420

De ce que je me souviens, ça dépends justement du moteur d'affichage (et c'était la principale différence du passage de X11 en opengl à l'époque)
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Webmaster du site Ti-FRv3 (et aussi de DevLynx)
Si moins de monde enculait le système, alors celui ci aurait plus de mal à nous sortir de si grosses merdes !
"L'erreur humaine est humaine"©Nil (2006) // topics/6238-moved-jamais-jaurais-pense-faire-ca

421

Avec compiz, les fenêtres sont des textures donc fleche VRAM. (même en 2D, c'est juste une projection verticale sur une surface rectangulaire)

422

Elle a une VRAM, la puce intégrée utilisée dans l'eeePC?
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Mes news pour calculatrices TI: Ti-Gen
Mes projets PC pour calculatrices TI: TIGCC, CalcForge (CalcForgeLP, Emu-TIGCC)
Mes chans IRC: #tigcc et #inspired sur irc.freequest.net (UTF-8)

Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité

423

elle a ptet de la mémoire partagée en fait trigni

424

Il me semble oui. C'est pour ça que compiz fusion peut être essayé mais que je ne pense pas le garder.
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Un site complet sur lequel vous trouverez des programmes et des jeux pour votre calculatrice TI 89 / Titanium / 92+ / Voyage 200 : www.ti-fr.com.
Quelques idées personnelles ici.

425

Quelqu'un saurait comment enlever cette hideuse barre de launch sous Xandros pour al remplacer par une autre ?
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Zut je suis reperé, vite ! L1+R1+L2+R2 !
Des ennemis ! ACTIVATING COMBAT MODE - MODULATING PHASE - POWER SURGE ! - CONFLICT RESOLVED
La longue liste des clichés de l'animé et du manga !
RAW ! RAW ! FIGHT THE POWER !

426

mmh..... ça tongue

Pourquoi tu hésites à l'installer ?
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Un site complet sur lequel vous trouverez des programmes et des jeux pour votre calculatrice TI 89 / Titanium / 92+ / Voyage 200 : www.ti-fr.com.
Quelques idées personnelles ici.

427

J'hésite pas à installer, j'ai décidé que je n'installerai pas grin
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Zut je suis reperé, vite ! L1+R1+L2+R2 !
Des ennemis ! ACTIVATING COMBAT MODE - MODULATING PHASE - POWER SURGE ! - CONFLICT RESOLVED
La longue liste des clichés de l'animé et du manga !
RAW ! RAW ! FIGHT THE POWER !

428

D'accord mais why ?
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Un site complet sur lequel vous trouverez des programmes et des jeux pour votre calculatrice TI 89 / Titanium / 92+ / Voyage 200 : www.ti-fr.com.
Quelques idées personnelles ici.

429

Passke Xandros est tellement plus adapté.
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Zut je suis reperé, vite ! L1+R1+L2+R2 !
Des ennemis ! ACTIVATING COMBAT MODE - MODULATING PHASE - POWER SURGE ! - CONFLICT RESOLVED
La longue liste des clichés de l'animé et du manga !
RAW ! RAW ! FIGHT THE POWER !

430

Thibaut (./428) :
D'accord mais why ?

Parce que tu as testé et qu'on n'a pas besoin d'autres héros...
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Webmaster du site Ti-FRv3 (et aussi de DevLynx)
Si moins de monde enculait le système, alors celui ci aurait plus de mal à nous sortir de si grosses merdes !
"L'erreur humaine est humaine"©Nil (2006) // topics/6238-moved-jamais-jaurais-pense-faire-ca

431

?

Rusty : Bah heu.... eeeXubuntu me semble au contraire plus adaptée : elle prend moins de place, tourne mieux, et est plus souple. Qu'entends-tu par adaptée ?
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Un site complet sur lequel vous trouverez des programmes et des jeux pour votre calculatrice TI 89 / Titanium / 92+ / Voyage 200 : www.ti-fr.com.
Quelques idées personnelles ici.

432

Je confirme ce que dit Thibaut.
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Slammeur (qu'on voit danser, le long des golfes clairs).
Mon blog qui parle de jeux-vidéo

433

Vous allez presque me convaincre grin
Sauf que y'a un Swap sur eeeXubuntu, et que le mode veille déconne....

