktop icons have boxes around them unless the curser is over them. xorg.conf is the only file i’ve changed. Do you think you could help me out? Thanks in advance.
Comment by Paul — August 30, 2008 @ 03:45
santkhalsa: The priorities plugin can be used to enforce ordered protection of repositories, by associating priorities to repositories. Packages from repositories with a lower priority will never be used to upgrade packages that were installed from a repository with a higher priority. The priorities are also in effect when a new package is installed – if a package is in more than one repository, it will be installed from the repository with the highest priority.
Comment by jorge — August 30, 2008 @ 08:18
Sant Khalsa: Did you do anything specific before this happened?
Paul: That sounds really odd. =/ You are sure that your xorg.conf is just fine? A single ” missing can create the oddest problems. I have no immediate answer though, but I’ll keep looking. :)
Comment by jorge — August 30, 2008 @ 08:28
I think I’ve figured it out. It seems there the file /etc/xdg/xfce4/desktop/format.txt was causing the problem. There are a couple lines with some odd values. I’m not sure what they mean but the line iconview_format_alpha_normal=90 and iconview_format_line_alpha_normal=90 should both have values of 0 instead of 90. making this change has solved my problem. Thank you for your reply :)
Comment by Paul — August 30, 2008 @ 11:02
Hi Jorge, all, I have a fixed my WIFI Atheros disappearing problem. I had to comment out a line in the /etc/modprobe.d/madwifi where it said “auto” or something – cannot remember exactly –
and then did another modprobe ath_pci as root
Oh I did yum install madwifi before doing this
Thanks and keep up the good work
Comment by Sant Khalsa — August 30, 2008 @ 12:28
I appreciate everyone posting their solutions to the problems you come upon, so thank you. :)
Comment by jorge — September 1, 2008 @ 08:23
I recently got this piece, but after doing the steps mentioned to install any software, I’m not able to install any of the software, either through yum or through GUI (Add/Remove Applications). I tried downloading the rpm package and still nothing happens after I issue the command rpm -i filename.rpm Please help
Comment by naanu — September 1, 2008 @ 19:23
naanu: What program specifically are you trying to install? And could you please guide me through the exact steps you’ve taken to try to install the software? I recommend using yum localinstall filename.rpm and not just rpm -i filename.rpm. The reason? yum localinstall will try to determine which packages filename.rpm depends upon, and install them, while rpm -i will simply install filename.rpm, without its dependencies. I need to mention that installing packages with yum can only be done with root privileges.
Comment by jorge — September 1, 2008 @ 19:36
The USB Recovery Image as torrent:
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4373562/acer_aspire_one_recovery_image
Makes downloading more reliable.
Comment by Felix — September 2, 2008 @ 00:14
Hi,
I upgraded fromm ff2 to ff3 ok but my search bar cannot search internet any more while still functinnal for searching files ..
Any ideas??
Thanks
config linpus lite aspire one 512 mb ram and 8 gb ssd with xfce desktop activated instead of acer desktop/NEWBIE TO LINUX
Comment by trumpeldor — September 3, 2008 @ 10:15
hi jorge,
i need some advice in managing mplayer to play most of video types such divx, xvid, mkv, rm, qt , etc. coz what i found mplayer cannot play nowadays movie formats. Thx in advance
Comment by jeje — September 3, 2008 @ 13:49
One more thing, how to upgrade Open Office 2.30 to 3.0 on Acer AAO?
Comment by jeje — September 3, 2008 @ 13:53
1. I first attempted to change the desktop from the default to xfce based on the steps. Prior to these, software installation worked well.
2. In xfce based set up, I added the steps that was found in adding other software
3. I changed the desktop back to default.
4. When I tried to run yum install on any software, I get a comment saying “Parsing install arguments” and then nothing happens.
I tried to download the rpm part and tried to install. The software installer gui opens and no software is visible in the window. The gui just hangs. Even the command line installation of rpm -i and rpm localinstall does not work. Infact, nothing happens soon after I issue those commands. And everything is done in root mode. Please help!
Comment by naanu — September 3, 2008 @ 13:53
trumpeldor: I’m sorry, I don’t seem to be able to reproduce the error. =/ I recommend trying http://www.aspireoneuser.com/forum/, see if anyone can help you there.
jeje: mplayer plays a lot of formats as default, but others not. I personally would recommend using VLC as a movieplayer, but if you still would like to use mplayer, try http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/all-20061022.tar.bz2. Try doing the following. Open a terminal and write:
Then try to play something with mplayer. It should work. :)
naanu: The command is yum localinstall file.rpm NOT rpm localinstall file.rpm. I really don’t know what might be going on if that doesn’t work. =/
Comment by jorge — September 4, 2008 @ 10:05
Just got the One running Linux. And I am new to this Linux stuff so please bear with me – Is there any way to reduce the size (width and height) of the four home view panels (work, connect, etc.) and the icons they contain without negatively impacting the Acer interface?
Also, this site is a great start for me where I don’t know Linux.
Comment by Charles Koelsch — September 4, 2008 @ 16:39
Great guide, just what i needed.
Comment by gumbo — September 5, 2008 @ 05:43
Thx jorge, it works. I took your suggestion also using vlc player which is better. However, i got another question, how to upgrade Open Office 2.30 (original) to version 3.00? Do I have to install it into seperately?
Comment by jeje — September 5, 2008 @ 12:10
jeje: To be honest, I really don’t know. But if you hang on, I’ll have it checked later. :) I’m currently on parental leave two days a week, so most of my time those days goes to watching my son. But if you wait to later, I’ll take a look while he sleeps. :)
Comment by jorge — September 5, 2008 @ 12:45
Hi,
i activated xfce advanced mode. Do you have any experience with it? I don´t know how to put more Applications Icons on Desktop. Do you perhaps know how to do it?
Comment by vickoxy — September 6, 2008 @ 08:13
vickoxy: What does your desktop look like? Like this or more like this? The thing is, if it looks like the first screenshot, I’ve posted instructions in this article about how to do it – have a look here. If your desktop looks more like the second screenshot, then you have to do the following. If you already have some icons on your desktop, right-click one of them, select Desktop and Create Launcher. There you can specify the name of the program you’d like to add to your desktop, where the program is located, and if you’d like to use an icon. If you don’t have any desktop-icons from before, because you followed my instructions on how to hide them, simply open the file ~/.config/xfce4/desktop/xfdesktoprc and change show-filesystem=false to show-filesystem=true. Then proceed to right-clicking it, and so on. :) Oh, and when selecting the icon you want, if you can’t find it there already, select Image Files from the option Select icon from. That should look in /usr/share/pixmaps/ as default. Add your own icons there. Easy peasy. :) Thanks by the way, I’ll add this to the article as well. :)
Good luck!
Comment by jorge — September 6, 2008 @ 08:43
Nacho Marin | August 24, 2008 at 4:01 pm | Permalink
After some hours reading email without any problems, onemail started crashing when opening any email. It reports the following segmentation fault
- I game up since yesterday with the same problem as Nacho Marin reported here. Is there a fix yet?
Comment by Gramps — September 6, 2008 @ 09:17
Gramps: I don’t really use the email client, so I haven’t actually gotten about to investigate the issue further. I will however take a look at it now, and see if I can reproduce the same error here. If you are familiar with Linux, I recommend running an strace on the program to see what causes the error.
Comment by jorge — September 6, 2008 @ 09:43
hi i wounder if any one can help, i have got acer aspire one , linpus linux lite. i am new to linux, how do i download vlc media player and install on the acer. can someone give me step by step instrution, many thank.
Comment by ROB — September 6, 2008 @ 11:45
Jorge, Everything looks fine from starting the onemail. Once I try to open an email the program crashes and returns to desktop. Here’s what’s happening – clip from xterm. Looks very much the same as for Nacho. I tried the gtk-trick from macles, but that didn’t help.
—————-
[user@localhost home]$ onemail
argc 1
argv[0]: onemail
CAccountListWnd::CAccountListWnd (void)
AME start
argc 6
argv[0]: /usr/acer/bin/AMEbin
argv[1]:
argv[2]:
argv[3]:
argv[4]:
argv[5]:
Found key file!
disable file log
** (AMEbin:24163): CRITICAL **: atk_object_set_name: assertion `ATK_IS_OBJECT (accessible)’ failed
bAnotherAME:0
sqlite3_exec fail! Error (1): table MAIL already exists
sqlite3_exec fail! Error (1): table TASK already exists
sqlite3_exec fail! Error (1): table UID already exists
(AMEbin:24163): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_window_add_accel_group: assertion `GTK_IS_WINDOW (window)’ failed
Time: 0.000964s
Time: 0.000880s
Time: 0.000609s
Time: 0.001045s
Time: 0.001368s
Time: 0.001376s
(AMEbin:24163): Gtk-WARNING **: Unknown property: GtkButton.response-id
(AMEbin:24163): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_scrolled_window_add(): cannot add non scrollable widget use gtk_scrolled_window_add_with_viewport() instead
(AMEbin:24163): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_scrolled_window_add(): cannot add non scrollable widget use gtk_scrolled_window_add_with_viewport() instead
(AMEbin:24163): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_scrolled_window_add(): cannot add non scrollable widget use gtk_scrolled_window_add_with_viewport() instead
(AMEbin:24163): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_scrolled_window_add(): cannot add non scrollable widget use gtk_scrolled_window_add_with_viewport() instead
RefreshMenuAccInfo
RefreshMenuAccInfo
(AMEbin:24163): Gtk-WARNING **: Unknown property: GtkButton.response-id
(AMEbin:24163): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_scrolled_window_add(): cannot add non scrollable widget use gtk_scrolled_window_add_with_viewport() instead
(AMEbin:24163): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_scrolled_window_add(): cannot add non scrollable widget use gtk_scrolled_window_add_with_viewport() instead
(AMEbin:24163): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_scrolled_window_add(): cannot add non scrollable widget use gtk_scrolled_window_add_with_viewport() instead
(AMEbin:24163): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_scrolled_window_add(): cannot add non scrollable widget use gtk_scrolled_window_add_with_viewport() instead
(AMEbin:24163): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_scrolled_window_add(): cannot add non scrollable widget use gtk_scrolled_window_add_with_viewport() instead
select ROWID,AUUID,FUUID,Date,Subject,SenderName,SenderEmail,Importance,IsComplete,IsRead,Flag,AttachmentList from MAIL WHERE AUUID=’rss’;
RefreshMenuAccInfo
(AMEbin:24163): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_scrolled_window_add(): cannot add non scrollable widget use gtk_scrolled_window_add_with_viewport() instead
AUUID: Local, FUUID: Inbox
GetSelectedAccount: Local
select ROWID,AUUID,FUUID,Date,Subject,SenderName,SenderEmail,Importance,IsComplete,IsRead,Flag,AttachmentList from MAIL WHERE FUUID=’Inbox’;
(AMEbin:24163): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_scrolled_window_add(): cannot add non scrollable widget use gtk_scrolled_window_add_with_viewport() instead
(AMEbin:24163): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_scrolled_window_add(): cannot add non scrollable widget use gtk_scrolled_window_add_with_viewport() instead
2008/9/6 Sat 13: 59: 40
(AMEbin:24163): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_scrolled_window_add(): cannot add non scrollable widget use gtk_scrolled_window_add_with_viewport() instead
(AMEbin:24163): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_scrolled_window_add(): cannot add non scrollable widget use gtk_scrolled_window_add_with_viewport() instead
InitImStatusListener…
(AMEbin:24163): Gtk-WARNING **: Unknown property: GtkButton.response-id
(AMEbin:24163): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_scrolled_window_add(): cannot add non scrollable widget use gtk_scrolled_window_add_with_viewport() instead
/usr/lib/firefox-3.0.1/run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 24163 Segmentation fault “$prog” ${1+”$@”}
Comment by Gramps — September 6, 2008 @ 13:18
ROB: Instructions on how to install VLC can be found here. After you’ve finished those steps, just su to root and install vlc:
Good luck!
gramps and Nacho: I’ve now updated the script I made to get hold of the libraryfiles. Seems there were more things that the program needed in order to work. Could one of you copy and paste it into a new file, and try running it again? Hopefully this should fix the email client. Let me know if it works. :)
Comment by jorge — September 6, 2008 @ 13:22
Jorge, great stuff with the onemail – almost there! Onemail does not crash anymore when opening email, just the scroll bar in right hand side is missing.
There’s some list of failure messages. Should I flood it here again? (these comments can be deleted once it works)
Comment by Gramps — September 6, 2008 @ 15:02
Gramps: Hehe, no need to post it I think, I think I’ve found the problem. I’ve updated the file firefox-files.tar.gz. Could you try running the script and see if the scrollbar is still missing?
Comment by jorge — September 6, 2008 @ 16:04
I might have been too late to read your blog on firefox. By now I lost AMEbin file as well as TaskQueueManager in /usr/acer/bin direcory. Is there a chance to include AMEbin and TaskQueueManager, even better /usr/acer/bin directory with the .gz file?
Comment by oz — September 6, 2008 @ 16:19
oz: http://jorge.ulver.no/files/acer_bin.tar.gz. Enjoy. :)
Comment by jorge — September 6, 2008 @ 16:28
Jorge, no luck yet with the scrollbar. To be exact the scrollbar is available in onemail, but not when reading an email message (pg up&pg dn can be used).
The failure messages remain at least >90% the same as earlier flooded, but onemail works.
Comment by Gramps — September 6, 2008 @ 18:26
Gramps: If you’re able to come on IRC, go to irc.freenode.org, and get in touch. My nick is jbg. Do you have the classic.* files in /usr/lib/firefox-files/chrome/ ?
Comment by jorge — September 6, 2008 @ 18:42
Here is another Thunderbird problem.
I have installed Firefox 3 as described here. http://jorge.ulver.no/2008/08/06/acer-aspire-one-tips-and-tricks/#InstallingFirefox3
I have then installed Thunderbird as described in this discussion.
I have the Thunderbird account IMAPed to my remote SMTP server. But I cannot receive email Thunderbird (IMAP) neither can I send any via remote SMTP. It does not even ask my password.
I can use windows XP Thunderbird to send/receive remote emails via the same SMTP server. The account settings are the same.
Thunderbird gives the appearance of no errors.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Comment by oz — September 6, 2008 @ 21:43
Thanks you for the link!
Comment by oz — September 6, 2008 @ 21:47
Jorge, was afk for a while. I checked the /usr/lib/firefox-files/chrome/ directory and contents are:
icons (a directory)
toolkit.jar
toolkit.manifest
Comment by Gramps — September 6, 2008 @ 23:09
Gramps: You need to run the script again, as there are two new files there, classic.jar and classic.manifest. Once that is done, your mail should be working again.
Comment by jorge — September 7, 2008 @ 08:42
oz: This discussion has been about the Onemail email client, not thunderbird. =/ I’ll install it on my acer, see if the same problem occurs there. I’ll get back to you. :)
Comment by jorge — September 7, 2008 @ 09:07
Bueno Jorge, you’re right! Those were the missing files for the scrollbar. Also noticed what was the problem with the script:
## Moving library-files..
/bin/mv: cannot move `/root/firefox-files/’ to `/usr/lib/firefox-files’: Directory not empty
You’ll know what to do ;)
Great page you have! These netbooks is a great opportunity for improving linux awareness + bring up the critical mass for hardware manufacturers improving their direct linux support and pages like this is extremely vital for bringing newbies up to speed.
Comment by Gramps — September 7, 2008 @ 10:27
Gramps: Ah, right, thanks for the heads up, I’ll look into it. :) Glad it worked!
Comment by jorge — September 7, 2008 @ 10:37
hi i restored my linux os with an external usb hd with 200gb…
everything worked out well, but now the usb hd doesnt respond to my other pcs…its a 200gb freespace. i still want to use it, can u help out, to put it back in normal or something? thanks
Comment by pinoyhoi — September 7, 2008 @ 15:33
pinoyhoi: Do your other machines happen to be Windows-machines? The USB-drive has probably been formatted with the ext2/ext3 filesystem, something that Windows most likely can’t see. I suggest you format it in Windows, with the FAT32 filesystem. Have a look here for some more information. Good luck!
Comment by jorge — September 7, 2008 @ 15:48
My USB 120g Passport Drive will not mount. A message the NTFS is not recognized appears. It does appear in the file manager but will not mount. Any suggestions?
