Comments on: Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1 release – live – Day 2

By: Johnny Canuck

Johnny Canuck — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:42:54 +0000

63renaud said “I put a link to you on my site. If that’s a problem, let me know.” (Not a direct translation, but just the essence of what he said.)

By: Jon Ramvi

Jon Ramvi — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:33:42 +0000

Thanks for all you comments! Not many blogs have so involved readers – thanks a lot!
If you need support for Ubuntu Eee, please ask you question over here: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu-eee

David, thank you! The Wii is kind of dusting away – I’m disappointad about the games that have been released for it..

63renaud, please comment in English and I’ll be able to understand you ;)

By: David

David — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:55:31 +0000

Uauh!! Thank you for your effort to make a hassle-free version of Ubuntu for our Eee! I will donate some bucks…

Postdata:
Jon, I can see from the image with Maria (nice girl) that you like playing with a wii, like me.

By: 63renaud

63renaud — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:36:03 +0000

Bonjour

J’ai mis un lien sur mon site.

Si vous ne le voulez pas merci de me le dire.

cordialement

By: veli izzet

veli izzet — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 06:00:53 +0000

Jon,

Using 701 with XP,

In order to convert
I have two questions:
1- How do I enable 800×600 mode?
2- I want Turkish Language support, how do I gt it?

By: Leon

Leon — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:34:33 +0000

Jon,

You did a magnificent job with the gold version. Works right out of the box on my sdhc card on the eee 900. The only problem until now is the playing of mp3 files with rythmbox. Downloading gstreamer plugin does not work.Any suggestions? Keep up the good work!

Leon

By: Joey

Joey — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:56:18 +0000

Then I learned how to read a wiki. Change the repository location.

By: Joey

Joey — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:43:16 +0000

I downloaded the newest release and I cannot not get gstreamer plugins for mp3 support to install no matter what I try. I have two issues: The first is an error about mismatched hashes and the other is that another package is conflicting with the install of the plugins. I tried it in synaptic and aptitude. Any help???

By: Dwaindibbley

Dwaindibbley — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:16:02 +0000

8.04.1 works on my 901 except when the laptop goes to sleep the wifi fails on wake up. On my 701 the Wifi doesn’t work. Looks pretty good though, I may need to do something else to get the wifi working. Will persist

By: Paulo

Paulo — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:57:01 +0000

Ubuntu 8.04.1 works fine on eeepc 901?

By: Jon Ramvi

Jon Ramvi — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:27:12 +0000

Kip Ingram, it’s to have ubuntu-eee install skype

By: Jon Ramvi

Jon Ramvi — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:25:58 +0000

Slick Deven Gallo 9000+, Slick Denis Deven, Deven Denis, main man Deven Gallo, the installer does ask you for where to install the bootloader. Click advanced in the last step :)

By: Jon Ramvi

Jon Ramvi — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:55:09 +0000

Katzenstreu, yeah, it sucked..
Comment 200!

By: Katzenstreu

Katzenstreu — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:22:08 +0000

It get’s smaller and smaller, these box. And when I clicked on “Submit Comment” the button gets called “Stant by …” the whole time.

By: Katzenstreu

Katzenstreu — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:20:07 +0000

Yes, not nice to read. Grey on white.
You are using piratebay for your torrent, right? I think that this tracker is overloaded. Which tracker I should choose to offer my own things over bittorrent?

By: Katzenstreu

Katzenstreu — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:16:26 +0000

I wanted to seed more. Most of the time I am only sending round about 30 KB/s.But my connection could offer much more (250 KB/s).

So I tried to seed with Azureus. I can’t. I don’t see any peers. So I am using again Transmission.

All who can’t download this file:
TRY TO DOWNLOAD WITH TRANSMISSION

By: Jon Ramvi

Jon Ramvi — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:05:40 +0000

Great! It sucks

By: Jon Ramvi

Jon Ramvi — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:00:00 +0000

I don’t understand the question, but I’m testing the reply function

By: Robin Smith

Robin Smith — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:40:48 +0000

After tinkering with the original 8.04 release, I wasn’t really impressed so I reverted back to Xandros. Just a few hours ago, I gave your RC a try – I love it. The netbook interface really makes it. Keep up the great work !

Regards,

Robin

By: Katzenstreu

Katzenstreu — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:09:30 +0000

Wants anyone to explay which better torrenttracker you should choose for opensource?
Try the new “reply-function” under my comment.

Tim

By: Nalle Berg

Nalle Berg — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:06:58 +0000

What I’d like to see here is a page named something like:
«The road from Ubuntu-eee 8.04.1 RC to GOLD”.

Just to be updated when the bugs and peculiarities gets fixed.

I really love the RC and could have lived with it on my eee 900 – except for one bug. The builtin mic doesn’t work at all, and even with headset, the sound recorder won’t record anything.

Anyhow, I guess i will know when my sound system gets updated through the update manager, but still – it would be nice with a page that told us the progress…

It would even be nice to know when I can suspend the machine and still be able to log in afterwards.

The Netbook Remix is fine – I just love it. That’s the reason why I will install ubuntu-eee on my kids eees when it goes gold.

./nalle.

By: Travis Snoozy

Travis Snoozy — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:05:55 +0000

Modprobe throws up an “xts: Unknown symbol gf128mul_x_ble” in the system logs when I try to load the xts cypher mode module. A fix would be appreciated (so I can install on a crypted root partition).

Oh, and including cryptsetup by default would be nice-to-have, too… or partman-crypto (built-in installation support) for that matter. :)

Thanks!

By: Per

Per — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:29:41 +0000

Kip: That would likely be due to different battery monitor applications. I get differing remaining time on the same laptop if I use different battery indicator apps, its normal, but unfortunately your battery and battery life will still remain the same..

By: Kip Ingram

Kip Ingram — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:18:39 +0000

Hi I have a new data point. While running Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1 I was seeing something like four hours or a bit over (a *bit*) on my 1000.

Now I’m running stock Ubuntu 8.04.1 plus Adam’s kernel, and I’m seeing like five hours and ten or fifteen minutes.

That’s with WiFi running in both cases.

By: JF Messier

JF Messier — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:35:38 +0000

I now have an ISO file available from my web site. the URL is:
http://www.umpc-users.com/ubuntu-eee-804.iso
(all on one line, of course). There is a link on the article as well. Whenever I can get my hands on the latest file, I will post it too.

By: JF Messier

JF Messier — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:28:35 +0000

Is there a way I can get the latest ISO file from HTTP or FTP ? I cannot use BitTorrent where I am now and I am trying to get the latest file to post on my own web site as a mirror. For now, the only file I can get is ubuntu-eee-804.iso. Thanks :-)

By: Kip Ingram

Kip Ingram — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:56:02 +0000

I gave up on this RC as well. The inability to wake up from sleep without authentication problems is a show stopper; it forces you to go through a logout/login process to get the system usable again. I do snips of work throughout the day so this is an unacceptable situation for me. I will try again when the real deal comes out, though.

