The road from Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1 RC to GOLD

There were some bugs with the release candidate. Some will be fixed before the gold release, some will have to wait. Here’s a list bugs:

Netbook remix doesn’t respond after suspend
Maybe Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1 shouldn’t come with Netbook Remix?
Bluetooth utilities have been removed
Will be fixed with gold
«Incorrect password» after lock screen / suspend
This will be fixed or worked around
The RC comes with two bug reports
This is no problem. It has been fixed. It’s just reports. They will be removed in 8.04.1 though
Problems with /etc/sources.list meaning the upgrade manager doesn’t work
This has to be fixed before being released
Mic problems with 901 & 1000
8.04.1 will go gold before this is fixed
It should be easy to choose between netbook remix mode and regular desktop mode
Yes it should. This will not hold the release of 8.04.1 back

August 30th, 2008 | Ubuntu Eee

55 comments

Jon:

Great work with Ubuntu Eee…

By the way, I’ve been trying to run it with VMWare on a Vista host, but I can’t get past Busybox. I even tried some tips for changing the bios.bin, but that didn’t work either (http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=3394)

It’d be great to know what I’m doing wrong with it. Any tips? Or know where there’s a tutorial?

Comment by twocs — November 3, 2008 @ 9:38 am

Great your contribution for eeepc users. I tried vmware player and virtualbox to run windows XP on a P900. May be if I change xandros4 to ubuntu I will have more returns. Thanks

Comment by Paltonio Fraga — October 13, 2008 @ 2:10 pm

Great work, updates does not work in the netherlands, but wen make the choice of the states in synaptic package manager, settings, repositories, and than download from server usa, it workes fine.

Keep on the good work, this is GOLD.

Comment by Merhart — September 8, 2008 @ 9:29 am

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Guys, new RC out!

http://www.jonramvi.com/ubuntu-eee-8041-rc2/

Comment by ongofongo — September 4, 2008 @ 4:12 pm

The posts have slowed down here. Could this be the calm before the storm of the next GOLD rush… LOL!

Comment by Midnite Mac — September 4, 2008 @ 2:01 am

“Netbook remix doesn’t respond after suspend”

The latest ume-launcher packages fixed that for me, maybe you should upgrade in Ubuntu Eee too!

Comment by test — September 4, 2008 @ 12:10 am

Great little distro. Just got my eee 1000 yesterday, and Xandros (not bad IMO) has already been ditched and Ubuntu eee 8.04.1 rc is already running and happy. Only thing I have to complain about (aside from the stated bugs, like the resume-password-issue and the wifi-fn+f2 hangs the machine) is that the 1000 doesn’t come with the atheros-wifi, and thus I had to modprobe the rt2860sta-module manually before any wifi would run. And off course, no mp3 yet, because the repositories are all borked. Java had to be manually installed…

Good luck on the release (and if you ever bump into me on matnat, be sure to tell me to get you a coffee! :p)

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Jon,

Sorry for my rant as I do not want rumers to fly that I wanted in any way corrupt this fine community.

“Power to the people of my new community” :)

Thank you everyone for coming together and providing myself and others with this wonderful product that is highly optimized for my Eee.

Midnite Mac

Comment by Midnite Mac — September 3, 2008 @ 3:09 pm

Cannot switch to root even after installing password using
’sudo passwd root’.
Using right password gets “Authentication failure”.
After inserting SD card and trying to open it following error message appears: Cannot mount volume. mount: must be superuser to use mount. My user is in administrator group.

Comment by Lena — September 3, 2008 @ 8:52 am

Which is a great idea - but a quick reply; I’m not the only one who’s done a hard job with this project. There’s the kernel, the customization of the boot, the logo, the wallpapers, the wiki, the soon to come donation page and feature page, all the comments here, answers on launchpad and bugreports. Great community - thanks!

Comment by Jon Ramvi — September 3, 2008 @ 8:09 am

Hey Jackson,

Yes, I am aware of the site. My idea here is to strickly form a local group to share a site/blog with ideas of how and what we do with Ubuntu-eee. For the only reasons of a hobbiest.

I am not here to take any credit of Ubuntu-eee or here to expliot it in any shape, size, or code of Jon’s hard work. The only thing that I would like to accomplish is to share my ideas and help spread the word of Ubuntu-eee.com. With my site, i want to explain in what ways i am awarded and what servies it brings me over any other OS such as Windows and Mac.

If you have any questions or comments? Please send me a personal email.

Thank you for reading.