Comment by Charles — September 7, 2008 @ 18:24
thanks for the link, but i didnt really get anything outa it.
here was the thing….i messed lots of stuff up in my aspire one
so i tryd ur usb recovery…didnt work…but ifound this link http://dailycupoftech.com/ and it told me to download all this stuff and then after unzipping aa1 recovery, i used selfimage and i wrote the recovery in my usb device. i booted it up on my aa1 and i re-installed it with sucess…now the usb cannot be read by my xp pcs…and i actually had lots of stuff in it…so shit, what should i do? i dont get the FAT filesytstem u told me…
Comment by pinoyhoi — September 7, 2008 @ 20:27
trying to add Icon to desk top. I think this instructions an not complete. Also you tell us to open the xml file twice. To say between you need two points of reference not one.
IE you can’t stand in between a, but you can stand in between a and b.
I think this is why I have stuck with windows. So hard to get plain advice.
Comment by arc — September 7, 2008 @ 21:54
Hi Jorge,
I successfully installed VLC and Firefox3, but the Icon on the desktop (I still have the normal desktop) under “Connect” doesn’t respond. I have to open Firefox through the right mouse click.
Can you help me restore the function of this desktop shortcut?
Thank you in advance
Comment by Max — September 7, 2008 @ 23:03
Hello will somebody please help me!
I used your instructions to improve read/write performance and I stupidly just deleted the whole line and copied and pasted the new line. And now my ONE shows up with:
Kernel panic – not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)_
Anybody?
Thankyou very much Jack
Comment by Jack! — September 7, 2008 @ 23:34
arc: I don’t see how the instructions are lacking? “The next step is opening up the file /home/user/.config/xfce4/desktop/group-app.xml.”, that doesn’t mean to open it now, but that the next step is. I’ve tested this myself, and it has worked, and other have reported the same. If you don’t like the instructions, then by all means, read up on it somewhere else. :) Or perhaps pay someone to give you some support? Don’t get me wrong, when people ask nicely I’m more than happy to give them a hand. But rude criticism?
Max: Did you remove your old Firefox before installing Firefox 3? Could you please give me the exact instructions that you followed to install Firefox 3?
Jack: I haven’t come upon this error before, but I know that you should be able to find a rescue USB-image for some other distribution, and mount the root-filesystem in rescue mode. There you can change the line in your grub.conf. If there’s nothing of importance on your aa1, I recommend doing a recovery. It’s quicker if you don’t have any first hand experience with Linux.
Comment by jorge — September 8, 2008 @ 00:01
Arc – The instructions are not lacking it is me who is lacking, I meant no criticism.
I have not installed firefox 3 as of yet Max.
I have some on hand with linux, but my system does not start up and displays a black page with the kernel panick on it. Would a recovery be the best idea?
Thankyou, Jack
Comment by Jack! — September 8, 2008 @ 00:34
pinoyhoi: I’m sorry to have to say that you’ve probably lost everything you had on that external disk. =/ The instructions I gave for a recovery were to be executed in Linux, and not Windows. What I mean with the FAT32 filesystem, is that you need to format your external disk to either FAT32 or NTFS. How this is done in Windows is hard to say, I personally don’t use it. Good luck!
Comment by jorge — September 8, 2008 @ 01:06
Dear Jorge,
I installed firefox per “yum”, and then followed the instructions on this webpage. I even inserted your script, because i saw that the email-client and my adressbook weren’t working. It all works perfectly, except the desktop shortcut.
Is there any way to just restore the link?
thanks, Max
Comment by Max — September 8, 2008 @ 01:16
Max: You say you’re able to open Firefox through right-clicking on the desktop? Hmm.. does the file /usr/share/applications/linpus-web.desktop contain Exec=firefox? If you open up a terminal (Alt-F2 and then type terminal), then type the command firefox, do you get any errors?
Comment by jorge — September 8, 2008 @ 01:22
I do not have the file /usr/share/applications/linpus-web.desktop
the command “firefox” in the terminal works great.
You have an idea what it is?
max
Comment by Max — September 8, 2008 @ 01:29
Max: Do the following:
Then check if the button works.
Comment by jorge — September 8, 2008 @ 01:37
Sorry, doesn’t work. I rebooted the PC but it still won’t let me in.
At least Firefox lets me in when I use the right mouse click, so it’s not that bad ;-)
I’ll be looking into it and see if there’s others with the same problem.
thanks!!
Comment by Max — September 8, 2008 @ 01:45
Great site – these tips have saved (most of) my sanity.
Do you know where I can set the Acer One never to go onto standby? I like to leave the laptop on so emails and messages can be received overnight. But it’s always on standby when I wake up. I’ve looked everywhere, and googled, but no luck.
Thanks a million.
Comment by Tim — September 8, 2008 @ 06:28
Re: Thunderbird issue..
In the end I reinstalled the OS from the scratch. Somewhere during my installation of other packages I must have lost some libraries that Thunderbird was using. Well, this is one solution to the Thunderbird I was having :-D
Comment by oz — September 8, 2008 @ 08:47
thank you, now i have my icons on the desktop. But now i have a question, how do i change my background on my desktop? It seems that i can not longer use some programs to change my background. Do you know the commands?
Thanks, edward
Comment by Edward van Unnik — September 8, 2008 @ 21:15
Hey Jorge, Thank you for this guide ! Quite Useful :D
I was trying to get rid of the Acer Desktop and while following your steps, when I reach the step where I have to modify xfdesktopnew located in /usr/bin/ , I just couldn’t access it from the xterm, and when I try modifying it without being in root, it says I can’t ofcourse.. How do I open it up through xterm so I could modify it ?, I tried mousepad /usr/bin/xfdesktopnew.sh but it won’t work.
Comment by Billo — September 9, 2008 @ 05:07
Problem Above solved! lol, But I have a new problem now !. I bought my AA1 from Saudi Arabia and it comes with an arabic keyboard and i couldn’t find arabic imput in the settings. I tried using
setxkbmap ar and it worked, but the problem is that I can’t switch between languages and it stays arabic until I restart..How can I install Arabic properly ? since I can’t control Live updates and all it’s offering me was a Thai language Pack which i don’t need =/
Comment by Billo — September 9, 2008 @ 07:49
oz: Glad to hear you sorted things out!
Edward: Unfortunately I’m not sure of the exact command to change your wallpaper. But have you tried to right-click on your desktop, select Settings then click on Desktop Settings? Next to File:, just enter the new path of your wallpaper. :)
Billo: Hehe, sorry for the late reply, but glad to know you sorted your problem. :) To have a persistent change in your keyboardsettings, even after restart, place the following in your .bash_profile-file:
setxkbmap arSo if I wanted Norwegian, I’d have:
at the end of the file. Good luck!
Comment by jorge — September 9, 2008 @ 08:12
Just want to say thanks for the hard work!
My AO is working the way I want it thanks to your!
Comment by Hamma — September 9, 2008 @ 09:00
Hamma: Thank you very much. :) Such kind words make all the difference!
Comment by jorge — September 9, 2008 @ 09:06
Hey Jorge,
I really appreciate you adding this information to the web. Max Kudos.
I’ve tweaked, and broken this distro, like every new distro you try about 5 times and I think I’m on the winning stretch.
Now I find it nauseating that a linux distro comes with a bunch of pre-installed share-ware games. There’s plenty of free games out there which they don’t include such as LiquidWars and aTanks (addicted heavily to both) but before I get into a rant, I’ll get to my question.
How can we remove these shareware games from our lives, and free-up precious disk-space we could be filling with super-elite .desktop files? ;)
I couldn’t see them in add/remove programs under the “System” menu (right click menu). Should I be looking into an rpm -r –nodeps removal of these? I’m not very familiar with removing these kinds of packages.
Thanks in advance Jorge. Keep up the good work.
Sam Murray, Broome, W. Australia.
Comment by Sam Murray — September 9, 2008 @ 09:23
Hello Jorge!. Thank you so much for you’re reply :D
I tried out your method and it worked, Only problem is, It’s Permanently set to arabic only and it won’t write in english lol, I need both arabic and english and the ability to switch between both !
Comment by Billo — September 9, 2008 @ 11:07
Sam: Hi there! I usually bring my AA1 to work with me, but of course I forgot to do so today, so I don’t have the possibility to check until I come home later today. My first hunch tells me though that you probably will have to try removing the packages with the command rpm. I suspect yum will drag a whole load of other dependencies with it. I’ll check when I get home, so stay tuned. :)
Billo: Hehe, my mistake! Try this little script out, just run it whenever you feel like changing from english to arabic and the other way around. Make a directory named bin in /home/user/, open up a file named cl.sh and place the following there:
Do a chmod +x cl.sh and run the script. Hope it works for you. :)
Comment by jorge — September 9, 2008 @ 11:43
The problem is that after I changed the settings like You where showing on your site, it is unpossible to open my desktopsettings with a right-click. I can no longer open some programs wich I need to make surtain changes.
Have you ever hear these problems coult happen?
Edward
Comment by Edward — September 9, 2008 @ 12:54
Edward: Yeah, it has happened to me a few times. What you can try to do is the following. Press Alt-F2 and type xfce-setting-show. Proceed to Desktop, Behavior and click the box named Show desktop menu on right click. Does that do the trick? Are you able to right-click on the desktop then?
Comment by jorge — September 9, 2008 @ 13:00
Yes, it already opened my desktop menu, the only trouble is that the desktop setting manager dous not open wenn I click on it. Other appications are working fine wenn I use the right click on my desktop but this one not.
Is it possible that I can change a specific map/folder or a file to change my background?
Thanks, Edward
Comment by Edward — September 9, 2008 @ 13:52
Thank you once again Jorge :)
I went to home/user/ and i created a folder called bin and in it, i made a file called cl.sh and in it I pasted you’re script, saved and closed the window. I tried doing Chmod +x cl.sh from the run window (alt+f2) and nothing happend, I then typed chmod +x cl.sh inside xterm and terminal in both user and root on each of them and it told me that cl.sh doesn’t exist saying :”no such file or directory”, so I went to cl.sh’s properties and ticked the run as a program box and did everything i mentioned above again and I got the same result, I think that I don’t know how to run chmod in the right place or created the bin file in a wrong way although i created it in the path you told me to do so in…
I’m really confused because I bought my AA1 yesterday and this is the first time I use a Linux so I’m a little confused lol :)
Comment by billo — September 9, 2008 @ 14:13
Hey could somebody please give me the script in the file /usr/bin/xfdesktop-xfce & >/dev/null 2>&1 since I think I erased the whole file in the process and now have a half-functional xfce.
Help would be most appreciated.
Comment by Otto — September 9, 2008 @ 17:15
Hello again, you may recall me with the Kernel Panick problem.
I have tried to create a recovery USB device and then reboot my ONE from that. It all was going so well, then I actually booted up my ONE and it came up with
BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB
BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB
BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB
BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB Then it goes back to Kernel panick (0,0)
I would be very grateful for any advice you could give me
thankyou, Jack.
Comment by Jack — September 9, 2008 @ 17:39
Hola Jorge!
I was able to adapt my Acer AspireOne with your tips & tricks, and want to tell you “Thank you!” because my tiny laptop is more productive now…
And want to ask you a question, maybe you know the reason: I am unable to work with the trash can… When i put the link in the sidebar, it shows as follows:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rosemanu/2843056477/in/photostream/
And when I click on it (the icon with the red X), shows me the following:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rosemanu/2843056479/in/photostream/
(The message says: “Can’t connect with the Trash”)
Any idea?
Thank you again for the good job!!!
Comment by Manuel — September 9, 2008 @ 22:22
Thanks for the advice about managing the noisy fan. It is a pain in the proverbials! lol. As I’m sure you know, a CPU’s main enemy is heat, and as this particular ATOM processor isn’t passively cooled with a heatsink, messing around with the fan could be the death of an Aspire one. I’ve yet to carry out the noisy fan mod, as I’m a bit wary of undercooling the CPU, but what chances do you think there are that Acer will correct the fan “issue” in their next BIOS update?
Comment by Markus Wallett — September 10, 2008 @ 01:05
Sam: I’ve found what you’re looking for. :) Seems that removing some games (if not all) doesn’t drag a whole load of dependencies with it after all. To remove your games, do the following:
Good luck!
Edward: There is an image that it set to the default background (I’m not sure if you have that). But you can try the following. Open up a terminal, and do like this (make sure that the image you want is png, not sure how it works with jpg):
Now place the image you want as a background in /usr/share/xfce4/backdrops/, and do this (while in that directory):
Try rebooting once that is done, I hope it works for you.
billio: I’ll explain more into detail what you can do. :) You press Alt-F2 that opens up a new window. Type terminal or xterm there. A terminalwindow will pop up. There you write:
There you put in the script I made for you, save it and close it.
Now you have to make the file executable like so (while still being in the bin/-folder:
$ chmod +x cl.shThen run it:
Now that the file is in your bin/-folder, you don’t have to be in it to run the command. Wherever you are, just as long as you’re logged in as user, you can simply run cl.sh in the terminal to change your locale. If you want to be able to change your locale without entering the terminal, do the following. Open up a new window with Alt-F2, type xfce-setting-show, and select Keyboard. Go to Shortcuts and press the Add-button. The command you need to add is /home/user/bin/cl.sh and the shortcut should be something like Ctrl-alt-l, so hold in Ctrl and Alt while pressing the letter L. That maps that keycombination to the script, so each time you want to change locale, press Ctrl-Alt-L. Good luck!
Otto: I don’t mind giving you the file, but I’m not sure I understand which one. =/
Jack: A co-worker of mine experienced the same problem, and others have reported of the same. May I ask what size the USB-device is? This has usually happened to people that use a 1GB USB device. If you try a 2GB or around there, it should work.
Manuel: Have you tried re-adding the trash again to the sidebar? And have you tried adding a desktop-Trashcan with the command being trash:? And how did you add the trashcan to your sidebar? What I do is press Alt-F2, type xfce4-panel -a, select the Trashcan from the list, and just add it. Can’t say what the problem for you is though. =/ I’ll do some more investigating.
Markus: To be honest, I’ve no idea, but I sure hope they do. I’ve myself tried the fan mod, but I went back to the default setup in the end. The machine might make noise, but it doesn’t make as much noise as other machines. You know what they say about choosing the lesser evil.. ;)
Comment by jorge — September 10, 2008 @ 08:06
Hi,
The Aspire One automatically checks for updates when it detects it’’s connected to the internet.
How can I disable this behaviour ?
I don’t want to remove Liveupdate, I just don’t want it checking for update automatically.
I only want it to check for updates when I launch it manually.
I’ve also made quite a few subtle changes to the Aspire One that a Liveupdate may actually break things.
TIA
Comment by Nigel — September 10, 2008 @ 09:29
Hello Jorge,
Thank you! It finally works!
But, wenn I start the desktop (reboot) every time, I have to remove with the middle click of the mouse workspace 2, 3 and 4 before I can get to my desktop with icons. This is the only way to do it. Is there a way to change that? Is it possible to remove all workspaces?
Comment by Edward — September 10, 2008 @ 13:22
Nigel: Don’t know I’m afraid, but I’ll look into it. :)
Edward: It should be possible, yes. :) Press Alt-F2, and write xfce-setting-show. When the new window comes up, press and hold Alt while dragging the window upwards. You’ll see something called Workspaces and Margins. Press that. There you should be able to specify how many workspaces you want available. Give it a shot and let me know how it turns out. :) Oh, an even simpler method is just right-clicking on the desktop, select Settings, then select Workspaces Settings, if you’ve enabled the right-click.
Comment by jorge — September 10, 2008 @ 13:30
Thanks. I appreciate it if you come up with something.
Comment by Nigel — September 10, 2008 @ 16:10
Hey Jorge,
Thanks, I removed the games with yum. I thought that would have removed deps with it, but it didn’t. Great! I think you should add that to this page as it removes bloaty shareware games. That freed up over 44MB space which in my opinion, is well worth it.
I removed the dirs from /usr/share/games manually as I didn’t want to nuke my atanks, liquidwar and metal blob solid (blobwars) games which I hold so dear ;)
Thanks again.
Sam Murray
Comment by Sam Murray — September 10, 2008 @ 17:35
I was using a 2GB USB drive, I have even used an ODD but it simply will not re-install. I fear I may be doomed on this one?
Jack
Comment by Jack — September 10, 2008 @ 18:24
Jack: If that doesn’t solve it, then I sincerely don’t know what might fix it. =/ How do you go about putting the recovery image on the USB? It might be the device itself – perhaps try it on another? If you have a USB-cdrom, or know someone that has it, that will most likely be your way out. Good luck!