There are things about NBR I dno’t like. As far as I can tell you can only have full screen windows. Sometimes I like to manage my window sizes.

I’d previously tried other eee specific builds (eeebuntu, etc.) This time I installed plain vanilla Ubuntu 8.04.1 and then upgraded to Adam’s kernel (used my Sprint PCS broadband modem for the pre-upgrade net access). As far as I can tell *everything* works except the microphone.

I’ve already installed all of my electronics and software design packages (gEDA, PCB, Eclipse), so I’m “mobile and dangerous” again.

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Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:18:42 +0000

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By: Jackson

Jackson — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:05:34 +0000

I gave up on this RC… too many bugs. I switched to vanilla Ubuntu 8.04.1, installed adamm’s kernel, and almost everything works perfectly. Only problem is the microphone, which I can not get working.

If anyone here has a functional mic on a 901/1000, post here.

By: Slick Deven Gallo 9000+, Slick Denis Deven, Deven Denis, main man Deven Gallo

Slick Deven Gallo 9000+, Slick Denis Deven, Deven Denis, main man Deven Gallo — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:39:00 +0000

I installed Ubuntu Eee 8.04 on a 4GB SD card, and I’ve been using it on my Eee for about a day. I’ll list some thoughts and opinions.

The installer really ought to ask you where you want to put the bootloader. It installed grub onto the main SSD of the Eee and I had to work out how to fix it so that it had the original Asus bootloader.
I wanted to put Ubuntu’s bootloader on the SD card.

The installer also tried to create a swap space, and as we know, that will not do on a solid state system.

But apart from these problems, it works quite well. It does seem to boot slowly, but once you’ve disabled unnecessary services and uninstalled useless packages (extra drivers for Xorg, language packs for gnome which won’t be used) it doesn’t use too much disk space and works fast enough to use.

Ubuntu Eee could use some improvements, but as it is now… it is already good. Certainly, I prefer it to the Asus standard Xandros.

By: Mdnite Mac

Mdnite Mac — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:35:31 +0000

TonySB,

The boot time for me is just a ‘hair’ longer than the original Ubuntu-eee seed. That’s booting from a SanDisk (4GB) SDHC.

By: TonySB

TonySB — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:03:09 +0000

Just a note to saying luving this and keep up the good work – looking forward to a deb but as I’ve just got my UbuntuEEE configured with Mac4Lin (with AWN so its a bit of a EEEMacLite) just right I don’t want to blitz it just yet. Will be trying the ISO to SDHC Card route – be interesting to see what the boot time is with 8.04.1 RC

By: Kip Ingram

Kip Ingram — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:00:47 +0000

Shortly after resolving the repository issue discussed earlier I installed Ekiga and made sure it worked. I then wanted to uninstall Skype. When I tried to do so, though, it told me that it was also going to uninstall ubuntu-eee. That didn’t seem like a very happy thing, so I didn’t proceed.

What’s up with that dependency?

By: Todd

Todd — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:29:55 +0000

Hey all, I am back, just wondering if anyone has created an app for being able to switch between netbook remix and standard desktop?

Or if anyone can tell me what I need tto do to get the standard optionn as a desktop.

By: Katzenstreu

Katzenstreu — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:32:58 +0000

I’am still seeding, but because there seems to be some problems with the torrent I’ve uploaded this file too. I hope my hoster (fair-use-prinzip) don’t kick me :).

http://tim.feddern.org/temp/ubuntu-eee-8.04.1-RC.iso

By: Kip Ingram

Kip Ingram — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:57:55 +0000

Ok; got it installed. It’s beautiful; great job, Jon. I can’t get the microphone to work, though, and (worse), locking the screen (or supsending, or doing anything that locks the screen) breaks something; when you come back the interface doesn’t work. You can’t click oon anything in the main part of the screen; you ccan only click on the panel at the top. If you log out and back in it’s resolved, but that’s quite a pain.

I also ran into the repository problems I believe I see mentioned in other comments, but I got those resolved by switching from US servers to “main” servers.

I’m really impressed overall; the interface is really snappy and even though the microphone and screen lock issues are pretty severe I’m sure they’ll be resolved soon. Superb work.

By: Midnite Mac

Midnite Mac — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:11:52 +0000

Here we go!

Ok, so I installed Ubuntu-eee 8.04.1 onto a(n) 4GB [SDHC] for testing on my 701 with the next few builds until GOLD is released after forgetting that I could do so… Told you I was a newbie. Anyways, after installation I wasn’t able to have much access other than ‘wired networking’, no WiFi, no Sound, no updates… etc.

Therefore, I remembered that I had ran the Auto-Configure script for 8.04:

wget http://eee.ricey.co.uk/files/eee/RiceeeyTweak.sh
chmod +x RiceeeyTweak.sh
sudo ./RiceeeyTweak.sh

Afterwards, I did receive sound. Wifi still cuts off after a few seconds, and still cannot run updates – even though the script added the eeepc repositories. I don’t think that I have enough access as ‘sudo’ to do so successfully.

Lastly, I have fallen in love with the new Netbook Remix interface! But, do feel that I would get tired of it without having an option to disable as I like having space to work on the desktop and having my own wallpaper and such.

Anyways, tonight I have announced that I am ready for testing…… Meaning that, if you have a tutorial with instructions outlining “how to” and “what to test” I don’t mind assisting with this fine community of making Ubuntu-eee 8.04.1 stronger.

Lastly, as you can tell by my sentences I am getting tired and will be going to bed soon.

Until tomorrow, keep on testing!

Midnite Mac
midnitemac.com

By: pko

pko — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:08:31 +0000

Ugh, time to make a new thread. :)

Jon, can you take a few notes of the questions people have added in launchpad? Especially the repository not being set (adding an entry in /etc/apt/sources.list), and deleting cdrom line from fstab (since most users don’t have cdrom). It also hinders SD card from mounting. Thanks!

By: Midnite Mac

Midnite Mac — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:52:21 +0000

Hey Kip,

Check out the thread below. It’s also being hosted from a server of Andrews’.

Also, thanks for the info. Hopefully, Jon will catch it and be able to resolve the issue.

Midnite Mac

By: Kip Ingram

Kip Ingram — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:35:57 +0000

Arghhhh… the torrent isn’t working. :-(

By: auriq

auriq — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:34:58 +0000

Hey Jon,

Thanks for the reply with regard to wifi/lan on the 1000h; keep up the good work, I’m definitely looking forward to your new build.

By: ksmith

ksmith — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:12:13 +0000

Love the Ubuntu…
works good and installed on SD 8gbhc card.. for dual boot.. but not getting any sound out yet… doing updates right now tho.. any ideas…eeepc 900 Just trying it out…

thanks

By: Finn-Henning

Finn-Henning — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:55:10 +0000

Hi,

Waiting for the proper release of Ubuntu EEE. I can not risk installing it on my EEE900 since i need to be sure that it works properly when i am in class.