(tain j'ai le cd qui me fait les yeux doux là grin)
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Zut je suis reperé, vite ! L1+R1+L2+R2 !
Des ennemis ! ACTIVATING COMBAT MODE - MODULATING PHASE - POWER SURGE ! - CONFLICT RESOLVED
La longue liste des clichés de l'animé et du manga !
RAW ! RAW ! FIGHT THE POWER !

434

t'es pas obligé d'activer le swap...

435

Oui wink Ca se choisit à l'installation. Moi j'ai choisi d'en mettre un, pour ne pas avoir d'emmerdes le jour où je lancerai trop d'applications. Pour le moment, il n'a jamais servi (hier j'ai lancé une vidéo dans VLC + FireFox + OpenOffice + Thunar et le swap était à 0% d'utilisation).

Deux conclusions différentes selon tes préférences :

- Il faut vraiment le vouloir pour faire tourner le swap ! Donc il n'y a pas à craindre une usure prématurée du SSD si on l'active. Avantage : on peut se mettre en hibernation.

- Vu qu'il ne sert pas malgré 4 applications ouvertes, on peut le désactiver. Le mode hibernation ne sera plus dispo. Avantage : on gagne de la place.
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Un site complet sur lequel vous trouverez des programmes et des jeux pour votre calculatrice TI 89 / Titanium / 92+ / Voyage 200 : www.ti-fr.com.
Quelques idées personnelles ici.

436

Lawl j'ai vu le tuto sur eeeuser, vu la tonne de trucs qu'il faut faire, j'vais attendre d'être en vacances pour le faire grin
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Zut je suis reperé, vite ! L1+R1+L2+R2 !
Des ennemis ! ACTIVATING COMBAT MODE - MODULATING PHASE - POWER SURGE ! - CONFLICT RESOLVED
La longue liste des clichés de l'animé et du manga !
RAW ! RAW ! FIGHT THE POWER !

437

Rien de spécial à faire smile

- Lancer le CD sur un PC,
- taper /cdrom/mkusbinstall.sh --autodetect
- enfourner une clé USB dans le PC
- attendre que ça copie
- mettre la clé dans l'EEEPC et booter dessus.

Voilà ! Tu es en live. Si tu souhaites l'installer vraiment, il suffit alors de cliquer sur "Install" sur le bureau et ça s'installera sur le SSD.

Après, il faut penser à faire une mise à jour du système. Il le demande tout seul smile

Si tu as un problème d'extinction (perso ça déconnait une fois sur deux), il suffit d'ajouter la ligne rmmod snd-hda-intel au début du fichier /etc/init.d/halt et ça roule.
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Un site complet sur lequel vous trouverez des programmes et des jeux pour votre calculatrice TI 89 / Titanium / 92+ / Voyage 200 : www.ti-fr.com.
Quelques idées personnelles ici.

438

J'ai un lecteur externe.
Aussi, je parlais de ça :
Now What?

If nothing else DON'T JUST RUN THE UBUNTU SCRIPTS, only a few seem to work (acpi). While it is my goal to re-create the scriot approach for Xubuntu for now we have a live CD and this approach. Hopefully this wiki page along with the EeeXubuntu developers page will help codify what is needed for a fully feature Xubuntu experience on the Eee.
Remove CD-ROM from the Package Source List

The default installation leaves a line at the top of /etc/apt/sources-list that references the Xubuntu CD. It has a “cdrom:” URL. This means that if you try to install some packages (g++, for example), apt-get will fail because it can't find the CD. To fix this, edit that file as root

sudo mousepad /etc/apt/sources.list

and put a '#' in front of the cdrom line. That will comment it out, and apt-get will now refer to the web for all package downloads.
Mounting external devices (USB Disks, SD Cards etc.)

After installing eeeXubuntu, the fstab file contains a line which assumes that any external device you plug in is going to be a CD ROM drive. Ooops! So, to get external devices to mount:

sudo mousepad /etc/fstab

And comment out ( put a # in front of ) the /dev/sdb1 line and/or /dev/sdc1 line (whichever you have.) The example below shows the line commented out. It's the line that contains /media/cdrom0.

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda1
UUID=10d03d2a-7732-4f6f-924f-541b39dd9559 / ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
#/dev/sdb1 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0 0

If there's a /sdc1 line, comment it out too.

You may also need to turn off “Volume Management” in Thunar (File Manager) settings ('Misc' tab).

Now external USB devices, USB flash drives, USB hard disks and SD cards should auto mount.