Comment by jorge — September 10, 2008 @ 18:27
hey can anyone help i need to know how to change the system proxy settings and i have searched and searched to no avail can someone please help
Comment by mo — September 10, 2008 @ 21:03
I tried to fix my desktop using
su to root:
$ sudo su -
and open the file /etc/xdg/xfce4-session/xfce4-session.rc:
# mousepad /etc/xdg/xfce4-session/xfce4-session.rc
and find the line:
Client0_Command=xfdesktopnew
Change it to:
Client0_Command=xfdesktop-xfce
and now is black and I dont know how to change it
please help
Comment by Kyle — September 10, 2008 @ 23:36
how come i can never save the dafault sessions…they say i hav to make sure if i hav acces or if i hav enough space….how can i save something, when i overwrite it…for example to change to dafault desktop…jelp pls
Comment by pinoyhoi — September 11, 2008 @ 00:17
ive figured it out…but now i hav a new question….i installed audacious and amorak…both wont play mp3 files…help what should i do? or maybe tell me another software which can play mp3 files. thx
Comment by pinoyhoi — September 11, 2008 @ 03:50
Jorge,
Thanks for your instruction on the recovery. It saves me more than 3 times. :)
However, it is quite strange that after decompressing the file to my 8GB USB drive, my computer consider the it to be a 2 GB drive.
BTW, Sissel Kyrkjebø is my favourite singer :)
Comment by dimension11 — September 11, 2008 @ 05:45
mo: Do you mean your browser’s proxy settings? If yes, is it Firefox?
Kyle: When your machine boots up, and you get to the blue screen that says “Acer Aspire One”, try pressing Ctrl-C, then you should be in the commandline. From there you should have root-access, so just edit the file again, and put together the old settings. If that doesn’t work, and you’re not too familiar with Linux, I recommend a recovery. That’s the way I learned at least. :) Good luck!
pinoyhoi: With both audacious and Amarok you need to install separate packages that allow you to play mp3-files. The packagename for audacious is audacious-plugins-nonfree-mp3 and the one for Amarok is amarok-extras-nonfree. Install both or one of those packages, restart audacious/amarok, and it should now play mp3s. :)
dimension11: Hehe, your computer considers it a 2GB drive because that’s what it is in reality, a 2GB drive. :) If you decompress the file, and run file aa1_usb_recovery_image, you’ll see that it says something like x86 boot sector or something along those lines. When you do a zcat aa1_usb_recovery_image > /dev/sdb you are simply transferring the output from the zcat command to your /dev/sdb/-device. :)
Comment by jorge — September 11, 2008 @ 08:05
Jorge,
The drive has at least 7.5 GB. After running the zcat command, the system suddenly consider it to be a 2 GB drive :(
I am a newbie to Linux :) and I just want to know the reasn behind it.
Original:
Disk /dev/sdb: 8086 MB, 8086617600 bytes
249 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1023 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15438 * 512 = 7904256 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xe5469cd3
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 1023 7896506 83 Linux
Afterwards:
Disk /dev/sdb: 8086 MB, 8086617600 bytes
64 heads, 62 sectors/track, 3980 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 3968 * 512 = 2031616 bytes
Disk identifier: 0×00000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 1012 2007777 83 Linux
Comment by dimension11 — September 11, 2008 @ 10:34
Thanks for the tips,
Biggest problem i am having is i am unable to connect to NFS shares. Its almost as if the kernel is missing somethng.
I get the standard Missing codepage message.
Also When using smbfs i simply get protocol not supported. smb:// doesnt work either in thunar.
Being someone who uses network shares a lot, linpus is looking a bit useless to me so far.
Ps: I tried your desktop mod and have got rid of the fisher price desktop, but I cannot see any files/icons i put in ~/Desktop on the desktop itself :/
Comment by Dan — September 11, 2008 @ 10:53
dimension11: Ah, I’m sorry, I think I understand a bit better what you meant now. :) The same happens to me when I use my USB-disk (it’s a 120GB one), but what the issue probably is is that the USB-recovery-image’s geometry is set to be 2GB, and takes over all of the space on your USB-drive. If you format it though, I’m sure you’ll regain your 7.5GB back :)
Dan: Ah, the problem about NFS-shares, I know that SO well. I spent a while figuring that out. It seems that the kernel that comes as default with the Acer Aspire One only support NFS version 2, and not 3. So when mounting, you have to do something like this:
# mount -o nfsvers=2 192.168.1.1:/stuff/music/ /music/Also, when trying to mount through Samba, use cifs and not smbfs:
# mount -t cifs -o user=jorge,password=foo //192.168.1.1/media/music /musicHope that works for you. :)
Oh, and how did you go about adding the icons to the desktop? Did you use the way I’ve specified in this article? Right-clicking an existing icon, and adding a new launcher?
Comment by jorge — September 11, 2008 @ 11:09
Im not sure what to do after getting to the command line from pressing Ctrl-C
Comment by Kyle — September 11, 2008 @ 14:44
@jorge
NFS, Thanks i will try when i get home form work.
As for the icons thing, there are no icons to click on, only a grey acer aspire background with no xfcedesktop2 in the foreground.
I followed the guide line by line and then realised half way through that i was not sure if i was supposed to do the first mods or not. I proceeded with the rest and then tried both the original xfce4-session.rc and the modded one and it makes no difference still no icons (i set them to true by the way).
Comment by Dan — September 11, 2008 @ 15:03
Hi! After I reverted to the Xfce desktop, I can no longer automount pen drives. I think the HAL setting are all FUBAR. If I sudo thunar, I can browse the pen drive like normal, but if I just run thunar as a user it won’t show it. I can access it as normal through “open file” in Write. It also no longer appears as an icon on my desktop. I have added the thunar daemon to autostart and have all the Volman preferences boxes checked for it to automount. I have reinstalled the recovery disk and tried this 3 times. Each time it ceases to automount shortly after I change the desktop. Help??
Comment by Bryan — September 11, 2008 @ 16:59
Jorge ur a god ive tried alot of ur tips and work so far except changing the desktop, i get this error as soon as i run xfce4
No Such files or directory
any idea what im doing wrong
thanks
Comment by geeek — September 12, 2008 @ 00:26
Hi Jorge
I activated my right click menu and it was working great but now the settings part of the menu does not open anymore.. all other menus open just fine. Have you seen this before?
Also my backdrop no longer works. I clicked “new list” in the desktop settings menu and after I did that it has never came back. Is there a way to disable the list? (I have tried all other methods on this page and they have not worked)
Thanks in advance
Comment by Grant — September 12, 2008 @ 01:41
First off let me start by saying that I’m sorry for the late replies. I get home rather late from work, and when I first get here, I’d like to be able to spend some time with my girlfriend and son. That means that I won’t be able to give you an answer quickly, and that some troubleshooting can take hours. So please take that into consideration. :)
Kyle: What file is it that you want to recover? Are you sure a recovery isn’t the best option?
Dan: Odd thing actually, why xfce behaves like that I’ve no clue. Try the following. Alt-F2 -> xfce-show-setting -> Desktop. Check/Uncheck the box named Allow xfce to manage the desktop. Oddly enough, sometimes the icons appear here. Other than that, I’ll have to investigate. =/
Bryan: Try the same method as Dan. I agree with you, seems that automounting is bogus, but by doing what I’ve told Dan, the pendrive pops up. Can’t believe that Linpus is so damn buggy sometimes.
geeek Could you tell me please exactly what you are trying to do?
Grant: Sorry Grant, something I’ll also have to investigate =/
Comment by jorge — September 12, 2008 @ 08:33
jorge – this page is the best ! congratulations.
i have one question that i think also maybe relates to others here in the list but cdnt see a specific response. i have followed your instructions and gone to kfce. however it seems that the this breaks the relationship with System Configuration Profile Manager – so it no longer remembers WEP passwords, cant change the desktop and quite a few other settings are not available – basically the ones that *were* available with the original settings.so, for example, in the right click menu selecting configuration manager , nothing happens, nor can i launch it from the terminal. how do i reestablish this relationship ? many thanx and enjoy your baby :)
best . ps
Comment by ps — September 12, 2008 @ 13:43
my sense is that this broken connection to Configuration Manager is what geeek and Grant are also experiencing … ps
Comment by ps — September 12, 2008 @ 13:49
Hi, thank a lot for those tips, very good job :)
A question : is it possible to have mutli users account ? First do the GDM things but then ? adduser ?
Thanks in advance.
Comment by Wiltur — September 12, 2008 @ 16:27
I figured how to recover my computer but I dont really understand how I can get rid of the 4 boxes on the desktop.
Can you help me?
Comment by Kyle — September 12, 2008 @ 17:06
kyle : if u mean the standard One interface, the instructions are above.
Comment by ps — September 12, 2008 @ 17:33
Hey Jorge,
fantastic stuff here — got my Aspire One yesterday and was deeply disappointed by the goofy Linpus Lite GUI — found your site and by the end of the evening it all looked a lot lovelier, thanks to you!
However, I seem to be having the same problems as Edward and a few others here. Right-clicking the desktop brings up the settings, but the desktop settings are unavailable, as is the trash and linking files to the desktop. I’m a total noob with Linux but it seems to me I don’t have permissions to access the desktop. Perhaps a related issue is that the only way I can access folders above ‘My Disk’ in the hierarchy is by using Go in the menu. And then I can’t write to them, ie can’t put my own pics in the xfce4backdrops folder. Any suggestions?
Comment by Joe — September 12, 2008 @ 18:38
hello
when I try to install vlc iget following error:
Error: Missing Dependency: libpulse.so.0(PULSE_0) is needed by package vlc
Error: Missing Dependency: libopendaap.so.0 is needed by package vlc-core
Error: Missing Dependency: libdvdnav.so.4 is needed by package vlc-core
any idea, help is appreciated
Comment by jun — September 12, 2008 @ 21:20
Hey Jorge, I can see your busy but I can’t for the life of me get Vlc to install. After executing yum, the screen says it do checks for all of the dependencies and the comes up with 2 or 3 of the being not present and does not complete the installation. I tried doing it exactly as shown and then removing the installation files and trying again but no luck. Linux has been a bit of a learning experience with me so any help would be great.
Comment by Sterling — September 13, 2008 @ 01:48
This guide is beyond awesome.
Thank you so much. I almost ditched Linpus for Ubuntu, despite all the problems because I hated the “locked down” feel of it. Now that I’ve had a chance to mess with it, i’m actually quite happy with it.
You should check out the OneLinux project (www.onelinux.org). The project is only a few days old, but their goal is to get Ubuntu with Netbook Remix running natively on an Aspire One (and sort out all the problems that are involved in configuring that setup).
But until that works, I’m sticking with what I have, thanks to you.
Much appreciated!
Comment by Eric — September 13, 2008 @ 02:17
Hey Jorge,
Thank you for taking the time for even looking into it, do not worry if you are slow, any help is great :D
I wish I knew as much as you did about linux, but this page has helped me greatly. Thank you again.
Comment by Grant — September 13, 2008 @ 05:28
ps: I’ll have to look into that I’m afraid. =/
Wiltur: I’m afraid that adding several users is a really bad idea. I’ve tried that myself, and it ended up with being a lot of work for nothing. The user user has been specified specifically in a lot of scripts, being the correct permissions set manually in a script, or that it should be the only one to have access to specific devices. Trust me, I ended up editing a lot of files to make it work, only to find out that everything had reset when I rebooted. So save yourself the trouble. :)
Joe: I suspect that you need root-access to be able to place files in specific directories. Become root like this:
and give it a shot. :)
As for the desktop settings and trash being unavailable, I’ll still have to look into it. =/
jun and sterling: I’ve added an own Troubleshooting-section for that now, so take a look at http://jorge.ulver.no/2008/08/06/acer-aspire-one-tips-and-tricks/#TroubleShooting and let me know if it works. :)
Eric: Glad to hear this has been of help! I know about Onelinux actually, Gouki (the project leader) sponsored me with some space for the usb recovery image. :) It’ll be fun once Onelinux is finished, so I’m waiting too!
Grant: I appreciate the patience, thanks. :) I’ll see if I can sit down and troubleshoot the AA1 during the weekend, when both myself and my better half are at home to watch our son.
Comment by jorge — September 13, 2008 @ 07:53
very useful file. however, how do i apply the themes that i got from xfce-look.org? thank you in advance. linux noob here, and i just followed your step and using the default desktop but i want to install themes. thanks.
Comment by Jhed — September 13, 2008 @ 13:36
how can u add skins to audacious after downloading and extracting a new one. i cant copy and paste the new skin to the actual folder of audacious skins. help
Comment by pinoyhoi — September 13, 2008 @ 13:39
i think i’ll just use the acer desktop.
there’s way too much problems with the default xfce, whether the one with linpus or installing xfce4 de. i’ll just stick to the acer modded desktop, my priorities are functionality and performance. so i think it’ll do well. what do you think jorge?
Comment by jhed — September 13, 2008 @ 16:54
I have a Pharos i500 sirf III USB GPS device but could not get gpsd to find it. Do you know where the USB device is located in the File System?
I tried looking in /dev/ but did not find it. Very frustrating because people with Ubuntu laptop has no problem
http://www.fsckin.com/2008/04/06/review-four-linux-gps-packages/
Thank you in advance for your help.
Comment by TTT — September 14, 2008 @ 04:15
Hey there,
First off just wanted to say awesome page, its been a shed load of help for me and my girlfriend (she just got this aspire one today).
I followed the tip to get the default linux desktop, and it worked great. But when I reboot, the desktop wallpaper never loads back up, and I have to go and put it back on again. Any ideas what could be causing this?
Cheers
Comment by Tom Glenn — September 14, 2008 @ 05:37
You should add a section “enabling NTFS support”.
It took me ages to figure out how to get around a “yum install ntfs-3g” command just barfing on dependencies.
However, the following command:
sudo yum install fuse fuse-libs ntfs-3g
Does the trick.
Also, I found it useful that when I was messing with the acer config (group-app.xml), it was useful to preview what I’d done. This could be done without rebooting by restarting xfce. The simple way was to have the “desktop settings” (xfce-setting-show) up on the screen and simply hitting the checkbox “allow xfce to manage the desktop” twice. – that reloads the XML file from scratch without a reboot.
Comment by Eric — September 14, 2008 @ 09:05
One more quick spot of advice. I have the Acer configured exactly how I’d like. I may try to get more aggressive with some kernel plugins and things, but first, I want to save a drive image of the system to an external drive.
Any suggestions for the best way to do this? I was thinking just doing a “dd” from a liveCD boot, but I was hoping someone else might have a better idea or software that will do it more effectively.
Actually, I think I have an old copy of Acronis TrueImage kicking around so I may just use that… But for others, maybe a few suggestions would be useful! I have like 30 hours into tinkering with the software and I’m really happy with it now, so I figured I’d put it out there.
Comment by Eric — September 14, 2008 @ 09:14
Hi there,
Everything else works fine, but I can’t for my life get the wallpaper to stay between reboots. Every single time I reboot it’s back to solid blue. I’ve tried with both “let Xfce handle my..” enabled and without. Any ideas?
Comment by Joakim — September 14, 2008 @ 22:21
Quite a backlog here I see. I am working on some other projects, so unfortunately I won’t be answering questions concerning the AA1 for some time. If you have more questions though, I recommend using http://www.aspireoneuser.com/forum/ and/or the channel #onelinux on the IRC network Freenode.
jhed: Apologies for the late reply, but I couldn’t agree more with you. :) No matter how much you tweak the AA1’s settings, something will almost always be bound to break at some point. I myself have tried several things, and I’ve also ended up with the defalt Acer-desktop, though with another wallpaper. Works just fine for me. :)
pinoyhoi: To change the skin of Audacious, have a look at http://www.linuxr.com/2007/09/changing-skins-for-audacious.html.
TTT: I’m sorry, but I honestly have no clue. =/ You can try looking at the output of dmesg and your logs in /var/log/ to look for clues as to where and if the USB GPS device is found. Good luck!
Tom Glenn and Joakim: I’ve had that problems so many times myself, and as you I have also enabled/disabled that xfce manages the desktop through the settings. Other than that, I don’t really know what you can do to make it stick. However, I know that the default wallpaper for the Acer-desktop is located in /usr/share/background/images/Home-bk.png. So if you get hold of a wallpaper you want, simply remove that file, download your new wallpaper (make sure it’s in the .png format), and rename it to Home-bk.png, and place it in /usr/share/background/images/. Good luck to the both of you. :)
Eric: Thanks for the tip! Unfortunately I have no idea of how to do what you suggest myself, but if you come up with a way, let me know. :) I’m sure most people out there would want to know how to save an image of the drive.