What i wonder is that is it possible to get and use most programs that is usable for normal Ubuntu?

Kind regard
Finn-Henning
Norway

By: Midnite Mac

Midnite Mac — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:43:30 +0000

Mark,

Thanks for the reply.

I am going to hold off for the moment. I did try the LiveCD and thought is was promising :) but away from an install at the moment for me :( Perhaps until, the next release or so.

I am a noob too (But, only when it comes to Linux) this Eee 701 is and has been a wonderful debut of my Linux career. I fell in love with it at my first Linux Expo – here in Los Angeles, CA.

With that said, I look forward to getting very personal with Ubuntu 8.04(.1) – at least as a heavy ‘Super User’ I will leave the ‘coding’ up to Jon who is doing a tremendous job :)

Thank you,
midnitemac.com

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:28:48 +0000

Midnite Mac,

I’ve been running the RC from this page on my 701 and it’s a mixed bag. What I can say is that wifi and sound work out of the box.
I’ve not had the change to test the webcam and mic as skype is acting weird and won’t start.

As a linux noob I’m still learning a lot and maybe you’re a much more experienced user, but my advice would be not to install the RC. As it is your main computer it should work without any problems.

P.S. another Dutch man here.

By: Midnite Mac

Midnite Mac — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:27:27 +0000

Marcel,

Not a problem, I fully understand!

I’ll wait for René to respond to your message on how it works on the eee 701? Mic, webcam, sound, wifi etc?

If in fact, René used this actual RC seed from this page and not from Ubuntu.com itself. I will install and test myself. The only reason why I am hesitant in doing so now… Is cause my laptop that I am using to keep track with on this site is this Eee 701 that I write to you with. In addition, it is my primary and only machine for home use.

Thanks for your patience. But as soon as I can get some good feedback from anyone using Ubuntu-eee 8.04.1 RC seed on the 701. I don’t mind fully testing it thoroughly for everyone here.

Midnite Mac

By: Pat

Pat — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:17:49 +0000

I have tried other versions of Ubuntu on my other computers with no trouble.
I always just installed as a windows program so that I could easily delete ubuntu if I didn’t want to install permanently.
When I did the same with this version on my 1000H, it installed with no trouble.
When I tried to remove the program, however, the program would not remove.
I had to restore the system to get rid of the installation.
I don’t think I will try that again.
Too much trouble updating the bios and trackpad driver and then reinstalling all of my programs.
I think I will wait for a more stable version.

By: Marcel

Marcel — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:14:26 +0000

Hey Rene,

I am also from the netherlands? How does it work on your eee 701? Mic, webcam, sound, wifi etc?

He midnite,

I am a noob with linux so I am thinking I am not the best tester for you guys……

Greets,

Marcel

By: René Veldhuizen

René Veldhuizen — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:10:15 +0000

Hello,

I am an enthusiastic user off Ubuntu eee. That’s why I visit this page frequently.
Just one problem; Your website is the only one I have encountered so far that doesn’t ‘fit’ on my eee pc screen!!?? How can I fix this??

Info:
eeepc 701 white
ubuntu 8.04.1
netherlands

By: Midnite Mac

Midnite Mac — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:29:31 +0000

Hey Marcel,

Would you mind testing it for us and seeing?

Thanks in advance!

By: Marcel

Marcel — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:01:02 +0000

Hey big ubuntu man:P So everything is working for the 701?

Greets,

Marcel

ps. I love the netbook remix:-)

By: Jon Ramvi

Jon Ramvi — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:50:11 +0000

Woah! 160 comment!

Marie is happy about the comments for her :)

Midnite Mac and anyone else asking about the gold release: There are some bugs. We’re not going to even them all out, as than you would never get a gold release. But I will have to review them and set a new release date. Probably in a weeks time.
Maybe I’ll have a live session ;)

Anyone who have commented with a bug: thanks!! Please submit it over at launchpad: http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-eee

And thanks for seeding the iso!

Charles, for questions about Ubuntu Eee, go here: http://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu-eee/
Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1 takes less space than a regular Ubuntu installation and comes with Skype, Flash 10, Thunderbird and Netbook Remix – please take a look at http://www.jonramvi.com/2008/08/what-to-expect-of-ubuntu-eee-8041/
:)

Charles, no, enabling the repos is recommended

auriq, should be out of the box, but I’ve only got an Eee 701.

Todd, I hope someone will contribute an application that lets you choose between regular desktop and netbook remix.

Tom, follow this how-to: http://www.array.org/ubuntu/setup.html

Jean-Francois Messier, thanks for contributing with your bandwidth! I don’t know how to set up a mirror however..

gUI, thanks for bandwidth :)

Patrick, no, sorry. Try a fresh install.

Jackson, Flash 10 RC. Should be better than Flash 9 – isn’t it?

And if I didn’t answer your question – sorry! There’s a lot of comments. Please post your comment again

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:07:18 +0000

Deco:

I can’t really blame him. After-all, she was helping us feed him coffee to get us this far with the RC.

Great Job Marie… Service with a smile :)

By: Deco

Deco — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:49:39 +0000

i think Jon took the advice to spend more time with Marie :) so chill and enjoy the late summer, get some fresh air, say something nice to complete strangers on the street or just take a very long nap :p

By: Charles

Charles — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:11:37 +0000

Hello
I’m running Ubuntu-eee 8.04 with adamm’s kernel. I’m not sure where to go with some questions, if this is not the right spot.
What additional functionality will Ubuntu-eee 8.04.1 enable over my current arrangement?
Also, I noticed the default repositories weren’t enabled – would enabling those cause problems?
Thanks

By: auriq

auriq — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:56:51 +0000

any word on out-of-the-box working wifi and/or lan on the 1000h?

By: Midnite Mac

Midnite Mac — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:47:26 +0000

Hey Jon,

Any idea when this may go GOLD? I haven’t seen many updates recently… Other than, bugs being reported :(

When will we receive another LIVE feed for releasing the next seed?

By: Todd

Todd — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:43:14 +0000

O, so ethernet works in this RC, but how do I disable the netbook theme?

I want to use compiz and disable netbook remix.

Anyway, thanks in advance for any advice.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:40:56 +0000

More: I get the same error when you resume from suspend. I enter my password (correctly) and it says that I have entered an incorrect password. I also can’t mount an SD card because it says that I have to be superuser to do that, and it keeps adding more 8gb links in the home menu for each different SD card I put in. I also get crash reports at bootup about inability to update some hal package and another one.
The bootup seems slow, but maybe I just have a crap 2gb surf computer, lol. Will try other stuff later. Thanks for the hard work!