Suspend: In order for some USB storage devices to continue to operate normally after suspend, it is necessary to unmount them first. For example, supposing you mount an SD card on /media/sdram, then the following edits will allow it to survive suspend.

Create the file /etc/acpi/suspend.d/12-umounts.sh

#!/bin/sh
umount /media/sdram

and also the file /etc/acpi/resume.d/89-mounts.sh

#!/bin/sh
mount /media/sdram

Something similar is probably needed for hibernate.

Note that if the umount command fails (typically because a program stored on the medium was running), the remount won't work. In such a case, the usb storage device must be disconnected and reconnected, and also manually remounted if you aren't using volume management.
Even less disk IO

http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=5984.

On machines with a swap partition add the following to

sudo mousepad /etc/rc.local

Put these two lines just before the “exit 0” statement at the end:

sysctl -w vm.swappiness=1 # Strongly discourage the swapping of application data to disk
sysctl -w vm.vfs_cache_pressure=50 # Don't shrink the inode cache so aggressively.

This reduces the likelihood of the actual applications, or directory listings, from being paged out. Disk page cache is not nearly as important as random access SSD reads are faster than on HD. As a bi-product the above will improve the responsiveness for interactive use (which is the primary use of the EEE), although reducing the overall performance of the system.

Alternatively you can change /etc/sysctl.conf and change the last line to be

vm.swappiness=1

and then add line

vm.vfs_cache_pressure=50

This way you do not need to change the script.
Add noatime to your fstab

By default Linux ext2/3 keeps a tab on access times for every file on the system. This leads to more writes than we need. Add “noatime” to the options for the / mount as shown below.

sudo mousepad /etc/fstab

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda1
UUID=10d03d2a-7732-4f6f-924f-541b39dd9559 / ext2 defaults,noatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
#/dev/sdb1 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0 0

You will need to reboot or run …

sudo mount -o remount /

Use ramdisk for temp files

To have the various log and temporary files written to RAM instead of to flash, you need to edit /etc/fstab again

sudo mousepad /etc/fstab

then add these lines to the end

# enable RAM-based temporary file systems
tmpfs /var/tmp tmpfs noatime 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs noatime 0 0

This also means anything stored in /var/tmp or /tmp won't survive a reboot, so if you're debugging a problem where you need to preserve those files, you might want to comment out those lines.
Enable browsing Windows networks in Thunar

Since Xubuntu uses Thunar for a file manager it doesn't natively support browsing a Windows network out of the box.

Here is a link to a How To at Ubuntu Forums. This works for eeeXubuntu installs as well.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=304131
Sound

Sound has been interesting, it may require running Totem or even playing a file before everything shows up but the short story is to add the Volume control to the panel.

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Right click on the task bar at the bottom of the screen.
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Press “Add New Item”
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scroll down until you find the Volume Control applet and drag it to the panel next to the applications button. (Drag anything else you want down at this time too.)
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Then right-click on the new Volume Control icon and go the “Properties”.
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For “Device”, choose ”#0: HDA Intel (this should be the only one you can choose)
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For “Wannabe Master”, choose “Front,0” (which is responsible for main sound output).
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Leave the “xfc4-mixer” in the “when clicked” box alone. – that's what we're running.
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If you click on the icon, it brings up the mixer where you can adjust front speaker and mic volume.
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If you click the volume meter to the right of the panel icon it will adjust the volume up and down.

Alternatively you can load ALSA-Mixer (gtk not Gnome) and set the Volume control to run gamix, but that is not covered in this walk through.
Removing sound during Shutdown

This has been already implemented in Release 3. For earlier releases, you can perform the steps below. I don't believe it's true. In fact, I installed release 3 (not an update from previous releases), and I HAD TO do following to get my Eee PC shut down.

I apologise. It appears however, that this could have been an addition to the official reposistories. A fresh install last night proved that the file did not exist, however after retrieving all updates rc.localstop contained a new entry with a comment, containing this addition. Will need to look into this more - StealthCP

The Eee PC won't shut down completely after using the sound module. At the end of the shutdown procedure you will see the green power light still lit with nothing happening.

Edit the file /etc/rc.localstop:

sudo mousepad /etc/rc.localstop

The end of the file should look like this:

# workaround to prevent hang on system shutdown (eeePC)
rmmod snd_hda_intel
exit 0

It seems that recently this change was added to the official repositories, so if you fully updated your system recently as advised above this should already be done. If not, then simply add 'rmmod snd-hda-intel' just before 'exit 0'. Save the file.