Comment by Anonymous — September 3, 2008 @ 5:24 am

Don’t know if you knew this, but ubuntu eee has a website @ ubuntu-eee.com

Comment by Jackson — September 3, 2008 @ 1:44 am

patrickK:

Please shoot me an email at: info@midnitemac.com

Perhaps, we can start a local “UEG”…LoL! Meaning, ‘Ubuntu-Eee Group’ here in the LA area? I must warn you of the following: I am not a programmer myself but am a damn good tester :)

In addition, I have already started a basic home page for Ubuntu-eee here:

http://www.midnitemac.com/Ubuntu_Eee.html

Anyways, let me know what you think?

Thanks in advance,

Midnite Mac
midnitemac.com

Comment by Midnite Mac — September 2, 2008 @ 11:50 pm

Still seeding the RC1 until RC2 is online. This is great, a great community working for a great project. Sure that we are enjoying now and we will enjoy our computers with our new system.

Comment by Xenon — September 2, 2008 @ 11:37 pm

Midnite Mac, I’m in the LA area too! Here’s hoping we get as much bugs out of the way.

I’m gonna take a bit of time to look up the volume issue. Last night I unmuted my sound while playing some MP3 and I got it to full blast. Once I turned it down, I was never able to get it that loud again. I think that problem is noted, so maybe someone will come up with a fix.

Comment by patrickK — September 2, 2008 @ 11:21 pm

Donated you a bag of beans on 23rd.

Enjoy the blend.

We love what you are doing for us all.

Comment by Mr Mitch — September 2, 2008 @ 11:15 pm

Thanks for all of your work. The network connectivity works even better than Xandros (requires taking out the battery on my 1000 eee).

Comment by Anonymous — September 2, 2008 @ 8:52 pm

Midnite Mac, wow, thanks a lot!

Comment by Jon Ramvi — September 2, 2008 @ 7:48 pm

Hey Jon,

QUOTE
Midnite Mac, as we’re a distribution with 60 000 users, splitting it into two is - not optimal. We should make some changes to the Appearance dialog so that you can choose between netbook remix and regular dekstop.
UNQUOTE

I am simply amazed by your replies along with the Strategy that you bring to the community :)

I think that the best thing that I have done this year so far as been finding this wonderful and successful Ubuntu-eee Project ;)

Always, keep up the good work Marie and keep the coffee coming …LoL! (Seriously, brilliant work Jon… need I say nothing less)

Many thanks!

Midnite Mac
midnitemac.com

Comment by Midnite Mac — September 2, 2008 @ 6:21 pm

I’m still very pleased with Ubuntu-Eee. Even with the bugs that will still be open come 8.04.1, it’s still light years ahead of the stock Xandros distro, or even a vanilla Ubuntu install. I find my Eee very usable now with 8.04.1.

I’m just glad we still have big things to look forward to in the future!

Comment by Malcolm Bastien — September 2, 2008 @ 3:15 pm

Jon - great stuff and very helpful. Thanks for the hard work. Here is some input from a fresh install on a eee 901:
o Wireless and wired networks come up fine. A number of Ubuntu updates are offered when you run Synaptic including a eepc package “upgrade”. If you accept the “new” package it breaks most of your fixes.
o Using the function key to turn off the LAN freezes the system. A small image pops up to say the Wireless LAN is off but the wireless is still on. I have not found a way to recover without a hard powerdown.
o I can verify the already reported bugs also occur on the 901.

Thanks - Doug

Comment by Doug — September 2, 2008 @ 2:18 pm

DiabboVerdde, great! Please report the bug (if it isn’t reported) and we’ll look into it.

Mr Mitch, please ship the coffee to http://donate.ubuntu-eee.com ;)

JRocket, that does help! I’ll just upgrade it in the RC and it’s fixed :)

Midnite Mac, as we’re a distribution with 60 000 users, splitting it into two is - not optimal. We should make some changes to the Appearance dialog so that you can choose between netbook remix and regular dekstop.

Comment by Jon Ramvi — September 2, 2008 @ 11:49 am

QUOTE
Maybe Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1 shouldn’t come with Netbook Remix?
UNQUOTE

I love NBR too… but unless the resume from hibernate is fixed it is a deal breaker. My advice: If you can fix the resume then include it; if you can’t, then DON’T FORCE IT - folks can always install it themselves later.

This should make a fully working GOLD easier, I would hope…!