Comment by jorge — September 15, 2008 @ 08:20
well thanks for your opinion jorge. and what wallpaper are those anyway jorge? hahaha. do you have any new wallpapers with the acer desktop?
Comment by jhed — September 15, 2008 @ 11:09
og btw jorge, how do i install wine? do i just type ‘yum install wine’ and the terminal? because im hearing from a lot of people that it works well so i might give it a shot. have you tried it yet jorge? how does it do?
Comment by jhed — September 15, 2008 @ 11:18
ok, so I think ive tried everyguide there is to install vlc but it wont work…
I only get:
Error: Missing Dependency libtar.so.1 is needed by package vlc
Error: Missing Dependency libebml.so.0 libtar.so.1 is needed by package vlc-core
Error: Missing Dependency libvga.so.1 libtar.so.1 is needed by package vlc-core
Error: Missing Dependency libxosd.so.2 libtar.so.1 is needed by package vlc
Error: Missing Dependency libmp4v2.so.0 libtar.so.1 is needed by package faac
Error: Missing Dependency dejavu-fonts libtar.so.1 is needed by package vlc
Error: Missing Dependency libdirac-encoder.so.0 libtar.so.1 is needed by package vlc-core
Error: Missing Dependency libcddb.so.2 libtar.so.1 is needed by package vlc-core
Error: Missing Dependency libmatroska.so.o libtar.so.1 is needed by package vlc-core
Error: Missing Dependency libdirectfb-1.0.so.0 libtar.so.1 is needed by package vlc-core
Error: Missing Dependency libmodplug.so.0 libtar.so.1 is needed by package vlc-core
Error: Missing Dependency libvgagl.so.1 libtar.so.1 is needed by package vlc-core
Error: Missing Dependency libdirac_decoder.so.0 libtar.so.1 is needed by package vlc-core
Ive tried everything that´s written on this page (i think)… Have a AAO 512mb 120gb if that matters…
thanks for the helpl
Comment by Prim — September 16, 2008 @ 02:23
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Pingback by Matthew Phillips » Aspire One — September 16, 2008 @ 03:23
I have figured out a way to fix the problem..
moving/deleting the /home/user/.config/xfce4 directory and restarting fixed my problem with the backdrop and settings!!!
Thank you for showing me the http://www.aspireoneuser.com/forum/
and thank you for your help with all of the other tweaks on here
Comment by Grant — September 16, 2008 @ 03:58
ok thanks alot but I want to use alt and shift and want it to permanent
I use this command “setxkbmap -layout “us,ar” -option “grp:alt_shift_toggle
How to make this permanent after reboot
Comment by fasal — September 16, 2008 @ 17:01
Hi, I am new to linux and try to controll my fan noice. I opened a terminal window, wrote sudo su and copied inn your text:
# wget http://jorge.ulver.no/files/{acer_ec.pl,acerfand}
# chmod +x acer*
# mv acer* /usr/local/bin/
# echo “/usr/local/bin/acerfand” >> /etc/rc.d/rc.local
Would that work?
Now I have now clue how to actually make an acerfand.conf file. Could you please explain?
best regards
Comment by Mikkel — September 16, 2008 @ 22:10
I would like to cut some CDs and DVDs with the Aspire One. I have an external drive (which works fine for reading DVDs and cDs), but I am nervouse about installing k3b – it seems to involve updating a lot of packages and I wondered if anyone had done this successfuly (i.e. without anything else breaking) on an Aspire One ?
Comment by Philip Sargent — September 16, 2008 @ 23:38
Thanks for producing a great informative website.
I followed you tips about changing the desktop and got it just the way I wanted it.
The I plugged in my USB drive to pull some web pages off it, and the AA1 would not recognise it. So I tried an XD card and the AA1 would not recognise it.
I resorted to altering the 2 files (xfdesktopnew and xfdesktop), back to original state and the AA1 now recocgnizes the drives.
Any ideas how to overcome this?
I liked my new desktop but rely heavily on USB storage
Comment by Cyberbob1uk — September 17, 2008 @ 23:39
Hi.
I’ve tried and tried to get VLC installed, but keep getting the Missing Dependencies errors. Can you help?
Comment by Singularity — September 18, 2008 @ 02:54
good, until today!
Grrr…. big update this morning. Now the wifi’s busted and a big “Failed to Initialize HAL!” message.
Anyone know how to get my baby working again? :(
Comment by Moocherx — September 19, 2008 @ 17:12
OK, it all works fine now, I can manage my own backgrounds and icons on my desktop!
But now I have another problem, the file manager on the acer aspire one has the capability to upgrade the diskspace with the external use of a SD-cart. Since I have changed the settings to manage my own desktop backgrounds and icons, this utility does not work anymore and the utility called “EZ Move” does not work. How can I make this work again?
Comment by Edward — September 21, 2008 @ 10:12
I have a problem installing firefox 3:
After following the above steps I come to the following:
“Edit the file /etc/yum.repos.d/remi.repo, and set enabled to 1 under [remi] and NOT [remi-test].”
My problem:
The command “rpm -Uvh remi-release-8.rpm throughs the following error:
warning: remi-release-8.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 00f97f56
error: can’t create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/__db.000
So I can’t do the next step:
“Edit the file /etc/yum.repos.d/remi.repo, and set enabled to 1 under [remi] and NOT [remi-test].” because there is no /etc/yum.repos.d/remi.repo
Any suggestions???
Thanks!
Comment by Sandybanks — September 21, 2008 @ 13:27
Jorge, thanks, all very useful, and everything I have tried from here has worked.
Bryan: In various places on the net people have complained about auto-mounting not working. I had the same problem, but the following worked for me (– all done as user):
1. using xfce4-autostart-editor add item
dbus-launch Thunar –daemon
2. remove the desktop link to folder Home:
edit/create file ~/.config/xfce4/desktop/xfdesktoprc with
[file-icons]
show-home=false
3. replace the desktop link to the folder Home with a launcher:
dbus-launch Thunar –daemon
Hope this works for someone else.
Comment by Kai — September 21, 2008 @ 15:20
Hi there,
First let me thank you for all you tips: very useful for someone that is new to linux and looking to tune its AA1.
I am having some problems with my desktop setup: after modifying the group-app.xml file to display skype and vlc icons, I got the icons in the right place, but all 4 window panels now display only 2 icons instead of 3, bizzare! Unfortunately I did not make a safe copy of this file, maybe you could send me one? Any suggestions on how to fix this?
Cheers
Stan (CH)
Comment by Stan — September 21, 2008 @ 19:17
Hi Jorge,
Thanks for sharing your experience through your blog. I have one question.
I switched to the xfce desktop, dropping the acer modified one. There is one slight problem. The home buttton, ctrl+esc and alt+F2 shortcuts don’t work anymore. I’m quite sure this should be easy to fix, but I can’t find the information what to change the existing shortcuts to. Any idea how I can solve this?
Anc
Comment by anc — September 21, 2008 @ 20:06
If your having trouble creating a restore system on a usb flash drive like me, try using a usb card reader if you have one. I used a usb card reader and a sd memory card and both my windows and my imac saw it as a usb flash drive. While I could put the restore system on my usb flash drive it would boot but then not install, instead it brought up a shell. But it worked fine with the card reader. Dont know why but it worked.
Comment by scott — September 23, 2008 @ 15:19
no i would like to know how to change the environmental proxy settings so i can use the IM or yum
Comment by mo — September 23, 2008 @ 20:00
I am trying to use your script for recovering the firefox library files, but it keeps saying my permission is denied…can anyone help me?
Comment by Andrew — September 24, 2008 @ 00:39
## Getting hold of the Firefox-files..
–09:08:56– http://jorge.ulver.no/files/firefox-files.tar.gz
=> `firefox-files.tar.gz’
Resolving jorge.ulver.no… 84.49.224.34
Connecting to jorge.ulver.no|84.49.224.34|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 10,324,887 (9.8M) [application/x-gzip]
firefox-files.tar.gz: Permission denied
Cannot write to `firefox-files.tar.gz’ (Permission denied).
## Unpacking the library-files..
/bin/tar: firefox-files.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
/bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
/bin/tar: Child returned status 2
/bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
## Moving library-files..
/bin/mv: cannot move `/usr/acer/bin/AME’ to `/usr/acer/bin/old.AME’: Permission denied
/bin/mv: cannot stat `/root/firefox-files/AME’: No such file or directory
/bin/mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/lib/firefox-files/’: Permission denied
/bin/mv: cannot stat `/root/firefox-files/*’: No such file or directory
## Changing permissions and cleaning up..
/bin/rm: cannot remove `/root/firefox-files.tar.gz’: No such file or directory
/bin/rmdir: /root/firefox-files/: No such file or directory
/bin/chown: cannot access `/usr/lib/firefox-files/’: No such file or directory
/bin/chmod: cannot access `/usr/lib/firefox-files/’: No such file or directory
## Done!
this is the exact message I am getting when I enter your script..please help :(!
Comment by Andrew — September 24, 2008 @ 14:19
hello i cant dowloade the rmp for tto install VLC
” error resolving dependencies” “uable to resolve dependencies for some packages selected for installation” WTF thos this mean i am about to hammer this acer one shit!!!!
HELP
Comment by magnus — September 24, 2008 @ 19:41
[...] [Source] [...]
Pingback by tlog.de » Removing the search bar — September 24, 2008 @ 20:49
If I switch over to the xfce desktop, can I go back to the acer desktop just as easily by changing everything back?
Comment by K.Pulvermacher — September 24, 2008 @ 21:09
Hi!
My fiance just bought me a brand new Acer Aspire One. Everything’s great, however, we noticed that both the internal and external microphones are not working. We then checked out forums on the internet about Aspire One and found out that the mics are really defective.
Is there a fix for this?
Please help!
Thank you very much!
Comment by Katey Louise — September 24, 2008 @ 22:18
My issue is pretty specific to me, I imagine. I know the AA0 has preconfigured CUPS printing, however my university requires that I use lpr printing in order to access the networked printers. I have tried installing lpr via yum to no avail and my searches indicate that it should be preinstalled or I should be using CUPS.
I was wondering if you, or anyone else, had a workaround for this issue.
Thanks,
Zach
Comment by Zach — September 25, 2008 @ 00:07
I try and set my own wallpaper and icons background (ie – get rid of the kiddy AA1 interface) that works cool and fine. But as soon as I do i cannot read my USB thumb drives – any ideas.
As soon as i comment out the code alterations you advise in desktop and desktopnew to return to the kiddy desktop I get usb drives back again!
Weird stuff
Linux is sort of very frustrating when such simple things as this (changing a desktop wallpaper require jumping through flaming hoops and rolling under tables – haha)
Comment by Steve — September 25, 2008 @ 07:41
Jorge,
Thanks for your sound tips. Finally somebody that makesmy aspire one working better and not working worse.
Q: Do you know an idiotproof way to make backups of the total system? I tried fwbackups, but it always stops halfway, in sudo-mode and without. gparted I also tried to copy a disk image, but the buttons on top are all disabled. Thanks for your advice.
Michel
Comment by MichelC — September 25, 2008 @ 16:10
i downloaded the acer aspire one wallpapers. i love them, but everytime i use them and then shut down my pc and then turn it on again the desktop is just blue, so i always hav to put back the wallpaper. is there a way to just keep the wallpaper on the desktop fix?
Comment by pinoyhoi — September 25, 2008 @ 18:06
Hi Jorge, Fantastic page easily the best one for the Linux AA1. Just a quick one regarding your fan controller script… I’ve installed it and it works just fine :) I noticed there is a BIOS upgrade to v3304 posted on AspireOneUser.com and so I flashed my AA1… Your fan control script stopped working but I was able to re-flash back to v3114 and guess what, the fan was behaving again! Perhaps Acer have locked down the fan control in the new BIOS that stopped the script from working? Anyway just thought you’d like to know :) Cheers Seb :)
Comment by Seb Gray — September 25, 2008 @ 21:39
What does line 6 in the xfdesktop file read before you put “/usr/bin/xfdesktop-xfce & >/dev/null 2>&1″ in its place?
Comment by Alex — September 27, 2008 @ 00:30
Ola Jorge, soy el Grinbin, me hás ayudado en IRC a configurar el AA1 y instalar el VLC, te acuerdas?
Todo funciona de maravilla, gracias a tu preciosa ayuda desisti de esa idea de instalar el xp… pero sigo siendo lo masi rookie de los rookies en linux! Asique tepido una vez mas, si puedes, aún que me ayudes…
Hoy intenté configurar la cuenta de e-mail. Pero no funcionava, y me acorde de eso de /etc/resolv.conf.
Te acuerdas que me has dicho para editar ese fichero. Lo hice cambiando el ip por lo de mi provider, asi que todo funcionava, pero cada vez que reinicio la maquina lo tiango que hacer de nuevo, se pierde el contenido.
Que puedo hacer para que se lo mantenga?
Muchas gracias y que te vaya bien.
Todo de bueno para ti y para el pequeño Michael (no te olvides de enseñarle el castellano, es un plus!)
Comment by Joao Varela — September 27, 2008 @ 02:19
“Then create the file acerfand.conf in /etc/ with the following options:”
How do I go about this? The right-click menu option to “create document” (as well as “create folder” and even “paste”) is (are) grayed out.
Thanks.
Comment by Jack Vermicelli — September 27, 2008 @ 05:12
pinoyhoi:
About the wallpaper… If you read the feedbacks the instructions are there.
Comment by oz — September 27, 2008 @ 13:22
i have a problem i have lost install on my right menu i can’t install skype though i have the package, i can’t install anything unless i follow what you write, i just installed that fedora release, is there a way i could install skype the same way, i was trying to install R, and something happened i dont know what. I have wasted so much time on this. i made a boot disk on the usb 2gig i just got thinking i could reinstall, i rather just fix it or just install skype by writting commands.
Comment by sarah — September 29, 2008 @ 12:42
i have all the other applications on my right click menu accept install, i sure with i could fix that or at least install skype through the commands the way i just installed that release of fedora. I would like to install R too, it started with what you said it kept saying i was missing something, and i kept installing things, suddenly i lost the install thing, and couldnt get skype to work when i did an alt f2, it was before i followed everything you wrong and it worked. I am sorry to bother you.
Comment by sarah — September 29, 2008 @ 12:46
i really like your wallpaper, i managed to get flowers on mine, which is ok.
Comment by sarah — September 29, 2008 @ 12:46
i got books from library, i tried
$system-config-packages command not found
i tried menu systemsetting add remove applications and found nothing there.
i did rpm and got all this: please help me.
Usage: rpm [-aKfgpWHqVcdilsaKfgpWHqVKiv?] [-a|--all] [-f|--file] [-g|--group]
[-p|--package] [-W|--ftswalk] [--pkgid] [--hdrid] [--fileid]
[--specfile] [--triggeredby] [--whatrequires] [--whatprovides]
[--nomanifest] [-c|--configfiles] [-d|--docfiles] [--dump] [-l|--list]
[--queryformat=QUERYFORMAT] [-s|--state] [--nomd5] [--nofiles]
[--nodeps] [--noscript] [--comfollow] [--logical] [--nochdir]
[--nostat] [--physical] [--seedot] [--xdev] [--whiteout]
[--addsign] [-K|--checksig] [--delsign] [--import] [--resign]
[--nodigest] [--nosignature] [--initdb] [--rebuilddb] [--aid]
[--allfiles] [--allmatches] [--badreloc] [-e|--erase +]
[--excludedocs] [--excludepath=] [--fileconflicts] [--force]
[-F|--freshen +] [-h|--hash] [--ignorearch] [--ignoreos]
[--ignoresize] [-i|--install] [--justdb] [--nodeps] [--nomd5]
[--nocontexts] [--noorder] [--nosuggest] [--noscripts]
[--notriggers] [--oldpackage] [--percent] [--prefix=]
[--relocate==] [--repackage] [--replacefiles]
[--replacepkgs] [--test] [-U|--upgrade +]
[-D|--define 'MACRO EXPR'] [-E|--eval 'EXPR'] [--macros=]
[--nodigest] [--nosignature] [--rcfile=] [-r|--root ROOT]
[--querytags] [--showrc] [--quiet] [-v|--verbose] [--version]
[-?|--help] [--usage] [--scripts] [--setperms] [--setugids]
[--conflicts] [--obsoletes] [--provides] [--requires] [--info]
[--changelog] [--xml] [--triggers] [--last] [--dupes]
[--filesbypkg] [--fileclass] [--filecolor] [--filecontext]
[--fscontext] [--recontext] [--fileprovide] [--filerequire]
[--redhatprovides] [--redhatrequires] [--buildpolicy=]
[--with=] [--without=]
[root@localhost user]# system config packages
bash: system: command not found
[root@localhost user]#
Comment by sarah — September 29, 2008 @ 23:09
i get this strange message when i do xterm
Warning: Cannot convert string “nil2″ to type FontStruct
and then i get the window user local host command prompt
and up2date not found when i try that
so i found skype it is in /usr/share/skype
bash /usr/share/skype: is a directory
so i went rpm -i skype and got not file or directory
i did a rmp -qf usr/share/skype
and got file rmp -qf usr/share/skype is not owned by any package then
i got promt $
[] that thing
i am so stuck and behind in the stuff i am supposed to do.