Source: http://wiki.eeeuser.com/faq#how_can_i_get_my_x_eee_ubuntu_to_shutdown_completely
Direct Rendering

You can test if this is nessesary by running the program glxgears. On the eee PC properly configured, glxgears should run at over 400 frames per second. Without 3d acceleration it runs at 30 to 40 frames per second. To test, simply open a terminal window and type glxgears. A graphic of spinning gears will appear, and after a few moments, the frames per second rate will be displayed in the terminal window. If your number is under 100, you need to follow the instructions below.

If you want 3D games to work well like they did on Xandros, or if you're interested in installing the uber-cool compiz-fusion 3d desktop, follow these instructions to enable direct rendering in three easy steps:

Open a new terminal (menu: Applications→Accessories→Terminal) and…
1. Install the required libraries for 3D acceleration with OpenGL:

sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx libglu1-mesa

NOTE: thats libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx libglu1-mesa - be careful of 1's and l's!

Type in your user password if it asks you for it, and answer Y when it prompts you with a question to install the packages.
2. Add the relevent sections for 3D acceleration in your xorg.conf:

sudo mousepad /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Once again, enter your user password if it asks for it. This will open a text editor to edit your configuration for the foundation of Linux's graphical interface. Ignore the message about potentially harming your system because you are root (don't worry, nothing bad will happen).

Scroll down to the very end of the file, and add this text:

Section "Module"
Load "glx"
Load "dri"
Load "dbe"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection


(Make sure the file ends with a blank line. The cursor needs to be TWO LINES below the last print. Failing to have a blank line will bork your xorg.conf)

Save and quit.

3. Reboot.

That's it! After you reboot and log in to your system, you can check if 3D acceleration is working by running glxgears. To do this, use the Alt-F2 combination in xubuntu to bring up the run dialog, type glxgears in the textbox, check run in terminal and hit run. Now you should see ~400fps!

While you're in xorg.conf, you can uncomment the entries for the Wacom tablet if you want as well.

Note: Some users report that upon performing this step, the volume control function keys (fn-f8 and fn-f9) quit displaying the on-screen display although they continue to work.

Camera

The camera is not enabled in the bios by default. This is to conserve power. Therefore, before testing to see if the camera works, you will either need to enable the camera in the bios (press f2 when asked in the boot sequence, select advanced, select devices, and enable the camer) or you will need to “turn the camera on” after booting.

For details about enabling and disabling the camera, see Controlling the built-in webcam.

To run the camera to capture shots, or video, install the ucview application which came with the original eeePC. To install ucview you first need to set up the unicap repository following the instructions here:

http://unicap-imaging.org/using_repository.htm

Then from a terminal

sudo apt-get install ucview

There seems to be an issue with ucview that image capture produces a black jpeg file. A possible solution was posted here
Flash & Java 7

This should be auto-done by installing the xubuntu-restricted-formats under codecs below. If it isn't please refer to the forum's Original thread which had reference to this page for getting flash and Java 7 to work.
Codecs

Ubuntu provides a single point install of restricted codecs, several applications including Java and Flash and etc. To install it simply:

sudo apt-get install xubuntu-restricted-extras

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as of 12/26/2007 ubuntu restricted extras failed to install flash claiming an md5 mismatch. Downloading the .tar.gz from adobe and running the install script contained therein as root works. Don't ask me why one works but not the other when they're both downloading from the same place – Rick
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There's a temporary fix over at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=634551&page=2. They suggest downloading http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10761023/flashplugin-nonfree_9.0.115.0ubuntu2_i386.deb from the next Ubuntu release (8.04). It did it for me. –Martin

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Looks like this loads Flash 9 and Java 6 as well. BTW I ran sudo aptitude and not apt-get but did get the md5 mismatch for Flash 9. Still can't play Xvid in Totem. –Curt

sudo apt-get install libxine1-ffmpeg xine-plugin

this Adds DivX, Xvid support to Totem and get the Mozilla plug in
Unresolved codecs questions

Have you installed the nonfree win32 codecs for mplayer/xine? I don't know if Ubuntu supplies a .deb for them, but for most distros you have to download them from mplayer.hu and untar the archive to /usr/lib/codecs. With these codecs installed you should be able to play any video in existence including the newest Windows Video VC1 videos.

