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__''English Translation in progress.......''__
''[Dutch version|InstallConfigHistoryAsusZ53F-Dutch] / [Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon experiences|Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon and Hardy Heron install]''
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De laptop is shipped with Vista, the hard disk has 3 partitions:
Thee laptop is shipped with Vista, the hard disk has 3 partitions:
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If you're finally logon to Vista, McAfee starts nagging, you have to go through a dialog, and after that's finished, it again takes a veeeeery long time before McAfee installation is fineshed
If you're finally logged on to Vista, McAfee starts nagging, you have to go through a dialog, and when that's finished, it again takes a veeeeery long time before McAfee installation is finished
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Then the Ubuntu install started. This works smoothless (as excpected).
Then the Ubuntu install started. This works smoothless (as expected).
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\\Rebooted from Ubuntu Live-Cd, start gparted and then it appaers that the 3 linux paritions are completely gone !!__
Recreated the 3 partitions again and again installed Ubuntu. Boot again, and now choose the second GRUB option, now Vista boots normally.
THe rebooted, and choose the Ubuntu option in GRUB, works fine .
\\Rebooted from Ubuntu Live-Cd, start gparted and then it appears that the 3 linux partitions are completely gone !!
Recreated the 3 partitions again and installed Ubuntu again. Boot again, and now choose the second GRUB option, now Vista boots normally.
Then rebooted, and choose the Ubuntu option in GRUB, works fine .
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!! Ubuntu customization
!! Ubuntu customization
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! Hardware listing (lshw)
For all the hardware details, here is the [lshw output|Asus F3F lshw|Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon and Hardy Heron install]
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As mentioned earlier you don't get out-of-the-box geen 1280x800 resolution, it really looks awfull. I first started to play a little with xorg.conf, but that didn't help (I'm an not a X goeroe). The changes didn't give me a better resolution. So Googling....
There I found the package __915 resolution__, (which appaered to part of the standard Ubuntu distribution) :
As mentioned earlier you don't get out-of-the-box 1280x800 resolution, it really looks awful. I first started to play a little with xorg.conf, but that didn't help (I'm an not a X goeroe). The changes didn't give me a better resolution. So Googling....
There I found the package __915 resolution__, (which appeared to part of the standard Ubuntu distribution) :
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This modification is neccessary to allow the display of certain graphics resolutions for an Xorg or XFree86 graphics server.
This modification is necessary to allow the display of certain graphics resolutions for an Xorg or XFree86 graphics server.
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__But__ the bandwith is very poor, not more than 20 KB/s, while Vista on the same laptop runs op to the max. I have (250 KB/s).
\\Googling again, and more people seem to have these symptoms. It has something to do with b en g routers, and since I still have a 802.11b (11 Mb/s) router ....., I tried my laptop/wireless card with a modem of my brother in las 802.11g (54 Mb/s) modem, and yep, there it works fine.
__But__ the bandwidth is very poor, not more than 20 KB/s, while Vista on the same laptop runs op to the max. I have (250 KB/s).
\\Googling again, and more people seem to have these symptoms. It has something to do with b en g routers, and since I still have an old 802.11b (11 Mb/s) router ....., I tried my laptop/wireless card with a modem of my brother in law 802.11g (54 Mb/s) modem, and yep, there it works fine.
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On the taskbar you can add a CPU frequency meter (2 x, for each CPU 1). There you can nicely see the frequency changing from for instance 1.8 GHz to 798 MHz.
You can also use this to see the voltage history and charge history and also the power consumption, which varies from
On the task bar you can add a CPU frequency meter (2 x, for each CPU 1). There you can nicely see the frequency changing from for instance 1.8 GHz to 798 MHz.
You can also use this to see the voltage history, charge history and also the power consumption, which varies from 18 to 45 Watts (when I run the XMLMark performance test)
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Om het geheel een boot te laten overleven, het volgende toegevoegd aan /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh :
To make sure it keeps working after the boot I added the following to /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh :
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De volgende zit erin (eerste regel) :
The following webcam is on board:
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Na enig Googlen stuit ik op een [sourceforge site|http://syntekdriver.sourceforge.net/] speciaal voor ontwikkeling van een webcam driver voor linux voor deze Syntek webcams :-)
\\Welnu, daarvandaan gedownload de __stk11xx-1.0.0.tar.gz__ en :
* uitgepakt
Googling brings me to [sourceforge site|http://syntekdriver.sourceforge.net/] dedicated to the Syntek webcams :-)
\\Downloaded from there __stk11xx-1.0.0.tar.gz__ en :
* unzipped
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Vervolgens camorama installed, en starten, en verhip hij doetut !
Installed camora, and wow it works just fine !
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Om het geheel een boot te laten overleven, het volgende toegevoegd aan /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh :
This also has to be made bootsafe, so I again added some lines to /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh :
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Dat ding zit er ook nog in, ff een SD card ingestopt, en doetut gewoon goed.
Sticked in the SD card from my Photo Camera, and this also works fine, it is properly recognized and I can (un)load pictures.
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! Installatie van diverse pakketten
! Installation of miscellaneous pieces of software:
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De volgende packages zijn op de gebruikelijke Ubuntu wijze geinstalleerd:
* Automatix, met vervolgens daarmee weer alle codecs/mp3 je kent het wel, flash, realplayer, het hele zwikje
The following packages have been installed in the usual way (Synaptic) :
* Automatix, and also all the other stuff like codecs/mp3 , flash, realplayer
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* gnomad2 voor de Zen MP3 spelers
* gnomad2 for the Zen MP3 spelers
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* Citrix ICAClient (met daarbij [dit ook nog |http://testcees.no-ip.info/blog/?p=46] )
* Citrix ICAClient (with also [this|http://testcees.no-ip.info/blog/?p=46] )
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! Vragen
! Install powertop
* {{{sudo apt-get install build-essential libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev}}}
* {{{make}}}
* {{{make install}}}
* Run powertop, (we would better have 2.6.21)
* first suggestion: {{{echo 1500 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs}}}
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Mail dan even : harry.metske@gmail.com
!! What does not work ?
The only thing that fails is sound after a hibernate or suspend. Sound does not work when you power on the laptop.
\\If you reboot, sound is back again. (This problem is fixed in Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon)
!! If you have questions
please mail me : harry.metske@gmail.com
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