Comment by sarah — September 29, 2008 @ 23:46
audit_log_user_command(): Connection refused
[root@localhost user]# system-config-packages
bash: system-config-packages: command not found
[root@localhost user]#
nothing I have tried ssems to work to install
Comment by sarah — September 30, 2008 @ 02:55
There are no filesystems which you are allowed to mount or unmount.
Contact your administrator.
this is another message i got.
This is a horrible waste of time. i wish someone would answer me.
Comment by sarah — September 30, 2008 @ 03:10
if someone has a clue, it will be appreciated, I think this is a buggy operating system, but the computer is nice. I will see what acer says, I have just had this computer for about a week. I have an exam in a week, my old computer broke that is why I got this one, so i have to just let this go, and send assignments. I don’t think i would recommend this computer to anyone who seriously needed a computer for course work or work, what a waste of time to do basic operations. I got a more information from the books on fedora, that is what i would recommend, not wasting hours searching just to get a repetition of the same old thing. It is like going backwards, i remember dos was a lot like this.
Comment by sarah — September 30, 2008 @ 06:31
i found something interesting, the package i installed yesterday
fedora release 8.6 i found in my desk top stuff and i clicked found a menu of all kinds of executable commands and scripts. I was going to delete the container, like i would with windows after i just assumed that is what you are supposed to do, maybe now i will just restore, that is was the easiest thing i have done so far, found the icon, click and all those commands. So I guess i will restore it, and do the assignments, and after my exam try to figure this out, if no one comes up with anything before hand. I have the white acer aspire one, i think the white one is supposed to be buggiest.
Comment by sarah — September 30, 2008 @ 06:46
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.
[root@localhost user]# /mnt/home/Desktop/skype-2.0.0.72-fc5.i586.rpm
bash: /mnt/home/Desktop/skype-2.0.0.72-fc5.i586.rpm: Permission denied
interesting thing thoug, i just found out if you drag the icon onto the terminal thin the command wrties itself, so i used install that way, I guess i have to change the permissions, somehow, What a hassle.
Comment by sarah — September 30, 2008 @ 07:14
audit_log_user_command(): Connection refused
[root@localhost user]# rpm -ivh /mnt/home/Downloads/skype-2.0.0.72-fc5.i586.rpm
warning: /mnt/home/Downloads/skype-2.0.0.72-fc5.i586.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID d66b746e
error: Failed dependencies:
libQtGui.so.4 is needed by skype-2.0.0.72-fc5.i586
qt4-x11 >= 4.2 is needed by skype-2.0.0.72-fc5.i586
[root@localhost user]#
Comment by sarah — September 30, 2008 @ 08:22
[user@localhost ~]$ suso su
bash: suso: command not found
[user@localhost ~]$ sudo su
audit_log_user_command(): Connection refused
[root@localhost user]# rpm -ivh /mnt/home/Downloads/skype-2.0.0.72-fc5.i586.rpm
warning: /mnt/home/Downloads/skype-2.0.0.72-fc5.i586.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID d66b746e
error: Failed dependencies:
libQtGui.so.4 is needed by skype-2.0.0.72-fc5.i586
qt4-x11 >= 4.2 is needed by skype-2.0.0.72-fc5.i586
[root@localhost user]# rpm -ivh libQtGui.so.4
error: open of libQtGui.so.4 failed: No such file or directory
[root@localhost user]# rpm libQtGui.so.4
RPM version 4.4.2.2
Copyright (C) 1998-2002 – Red Hat, Inc.
This program may be freely redistributed under the terms of the GNU GPL
Usage: rpm [-aKfgpWHqVcdilsaKfgpWHqVKiv?] [-a|--all] [-f|--file] [-g|--group]
[-p|--package] [-W|--ftswalk] [--pkgid] [--hdrid] [--fileid]
[--specfile] [--triggeredby] [--whatrequires] [--whatprovides]
[--nomanifest] [-c|--configfiles] [-d|--docfiles] [--dump] [-l|--list]
[--queryformat=QUERYFORMAT] [-s|--state] [--nomd5] [--nofiles]
[--nodeps] [--noscript] [--comfollow] [--logical] [--nochdir]
[--nostat] [--physical] [--seedot] [--xdev] [--whiteout]
[--addsign] [-K|--checksig] [--delsign] [--import] [--resign]
[--nodigest] [--nosignature] [--initdb] [--rebuilddb] [--aid]
[--allfiles] [--allmatches] [--badreloc] [-e|--erase +]
[--excludedocs] [--excludepath=] [--fileconflicts] [--force]
[-F|--freshen +] [-h|--hash] [--ignorearch] [--ignoreos]
[--ignoresize] [-i|--install] [--justdb] [--nodeps] [--nomd5]
[--nocontexts] [--noorder] [--nosuggest] [--noscripts]
[--notriggers] [--oldpackage] [--percent] [--prefix=]
[--relocate==] [--repackage] [--replacefiles]
[--replacepkgs] [--test] [-U|--upgrade +]
[-D|--define 'MACRO EXPR'] [-E|--eval 'EXPR'] [--macros=]
[--nodigest] [--nosignature] [--rcfile=] [-r|--root ROOT]
[--querytags] [--showrc] [--quiet] [-v|--verbose] [--version]
[-?|--help] [--usage] [--scripts] [--setperms] [--setugids]
[--conflicts] [--obsoletes] [--provides] [--requires] [--info]
[--changelog] [--xml] [--triggers] [--last] [--dupes]
[--filesbypkg] [--fileclass] [--filecolor] [--filecontext]
[--fscontext] [--recontext] [--fileprovide] [--filerequire]
[--redhatprovides] [--redhatrequires] [--buildpolicy=]
[--with=] [--without=]
[root@localhost user]# rpm qt4-x11 >= 4.2
[root@localhost user]# rpm qt4-x11 >= 4.2
[root@localhost user]# rpm -ivh /mnt/home/Downloads/skype-2.0.0.72-fc5.i586.rpm
warning: /mnt/home/Downloads/skype-2.0.0.72-fc5.i586.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID d66b746e
error: Failed dependencies:
libQtGui.so.4 is needed by skype-2.0.0.72-fc5.i586
qt4-x11 >= 4.2 is needed by skype-2.0.0.72-fc5.i586
[root@localhost user]# libQtGui.so.4
bash: libQtGui.so.4: command not found
[root@localhost user]# install libQtGui.so.4
install: missing destination file operand after `libQtGui.so.4′
Try `install –help’ for more information.
[root@localhost user]# run libQtGui.so.4
bash: run: command not found
[root@localhost user]# install –help
Usage: install [OPTION]… [-T] SOURCE DEST
or: install [OPTION]… SOURCE… DIRECTORY
or: install [OPTION]… -t DIRECTORY SOURCE…
or: install [OPTION]… -d DIRECTORY…
In the first three forms, copy SOURCE to DEST or multiple SOURCE(s) to
the existing DIRECTORY, while setting permission modes and owner/group.
In the 4th form, create all components of the given DIRECTORY(ies).
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
–backup[=CONTROL] make a backup of each existing destination file
-b like –backup but does not accept an argument
-c (ignored)
-d, –directory treat all arguments as directory names; create all
components of the specified directories
-D create all leading components of DEST except the last,
then copy SOURCE to DEST
-g, –group=GROUP set group ownership, instead of process’ current group
-m, –mode=MODE set permission mode (as in chmod), instead of rwxr-xr-x
-o, –owner=OWNER set ownership (super-user only)
-p, –preserve-timestamps apply access/modification times of SOURCE files
to corresponding destination files
-s, –strip strip symbol tables
-S, –suffix=SUFFIX override the usual backup suffix
-t, –target-directory=DIRECTORY copy all SOURCE arguments into DIRECTORY
-T, –no-target-directory treat DEST as a normal file
-v, –verbose print the name of each directory as it is created
-P, –preserve_context (SELinux) Preserve security context
-Z, –context=CONTEXT (SELinux) Set security context of files and directories
–help display this help and exit
–version output version information and exit
The backup suffix is `~’, unless set with –suffix or SIMPLE_BACKUP_SUFFIX.
The version control method may be selected via the –backup option or through
the VERSION_CONTROL environment variable. Here are the values:
none, off never make backups (even if –backup is given)
numbered, t make numbered backups
existing, nil numbered if numbered backups exist, simple otherwise
simple, never always make simple backups
Report bugs to .
[root@localhost user]# libQtGui.so.4 ~
bash: libQtGui.so.4: command not found
[root@localhost user]#
Comment by sarah — September 30, 2008 @ 08:41
Wow. Thanks for those tips! I’m getting the most of my AA1 :-)
Comment by Jez — September 30, 2008 @ 21:09
I am getting rescue disks sent to me. :) I will get them in three days.
Comment by sarah — October 2, 2008 @ 02:09
Hey i have tried changing the desktop. But now I can open the desktop setting and change the background from the defuelt xfce image.
Any Ideas on why?
Thanks Quip
Comment by quip — October 2, 2008 @ 11:48
Great, site some brilliant tip/how to’s. Have you been able to get vpn/pptp working ? I need this for my uni connection and every time i try it, nothing works. If i force update network manager, after the reboot network manager is screwed !
Any ideas ?
Cheers
Adam
Comment by adam craggs — October 3, 2008 @ 04:08
ok so I’m not the most advanced linux user of course, but i am very comfortable and know enough to get into trouble ;) but I sadly am only used to a few distro’s and linpus is not one of them! I have read all the hacks and mods and i am excited to get started on them, but every time i type any “sudo” command in the terminal it says
“audit_log_user_command(): Connection refused”
For the life of me i can not get this problem solved. please someone bail me out here! i love my acer one and want to become way more comfortable with it but it is hard to get used to it when i can’t get past the first step! please email me your response to zues32@gmail.com
thanks a ton, Paul
Comment by Paul — October 3, 2008 @ 09:04
The script recover_firefox_libraries.sh is working very well for me. Thank you !
Comment by Tuan — October 4, 2008 @ 10:30
[...] a few more hacks like getting rid of Acer desktop and took out the XFCE desktop and made some others [...]
Pingback by My new Acer Linux Aspire One — October 4, 2008 @ 16:01
Howdy there- great tips dude. Only trouble is, I’ve gone for your alternative xfce desktop, but it doesn’t auto-mount the SD card I have in the side; to access it, I’ve got to change to advanced mode in Thunar or flick “allow xfce to manage the desktop” on/off in Desktop Settings. I go back to the Acer desktop and it works perfectly. Any ideas? Thanks dude
Comment by Ben — October 5, 2008 @ 19:49
[...] a problem, some of the default apps required Firefox libraries, so see HERE to see how to fix that [...]
Pingback by EthicsGradient.net » Blog Archive » Acer Aspire One Info, Tips and Tweaks. — October 5, 2008 @ 22:50
please can anyone help me on how to change the system proxy settings!! i cant get out of school and so cant update or install anything
Comment by mo — October 5, 2008 @ 23:17
My schools wifi network uses a wpa – tkip authentication sistem and cannot connect with the original limpus sistem. With Ubuntu therás no problem. Can anyone enlight me into conneting with the limpus thing?
Comment by Guretxabolo — October 6, 2008 @ 11:55
Performed all updates and now I am unable to install RPM files through Installing Packages. I receive the following error:
Component: pirut
Summary: TB2d8305f8 threading.py:94:acquire:RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/sbin/system-install-packages”, line 355, in
main()
File “/usr/sbin/system-install-packages”, line 351, in main
pkginst.run()
File “/usr/sbin/system-install-packages”, line 339, in run
self.doRefresh()
File “/usr/sbin/system-install-packages”, line 98, in doRefresh
self.populatePackages()
File “/usr/sbin/system-install-packages”, line 279, in populatePackages
self._populateLocalPackages(locals)
File “/usr/sbin/system-install-packages”, line 154, in _populateLocalPackages
self.tsInfo.addInstall(po = po)
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 535, in
tsInfo = property(fget=lambda self: self._getTsInfo(),
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py”, line 83, in _getTsInfo
self._tsInfo.setDatabases(self.rpmdb, self.pkgSack)
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 526, in
pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(),
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 393, in _getSacks
self.plugins.run(‘exclude’)
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/plugins.py”, line 169, in run
func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs))
File “/usr/lib/yum-plugins/priorities.py”, line 68, in exclude_hook
obsoletes = conduit._base.pkgSack.returnObsoletes()
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 526, in
pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(),
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 393, in _getSacks
self.plugins.run(‘exclude’)
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/plugins.py”, line 169, in run
func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs))
File “/usr/lib/yum-plugins/priorities.py”, line 68, in exclude_hook
obsoletes = conduit._base.pkgSack.returnObsoletes()
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 526, in
pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(),
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 393, in _getSacks
self.plugins.run(‘exclude’)
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/plugins.py”, line 169, in run
func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs))
File “/usr/lib/yum-plugins/priorities.py”, line 68, in exclude_hook
obsoletes = conduit._base.pkgSack.returnObsoletes()
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 526, in
pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(),
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 393, in _getSacks
self.plugins.run(‘exclude’)
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/plugins.py”, line 169, in run
func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs))
File “/usr/lib/yum-plugins/priorities.py”, line 68, in exclude_hook
obsoletes = conduit._base.pkgSack.returnObsoletes()
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 526, in
pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(),
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 393, in _getSacks
self.plugins.run(‘exclude’)
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/plugins.py”, line 169, in run
func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs))
File “/usr/lib/yum-plugins/priorities.py”, line 68, in exclude_hook
obsoletes = conduit._base.pkgSack.returnObsoletes()
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 526, in
pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(),
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 393, in _getSacks
self.plugins.run(‘exclude’)
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/plugins.py”, line 169, in run
func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs))
File “/usr/lib/yum-plugins/priorities.py”, line 68, in exclude_hook
obsoletes = conduit._base.pkgSack.returnObsoletes()
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 526, in
pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(),
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 393, in _getSacks
self.plugins.run(‘exclude’)
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/plugins.py”, line 169, in run
func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs))
File “/usr/lib/yum-plugins/priorities.py”, line 68, in exclude_hook
obsoletes = conduit._base.pkgSack.returnObsoletes()
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 526, in
pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(),
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 393, in _getSacks
self.plugins.run(‘exclude’)
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/plugins.py”, line 169, in run
func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs))
File “/usr/lib/yum-plugins/priorities.py”, line 68, in exclude_hook
obsoletes = conduit._base.pkgSack.returnObsoletes()
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 526, in
pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(),
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 393, in _getSacks
self.plugins.run(‘exclude’)
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/plugins.py”, line 169, in run
func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs))
File “/usr/lib/yum-plugins/priorities.py”, line 68, in exclude_hook
obsoletes = conduit._base.pkgSack.returnObsoletes()
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 526, in
pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(),
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 393, in _getSacks
self.plugins.run(‘exclude’)
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/plugins.py”, line 169, in run
func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs))
File “/usr/lib/yum-plugins/priorities.py”, line 68, in exclude_hook
obsoletes = conduit._base.pkgSack.returnObsoletes()
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 526, in
pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(),
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 393, in _getSacks
self.plugins.run(‘exclude’)
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/plugins.py”, line 169, in run
func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs))
File “/usr/lib/yum-plugins/priorities.py”, line 68, in exclude_hook
obsoletes = conduit._base.pkgSack.returnObsoletes()
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 526, in
pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(),
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 393, in _getSacks
self.plugins.run(‘exclude’)
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/plugins.py”, line 169, in run
func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs))
File “/usr/lib/yum-plugins/priorities.py”, line 68, in exclude_hook
obsoletes = conduit._base.pkgSack.returnObsoletes()
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 526, in
pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(),
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 393, in _getSacks
self.plugins.run(‘exclude’)
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/plugins.py”, line 169, in run
func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs))
File “/usr/lib/yum-plugins/priorities.py”, line 68, in exclude_hook
obsoletes = conduit._base.pkgSack.returnObsoletes()
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 526, in
pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(),
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 393, in _getSacks
self.plugins.run(‘exclude’)
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/plugins.py”, line 169, in run
func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs))
File “/usr/lib/yum-plugins/priorities.py”, line 68, in exclude_hook
obsoletes = conduit._base.pkgSack.returnObsoletes()
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 526, in
pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(),
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 393, in _getSacks
self.plugins.run(‘exclude’)
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/plugins.py”, line 169, in run
func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs))
File “/usr/lib/yum-plugins/priorities.py”, line 68, in exclude_hook
obsoletes = conduit._base.pkgSack.returnObsoletes()
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 526, in
pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(),
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 393, in _getSacks
self.plugins.run(‘exclude’)
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/plugins.py”, line 169, in run
func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs))
File “/usr/lib/yum-plugins/priorities.py”, line 68, in exclude_hook
obsoletes = conduit._base.pkgSack.returnObsoletes()
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 526, in
pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(),
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 393, in _getSacks
self.plugins.run(‘exclude’)
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/plugins.py”, line 169, in run
func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs))
File “/usr/lib/yum-plugins/priorities.py”, line 68, in exclude_hook
obsoletes = conduit._base.pkgSack.returnObsoletes()
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 526, in
pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(),
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 393, in _getSacks
self.plugins.run(‘exclude’)
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/plugins.py”, line 169, in run
func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs))
File “/usr/lib/yum-plugins/priorities.py”, line 68, in exclude_hook
obsoletes = conduit._base.pkgSack.returnObsoletes()
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 526, in
pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(),
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 393, in _getSacks
self.plugins.run(‘exclude’)
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/plugins.py”, line 169, in run
func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs))
File “/usr/lib/yum-plugins/priorities.py”, line 68, in exclude_hook
obsoletes = conduit._base.pkgSack.returnObsoletes()
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 526, in
pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(),
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 393, in _getSacks
self.plugins.run(‘exclude’)
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/plugins.py”, line 169, in run
func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs))
File “/usr/lib/yum-plugins/priorities.py”, line 68, in exclude_hook
obsoletes = conduit._base.pkgSack.returnObsoletes()
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 526, in
pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(),
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 393, in _getSacks
self.plugins.run(‘exclude’)
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/plugins.py”, line 169, in run
func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs))
File “/usr/lib/yum-plugins/priorities.py”, line 68, in exclude_hook
obsoletes = conduit._base.pkgSack.returnObsoletes()
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 526, in
pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(),
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 393, in _getSacks
self.plugins.run(‘exclude’)
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/plugins.py”, line 169, in run
func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs))
File “/usr/lib/yum-plugins/priorities.py”, line 68, in exclude_hook
obsoletes = conduit._base.pkgSack.returnObsoletes()
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 526, in
pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(),
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 393, in _getSacks
self.plugins.run(‘exclude’)
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/plugins.py”, line 169, in run
func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs))
File “/usr/lib/yum-plugins/priorities.py”, line 68, in exclude_hook
obsoletes = conduit._base.pkgSack.returnObsoletes()
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 526, in
pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(),
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 393, in _getSacks
self.plugins.run(‘exclude’)
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/plugins.py”, line 169, in run
func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs))
File “/usr/lib/yum-plugins/priorities.py”, line 68, in exclude_hook
obsoletes = conduit._base.pkgSack.returnObsoletes()
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 526, in
pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(),
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 393, in _getSacks
self.plugins.run(‘exclude’)
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/plugins.py”, line 169, in run
func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs))
File “/usr/lib/yum-plugins/priorities.py”, line 68, in exclude_hook
obsoletes = conduit._base.pkgSack.returnObsoletes()
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 526, in
pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(),
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 393, in _getSacks
self.plugins.run(‘exclude’)
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/plugins.py”, line 169, in run
func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs))
File “/usr/lib/yum-plugins/priorities.py”, line 68, in exclude_hook
obsoletes = conduit._base.pkgSack.returnObsoletes()
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 526, in
pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(),
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 393, in _getSacks
self.plugins.run(‘exclude’)
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/plugins.py”, line 169, in run
func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs))
File “/usr/lib/yum-plugins/priorities.py”, line 68, in exclude_hook
obsoletes = conduit._base.pkgSack.returnObsoletes()
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 526, in
pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(),
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 393, in _getSacks
self.plugins.run(‘exclude’)
Comment by Dennis Martinez — October 7, 2008 @ 05:28
Acer one and 3G
Am am looking for some one ho are using Telenor “Ute” 3G nett on a Acer one with linux. (USB adapter) I have not found any ho can describe ho I install. Telenor can not help!