It is “unofficially” suggested to download the nonfree codecs from the medibuntu repository.
See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu for instructions

Integrate this:

??I'm a total linux newb, I just installed MPlayer and the Mozilla Plugin from Add/Remove.
I added all of the extra codecs (wmv, xvid etc) by downloading the codec files from http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html
and installing them to usr/local/lib/codecs - this is wonderful guide _> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOeBcWQDOKk.??

Prompt for Keychain Password on Login

On login, nm-applet will prompt for the keychain password, unless wireless roaming is disabled. This is annoying as, even if your keychain password is the same as your login password, you will always need to enter your password twice.

This is a common problem but the recommended solution does not work http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-503976.html

When the instructions are followed, on subsequent reboot and login a non-dismissible 'access denied' prompt is displayed. An eeexubuntu specific solution is needed.
Fn Keys

Addressed in .3 release of EeeXubuntu Out of the box Fn plus the following should work:

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F1 - Instant power off (no dialog)
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F2 - toggle wireless card on and off
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F3 - Screen to dimmer
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F4 - Screen to brighter
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F5 - ???
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F6 - ???
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F7 - toggle sound on/off
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F8 - Volume down
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F9 - Volume up

F2 doesn't work in original eeeXubuntu install. However, you can fix it by either of following two methods.

Method 1: Both the wifi update below and the enabling of F5 (external monitor toggle) can be done. Follow these instructions these instructions. No need to cut and paste large amounts of text from this wiki. — Francis Turner 1 Feb 2008

If your Eee PC is non-US model, you will need to modify xorg.conf file to restore original keyboard layout setting. You can find correct settings in xorg.conf.backup file (you must have made it!).
Here's an example fro UK (GB) keyboard:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection

Method 2: The Wifi Hotkey Fn-F2 can be fixed as follows:

1. Create the file /etc/acpi/events/eee-wifi-on

sudo mousepad /etc/acpi/events/eee-wifi-on

and put the following

# ASUS eeePC Wifi Hotkey (Fn-F2)
event=hotkey ATKD 00000010
action=/etc/acpi/eee-wifi-on-off.sh on

2. Create the file /etc/acpi/events/eee-wifi-off

sudo mousepad /etc/acpi/events/eee-wifi-off

and put the following

# ASUS eeePC Wifi Hotkey (Fn-F2)
event=hotkey ATKD 00000011
action=/etc/acpi/eee-wifi-on-off.sh off

3. Create the file /etc/acpi/eee-wifi-on-off.sh

sudo mousepad /etc/acpi/eee-wifi-on-off.sh

and put the following

#!/bin/sh

#FILE: /etc/acpi/eee-wifi-on-off.sh
# main wifi toggle script (loads/unloads modules)

. /usr/share/acpi-support/key-constants

# The sequence here *is* important.
unload_modules() {
rmmod ath_pci
rmmod ath_rate_sample
rmmod ath_hal
rmmod wlan_ccmp
rmmod wlan_tkip
rmmod wlan_wep
rmmod wlan_acl
rmmod wlan_scan_sta
rmmod wlan
}

# At least this one's straightforward.
load_modules() {
modprobe ath_pci
}

wifi_on() {
# Force PCI Express Hotplug to reinit
rmmod pciehp
sleep 1
# pciehp_force may be unnecessary; Xandros did it.
modprobe pciehp pciehp_force=1
sleep 1
# Switch on the hardware
echo 1 >/proc/acpi/asus/wlan
sleep 1
load_modules
}

wifi_off() {
unload_modules
echo 0 >/proc/acpi/asus/wlan
}

case $1 in
on)
acpi_fakekey $KEY_PROG1
wifi_on
;;
off)
acpi_fakekey $KEY_PROG2
wifi_off
;;
toggle)
STAT=`cat /proc/acpi/asus/wlan`
if [ "$STAT" = "1" ];
then wifi_off;
else wifi_on;
fi
;;
esac

4. Make the file /etc/acpi/eee-wifi-on-off.sh executeable (open a shell and type the following)

sudo chmod +x /etc/acpi/eee-wifi-on-off.sh

This solution was found here.
Getting OSD to work

Added Conzi 04.02.2008 It seems that the OSD does not work ootb with eeeXubuntu. Graves has released the 'eeeXubuntu ASUS OSD Scriptpack v2.0' whitch fixed this issue for me. Detailed Information about this can be found here and here (in german).
BIOS Updates