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:31:12 +0000

Okay, so installed on my 2GB Surf with ext2 and no swap, and it boots up now. However, there is no top panel with clock, task switching, wireless, battery status, show main menu, etc. like I get with the LiveCD(usb key) version. I couldn’t find a panel editing function in the settings anywhere, so I rebooted. The panel magically appears on the second reboot.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:20:55 +0000

how can you (first download the original ubuntu 8.04.1 image from http://www.ubuntu.com, install it on your eee, and then) install adams kernel from http://www.array.org/ubuntu ?

By: Jean-Francois Messier

Jean-Francois Messier — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:09:07 +0000

Can I mirror the ISO file on my site ? Since there seem to be users with problems downloading the file, and I have lots of bandwidth with my provider, I would not mind hosting the file, at least for a while.

As I run with GoDaddy as my provider, how can I setup scripts to mirror and update the ISO file when there is a new version ?

By: Todd

Todd — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:48:27 +0000

Hey guys, I can’t find anywhere, but does ethernet on the 1000H work with the latest RC?

I couldn’t get it to take on the 8.04 RC.

Let me know, I am not in a rush as the iso is still downloading, but would like to know before I install Ubuntu for the third time in 13 hours! ;)

Great work though, it looked and loaded really beautifully (RC1) but the ethernet issue messed me around too much.

Thanks for all the hard work.

By: gUI

gUI — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:35:30 +0000

I had troubles to download via bittorrent, so I used the mirror provided by Andrew (thanx a lot !!!) : http://awalsh.co.uk/ubuntu-eee/ubuntu-eee-8.04.1-RC.iso

By: Xenon

Xenon — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 07:31:47 +0000

quentin: to test the 8.04.1 RC1, download is the torrent of last Jon post at 22:53

By: Katzenstreu

Katzenstreu — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 07:06:23 +0000

I like the remix-desktop with big buttons. I’ll install a touch panel for 62$ to have a new gimmick :).

By: quentin

quentin — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 06:55:47 +0000

It seems to be nice…
I’m Ubuntu addict since 5.x…
I’m ready to try your Ubuntu EEE on a EeePC 900mhz.
Could you inform me how to download it ;-)
Thanks for all linuxman,
Q.

By: Xenon

Xenon — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:04:40 +0000

Just seen a new bug that it will be reported: Synaptic and Ubuntu App Installer (add/remove apps) detects the kernel and the computer as being i386, so we are unable to install near anything. Now I’m going to bed.

By: rivetingweb

rivetingweb — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:30:28 +0000

RC will fit on a standard 2G Surf. Choose manual rather than guided installation, ext2, and no swap

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:49:38 +0000

Okay, downloaded 8.04.1 and installed into a single partition onto my Asus 2gb surf. Rebooted, and removed usb key when prompted. At boot, all it displays is “GRUB Loading stage1.5.” and then “GRUB loading. please wait…” and finally “Error 21″. Any ideas on how to fix that? No command line, just stuck.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:13:13 +0000

Is install possible on the 2GB eee? My first install attempt, it said I didn’t have enough room, even though I partitioned 1900 MB for the / mount.

By: D-Locked

D-Locked — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:38:04 +0000

Hmm, how about toggling between remix & not-remix interfaces when pressing the “Home Button” (SuperL).

By: Xenon

Xenon — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:28:38 +0000

Actually, I also like the Remix interface, although I think a “complete desktop” option should be available. But well, I think everything is going to be allright :D

By: Xavier

Xavier — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:12:00 +0000

for those of you who are now stuck needing an O/S for your eee, the best solution is to download the original ubuntu 8.04.1 image from http://www.ubuntu.com, install it on your eee, and then install adams kernel from http://www.array.org/ubuntu which will give you a perfectly working ubuntu desktop

By: Jackson

Jackson — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:27:18 +0000

Are you using gnash on this, or something? Flash is so slow it’s unusable.

By: rivetingweb

rivetingweb — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:10:47 +0000

I rather like the remix interface on my 7″ 2g surf. Must get the suspend bugs fixed before this goes gold, however.

By: steve

steve — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:31:09 +0000

I’ve already got a manually hacked ubuntu running on my eee 1000 with the regular desktop, but after running ubuntu-eee in live mode, I think I’ll run the netbook remix interface from now on. A quick way to switch between the two would be good though.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:14:52 +0000

I just downloaded and installed ubuntu-eee 8.04.1.

I agree with several other people here that the netbook remix interface is not that helpful. I much prefer the default interface.

Even, though the Microphone now shows up as a recording option, I haven’t been able record and playback my voice in Sound Recorder using the Front Mic.

Great project. Thanks for all your work.

By: Bryce

Bryce — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:44:12 +0000

I love the full desktop functionality of 8.04. Please allow an easy disable for Notebook Remix. I want to customize my 901 as much as possible and don’t want the remix to interfere. Looks good though. Can’t wait.

By: Hart

Hart — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:22:50 +0000

i personally love the netbook remix but i can understand how some off the 1000 series users would prefer the classic interface. i think an easy option for switching between would be great, maybe in the next release after this goes gold? for now i’m perfectly happy with the remix.

By: Midnite Mac

Midnite Mac — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:58:03 +0000

Hey Jon,

As your report card unfolds here with the bug reports. How soon do you think you will be-able to go GOLD?

Although I tried the LiveCD version without installing it. I noticed that, the boot time was doubled. I had an initial crash at startup (same as https://bugs.launchpad.net/netbook-remix-launcher/+bug/237761)

Therefore, I will have to stick with Ubuntu-Eee 8.04 (First Edition) for now.

With that said, I will have to grade Marie a higher score as she dedicated her time and sacrifice without your attention as you attempted to place GOLD on this project.

Marie: Keep up the great work and keep the coffee fresh! And we all will soon receive the GOLD.ISO medal.

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:47:58 +0000

I just downloaded the torrent at 2.1 MiB/s. that’s an awesome community. thanks for all your work Jon and the rest of the crew

By: BenJanoff

BenJanoff — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:13:03 +0000

Is picture 2 the actual screen while booting? If it is, BRILLIANT!

Don’t know if you’ve sorted it out or not, but there is a bug in clutter/netbook-remix where after suspend the cursor tracks incorrectly. A workaround you might want to put in so there is one bug less is here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/netbook-remix-launcher/+bug/237761

By: Peter McGinn

Peter McGinn — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:23:25 +0000

Hi,

This build looks promising, however have to agree with other people that Netbook Remix is not ideal. On the 1000 you have a lot more real estate to play with. Would be great if you could choose between the two desktops.

Thanks for the hardwork!!

By: Dado

Dado — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:06:27 +0000

Hey there, I’ve tried live on a usb stick and it works great (701 4g, Italy). For the sound bug, try setting Pulse audio as default, the hotkeys worked for me, only within skype could not adjust volume.
The desktop turns black if scrolling with the sidebar, but using the trackpad as a scroller works great and with no black desktop behind the menu.
-Wifi perfect (WPA), enough strenght
-Webcam obviously has to be enabled from within the BIOS, works on skype

Just 1 question: After installation, do I need to correct something in fstab (noatime, the cdrom thing for mounting SD…)?