Comment by Grant — September 2, 2008 @ 11:27 am

Jon,

Perhaps you can duplicate what eee-ubuntu is doing? They are offering a standard version without the Netbook Remix. And a Netbook Remix version as an alternate download option at: http://www.eeebuntu.org

This way everyone is happy :)

Comment by Midnite Mac — September 1, 2008 @ 11:19 pm

Hello Jon,
I am using the latest version of ume-launcher, 0.5ubuntu12 from ppa.launchpad.net, which has fixed the netbook interface issues after a suspend/resume cycle.

Hope this helps..

Comment by JRocket — September 1, 2008 @ 8:52 pm

Hey Jon,
this is pretty cool, I just installed an SDHC card with 8.04.1 to have a dualboot eee box. It was done in a couple of minutes and works fine so far. Only there was a problem with the update notifier when booting, system gave an erroro report.

good work!

Comment by c_malloc — September 1, 2008 @ 8:27 pm

Where should we send the coffee to ?

Comment by Mr Mitch — September 1, 2008 @ 7:30 pm

Jon:

Of course, as I want and need for this to go Gold today. (i.e., starting an Ubuntu Group here in Los Angeles) I FULLY respect your idea of an RC2 if needed. Keep up the wonderful work!

Comment by Midnite Mac — September 1, 2008 @ 6:37 pm

Regarding the netbook remix, I installed it on top of regular Hardy (i.e. not the Ubuntu-eee version) and it does resume from suspend with issue. I did use the kernel from http://array.org/ubuntu/setup901.html so maybe that helped.

Comment by jim — September 1, 2008 @ 5:30 pm

“Maybe Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1 shouldn’t come with Netbook Remix?”

I have tried NBR interface once, and I think it’s very interesting (albeit buggy). My opinion is that Ubuntu EEE users should be able to switch between both of them at will. Getting this done and eliminating the silly bugs from both NBR and Ubuntu Eee 8.04 are enough for me.

Comment by Breno Peck — September 1, 2008 @ 4:13 pm

I’ve noticed a new bug in 8.04.1 RC. I like to use ‘root’ sometimes, so the first thing i do when I install any ubuntu version is a “sudo passwd”, in order to give root a password, so I can use it sometimes. The command let me change the password, but it is not effectively changed! if you try to su to root user, it does not recognize the password you set. Not sure if passwd is working for the regular (non-root) user also. Can you please investigate this? I’m using a 701 with 4Gb

Comment by DiabboVerdde — September 1, 2008 @ 4:01 pm

I also like the Netbook Remix interface.

lukeen, Midnite Mac, I will try finalizing it today. However we will need a RC2 before gold. Don’t want shitty software to go live :)
Thanks for the info. Seems the netbook remix team is on top of things.

henrik, still complete reinstall. Yes it sucks, but the changes aren’t made into debs (which is necessary for upgrading). We will try to fix this with the 8.10 release.

D-Locked, I guess we’ll have to wait for the 8.10 release for mics to work than :)

Midnite Mac, hmm, unsure. Depends on my mood :)

Comment by Jon Ramvi — September 1, 2008 @ 11:38 am

Thanks for making the page I requested. As an Ubuntu eee user it makes me feel very well taken care of.

«Mic problems with 901 & 1000
8.04.1»

And the 900. My internal mic doesn’t work. It’s no biggie, ‘cos the headset mic works just fine, but it is those odd times when you’d like to answer a Skype-call, but haven’t attached the head set yet….

./nalle.

Comment by Nalle Berg — September 1, 2008 @ 8:20 am

Jon:

“It should be easy to choose between netbook remix mode and regular desktop mode
Yes it should. This will not hold the release of 8.04.1 back.”

No pressure… But, have you set a new release date for GOLD yet?

Thank you.

Midnite Mac
midnitemac.com

Comment by Midnite Mac — September 1, 2008 @ 6:19 am

I think the version looks great. It would really be a pity if the NBR was not included. Yesterday I suddenly remembered a problem I had the old 8.04. It is about the bluetooth function. When I use a bluetooth dongle with a bluetooth mouse I can´t wake the computer up with the mouse if I wait too long (~45min). Then I have to touch the pad to wake the computer and take out the dongle and reinsert it to get the bluetoothfunction again. I am sorry I have not filed a bug report but it will come.

Comment by alexandersson — September 1, 2008 @ 5:43 am

I think turning off the NBR is a great idea; it’s just no finished enough to be used (it’s still buggy and the like). If people want it, then can install it themselves or use the eeebuntu NBR edition or something.

Comment by Dannenberg — September 1, 2008 @ 4:18 am

Jon,

Will you be posting another - LIVE Update - during the course of UBUNTU EEE 8.04.1 RC to GOLD?