The eee has a really neat built-in BIOS upgrade utility. Just put the new BIOS on a USB stick, rename it to 701.ROM, hold Alt-F2 at boot, and it will perform a BIOS flash automatically. The utility is built into the BIOS itself. Or you could make a bootable DOS USB stick, put the flash utility and BIOS image on it, and boot from it. There's no need to with the built-in utility, though.
Enabling Compiz-fusion desktop

Getting the famous cube, wobbly windows and all is easy, and works fine on an stock g4 with 512 meg of ram (amazing at that may seem.) It's a little too long to post here, so please visit How to setup Compiz Fusion on eeeXubuntu. Definitely worth doing!
Applications
Images and Photos
Image Editing
GIMP

GIMP is installed by default.
Image Viewing
GQView

GQView is installed and usable as an image viewer. You will have to go into the preferences and set it to scale the image to window size as it defaults to showing them full scale.
gThumb
gPhoto2
gPhotofs
Viewing Document Formats
Acrobat PDF Acroread Evince

Evince is installed by default as the MIME application for reading pdf files. Unless you need advanced Acroread features there is little point in going to the bother of installing Adobe Acroread as its interface is not as snappy (e.g. cluttered, not as fast, buffers keypresses).
Open Office

EeeXubuntu includes just the word processor part of Open Office and ignores the other parts (presentation, spreadsheet etc.) which seems a bit silly. You can easily install the rest using the full openoffice.org package using apt-get or synaptic and at the same time remove Gnumeric (for spreadsheets) and Abiword (for text). This appears to be roughly neutral in terms of storage space used but adds the ability to use presentations too.

Alternatively you can uninstall all of Open Office and stick with Abiword and Gnumeric for a reasonable saving in disk space
Chat and Communication
Skype

If you want to made video calls with Skype then you need to download the beta 2.0 version from the Skype Garage. It won't install however until you install libqt4-core and libqt4-gui. The latter won't install because it can't find an installation candidate for libaudio2. this thread on ubuntuforums.org explains how to install that.

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download skype beta 2 from http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-beta-ubuntu

Synaptic shows libaudio2 in the Xubuntu repositories since version 4…, as is libqt4 core and gui. you have to install libqt-gui to install eeeCamTray, so you may already have that, but all 3 of these are just in synaptic or can be gotten just by doing an apt-get
after downloading, I was told “All dependencies are satisfied” on xunbuntu, but I had previously installed libqt for eeecamtray — Rick Boatright 2007/12/29 00:06

You may find it easier to simply enable the medibuntu repositories (see below for getting codecs that way) and install Skype from there as this is now the 2.0 version. — Francis Turner

System Optimizations
Battery Life

There has been much discussion in the Xandros sections concerning setting the behaviour on battery exhaustion, opening and closing the lid etc. Under xubuntu the way to access the GUI interface for these options is to right-click on the battery icon in the system tray (Xandros requires manual mods to the scripts, apparently).

Provided you have enabled a swap partition you can, for example, set the EEE to hibernate instead of shutdown. This reduces boot time, allows you to carry on from where you left off and reduces your chances of losing work due to an unanticipated shutdown
Disk Space
Cleaning apt cache

When you're done downloading and installing packages with apt-get, it's a good idea to run

sudo apt-get clean

to flush the package cache. This should free up some space on your SSD by clearing out all of the *.bin and *.deb files that are in /var/cache/apt and /var/cache/apt/archives.

When sudo apt-get remove xxxxx is run, it does not remove all of the files off of your system. The configuration files and the installation files still remain. The configuration files are typically very small, so they don't pose a threat to your overall disk space, but the installation files do. Clearing the apt cache removes these installation files.
Remove Unnecessary Software
Program Space Saved Apt Removal Description
Openoffice.org (All) ~250 MB sudo apt-get remove openoffice-core Openoffice.org is the Microsoft Office replacement software. This includes Writer (Word), Calc (Excel), and Impress (Power Point). Consider using AbiWord as a replacement for Writer as it also opens Microsoft Word Documents also.
Gimp ~11 MB sudo apt-get remove gimp Gimp is a graphic editor similiar to Adobe Photoshop.
Mozilla Firefox ~27 MB sudo apt-get remove firefox Firefox is the default web browser in EeeXubuntu. Using the Opera browser instead gives you a net savings of around 14 MB
Mozilla Thunderbird ~33 MB sudo apt-get remove thunderbird Thunderbird is an email client similiar to Microsoft Outlook. It has the ability to access POP3/IMAP/RSS and more. However, if you only check your email through your web browser (i.e. hotmail, gmail, etc.) consider removing this to save space.
Screen Space
Mozilla Firefox
Themes

Littlefox
Mozilla Thunderbird
Themes

Littlebird
Remove Mail Toolbar, Keep the Icons

This removes one row of icons from the top. Combine this with a small icon them like the Littlebird theme to save quite a bit of space.