If you know anything about this please awnser.
Comment by Geir Klepaker — October 7, 2008 @ 08:45
[...] your tips Or Mods! hey guys, i changed my desktop to a default one, following the guide here (The road to Elysium : Acer Aspire One Tips and Tricks) but when i right click and go to desktop settings nothing happens, looking to change the [...]
Pingback by The Acer Aspire One - Post your tips Or Mods! - Page 6 - AVForums.com — October 9, 2008 @ 22:28
@paul
I have this message too.. but the sudo command is actually working, it just spews out this additional message each time it runs. It’s a bug in the sudo command (I was looking at it) which should be fixed in a future version, once acer release it.
Comment by Owen — October 10, 2008 @ 14:40
Great tips. I’ve implemented most of them any my machine was on its way to being a way cool portable. However……
I hope you can help with this one. By kludgy typing I seem to have messed up the /home/user/.config/xfce4/desktop/group-app.xml file and now launcher crashes and I cannot open a terminal in order to fix the mistake. Any ideas how I can edit this file?
Comment by Temporal — October 10, 2008 @ 15:10
Ok found the solution, I did not dig deep enough into the support site it seems
“Try this: Do a search for “Terminal” in the search bar and select the Desktop search. Click the find button to get the list of matches, then look towards the bottom of the list and you should see Terminal in /usr/bin. Right click on it and select open to open a terminal.”
Comment by Temporal — October 10, 2008 @ 15:25
Seems like you’ve stopped responding. I hope I can change your mind for one last inquiry…
Jorge, fantastic page! Certainly the most useful I’ve found since acquiring my AA1. I used your tips to blow away the default desktop, and I was SO PLEASED with the result!!
Problem is, none of my removable storage devices (cards or USB) appear in the GUI. Did you have this problem? Does aufs still function?
Thanks so much in advance if you elect to answer.
Comment by Justin — October 14, 2008 @ 00:22
Got a n00b-question…
Trying to manage the fan speed as described.
Everything worked well but when I come to this:
“Then create the file acerfand.conf in /etc/ with the following options”,
I am not able to create this file.
It seems I can not write to /etc ? Is seems to be read-only?
Please help?
Comment by -BK- — October 15, 2008 @ 09:34
>>>Temporal | October 10, 2008 at 3:10 pm | Permalink
Great tips. I’ve implemented most of them any my machine was on its way to being a way cool portable. However……
I hope you can help with this one. By kludgy typing I seem to have messed up the /home/user/.config/xfce4/desktop/group-app.xml file and now launcher crashes and I cannot open a terminal in order to fix the mistake. Any ideas how I can edit this file?<<<<
I had a same kind problem and this helped me
Plug a usb-memory [whic is formated some fat mode] to your AA1 and wait until File Manager has opened. After that you can open terminal under File menu.
Comment by TTL — October 16, 2008 @ 14:12
Very nice set of tips – thanks heaps!
Comment by bug? — October 17, 2008 @ 00:09
Hi there Two, the right click menu facility works great stiull with the exceptions on desktop, keyboard etc… features disabled. Any thoughts out there on this one? Not quite the Ubuntu desktop I have been used to on my (now) deceased laptop. But, I am determined to push onwards and upwards with the learning curve. Thanks again!!!!
Comment by PeterG — October 17, 2008 @ 18:56
Can you please explain how I can watch NRK nett-tv on my aspire one?
Comment by Randi Fiksdal — October 19, 2008 @ 02:11
Hi Jorge! Thank you for helping us!
When I try to install this RPM-file, I just get this error:
Missing Dependency: /etc/redhat-release is needed by package initscripts
What to do?
Comment by Inger Beate — October 21, 2008 @ 21:23
hi i know this sounds so stpid but i have installed vlc and i want to add the icon to my desktop but u say to go to a usr or user folder and icant see that in my my files window im a newbie to this stuff
Comment by daniel — October 22, 2008 @ 17:46
About the “fix” on the acer aspire one fan:
Don’t do it!!! I did it… yes, the fan was then in “silent” mode. It is because it is OFF. It turns back on when temperature reaches about 70 Celsius (the atom processor can hold even more). It is not about the health of your aspire one. It is about comfort. It is very, very unpleasant be typing in a keyboard so hot because the fan is off. It is like typing on a broiler.
Comment by asphixmx — October 23, 2008 @ 02:11
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Hi Jorge,
Having problems with the wifi & connection manager everytime updating new programme. Will come back after reboot. Any solutions to overwrite it for the AA1?
Comment by Talip — October 25, 2008 @ 09:22
Brilliant!
I’ve tried nearly all the changes suggested here.
They all worked perfectly.
My AA1 is now quieter, faster and better looking!
Is there a way of making a recovery usb of the current settings after all the changes?
I don’t know very much about linux/fedora but is the method suggested above for making a usb image with the original settings? or does it save the current state of the machine?
Thanks a lot,
James.
Comment by James S — October 28, 2008 @ 11:11
Hi, for my acer aspire one (with arabic/english keyboard), I set a user password in english, which is no longer being recognised because the language has reverted back to arabic. How can I change from arabic to english (so my login password is accepted) when I can’t get past the login user page?
Thanks.
Comment by Higgie — November 1, 2008 @ 16:05
please can someone send me the original script of this file /usr/bin/xfdesktop
I need to make an undo
Thanks
Comment by Drake — November 3, 2008 @ 21:11
Hi! Thanks for the tutorial… actually, it´s the first time i use linux and i found it a little complicated… hehehe…
I replaced xfdesktopnew with xfdesktop-xfce but i can´t access the xfdesktop or xfdesktop2… when i double-clicked it nothing happens… if i boot on a windows-like desktop, the right button works, but there are no icons on the desktop and i can´t acces the desktop settings…
Help please!!!
Thanks! =)
Comment by Luiz — November 6, 2008 @ 14:40
Hello there.
These stuff are very interesting to me.
I really wanna follow but i can never get past the “Sudo su -”
How do I know my root user/ root account?
Comment by Kara Barley — November 12, 2008 @ 12:26
Hello. Iv followed all the steps to install VLC but when i run the # yum install vlc command all i get is:
Loading “priorities” plugin
updates 100% |=========================| 2.6 kB 00:00
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
No package vlc available.
Nothing to do
Iv tried everything i can find but nothing will make it install.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Comment by Kyle — November 17, 2008 @ 23:37
Just a short note to thank you for the post. I’ve found the dual monitor tip very useful.
Comment by Ken Fallon — November 18, 2008 @ 20:24
Hi, Thanks very much for the tips and tricks.
I tried to change the desktop and enable GDM, but somewhere in the process I seem to have done something wrong. I now get a “HAL initialisation failure” and sound, webcam, wifi, usb, suspend and shutdown don’t work!
Any ideas on how to get it working again? And if not, and I need to do a system restore, is there any way of getting enough working (usb drive or whatever) so I can get some of my files that I’ve not backed up yet off the machine (I know, bad mistake!)
Thanks!
Comment by Caleb W — November 20, 2008 @ 12:43
Congratulations
I believe this post is more helpful then most forums altogether!
The only problem is that it’s becoming a bit to long. We’ll have to live with that.
My problem is that when I try to update or install software my network doesn’t work. (I Browse ok!)
I keep getting |1.0.0.0|:80 at the end of every address. The :80 part is the port (even I know that) the 1.0.0.0 part is the one I don’t understand and I assume is causing the trouble.
Can you help me (and others, I think) on this?
Thanks anyway
Comment by Vasco — November 23, 2008 @ 15:13
Hi there, found a way to make my wallpaper to stick on the desktop, just rename your wallpaper Home-bk.png, copy and paste the wallpaper in the /usr/share folder, open a terminal, and copy it to the /images folder.
# cp /usr/share/Home-bk.png /usr/share/backgrounds/images
overwrite the default image and its done. Somebody might have done it before, I just thought of posting it. :-)
Comment by Gene — November 28, 2008 @ 06:35
hi! my goodness youv helped so many people. you should set up a site for donations or something!
attempting to install firefox three, or the desktop, it is saying “file not found to rite” so i cannot save any terminal/mousepad ? i searched in your comments but i think its only me with this problem?
Comment by J UK — November 28, 2008 @ 21:21
Thanks for your detailed instructions in how to tweak AO, I’m new to Linux and when installing FF3 I got as far as creating the file “recover_firefox_libraries.sh” but you mention “Make the file executable, then run it:” you have an extra set of intructions:
# chmod +x recover_firefox_libraries.sh
# ./recover_firefox_libraries.sh
How do I create the executable and how do I run it??
Comment by Thomas — November 29, 2008 @ 10:34
Hi, can anyone help me about my problem… for my acer aspire one (with arabic/english keyboard), I set a user password in english, now no longer being recognised because the language has reverted to arabic. How can I change from arabic to english (so my login password is accepted) when I can’t get past the login user page?
Thanks for the help.
Comment by IVY — December 1, 2008 @ 01:56
For the tech savvy, kindly help me on how to install sound recorder/wave editor in Acer Aspire on linux. I am using nero wave editor in windows. Can it be installed in Aspire one with Linux OS
Thanks
Comment by Driggs Matabaran — December 1, 2008 @ 08:51
Hi. I’m having a problem with my new AA1 SSD linux machine.
When on battery, it shuts down by itself when the battery is below 50% or something. I updated BIOS to the last 3305 and applied all patches from update.linpus.com, but it did not help. Does anyone have the same problem? Thanks
Comment by Alex — December 3, 2008 @ 15:21
I got my AA1 back from acer, and they appear to have replaced the fedora 8 lite version with a fedora 9 lite version. It seems to work alot better.
I am really glad I sent it to acer while the software was under warranty. I thought it was not just me, and it was buggy. Anyway I have to start all over again.
I have the right click working, it was a little different but I managed to figure it out, I have skype working great, am too afraid to install R again cause that is what started the whole problem.
There is a big install I cancelled, I guess i will do later about languages anyone know what it is for.
I am trying to figure out a fast fool proof way to get my flower wallpaper back.
Hope everyone has a great holiday. I love this computer. When I go out, it is like having a cute puppy, everyone says how cute it is. :)
Comment by sarah — December 4, 2008 @ 01:16
Everything seems to work fine now since I got the computer back, I put the moon wallpaper on. I tried the compiz-manager but my cubes on the desktop didn’t rotate :( and I lost some buttons on my windows so I went back to the emerald settings, and it works fine.
When the aa1 was gone, i somehow fixed my old think pad, I don’t know how I did it. I took it apart and pressed on things and blew on it. So my xp network is working again. I like the linux, though it can be distracting and it takes longer to figure out how to do simple tasks, it does process much faster. I like it better than the vista. I almost feel the vista can spy on me.
Comment by sarah — December 5, 2008 @ 05:54
IS the AA1 turning into a forgotten orphan?
I had my AA1 working just like I wanted, then an update killed the system . I did a system install from the CD. Now I can’t get back what I had, big problem with repos, I’ve spent the last 2 days going to every site I can find to install VLC and it still isn’t working, after following every suggestion, adding repos till i’m blue in the face I still get “No package vlc available” I could bypass vlc but I am also having problems installing multimedia codecs. I find most tutorials older than oct/nov to be of little value. Have we been forgotten ?
Comment by Pierre403 — December 5, 2008 @ 18:00
All I can say is that I am glad I returned the aa1 to acer and asked to fix the software problem for me, and what they seem to have done, was replaced the fedora8 lite with fedora9 light. i am finding the fedora 9 lite a lot better. The old one had one problem after another, i don’t think we get answers here, i still found the tutorials helpful when i had to redo everything again. It shouldn’t be this complicated.
Comment by sarah — December 6, 2008 @ 06:44
can you make a guide to install java?
Comment by rafa abad — December 7, 2008 @ 21:44
I had the same problem as jepp: thunar would segfault unless called with sudo. Turns out that I had changed my icon theme to “Crystal SVG” (in xfce-settings-show -> user interface – this theme is listed twice for some reason). This theme also lacks a printer icon. Changed it back to Bluecurve and thunar is happy again.