I would like to see more daily updates of your progress with weeding out the bugs to gold.

Thanks,
MidniteMac.com

Comment by Midnite Mac — September 1, 2008 @ 4:16 am

Been running Ubuntu eee 8.04 with NetBook Remix for weeks now and simply love it! Yeah took a little bit of tweaking to get it all working, but the experience is *SO* much better than WinXP (default OS on my 901).
Only issues I have a suspend & hibernate. Though the little beast actually boots faster the resumes from hibernate anyway…
So keep the NetBook Remix in. This is *THE* reason for using Ubuntu on the eeePC!

Comment by Shadow — September 1, 2008 @ 3:09 am

Appreciate all your hard work, Jon.
Just a couple of suggestions, though it seems you already have them listed in the “bugs”.
1. I was unable to update or install software from the normal ubuntu “add programs”
2. It sure would be nice if it were easy to turn netbook remix off and on. It’s nice to have doing recreational computing, but since I use my 1000 for work, it was much nicer once I removed remix, especially since I use an external monitor about 1/2 the time.
Again, thanks for the hard work!!

Comment by luke — September 1, 2008 @ 3:05 am

Waiting also for the Gold release :D

Comment by Xenon — August 31, 2008 @ 10:50 pm

I’m looking forward to the next release. I do a lot of recording and would love to see the mic fix fall into it, but otherwise hopefully it will be an update fix that will come along soon. Thanks for all your good work.

Comment by Topstan — August 31, 2008 @ 9:43 pm

Please! Please keep the netbook remix it transforms the little machine & makes it supremely easy to use. The only problem I’ve noticed after a couple of days is the suspend issue!

Comment by Mikonway — August 31, 2008 @ 8:34 pm

Thanks a lot for all your work: it is great. Waiting for the gold :luv:

Comment by ben75ben — August 31, 2008 @ 4:26 pm

The mic is probably not working for the same reason posted here : http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=39375&p=44

The suggested workaround is to move to alsa packages 1.0.17 or 1.0.18, rather than 1.0.16 in eeeUbuntu.

Comment by D-Locked — August 31, 2008 @ 1:31 pm

QUOTE
Maybe Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1 shouldn’t come with Netbook Remix?
UNQUOTE

I think this is one of the attractive elements of 8.04.1!
Please keep it in, if possible.

Waiting for the GOLD.
And: thanks for doing an excellent job

Comment by Hein Hoek — August 31, 2008 @ 8:22 am

eeePC installs Ubuntueee 8,04 , but the OS has several problems.
1 reports the battery in evil been.
2 He is extremely slow in the starting (3 minutes), this installed in a SDHC 8Gb.
3 Ajustar the size of the administrative windows is all an odyssey

Comment by Luis Quesada — August 31, 2008 @ 1:32 am

Sorry, also I would like to thank everyone who has every donated both money or talent to this great community.

And ‘Jon’ for adding the new plugins to his site. Which now allows me to simply add the following RSS:

feed://www.jonramvi.com/feed/

Now, I am free from hitting refresh on the home page screen and allowing it to update automatically :)

BTW, sorry you couldn’t sleep. But it looks as though it seemed to work out in my favor …LoL!

Wonderful job, keep up the great work!

Midnite Mac
midnitemac.com

Comment by Midnite Mac — August 30, 2008 @ 10:44 pm

I have to agree with Gary…

I too am a newbie to Linux & Ubuntu, who would’ve thought that my home page would be set to the following community page:

http://ubuntu-eee.com/index.php5?title=Main_Page

Now, let’s form a GOLD medal together with Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1 (Gold)

Comment by Midnite Mac — August 30, 2008 @ 10:31 pm

As a newbie to Linux & Ubuntu, I am constantly amazed by the commitment & enthusiasm shown by the community. The RC is awesome & I’m learning to enjoy the Remix interface. Great work Jon & thank-you.

Comment by Gary — August 30, 2008 @ 10:22 pm

the gold version is comming to be a update version or do we most reinstall ubuntu eee ?

Comment by henrik — August 30, 2008 @ 8:32 pm

Jon, you’re doing a great job! I’m having a blast on the RC. Thank you.

Comment by Peter — August 30, 2008 @ 8:09 pm

Will the final version be ready until Wednesday or Thursday?

And because of the clutter suspend bug, look here https://bugs.launchpad.net/netbook-remix-launcher/+bug/237761 and additionally install BenLau’s PPA https://launchpad.net/~benlau/+archive. I think that should fix that.

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