1.
Open Mozilla Thunderbird
2.
Click on View → Toolbars → Customize
3.
In the bottom left:
Show: Icons
Use Small Icons: “Checked”
4.
With the “Customize Toolbar” window open, you will notice that if you move your cursor over the mail toolbar icons, your cursor changes to a hand. Move all of your icons from the main tool bar up one level to the right of “Help”.
5.
Once you have all of the icons moved that you want moved, click “OK” on the Customize Toolbar box.
6.
Click on View → Toolbars → Mail Toolbar to remove the check mark next to it.

System Performance
Use ramdisk for temp files

This will reduce the number of writes to the SSD, save SSD disk space, and very slightly improve system performance by keeping some temporary information in memory instead of reading/writing it to the SSD.

To have the various log and temporary files written to RAM instead of to flash, you need to edit /etc/fstab again

sudo mousepad /etc/fstab

then add these lines to the end

# enable RAM-based temporary file systems
tmpfs /var/tmp tmpfs noatime 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs noatime 0 0

This also means anything stored in /var/tmp or /tmp won't survive a reboot, so if you're debugging a problem where you need to preserve those files, you might want to comment out those lines.
Direct Rendering

You can test if this is nessesary by running the program glxgears. On the eee PC properly configured, glxgears should run at over 400 frames per second. Without 3d acceleration it runs at 30 to 40 frames per second. To test, simply open a terminal window and type glxgears. A graphic of spinning gears will appear, and after a few moments, the frames per second rate will be displayed in the terminal window. If your number is under 100, you need to follow the instructions below.

If you want 3D games to work well like they did on Xandros, or if you're interested in installing the uber-cool compiz-fusion 3d desktop, follow these instructions to enable direct rendering in three easy steps:

Open a new terminal (menu: Applications→Accessories→Terminal) and…
1. Install the required libraries for 3D acceleration with OpenGL:

sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx libglu1-mesa

NOTE: thats libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx libglu1-mesa - be careful of 1's and l's!

Type in your user password if it asks you for it, and answer Y when it prompts you with a question to install the packages.
2. Add the relevent sections for 3D acceleration in your xorg.conf:

sudo mousepad /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Once again, enter your user password if it asks for it. This will open a text editor to edit your configuration for the foundation of Linux's graphical interface. Ignore the message about potentially harming your system because you are root (don't worry, nothing bad will happen).

Scroll down to the very end of the file, and add this text:

Section "Module"
Load "glx"
Load "dri"
Load "dbe"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection


(Make sure the file ends with a blank line. The cursor needs to be TWO LINES below the last print. Failing to have a blank line will bork your xorg.conf)

Save and quit.

3. Reboot.

That's it! After you reboot and log in to your system, you can check if 3D acceleration is working by running glxgears. To do this, use the Alt-F2 combination in xubuntu to bring up the run dialog, type glxgears in the textbox, check run in terminal and hit run. Now you should see ~400fps!

While you're in xorg.conf, you can uncomment the entries for the Wacom tablet if you want as well.

Note: Some users report that upon performing this step, the volume control function keys (fn-f8 and fn-f9) quit displaying the on-screen display although they continue to work.

Even less disk IO

http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=5984.

On machines with a swap partition add the following to

sudo mousepad /etc/rc.local

Put these two lines just before the “exit 0” statement at the end:

sysctl -w vm.swappiness=1 # Strongly discourage the swapping of application data to disk
sysctl -w vm.vfs_cache_pressure=50 # Don't shrink the inode cache so aggressively.

This reduces the likelihood of the actual applications, or directory listings, from being paged out. Disk page cache is not nearly as important as random access SSD reads are faster than on HD. As a bi-product the above will improve the responsiveness for interactive use (which is the primary use of the EEE), although reducing the overall performance of the system.
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Zut je suis reperé, vite ! L1+R1+L2+R2 !
Des ennemis ! ACTIVATING COMBAT MODE - MODULATING PHASE - POWER SURGE ! - CONFLICT RESOLVED
La longue liste des clichés de l'animé et du manga !
RAW ! RAW ! FIGHT THE POWER !