Comment by mamiya — December 10, 2008 @ 03:33
Hello! I’m sorry for not having answered the questions you’ve brought to this post. I simply don’t have the time to do the research needed to be able to answer what you ask. Instead I suggest using the forums available out there for the Acer Aspire One. I myself am no longer using Linpus, but Fedora 10. So if Linpus isn’t for you, I strongly recommend giving it a shot. :)
Keep your chin up! Read about Linux, do the research and solve your problems. Good luck. :)
Comment by jorge — December 10, 2008 @ 13:21
Dear Jorge,
Thank you so much for the great tips. My Aspire One is now faster, has longer battery life, and is completely revolutionised.
However I am having a few teething problems…
I can’t access the desktop settings so cannot change the wallpaper from the xfce mouse. Also my spellcheck has been highlighting 99% of words since.
Could you also tell me how to get icons from the Thunar file manager onto the desktop?
Cheers in advance,
Darren Bates (Dublin Rookie)
Comment by Darren Bates — December 10, 2008 @ 20:11
Hi all,
I’m rather new to linux and I’m not quite sure how to find the locations for files such as this for disabling the search bar:
/usr/share/search-bar/start-search_bar.sh
also do I run this file in terminal?
Comment by SushiMaxC — December 13, 2008 @ 13:44
Hi,
thanks for this page. My fan is going me crazy. I made everything written on your instructions, but my fan is still working. My bios is 3308. Do i have to install some more files?
Pleas help me!
Comment by Mattia — December 14, 2008 @ 14:06
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Pingback by Settaggi per proiettore — Crognale.IT — December 17, 2008 @ 19:31
Hi Jorge! thanks for a great site!
I have just a tiny problem. I followed your instructions to change to the xfce-desktop, and at the last step to change the 6th line in xfdesktop, i didnt memorise what it said in the first place. Can you help me out?
Comment by Dahlstroem — December 22, 2008 @ 12:33
hi i went by your posts and thought it was great but my desktop now only has a taskbar and searchbar and i can not open iles will u please help
information for you information for u the desktop says “xfdesktop2″ not found/ dont exsite
please help
Dan
Comment by Dan — December 28, 2008 @ 01:02
Thanks for the tips on installing Firefox. Great work
Comment by binny — December 28, 2008 @ 16:33
Hi,
I found this page very useful, so I’d like to add another tip:
I tried to connect a bigger external usb keyboard to my Aspire One, but by default it did not work, until I removed “CoreKeyboard” from the line
InputDevice “Keyboard0″ “CoreKeyboard”
in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and added these two new lines
Option “CoreKeyboard”
Option “XkbRules” “xorg”
to the Section starting with
Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Keyboard0″
Cheers,
MerMik
Comment by Miklos — December 28, 2008 @ 22:55
Hi,
I’m having a problem with AA1. When i turn it on it doesn’t boot.
I get an error message which starts
(xfce4-session : 716) : Gtk-WARNING**: cannot open display: :0.0
I would use the recovery disc but i have important files on the computer which i would like to save if possible.
Please help Jorge,
Stevie
Comment by stevie d — January 2, 2009 @ 13:28
Hey Jorge.
Thanks for this great collection. I found your tips very helpful. I used my AspireOne for four months. What I like about the Acer modified Linpus is the absence of hardware difficulties. But the desktop was a little too unconventional for me. Your tips to reach a standard xfce desktop proved to be really simple and useful. And once discovered this website, I approached the other software drawbacks of the Linpus system, like auto login and fan speed as well. The last thing will be to configure a second display – but this will remain on my to do list for a little longer..
Comment by Martin — January 2, 2009 @ 13:56
To access removable usb storage after the desktop change:
Enter ‘File System’
Go to View
Select ‘View as advanced mode’
Done
Comment by Mal — January 2, 2009 @ 15:49
Hi, I`ve just found this site..(getting a bit tired now)I have a little problem with the touchpad…it stops working after the connection manager loaded(or it seems it stops when it loaded…)and I cant use it. Can you (or someone) help me how to fix this???I am very new to linux so please be patient with me.
:-)
Thanks
Comment by Peter — January 3, 2009 @ 03:49
how do i get the linux off i dont like it ,,
it wont let me on msn or nout
:@
i hate itt arghhhh
Comment by ALice — January 5, 2009 @ 00:46
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Pingback by Setting up your new Acer Aspire One linux netbook | The J.P. Allen Blog — January 5, 2009 @ 04:18
Jorge, do you by any chance know how to install applications like PyQt4 or sip-4.7.8? Is there a different repository for unstable applications?
Comment by Chromis — January 10, 2009 @ 04:12
Hello Jorge,
I tried to change my Desktop into the original one. But even after I changed the Lines in
/usr/bin/xfdesktopnew
and I want to save the changes it says “can’t open file to write”.
What could I do?
Thanks!
Comment by Mathias — January 11, 2009 @ 20:44
Hi Jorge. Your page has really helped me to start getting my Aspire One knocked into shape :-)
I was having a problem getting my external iiyama 19″ monitor working, but now have a simple workaround that might work for someone else out there.
I have created two scripts that allow me to easily flip between standard configuration and the one I use in my home office with the external monitor, which leaves the AA1 launcher on the PC, but puts the task bar and main screen area on my big monitor.
I had to modify the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file as described in your ‘The right resolution with an external monitor’ section first. Making the virtual screen size ‘2304×1024′ to reflect the two monitors being side-by-side (1024+1280=2304) and support the maximum vertical resolution (1024).
The first script, called ‘normal’ in my case, just resets the screen size and switches the AA1 panel on and the external monitor off and contains:
xrandr -s 1024×600 -r 60 –output LVDS –auto –output VGA –off
The second, called ‘homeoffice’, switches on the external monitor, sets the resolution, puts in the right screen offset and resets the refresh rate to 60 and contains:
xrandr –output LVDS –mode 1024×600 –pos 0×0 –output VGA –mode 1280×1024 –pos 1024×0 -r 60
I tried using the ‘–auto’ option on the VGA output, but for some reason it doesn’t work with my monitor and I just get a refresh rate error reported on the screen; hence the ‘-r 60′ option to force the refresh rate to 60.
I did a ’sudo su’ and just created these two scripts in the default /home/user directory, but I suppose they could go somewhere where they would be in the PATH. After creating the two scripts using ‘mousepad filename’ , they both needed making executable with the usual ‘chmod +x filename’.
After that flipping between modes is as simple as bringing up the ‘Run a program’ dialog with SHIFT-F2 and typing ‘./normal’ or ‘./homeoffice’, which I can even do blind if for some reason I have screwed up the settings somehow; as I have on many occasions whilst experimenting with this! ;-)
A good reference point for ‘xrandr’ that helped me no end is http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Xorg_RandR_1.2, though I still ended up doing a fair bit of playing around. I may experiment with the auto detect code described in that page in the ‘Now automate it on Logon’ section when I have the time. If I get it working, I’ll post my solution.
OK, this isn’t perfect, and I’m sure I’ll come up with a more elegant way of doing it in the future; but it’ll do for now :-) The ‘Settings’ and ‘Help’ links hovering in the middle of my external monitor is a pain, but I can live with that. At least I can use a sensible screen size to explore Linpus and see what I can make it do.
My extra 1GB RAM should be here on Monday; £12 well spent at Amazon I expect! My 512MB / 160GB AA1 came from ASDA at a very cheap £150, so I am well pleased!
Thanks again for an excellent post!
Cheers
Crimson Dynamo
Comment by Crimson Dynamo — January 17, 2009 @ 13:04
Hi all.
I found a much easier way of installing Firefox 3. If you go to Acers Aspire One site at http://www.acer.com/aspireone/, click on one of the colour bubbles (but mute your speakers, ‘cos the music is really annoying!), then select ‘Drivers and Support’ from the scrolling menu in the bottom left hand corner, you’ll end up at a page with Connect, Work, Fun and Files options. Here you will find Gimp, Firefox 3, Filezilla, Adobe Reader and a load of other stuff.
I’ve downloaded and installed FF3 and it just worked, nothing to do but extract and run the .sh file :-)
Enjoy!
Crimson Dynamo
Comment by Crimson Dynamo — January 17, 2009 @ 14:00
Be careful with the SSD tweak thing, I followed the steps correctly but after rebooting the machine wouldn’t let me edit the file anymore or any other “root” file, as well as prevented me from copying files to an external drive and even accessing the internet. It was just completely broke and I had to format and reinstall using the Recovery Disc.
Comment by Hugo Jean — January 20, 2009 @ 17:27
I am still having problems installing VLC. When I try to install the package you sugggest I get an error message: ‘Missing Dependency: /etc/redhat-release is needed by package initscripts’.
Any Ideas?
Comment by Luke Staff — January 25, 2009 @ 14:51
I want to play solitaire on my acer aspire onebut do not know where to find the programme or how to load it – can anyone help
Comment by Ruth Conway — January 27, 2009 @ 19:49
i removed my search bar through the add remove programs but now i want it back could someone give me a copy of the /usr/share/search-bar/ folder so i can restore it (preferably one with a copy of the start-search_bar.sh file still as still enabled!)
Comment by Charlie O'Connell — January 29, 2009 @ 23:48
Hola Jorge. Fantastic hints i must say. Has improved my AAO immenssly. Got a little problem with applying them now though, it won’t save. :( When i try and edit some text and try to save it. It comes up with a warning saying ‘Can’t open file to write’. Please help.
Yours gratefully,
Lucas Price
Comment by Lucas Price — January 30, 2009 @ 00:39
Hi Jorge,
Excellent article, very very helpful. I’d like to point one thing out, though. You probably don’t need to run the recovery disk every time something doesn’t work. Instead, just keep a bootable USB key (with something like pendrive linux on it) around. Then, you can boot from the USB key, change back whatever you just did, and away you go.
Regards,
Jon
Comment by Jon Wilson — January 31, 2009 @ 20:22
Just discovered this page. Interesting reading but a lot is above my head. Had AA1 for a week 120GB, added 1GB Ram, no previous linux experience and have added some programs and customised the desktop. However, added and installed VLC but now the audio icon on the taskbar is showing muted. The Fn F8 hotkey does not toggle the muting and the taskbar icon remains showing muted. However, the sound works from videos run within VLC and mp3 tracks but the sound volume can only be changed within the program, not the hotkeys. Any way I can get the use back for these hotkeys?
Comment by Spiney — January 31, 2009 @ 22:03
Another suggestion: Go into /etc/inittab, find the lines that are preceded by “#Run gettys in standard runlevels”. Uncomment lines 2-6. Change line 1 to look like lines 2-6 (ie remove the autologin stuff).
Now, when you next boot, you’ll have login prompts running on your virtual terminals. If something goes wrong with X-windows, you can just hit Ctrl-Alt-F3 (or F4 or F5 etc) and it will spit you to one of the virtual terminals. From there, log in with the name “user” and your password. You’ll get a bash shell, and can change config files back to their previous incarnation, etc, to your heart’s content. To get back to X-windows from a VT, just hit Ctrl-Alt-F7 (or try the other F keys if that doesn’t work).
Regards,
Jon
Comment by Jon Wilson — February 1, 2009 @ 00:24
You are a smart guy…really ! I DO THANK YOU1
Rgds Dr SBK
Comment by Dr Steve Kruger — February 9, 2009 @ 20:37
Hi guys…
I am a real newbie to the acer O/S, and, the laptop isnt mine, its my brothers. I was reading about the XFCE desktop included with the Acer One Aspire Sub-Book and i tried to implement it.
I change the files content that needed to be change with relative ease.
However…
When i rebooted the machine the new XFCE4 desktop didnt appear. All that happens is.
1. Turn Sub-book on
2. Post occurs OK!
3. Blue Acer Aspire boot screen appears, (tried ctrl-c and F2 to get a prompt and…. Nothing. A mouse appears but the screen is blankand nothing is happening….
Ooops!!! and its my bros!!!
Comment by Camdon Squire — February 14, 2009 @ 17:09
how do you undo the norwigian keyboatd layout
Comment by tim — February 15, 2009 @ 01:54
Hey. :)..I have a slight situation..I have the Acer Aspire One and when i record videos using the Acer crystal eye webcam, the sound doesn’t play when i play them back. Im playing them back using MediaMaster (the programme that was already installed) And i have tried using the Mplayer (also one that was already installed) they both aren’t seeming to work. Is there anyway to get the sound to play when i play them back to myself.
Comment by Clarisha — February 21, 2009 @ 00:03
Regarding desktop switschinmg, this is a nice solution, apparently tailored in analygy to the original Linpus:
http://www.iphpbb3.com/forum/39151476nx21895/linpus-f13/desktop-switch-update-t218.html
Comment by Ekkehart — March 2, 2009 @ 16:45
Note to all of you who did the following:
====
Improve read and write performance
$ sudo su -
# mousepad /boot/grub/grub.conf
Add
kernel /boot/bzImage ro root=LABEL=linpus vga=0×311 splash=silent loglevel=1 console=tty1 quiet nolapic_timer elevator=noop
=====
There is an Acer LiveUpdate that will conflict with it and will cause you to have a ‘Internal Error, Failed to initialized HAL’, which can stop your applications from running properly and disable your networking capability including wifi. And usually the only solution is to restore Linux completely.
The live update that is causing the issue is ‘Mass Storage Optimization’.
Do one of the other, not both…
Comment by Elusive — March 3, 2009 @ 18:46
Hi there,
A bit of a problem i was wondering if someone could help me with,
I have now got my Acer Aspire One looking how i want it. Removed search bar, got rid of icons etc. I have also changed my wallpaper, this is where i have a problem….
Every time i restart my machine the wallpaper doesn’t show up. I have to go back into the desktop options and untick and retick the “show image” option. It will then reappear and stay there untill the machine is restarted.
Any ideas?
Many thanks in advance.
Toby
Comment by Toby Smith — March 9, 2009 @ 20:30
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Also got the “failed to initialise HAL” and broken networking problem :’(.
Anyone found a fix? :)
Comment by Ad — March 10, 2009 @ 17:12
I wanted to use my HDTV as an external screen, but under xrandr VGA only showed 800×600 and 640×480, so I worried that the Acer couldn’t display large modes! I happened to try the Acer on an older monitor when suddenly all the VESA modes showed up! Taking the Acer downstairs, the TV now showed 1280×1024 because of the *other* monitor’s settings! So I played with xrandr a bit and did this:
As root (sudo -s), in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, change the ‘Virtual’ line in section Screen, subsection Display, to ‘Virtual 1280 1792′, then reboot.
As user:
xrandr –newmode 1280×1024 109.0 1280 1368 1496 1712 1024 1027 1034 1063
xrandr –addmode VGA 1280×1024
xrandr –output VGA –mode 1280×1024 –above LVDS
I based that on this, which was left at the end of my xrandr output from the state the system was in from the other monitor:
1280×1024 (0×6b) 109.0MHz
h: width 1280 start 1368 end 1496 total 1712 skew 0 clock 63.7KHz
v: height 1024 start 1027 end 1034 total 1063 clock 59.9Hz
I also searched with Google for ‘xmodeline’ and found a modeline calculator, but I was unsuccessful in making a 1920×1080 mode that my TV liked.
Comment by TimB — March 11, 2009 @ 01:09
i need help.i want to change my wallpaper an my aspire one to a picture but i dont now how. im not use to this kind of computer(i use to have a Mac OS X version 10.4 but it broke).also i dont now how to make differant accounts on it(like when u first turn it on and if u log out of one account the last time you used it it will have this thing that lists all the other accounts).i need seriouse help i have no idea how to work this thing!!!
Comment by Mary — March 15, 2009 @ 08:39
I have seen, that the CPU runns on 800 MHz,
in the time befor the Network start the CPU runns on 1600 MHz.
“both CPU”
You can look it with cat /proc/cupinfo
how to change the frequence?
Greeting
Brezel
Comment by Brezel — March 17, 2009 @ 19:20
Hi Jorge. i just did the thing with improving speed of
Improve read and write performance:
Simply did the following:
$ sudo su -
# mousepad /boot/grub/grub.conf
Now, add the elevator=noop option to the kernel-line, making this line:
kernel /boot/bzImage ro root=LABEL=linpus vga=0×311 splash=silent loglevel=1 console=tty1 quiet nolapic_timer
look like this:
kernel /boot/bzImage ro root=LABEL=linpus vga=0×311 splash=silent loglevel=1 console=tty1 quiet nolapic_timer elevator=noop
BUT now my Acer aspire one 110 does not start up tells me:
KERNEL PANIC!!!!
So, now i am in panic as well!!!
Do you have any adea how to fix this?????
