Fedora 10 on Acer Aspire One
Update
You can get ubuntu or better xubuntu working very easily with a custom kernel from aspireonekernel.com. Xubuntu will obviously be faster on the aspire one. No need to wait for kuki linux if you don’t want to.
Update
Now using Fedora 10 xfce spin off, much faster then gnome version.
Went to distrowatch.com today, to see what new linux distros are available, and Fedora 10 is out. Went to google, searched, and found this blog post, that says everything pretty much works out of the box. Will update this post after I install it. Still downloading.
Update
Tried copying the ISO to thumbdrive using unetbootin, didn’t work. It starts booting, then at the end it goes to a shell, where it says it can’t find the root filesystem. Now using the official instructions on fedora’s site, to create the bootable thumbdrive.
Update
Installing to hard drive. Wireless works, easy to connect.
Update
Everything seems to work, though after standby the sound doesn’t work. So I guess I won’t use standby.
Thought disabling tapping would just require editing the xorg.conf file, well that would be the case if there was an xorg.conf file, you can find instructions for disabling tapping on fedoraforums.org. They say to restart X, tried that and it didn’t work, had to reboot for the changes to take affect.
The webcam worked once in the “cheese” application, won’t work any more in that program. Works fine in skype, in ucview, and wxcam. Wxcam has effects like cheese. Wxcam doesn’t seem to let me set the max resolution of cam.
If you want faster wireless, try the madwifi driver, seems to work fine for me. You can install by going to Add/Remove Software and searching for madwifi.
Select the package called “madwifi kernel module(s) for 2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686″.
After installing madwifi, it will blacklist ath5k for you, so you can either reboot to use the madwifi driver, or do the below in terminal.
su rmmod ath5k modprobe ath_pci
To get wireless working after suspending, if using madwifi driver, not tried with ath5k driver. Create a file /etc/pm/config.d/suspend and place “SUSPEND_MODULES=ath_pci” in it.
su nano /etc/pm/config.d/suspend
and put the below in file.
SUSPEND_MODULES=ath_pci
Then type ctrl x to save it.
To speed up Fedora 10 on your Acer Aspire One go here.
XFCE is faster then gnome for me, I only have 512 MB of ram, to lazy to take the whole thing apart just to upgrade ram, will wait till its out of warranty.
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