Friday, February 06, 2009

Asus Eee PC 1000h Ubuntu post installation steps(en)

1. Update through update manager

2.Run the following script to install eee-pc kernel
wget http://www.array.org/ubuntu/array-intrepid.list sudo mv -v array-intrepid.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
wget http://www.array.org/ubuntu/array-apt-key.asc
sudo apt-key add array-apt-key.asc
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install linux-eeepc-lean

3. Reboot


4. Install additional / remove unwanted software

sudo apt-get install eee-control sensors-applet vlc build-essential monodevelop cheese nautilus-open-terminal subversion gparted
sudo apt-get remove totem tracker evolution
apt-get autoremove

4. Firefox

Addons:
foxmarks, stumbleupon, twitterbar, shareaholic
Config:
browser.fullscreen.animateUp=0
network.http.pipelining=true
network.http.proxy.pipelining=true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests=30
new integer nglayout.initialpaint.delay=0

5. Restart firefox


6. Sessions - gnome-session-properties
Add eee-control-tray
Remove Evolution Alarm Notifier (just in case)
Remove Tracker (just in case)
Remove Tracker Applet (just in case)

7. Edit Grub menu.lst
sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

8. Skype
Install skype
Run the bash below to fix soound problems
killall pulseaudio
sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio
sudo apt-get install esound
sudo rm /etc/X11/Xsession.d/70pulseaudio


Important
You are responsible for your own safety and for the safety of your hardware, software and data. Take precautions while doing hardware mods to your system and backup your data properly.


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