Thanks in advance..
Comment by Gerard Ranft — April 1, 2009 @ 15:56
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Hi,
Thanks for the external monitor resolution fix. I am using it for photo slideshows.
Can you help me with instructions on how to disable the screen saver, keeps starting during a slideshow. I have found the gnome-screensaver settings app and can change the idle time but cant seem to find a disable option.
Thanks!
Comment by derek McCallum — April 6, 2009 @ 14:58
Eres mi DIOS. Gracias. Acabo de pillar el Acer y estoy encantado con él. 145 Euros. Gracias por todos los consejos, eres un crack.
Gracias por todo. (Espero que sepas español).
Comment by Rafael Saez Ribas — April 9, 2009 @ 11:26
My problem is an extension of #118 from Charles. A friend has a new Acer Aspire One with Linux and I gave her my 80 GB external hard drive, but Linpus cannot read the NTFS drive. How can we format the drive? I found info that the drive should be formatted with HAL, but I cannot find any format command and don’t have access to any other Linux machine. (I have no experience with Linux, although I used to run Unix.) I did notice that it reads a memory stick OK, but not the HD.
Comment by William Silvert — April 10, 2009 @ 15:04
Hi,
I have an usb GPS that I want to work with TangoGPS.
I can(t find the CP2101.ko module to make it work with the Aspire One. When I try to compile the kernel, I get an Segmentation Error… Can any body tell me how I can get this module ?
Thanks
Stefanet
Comment by Stefanet — April 22, 2009 @ 19:47
this site has been a godsend, however i have difficulty hooking up to it at times – I am guessing your server is not 24/7. If you agree I would love to place this post on my server too so its always available. Send me an email if this works for you – and by all means you make the page and take the kudos and get all the recognition – my motive is selfish – if I mirror it then I can always reach it.
again – awesome resource for the aspire one.
Comment by def — April 23, 2009 @ 01:44
I appreciate the offer, thank you. :) The reason this site has been so much up and down is because I used to host it on my home line. The server at home got fried, and now I’ve gotten an external virtual private server set up, so it should be up for more than it was. :)
But thank you for the offer nonetheless, and I’ll certainly keep it in mind. :)
Comment by jorge — April 23, 2009 @ 02:18
i am struggling with my aspire one.. i have the 8gb linux version..
i followed the instructions “CHANGE TO THE DEFAULT DESKTOP”
the procedure was only 50% successful, i have the default desktop set up however some functions have stopped working, i cannot use THUNAR file manager, some shortcuts have stopped working “Alt-F2″..
prior to following the instructions shown here i used instructions on http://www.aspireoneusers.com to create a panel icon which simply swapped between the default desktop and the acer desktop. i dont know if there is a conflict occurring due to this???
any help would be greatly appreciated.
sheponet
Comment by sheponet — April 24, 2009 @ 23:05
“The next step is opening up the file /home/user/.config/xfce4/desktop/group-app.xml. Go through the file, you’ll see it’ll make sense. …Save and close the file, reboot, and your VLC-icon should be there”
Right, except that if you get it wrong, at the next reboot or refresh, that file will be overwritten with the one at /etc/xdg/xfce4/desktop. I stared in dismay at Acer’s original ideas several times before I found it.
Keep lots of backups while you are working on the xml file, and once you have it absolutely the way you want it, su to root and
cp /home/user/.config/xfce4/desktop/group-app.xml /etc/xdg/xfce4/desktop
(Or install Midnight Commander and use that instead, of course)
Now if you foul up the XML file, it is your copy that XFCE will paste into its place.
Comment by clasqm@gmail.com — April 25, 2009 @ 20:25
Does anyone know anything about the keyboard failing after a software update in Linux? I bought the Acer One, followed all directions here for editing the screen etc. Installed software updates, an extra game, Winamp and tried to install VLC. Now when I boot up the keyboard won’t work in a terminal, in Firefox, or in Docs. When I try to shut down it asks:
“Exit Xfce panel?”
I’m a complete novice with Linux, did I do something wrong?
Comment by Jen — April 26, 2009 @ 18:15
I am embarrazed to ask. I got an old monitor and attached to the side of my a.a.o.. the monitor shows in the screen (in color) Attention (in white letters red background) then NO SIGNAL INPUT (black letters green background). I heard the sound clink clink of the connection; no icon or any stuff on the original monitor. I looked on my computer with the hope of some activite; nothing.
what can i do to make work the external monitor?
Thank you
Comment by Norma — April 29, 2009 @ 05:24
I have enabled the right click menu and tried to change the wallpaper. Everything works fine but after a restart it goes back to the default solid colour and i have to set the wallpaper again. any ideas on a fix would be much appriciated :)
Comment by Dan — May 1, 2009 @ 14:58
Hi jorge, a MASSIVE thank you for this page, my little netbook is nigh-on perfect now! One question – Do you know how to make a “ghost” image of our machines? I’ve spent many hours getting this perfect and I’d like to be able to restore to the same setup if anything goes wrong and save myself the time to do it all again… You’re a legend!!
ALSO – I read somewhere (I can’t find the damn page in my history) that the repos you use are a little out of date, they recommended:
==
sudo rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
sudo rpm -Uvh http://rpms.kwizart.net/kwizart-release-8.rpm
==
Before adding them I had trouble installing a few odds and ends, not sure if you can validate this, or if it’s of help to you… Best that you’re aware of it regardless!
Comment by David King — May 2, 2009 @ 01:47
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How do i open “xfdesktopnew located in /usr/bin/”?
Comment by Tony — May 4, 2009 @ 09:38
I am also using the Acer aspire one (model ZG5) running linux linpus lite.Can u plz show me how to install VLC player
Comment by Brades — May 4, 2009 @ 15:26
There you see that I’ve added two applications of my own – VLC and audacious. Here’s how you do it.
First off, you need to have the programs installed. In most cases you’ll already find that once you install the program, icons for it will come along. Check /usr/share/pixmaps/ for them. But should you need an icon for some program that hasn’t any at some point, it has to be 90×90, and be placed in that folder.
If you installed VLC through yum, like I did, then you’ll find the file livna-vlc.desktop in /usr/share/applications/. Now, for the sake of tidiness, I renamed the file to vlc.desktop:
# mv livna-vlc.desktop vlc.desktop
I read the above information but when i type:/usr/share/applications/ in terminal it say : bash: /usr/share/applications/:this is a directory
Comment by bradesai — May 5, 2009 @ 15:05
Hi jorge,
I just wanted to add a comment to say profound thanks for being such a great guy in keeping up with this. So many OPs start such a thread and then vanish.
Your knowledge and this page have got my Aspire One running like a dream now!
Thank you so much!
Damn I love the Linux community :-)
Pete
Comment by Pete_C — May 13, 2009 @ 00:12
Good afternoon, I have a problem in my acer aspire one. When this is the start the operating system, appears only the mouse, the icons and bar and the bottom do not appear.
Comment by Luis — May 17, 2009 @ 14:47
For all who get the error “Internal Error: Failed to initialise HAL” :
I guess i found a solution: there is an error message, if you try to manually run script
/etc/rc.d/slim/nowait.sh
Cannot create link /etc/mtab~
Perhaps there is a stale lock file?
I look in /etc and find a lot of files with such a names : mtab~ , mtab~13663, mtab~15201 and so on. Simply move that files in another location ( or remove them if you are brave :) and you are done, and after reboot HAL will be initialize properly. Works for me, hope will work for others
tex988
Comment by tex988 — May 20, 2009 @ 13:13
I cant save the file because its a read onaly file could anyone tell me whats going on please?
Comment by lukas — May 21, 2009 @ 11:54
i saw on your terminal that your username was jorge instead of user. how did you ndo that
Comment by Tim — May 22, 2009 @ 20:50
Hi, I am very stuck on a issue with my acer aspire one on the limpus light distro, I’m having problems with my network manager. The problem is that everytime I turn on my netbook the network manager on my netbook detects on anetowrk but is alway prompting me for my network key for my wireless router when I put the key in it connects fine. But it seems that the connection manager is set on automaticly connect though it dont save my key. Please help thanks
Sean
Comment by Sean — May 24, 2009 @ 22:38
I tried the xfce default desktop and it worked! :) it was wonderfull BUT I cannot acces the: setting manager, desktop settings, My Documents, My Downloads, My Pictures, My Videos and many other stuff…
WHY?
Could some one help me PLEASE
Comment by Filip — May 25, 2009 @ 23:48
i tried the default desktop and all i could see on it was the search bar and whatever applications were running. xfce-mcs-manager still didnt run. is this meant to happen. but when i run xfce-mcs-manager it showed what was in my desktop folder. i made sure that i didnt miss anything but it still didnt work. can u help. thx
Comment by Tim — May 26, 2009 @ 21:39
do you now how to get windows games on acer aspire one it comes up with xarcheiver and i dont know what to do
Comment by cor — May 27, 2009 @ 22:18
ive been trying to see if i can get toribash for my acer but even when i download the linux one it comes up with the same thing xarchiever please help
Comment by cor — May 27, 2009 @ 22:20
Hi there, the scripts acer_ec.pl and acerfand are no more available, please re-upload them!
Great works, thanks alot! :-D
Nicolò
Comment by Nicolò Lazzaro — June 6, 2009 @ 15:40
HELP PLEASE….i am connected to the internet on my aspire one but when i try and live update it says cant connect to server!! My msn needs updating becuase it has gone weird but i cant please help
Comment by TOm paterson — June 11, 2009 @ 20:35
The solution posted by tex988 in (#348) might work.
At least, in my /etc I see plenty of mtab~files (ranging from mtab~1975 to mtab~3471).
All of them have been created today and are “0 B” in size.
Two additional files are locked: mtab.tmp and mtab~.
One file “mtab” shows a creation date in the future!
As much as I’d love to, I can’t trash these files, since it would require me to be logged in as root.
Being an absolute linux noob, I don’t know how to do this and would appreciate any ideas and hints, since we’re about to leave for our honeymoon and I bought the AAO especially for this trip.
Comment by qwertz999 — June 24, 2009 @ 23:28
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I made the suggested desktop changes, but it gave some wiered results. Moving the scroll wheel of my mouse made any windows disapear, trying to navigate withing file manager closed the window down.
So I’ve had to revert the changes. I’ve double checked the changes and none seem wrong
Just to be clear I altered all 3 files including /etc/xdg/xfce4-session/xfce4-session.rc, wasn’t sure if you were saying that needed to be changed or not.
Comment by Dave Schuster — June 30, 2009 @ 22:57
Hi Jorge,
Thanks a million for this site, great tips for the Acer One, nice to be back on Unix for me. Love the AcerOne so far.
I had a problem after I installed Firefox 3, I used your instructions and script but oneMail still doesn’t start, from the command line it says its looking for libxul.so
I checked and this isn’t in the firefox 2 rpm so I lost it somewhere, I did the nodeps thing.
I installed thunderbird anyway and plan to use it since I can just import my profile.
I have two questions I hope you can help with: do you think I’ve broken anything else?; How do i get rid of oneMail’s mail envelope icon in the tray (it is now permanently flashing with new mail).
Thanks again
Rob
Comment by Rob — July 1, 2009 @ 22:46
Don’t bother about updating firefox. Opera is so much faster on the Aspire One, and easier to install. Go to
http://macles.blogspot.com/2008/10/installing-opera-on-aspire-one-linux.html
AND, change the version number of Opera to the most recent one, which you find on Opera’s download page for Linux. You will not use Firefox again I promise.
Comment by Robert Lake — July 13, 2009 @ 20:34
Hi Jorge…
Thanks for a really great site… i have some difficulti understand how to work acerfan. i dont know how do this Then create the file acerfand.conf in /etc/ with the following options: ? how do this?
Comment by Denise — July 20, 2009 @ 21:14
Ive tried everything to load vlc on my aa1 limpus lite
Eventually i installed it via the acer site automatically and it shows as icon and opens
But it wont play pictures or sound although it will play mp3 music
Pulling my hair out here
Does anyone know an answer? The vlc is supposed to be the best isnt it? im just getting frustrated here.
If anyone can help please talk as if im a beginner
Thx Pete
Comment by peter darlison — July 24, 2009 @ 14:11
There is a very easy way to recover your aspire one without going through the stuff here.
1.) Find any computer with an optical drive
2.) Insert the recovery dvd that came with your aspire one into the dvd drive of the computer with an optical drive and shut it down.
3.) While it’s off insert the usb drive that you wish to make into a recovery drive
4.) Turn on the computer with an optical drive and boot from the dvd
5.) Select the second menu item when the menu appears and hit enter to enter the wizard
6.) Follow the instructions to create a recovery usb drive
PS. The wizard has a mouse pointer.
To recover your aspire one simply boot from you recovery usb drive on your aspire one and a recovery wizard will appear (this too has a mouse pointer)
Comment by Matthew Randell — July 25, 2009 @ 08:03
@tex988: Huge thanks! I just ran into the HAL problem, and removing all the mtab files worked like a charm! (Although I apparently did lose some settings as well, at least amount of workspaces – could be unrelated issue, though.)
One thing I’ve noticed is that trying to open a browser too soon after startup always results in failed HAL initialization, but that’s resolved by a restart.
@qwertz999: Typing “sudo rm /etc/mtab*” will remove all the mtab files. You can of course specify them one file at a time, or instead of “rm” you can use use “mv /etc/mtab* /home/user/” to move the files instead of deleting. The “sudo” in the beginning tells the computer you want to use super user (root) rights for the command. You may have to type your password after the command.
Comment by Ilari Kajaste — July 30, 2009 @ 13:06
Here is something that may help some guys.
If you want to add some shortcuts to Thunar’s side pan and with every restart the shortcuts dissapear (like mentioned here http://forum.xfce.org/index.php?topic=4553.0) please do the following:
sudo mousepad /etc/rc.d/slim/nowait.sh
and then find the line:
rm -f /home/user/.gtk-bookmarks
and change it to:
#rm -f /home/user/.gtk-bookmarks
Then type:
mousepad ~/.gtk-bookmarks
and there add as many shortcuts you want!!!
Save everything and reboot!
stam
Comment by stam — August 6, 2009 @ 13:23
Absolutely magic!
Comment by Andrew Lovell — August 15, 2009 @ 01:56
Hi wonder if you can help – my touchpad stopped working – Fn F7 doesnt work and I’ve tried rebooting with the battery in and out – when I click on the touchpad in the settings I get – GSynaptics couldn’t initialize.
You have to set ‘SHMConfig’ ‘true’ in xorg.conf or XF86Config to use GSynaptics
I’m so stuck am thinking of ditching this and linux so an y help would be great
thanks
Comment by alison — September 2, 2009 @ 18:55
PLEASE HELP ME! When i try to save the xfce sessionfiles, it always says “Can’t open file to write”. WTF does that mean? help me out pleeease!
Comment by jonny — September 16, 2009 @ 15:45
Hi, how I can change from yahoo to Google in search-bar?
Comment by brancin — October 17, 2009 @ 20:57
hi my wireless doest work
without the cable i cant connect to the internet
i cant find any network
how do i fix this please?
Comment by RICARDO — November 1, 2009 @ 05:26
hi thanks for you’re help i can now change my desktop background
Comment by mason g — November 5, 2009 @ 20:12
hi.plz some body help me.i bought a one acer aspire one zg5 in germany and unfortunatly linpus linux lite is germany and i want to change that too english how can i do that.because i cant read options or writes by germany.or how can i change the linux too windows .plz some body help me.
Comment by edi — November 26, 2009 @ 10:50
i want too change my note book language but i cant i want too chnage germany too english.
Comment by edi — November 26, 2009 @ 10:52
hey, i tried to change to the default desktop, but when i tried to change this: /usr/bin/xfdesktop2 & >/dev/null 2>&1
to:
/usr/bin/xfdesktop & >/dev/null 2>&1
i couldnt save it… there popped a window up witch said: cant open file to write…
how do i fix that?
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hai, I disabled the autologin as you mentioned. But now I cannot log in. the username or password are incorrect. is there a different way to skip the login?
Comment by nils — December 8, 2009 @ 23:02
I have tried installing the Livna repository but get the following error:
[root@localhost user]# rpm -Uvh http://www.fedorafaq.org/f8/yum http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm
Retrieving http://www.fedorafaq.org/f8/yum
Retrieving http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm
error: skipping http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm – transfer failed – Unknown or unexpected error
warning: u 0×8082d00 ctrl 0×8082df0 nrefs != 0 (rpm.livna.org http)
What am i missing?
Comment by Lawi — December 14, 2009 @ 12:37