P.S. Sorry for my English, I’m from Italy and i’m something like a noob to linux…

By: Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:02:41 +0000

Have to agree with Jens and Xavier here… The remix interface is a little buggy and do not serve its purpose… There should at least be an easy way to disable it (maybe there is :p)

By: Xavier

Xavier — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:32:27 +0000

hmmmm, it seems to me maybe the netbook remix interface is still too buggy to be released in a distribution. seems to be a lot of errors associated with netbook remix. maybe you should try building the release without netbook remix and then once you’ve got that working fine maybe release a second NR release later on.

By: Jens

Jens — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:29:40 +0000

Why use netbook remix?
The large target areas may be good on touch screens, but what functionality does it serve on the eee?

Will the gconf key
/apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop be se to false if netbook is used? I think it makes sense.

My experience of maximus is that it seems breaks more stuff than it fixes. For example, you can’t easily use drag and drop to copy files, because only one window is visible at a time. Dnd via the panel button is not really discoverable.

-1 for netbook remix.

Great job!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:08:54 +0000

Here is the MD5 checksum for the ISO I downloaded form the torrent. It appears to be working too.

f5ce1516e2b05425eb3fd96e8630b7fe ubuntu-eee-8.04.1-RC.iso

By: Xenon

Xenon — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:02:05 +0000

Nick, I am seeding the piratebay torrent and people is downloading it from me…

By: Edward

Edward — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:58:15 +0000

Can anyone post a MD5 checksum of a good image?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:53:13 +0000

I have put the ISO on one of my servers, feel free to use the link below if you are not getting good speeds or having problems with the torrent.

http://awalsh.co.uk/ubuntu-eee/ubuntu-eee-8.04.1-RC.iso

Hopefully Jon does not mind

By: nick

nick — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:48:31 +0000

Keep getting timeout errors with the torrent on piratebay tracker file when trying to download. Is the RC going to be put onto sourceforge soon??

Thanks

Nick

By: Xenon

Xenon — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:39:54 +0000

Now testing and reporting bugs and questions :D

By: VIking

VIking — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:24:38 +0000

I think you should spend some more time with Marie instead of wasting your time on a shitty computer like the eee.

By: Bret

Bret — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:17:59 +0000

Just wanted to say good work, and thanks. Keep it up!…and your girlfriend is cute ;)

By: Will

Will — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:36:50 +0000

Jon

Any chance of a quick blog post with a quick explanation of how we can work around the bugs posted so far for those of us who have already installed RC1?

And thank you Marie for keeping Jon in coffee! :)

By: ilh

ilh — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:19:52 +0000

Installed the RC and it’s all working nicely apart from all the bugs already posted here.

Noticed the sound quality and volume seems to be a hell of a lot better than in XP. Even myspace streams sound quite good now. Weird bug though if I go to http://www.myspace.com/rawbau then scroll down, as soon as the vatreno ludilo video on the right (just under the band members section) comes into view FF just closes. It’s definitely that as if I go to the end of the page and then scroll up it does the same when I get to it. Guessing it’s FF related rather than this RC, any ideas?

By: Xenon

Xenon — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:11:00 +0000

Also seeding the ISO. Just now I will try the RC1.

By: Marcel

Marcel — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:50:19 +0000

Hey I am seeding ubuntu eee right now for the testers. But I am waiting for the install when eee goes gold.

That’s because I am a newby.

Greets,

Marcel

By: Jon Ramvi

Jon Ramvi — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:20:49 +0000

Thanks for testing the release candidate!

Bugs goes here: http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-eee

Questions goes here: http://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu-eee

Comments goes right here on the blog :)

A forum means someone will have to make copies of the treads and turn them into bug reports.

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:14:20 +0000

I agree, this comment section should not be used for this. Lets move this for a forum for RC && make an announcement

By: Katzenstreu

Katzenstreu — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:08:56 +0000

Can we discuss in a forum about this RC? Is in ubuntu-eee.com a forum?

By: Katzenstreu

Katzenstreu — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:07:22 +0000

It’s me again :).
I activated WLAN in the BIOS. Now its always on, I think. But it works now.

Offtopic: Can somebody help and say how to delete the password of the BIOS? I decided to create one (fore testing) and now I can’t edit the BIOS anymore. I know my password, but if I enterd it after pressing [F2] the EEEPC starts as usual.

By: James

James — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:03:29 +0000

Is there a way to disable the netbook remix style desktop to get a normal ubuntu desktop?

By: Katzenstreu

Katzenstreu — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:46:55 +0000

The RC is running ;). Thanks. There are two bugs.

1: If I start WLAN ([Fn]+[F2] the blue led begins to shine for a few seconds. Then the led turn of and the system freezes. No restart of the XServer possible.

2: Hibernation don’t work. I always come back immediately to the unlockscreen.

3: Can’t unlock on the unlockscreen. I tried to enter my password in German letters, then I tried it with the English keyboardlayout. And I deactivate the numlock. Nothing works. But I can login if I click on “change user”.

The first problem is the most important

Which modifications are installed? The following or similare ones?
# How to optimize boot speed
# How to get the most of the battery
# How to: Reduce Disk Writes to Prolong the Life of your Flash Drive
# Fix: hibernate

Thanks!
Tim :)

By: Jon Ramvi

Jon Ramvi — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:14:11 +0000

Jackson, thanks for the heads up. Fixed it :)

I’ll write a bug summary from the comments soon.

By: pko

pko — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:56:31 +0000

For the poster below regarding mic, it works in Skype for 901. However, the webcam does not. :( Will have to see how to enable it.

By: rivetingweb

rivetingweb — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:36:50 +0000

Once I got the repositories working, my experience is pretty positive. The install completely fills a 2G Surf, but replacing open office with Abiword saved me 300mb.

Volume fn keys produce the volume widget, but do not affect actual speaker volume.

And after waking from suspend my password seems to be invalid.

By: pko

pko — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:33:54 +0000

Okay, problem with repository is partly fixed. Go into synaptic with root privilege and manually change the repository (Setting –> Repository) Under the selectbox “Download from”, select “other…”, then choose a repository you like. You should be able to reload all the packages. Close synaptic.

Now open rhythmbox with root privilege. Open a terminal, sudo bash (enter passwd), and type rhythmbox. Open an mp3 or wma file, and now you should be able to download the gstreamer packages. You can also load them from synaptic by searching for them.

The link for adam’s third party packages still causes a bug (http://www.array.org/ubuntu/dists/hardy/Release) Is the link bad, or is Adam’s packages setting wrong?

By: pko

pko — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:10:23 +0000

There are also other problems with using extended desktop with the netbook front. All hell breaks loose and sometimes the front-end can’t find the proper place to show the window. The netbook front looks like it’s made for single screen only. I’ll have to look through the netbook setup to see if there’s a way to disable it when you run dual monitor.

