Comments on: Upgrading Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) to 9.10 (Karmic) on Eee PC Seashell

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By: Kang

Kang — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:03:58 +0000

same as Sjoerd,
No sound, No mousepad, I haven’t test the other two he/she mentioned.

HELP!!!

By: homebaze

homebaze — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:56:58 +0000

Hello, just found your website as I want to upgrade to 9.10 Beta from 9.04. I have an Eee 1000H and dualboot it with XP. I want to know if there are any known issues or bugs with the new GRUB (2) menu, or is it correct, that it wont (GRUB) upgrade? Do you personally dualboot? If there should be any problems, how do I get to Windows? Should I backup any special file (e.g. menu.lst)? Thank you for your answer in advance! Thx from Slovakia

By: Sjoerd

Sjoerd — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 23:34:47 +0000

Hi, i updated from 9.04 to 9.10 and found 4 first problems:

1. sound did not work, this was solved after another (2nd) restart
2. video, the webcam shows a very dark picture, but it is working
3. mousepad tap and scroll does not work, only the mouse movement
4. eee-control-tray 0.9.2 does not show options at “performance”, only “none”
camera, cardreader, wireless and bluetooth are working out of the box
aha, pulse audio crashed just now

By: quefyx

quefyx — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:03:15 +0000

Please see my most recent post to get both your Wireless and Ethernet port working.

By: Junior

Junior — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:50:49 +0000

Thank you for you post. I have one doubt, I know you don’t use, but could please inform if th ethernet works with thsi Ubuntu release?
Also on you post of the 9.04 you put a screenshot of ours descktop, could you make a new post on how you change it.

Thanks from Brazil

By: quefyx

quefyx — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:59:17 +0000

No I didn’t notice, but can you just not install PostgresSQL and MySQL through the Ubuntu Repository with apt-get install?

By: Two_Dishes

Two_Dishes — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:03:41 +0000

Nifty and needed. I was about to go the long way, downloading a live image and then wrestling to make my USB stick bootable. (GRUB and making it bootable sector totally confuse me!) So thanks for showing me how to make apt-get do the driving.

I ran Jaunty remix with okay results for a couple months on my Eee PC 900. I had the same overheating problems many had, until I installed powernowd. That helped. The only other Jaunty problem I ever had was a bug on the homescreen that made the mouse move sluggishly only on home screen.

Did you notice that Karmic Ubuntu includes, instead of none, TWO full fledged SQL servers? Kind of crazy. PostgreSQL and MySQL.

http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major

By: quefyx

quefyx — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:28:30 +0000

See my reply to the previous poster for the function keys. As for camera, it works fine. I have not tested the mic yet as I don’t really use Skype or anything that records sound, but I will let you know once I do use it. Sound works fine on it, however, through the speakers, I do notice it’s lower than normal. Could be the sound driver that Ubuntu uses. Through the headphones it’s fine.

Compiz runs smoothly and snappy on it. I haven’t had any problems.

Cheers!

By: Yosi

Yosi — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:02:19 +0000

Hi my friend, Im about to buy the Eee 1008HA and just wanted to know, beside the ethernet, what other problem u had after installing ubuntu?? did the sound works? mic? camera? compiz run smooth??? thanks for ur advice