439

au fait (/me débarque) y'a un bios dans ce bidule, forcément... hmm?
et le SSD il est vu comme quoi? du sata? de l'ATA?

440

Chépô. Il est vu comme un Primary Hard Disk Drive en tout cas.


Rusty : Oulala ! Je t'assure que j'ai pas eu besoin de ça pour installer ma distrib. Bien sûr, après, on peut faire des optimisations.

Perso, j'ai rajouté noatime dans fstab pour empêcher l'OS de marquer la date d'accès dans les fichiers lus. Ca préservera pas mal le SSD (rien que pour booter, j'imagine aps le nombre de fichiers accédés).

Ensuite, j'ai viré AbiWord pour mettre OpenOffice à la place.

Et puis j'ai ajouté quelques bidules à la barre des taches pour retrouver mes habitudes (lancement rapide de FF, de la console, de l'explorateur de fichiers, charge processeur). Et puis j'ai choisi une skin à la MacOS smile



QU9t
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Un site complet sur lequel vous trouverez des programmes et des jeux pour votre calculatrice TI 89 / Titanium / 92+ / Voyage 200 : www.ti-fr.com.
Quelques idées personnelles ici.

441

rah putain qu'elle est moche et qu'elle a l'air salipe l'autre grognasse là sick
#malozieux#

t'aurais pu nous épargner ça, quand même!

442

Tu voudrais pas faire un commentaire sur le fond plutôt que sur Alizéebienroulée ?
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Un site complet sur lequel vous trouverez des programmes et des jeux pour votre calculatrice TI 89 / Titanium / 92+ / Voyage 200 : www.ti-fr.com.
Quelques idées personnelles ici.

443

bien roulée trifus t'es amoureux ou quoi trifus

le fond on le voit pas, bon je peux commenter la déco des fenêtres imitation osx qui sux grin

444

Moi je trouve ça joli smile Tout ça pour dire que eeeXubuntu est personnalisable à fond.

Oui oui grin Tu veux la vidéo pour voir son 90C ?
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Un site complet sur lequel vous trouverez des programmes et des jeux pour votre calculatrice TI 89 / Titanium / 92+ / Voyage 200 : www.ti-fr.com.
Quelques idées personnelles ici.

445

Pourtant tu es la depuis 2001 squalyl... tu te rapelle pas ? trifus

[google]yaronet Thibaut alizée[/google]
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Proud to be CAKE©®™


GCC4TI importe qui a problème en Autriche, pour l'UE plus et une encore de correspours nucléaire, ce n'est pas ytre d'instérier. L'état très même contraire, toujours reconstruire un pouvoir une choyer d'aucrée de compris le plus mite de genre, ce n'est pas moins)
Stalin est l'élection de la langie.

446

en effet smile comme toutes les distros nunux

(bon j'ai eu ça aussi le décor osx, sur xp en plus, alors j'en rajoute pas grin)

447

FCADY \o/ !!!!!!!!!!!

embarrassed
Tekken Punch !!! beuh Love Hina déjà fini ... :'(
Japan-A-Radio
Vertyos@| les modos sont des enculés
Vertyos@| y'a des queues partout, un vrai bonheur'

448

Si vous aimez tant que ça OS X, achetez des macs tongue au moins c'est pas une imitation, mais le vrai de vrai tongue
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Proud to be CAKE©®™


GCC4TI importe qui a problème en Autriche, pour l'UE plus et une encore de correspours nucléaire, ce n'est pas ytre d'instérier. L'état très même contraire, toujours reconstruire un pouvoir une choyer d'aucrée de compris le plus mite de genre, ce n'est pas moins)
Stalin est l'élection de la langie.

449

Tu pourrais me dire c'que t'as fait thibault ? J'l'installerai ce soir. Et tu est resté sur Xfce ou t'as changé pour Gnome/KDE ?
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Zut je suis reperé, vite ! L1+R1+L2+R2 !
Des ennemis ! ACTIVATING COMBAT MODE - MODULATING PHASE - POWER SURGE ! - CONFLICT RESOLVED
La longue liste des clichés de l'animé et du manga !
RAW ! RAW ! FIGHT THE POWER !

450

(cross)
444> j'ai préférer vite oublier grin