Otherwise, this RC looks fine on my 901. The apt-get bugs and the media stream bugs looks related, since they both stall because apt-get can’t get to the needed repository. Great job on this RC!

By: james

james — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:17:03 +0000

Yes seems like a rush job, im on the boat with Dr. Drache until this is done proper and tested

By: Dr_Drache

Dr_Drache — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:09:30 +0000

I went back to eeebuntu, I may have to install the scripts, and the kernel, but less problems than this RC.

By: Jackson

Jackson — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 03:15:17 +0000

I found an… interesting bug. One of the category tabs on the left just disappeared. clicking where it used to be does not fix it or allow you to access that category (sound & video, in this case). Don’t know what caused it, but it never happened to me when I was trying netbook-remix on my desktop.

Screenshot: http://www.filedropper.com/missing-tab

Probably upstream, but I’ve never seen it before on a normal install, so it might be related to issues with this spin.

By: henrik

henrik — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 03:14:18 +0000

in etc/apt/sourse.list.d/”first file” first line write “#” before the text. when it is comming to work,
the link is invalide or something.

so everybody knows…

By: Dr_Drache

Dr_Drache — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 02:37:38 +0000

well, I think the “update” is the apt-get problem, describe your problem.

By: Jackson

Jackson — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 02:37:28 +0000

A few more things. I’ll post them as bugs once there is a bug tracker for ubuntu-eee 8.04.1 RC.

Middle click is disabled, for some reason (normally clicking both buttons at once does a middle click)

Lack of repo functionality confirmed. Get ‘Hash Sum Mismatch’ when reloading package list.

Another thing, windows media streams don’t work, possibly because the codecs were not installed? I assumed they would be, because the wiki says it doesn’t care about the freedom of ubuntu-eee.

Can anyone else confirm the microphone not working?

This should be an alpha, not a release candidate.

By: henrik

henrik — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 02:33:41 +0000

do some one have apt-get problem ?

By: dr_drache

dr_drache — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 02:27:12 +0000

forgot to say, eeepc 1000H (some of us need a spinner :P)

By: Dr_Drache

Dr_Drache — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 02:25:18 +0000

Same issues as posted below, ZERO repositorys work (for me), causes Hash Sum Mismatches
boot is almost 30% slower to “using” than eeebuntu standard (last distro i had on there) permissions are wrong on insertion of USB pendrives (must be superuser to mount), and does compiz work (should it?) in this UI? selected theme doesn’t mesh well with the home screen, looks like home screen was “tacked” on, an afterthought.

By: james

james — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 02:18:11 +0000

jackson, thats for the report, make sure to file that in the bug report when its up

By: Jackson

Jackson — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 02:14:36 +0000

There doesn’t seem to be a section on the ubuntu-eee launchpad for 8.04.1 RC bug reports, so I’ll just leave it in the comments for now:

I’m using the EEE pc 1000, linux version.

3 error messages on starting from a live USB thumbdrive (after using Unetbootin to get the OS onto my fat32 thumbdrive):

2x ‘Sorry, the package “update-notifier 0.70.9″ failed to install or upgrade’
1x ‘Sorry, the package “hal 0.5.11~rc2-1ubuntu8.2″ failed to install or upgrade’

Everything except the microphone seems to work. I tried the mic in Sound Record and Skype.

Another bug: Suspend does WEIRD STUFF. After suspending, I can’t unlock my session, it says ‘incorrect password,’ but the password is correct. You have to select ‘switch user’ and re-log in in order for the correct password to work. After getting back in to your session, nothing works. The tabs on the netbook UI jump around a bit, then nothing works but the mouse movement. Pressing the power button brings up the regular gui prompt to shutdown/restart/suspend, etc, so that still works. Suspend is broken…

By: henrik

henrik — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 02:08:11 +0000

the apt-get upgrade is not working.
“W: Failed to fetch http://www.array.org/ubuntu/dists/hardy/Release Unable to find expected entry eeepc/binary-i386/Packages in Meta-index file (malformed Release file?)

W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy-security/main/source/Sources.bz2 Hash Sum mismatch

W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy-security/restricted/source/Sources.bz2 Hash Sum mismatch

W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy-security/universe/binary-i386/Packages.bz2 Hash Sum mismatch

W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy-security/universe/source/Sources.bz2 Hash Sum mismatch

W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy-security/multiverse/binary-i386/Packages.bz2 Hash Sum mismatch

W: Failed to fetch http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy/main/binary-i386/Packages.bz2 Hash Sum mismatch

W: Failed to fetch http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy/restricted/binary-i386/Packages.bz2 Hash Sum mismatch

W: Failed to fetch http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy/main/source/Sources.bz2 Hash Sum mismatch

W: Failed to fetch http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy/restricted/source/Sources.bz2 Hash Sum mismatch

W: Failed to fetch http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy/universe/binary-i386/Packages.bz2 Hash Sum mismatch

W: Failed to fetch http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy/universe/source/Sources.bz2 Hash Sum mismatch

W: Failed to fetch http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy/multiverse/binary-i386/Packages.bz2 Hash Sum mismatch

W: Failed to fetch http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy/multiverse/source/Sources.bz2 Hash Sum mismatch

W: Failed to fetch http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy-updates/main/binary-i386/Packages.bz2 Hash Sum mismatch

W: Failed to fetch http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy-updates/restricted/binary-i386/Packages.bz2 Hash Sum mismatch

W: Failed to fetch http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy-updates/main/source/Sources.bz2 Hash Sum mismatch

W: Failed to fetch http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy-updates/restricted/source/Sources.bz2 Hash Sum mismatch

W: Failed to fetch http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy-updates/universe/binary-i386/Packages.bz2 Hash Sum mismatch

W: Failed to fetch http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy-updates/universe/source/Sources.bz2 Hash Sum mismatch

W: Failed to fetch http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy-updates/multiverse/binary-i386/Packages.bz2 Hash Sum mismatch

W: Failed to fetch http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy-updates/multiverse/source/Sources.bz2 Hash Sum mismatch

E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
” do some one know how to fix ?

By: James

James — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:49:22 +0000

Looks like 100% is completed by most people, i will post link here when its finished downloading

By: James

James — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:47:07 +0000

oh it works, now :) getting it at about 150KB/s

Wonder what % it gets stuck.

By: capawi

capawi — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:47:06 +0000

installed on my 701 using an sd card. boot time seems very slow (after install). getting lots of graphical gliches with the nbr menu and im getting errors in synaptic when trying to use the hardy repo’s

but i looks very pretty lol :)

By: Midnite Mac

Midnite Mac — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:45:10 +0000

Hey James,

I would love to host it too… I just can’t seem to find a good link to retrieve it from?

By: james

james — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:42:14 +0000

The torrent doesnt make connections

Anyone have an alternate link, i’d be glad to host it for everyone if i could get the file

Anyone know when the GOLD is due? and if the RC updates to GOLD

By: Midnite Mac

Midnite Mac — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:42:13 +0000

Hey Tom,

Me too… Keep getting: “No connection can be made because the target machine actively refused it.” I wasn’t sure if it was me or not? Since I only have this here Eee PC 701 as my primary machine.

At this point, I am relying on someone to come through for me as it’s only 18:39 here PST (USA)

Someone, pls keep me posted: info@midnitemac.com –Thanks!

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:23:40 +0000

I’ve been trying to download the torrent for the last hour but it doesn’t work!

Keep getting:

“No connection can be made because the target machine actively refused it.”

By: Midnite Mac

Midnite Mac — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:22:32 +0000

Jackson, Pls. let me know if you can get it seeded for transfer…

As my primary PC is a 701 model and at this time I can’t get my BitTorrent client to connect :(

Thanks, Jackson!

By: Jackson

Jackson — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:16:18 +0000

Great, it’s installing right now.

Just thought you should know that anyone can post comments under your name, Jon. Should probably fix that…

By: Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:15:10 +0000

Just installed on my 901.. Everything seems fine!
Great work!

Will try more tomorrow!
gnite :)

By: Jon Ramvi

Jon Ramvi — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:04:01 +0000

Where is the bug tracker for 8.04.1?

By: Jackson

Jackson — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:51:06 +0000

I’ll seed once I’m done. Is it worth while to upload it to a web-storage service? I think the download limit per-file would be too low to be of any real use…

Anyways, once Jon wakes up, he can try uploading it to sourceforge again, and from there, downloading should be much faster.

By: ZeroZorro

ZeroZorro — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:50:26 +0000

O.K.: Torrent is in! Will be seeding the rest of the night..installing tomorrow! Good luck ya all!

By: Midnite Mac

Midnite Mac — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:41:12 +0000

Jackson,

Will you be able to share it once you have it downloaded? –Thanks!

@henrik “going to bed” is also commonly used here in the ‘Free World, USA’

By: Warwick

Warwick — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:40:32 +0000

Can some one put up a torrent or Rapidshare link. I can’t get a tracker from the link on this page.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:38:47 +0000

the last percantages….taking sooo long….greetz from Holland!

By: Jackson

Jackson — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:22:39 +0000

90% downloaded. Can’t wait to try it on my eee pc.

@henrik “going to bed” is also commonly used in Canada.

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:20:05 +0000

Awesome work! Can’t wait to get this onto my Eee 1000 :)

By: capawi

capawi — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:15:18 +0000

thanks for all your work jon
81.76% downloaded so far :)

@henrik “going to bed” is a common phrase (at least it is in england).

By: Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:12:00 +0000

henrik, “going to bed” is a pretty normal term in English…

By: henrikgoing t

henrikgoing t — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:03:59 +0000

“going to bed” is that that they call it in norway ;)

l am going to bed to ;)

By: Midnite Mac

Midnite Mac — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:38:22 +0000

Will anyone have it for seed within the next few hours?

By: Xenon

Xenon — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 22:47:45 +0000

Also, when the translations we have done will be applied to ubuntu-eee?

By: Xenon

Xenon — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 22:22:53 +0000

I also will leave my computer open to see if I can get the full iso and seed it.

By: tom.higgy

tom.higgy — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 22:12:07 +0000

I’ve just turned off my upload bandwidth limit. More interested in helping seed than actually getting the torrent as my 901 has still not arrived, 2 weeks after order.

Should be good.

By: Will

Will — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:51:27 +0000

Quick update on the torrent situation… the most anyone has at the moment is 19.3%, so we’re here for a while. I’ll be leaving my PC on overnight, so as soon as I have the full file, I’ll be seeding it as fast as I can.

By: Will

Will — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:39:50 +0000

Everyone who queried the Torrent speeds:

Jon is the guy with 100% of the file. If your speed drops off, that means that you’ve got all that you can from everyone else and you’re now relying on Jon’s flakey net connection. This will be less of a problem as more and more people download as you’ll have more people distributing more of the file.

By: henrik hjelm

henrik hjelm — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:37:14 +0000

were do we donate $ to your them

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:34:17 +0000

Considering Jon’s upload rate, I’ll take a wild guess and say the file will be pretty well distributed by 1 hour from now…

By: Shura

Shura — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:34:10 +0000

For everyone using Torrents: Just know that if you download at high speed, and then it drops, that means you are at the part that either

1. Didn’t get seeded yet
2. Everyone is trying to get at once.

Just keep seeding, you’ll download it eventually

By: Luke

Luke — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:31:24 +0000

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:26:49 +0000

I will either give direct links to it on my server or put it on like rapidshare or whatever.

By: Edward

Edward — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:24:00 +0000

Would anyone consider uploading the RC to something like megaupload, so those of us on university networks can DL it, when they’ve done grabbing it from the torrent?
If Jon doesn’t mind, of course… :)

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:22:32 +0000

Im uploading at 1200kbps but I only have 5%….. trying my best. There is only 1 person that I can see who has 100%

By: jezza

jezza — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:19:27 +0000

Will someone please seed. I was downloading at 452kbs and now it’s dropped to 2kbs!!! What happened?

By: henrik

henrik — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:17:39 +0000

nice that u did a torrent, l am uploading 80-200 kb/s :) and downloading in 50 :)

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:09:48 +0000

Great work. Trying to get my servers to grab a copy, when its finished ill seed it on 2 x 100mbit servers. At this rate 4 hours until I have a full copy….

By: Jezza

Jezza — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:08:49 +0000

Thanks again for all your hard work. I’ll DL and seed. Can’t wait to install and test.

By: Will

Will — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:07:52 +0000

Jackson, I added a couple of the other TPB trackers to my list and it seems to have worked. I’m getting a decent download rate now.

By: Hart

Hart — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:07:42 +0000

ya i’m not getting anything either, i’d love to help out the seeding effort, man i got all excited for nothing :P

By: rivetingweb

rivetingweb — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:07:18 +0000

no luck with the tracker for me yet either.

By: Jackson

Jackson — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:02:58 +0000

Looks great, but the tracker isn’t responding. I can’t download it, so therefore I can’t seed it…

By: Edward

Edward — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:59:47 +0000

My university network unfortunately blocks bittorrent access. Is there anywhere I can download the RC? I’m anxious to test it!

By: Will

Will — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:57:12 +0000

Thanks Jon, will download and seed.

Thanks for your hard work.

By: Marcel

Marcel — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:47:20 +0000

Jon thanks for the good work!!! I am looking forward to the gold release.

Greetz,

Marcel
the Netherlands.

By: Will

Will — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:46:15 +0000

Jon, does that mean that the upload has restarted?

By: Midnite Mac

Midnite Mac — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:21:49 +0000

How long will you allow for folks to report bugs on the RC prior to releasing a(n) Gold release?

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:21:41 +0000

I guess if you extrapolate the upload rate, it should be available for download in one hour from now?

By: Xenon

Xenon — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:18:29 +0000

Will the translations be added to the Launcher?

By: Will

Will — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:15:32 +0000

Anyone want to join this Skype chat to discuss the release?

http://www.skype.com/go/joinpublicchat?skypename=willrobinson84&topic=Ubuntu%20EEE%208.04.1%20Chat&blob=9_7re2L_L8YoUXvr_Y6dV3LQYpzgoCHDyKadyTrhPjV2OofMZ_yXZu56sZ1-gQ5d0rXO2deHl90

By: Shura

Shura — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:07:25 +0000

You could probably just mimic the livecd user to be like root, it might eliminate the problem. Just a though..

I am ready for the eee 901 to work!

By: Justin Shimp

Justin Shimp — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:01:43 +0000

I am so excited!!!!

By: Whizzz

Whizzz — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:49:36 +0000

I can’t wait installing Ubuntu 8.04.1 on my EEE 900.

By: Xenon

Xenon — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:42:07 +0000

Just finished the Basque translation :D. Hope I’ll see it soon on my EEE ^^.

By: steve

steve — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:40:29 +0000

I’ll grab the RC as soon as it’s available and try it on my 1000. I was thinking I should try out networking, audio, mic, camera, hotkeys and processor scaling. Anything else?

By: ilh

ilh — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:32:23 +0000

Hi there, been following along intently and have to say great work.

As is was originally for the celeron based eees and you say you’re now supporting the Atom based eees, how well does it work with them compared to the celeron based eees?

Cheers.

By: Will

Will — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:31:15 +0000

By the way, as soon as this is uploaded, I’ll download and install straight away. Where should we throw any bug reports to?

By: Will

Will — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:28:58 +0000

Jon, fair enough. I’ll hang back on the seeding until tomorrow.

You should rename the file as soon as you are able to include RC1 just in case anyone does decide to make a torrent of it and people download it thinking that it’s the gold release.

Just a thought! :)

By: Jon Ramvi

Jon Ramvi — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:24:09 +0000

A torrent isn’t really need as this is just a release candidate. If it goes gold tomorrow, we’re really going to need your seeding!

By: RagTimE

RagTimE — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:23:29 +0000

Hello very nice cant wait for the complete upload

Please look at http://wiki.eeeuser.com/getting_ubuntu_8.04_to_work_perfectly
under
Enabling processor scaling – Manual control of the processor scaling using speed applet

i think this is the best way to do it

I think it should be add by default in Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1 Final

Thank you for your good work

By: Will

Will — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:21:19 +0000

Jon, how do you want to do this? Do you want me to set up the torrent once I’ve downloaded it and pass a link to you? I can seed 24/7 for as long as necessary.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:15:07 +0000

Wouldn’t a torrent work better than the slow sourceforge servers?

By: rivetingweb

rivetingweb — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:02:29 +0000

woohoo! ready to seed…

By: Midnite Mac

Midnite Mac — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:01:58 +0000

Wow, even at 1kb… Nothing seems to stop you from having a productive day :)

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:01:06 +0000

Nice! put it out there, and I will help seed :)

I’m gonna have to blow the dust of my eee :)

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:58:09 +0000

You’re doing great, Jon. Don’t let your gf get in the way :p

I’ve got my fingers crossed for this rls, because i use the 901, and need to get rid of Xandros NOW! :p

By: Katzenstreu

Katzenstreu — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:35:56 +0000

Hello Jon! Great project!
Where and when I can help translate into German?

By: James

James — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:57:56 +0000

Other possibility from searching web is that the problem is with pam. There are some suggestions though that incorrect /etc/pam.d/common-session causes problems with networkmanager.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NetworkManager#Issues

(that page looks a little out of date though, not sure if you want to copy the settings it gives exactly).

By: Midnite Mac

Midnite Mac — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:51:28 +0000

Status report?? It’s been an hour in the making.

By: Jon Ramvi

Jon Ramvi — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:50:12 +0000

James, thanks!

By: James

James — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:29:42 +0000

network manager problem sounds like a problem with dbus permissions.

On my suse system these are set up by the files in /etc/dbus-1/ – probably something similar in ubuntu but I can’t check.

I *think*, and i’m not an expert on dbus, the file /etc/dbus-1/system.conf sets up the base configuration for the “system” bus, and (on suse) there’s another file /etc/dbus-1/system.d/NetworkManager.conf, which sets up permissions for the nm tool itself.

Now, how you fix this, I’m not exactly sure, maybe this thread I found is useful:

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dbus/2007-January/006877.html

Not sure though

By: Will

Will — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:06:47 +0000

Hey Jon

Just logged on and I’m glad to see that you’re hard at work at 8.04.1 again.

Hope the permissions problem is fixed soon and that the rest is plain sailing.

Will

By: Fred B

Fred B — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:02:20 +0000

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=421881&page=4

By: pko

pko — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:53:44 +0000

Googled your error, found two forum websites talking about the same thing changing tmp directory with a sudo command.

http://mihirknows.blogspot.com/2008/06/mkdtemp-private-socket-dir-permission.html

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=288053

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:48:48 +0000

Don’t give up :)

By: Fred B

Fred B — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:47:48 +0000

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=288053

By: Alex B

Alex B — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:02:13 +0000

What specifically is the problem? We might be able to help!

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 14:51:05 +0000

USB Key is formatted, ready, and waiting to test! :)

By: Edepopede

Edepopede — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 14:46:00 +0000

I’m very curious to see this release. I tried several distributions on my 701, an none of them cinvinced me.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 14:44:38 +0000

I’ll test on my 2GB Surf and report back any problems. Looking forward to testing and thanks Jon (and others) for the hard work!

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 14:37:45 +0000

Well.. The permission problem sucks a little bit, but lets hope it’s only affecting the live user. Great that you’re releasing it anyways, since the majority of users will do a direct install…

By: Jon Ramvi

Jon Ramvi — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:37:13 +0000

John, nope, we don’t have an official irc channel :/

By: Edward

Edward — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:15:55 +0000

Thanks for all the hard work. Keep it up, Jon! We’re all waiting to see the result :)

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By: John

John — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:03:11 +0000

Great to see your up at it again! come to irc.freenode.net #eeepc to discuss

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:01:44 +0000

So close!

Steve at eeebuntu said his <2GB version will be ready ‘early next week’. Here’s hoping you beat him!

By: henrik

henrik — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:54:03 +0000

good to know that u are alive.
do ubuntu eee have a irc channal ?

so we ( the fans ) can chat and stuff like that.

// sweden

By: ongofongo

ongofongo — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:29:25 +0000

Go Jon and thanks for your great work!
I use your customized OS since June and find it the best I used on the eee so far. Really looking forward to this relee .-)

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