meego 1.2 syslinux hang after boot

installed meego-netbook-ia32-chrome-1.2.0 on my very first AspireOne A110L
it randomly hangs when boot up, quite annoying that I need to power on and off several times to get pass by this...
the screen would show a SYSLINUX message then everything just frozen!

looks like some boot loader timing issue to me, the following change seems to do the trick:
/boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf
prompt 1

timeout 10

Ubuntu 10.10 on Acer AspireOne 522

quite a few issues with Ubuntu 10.10 on AOD522


Problem #1 - it keeps hanging after login:
disable the atl1c driver and update the initramfs image:
add in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf this line
blacklist atl1c
update-initramfs -u

Problem #2 - getting AMD video driver to work:

sh ati-driver-installer-11-6-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/maverick
apt-get install -y debhelper dh-modaliases libqtgui4 execstack
sh ati-driver-installer-11-6-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/lucid
aticonfig --initial
aticonfig --resolution=0,1280x720

Problem #3 - speaker doesn't turn off after headset plugged in:

apt-get install pavucontrol
/etc/modprobe.d/options.conf
options snd-hda-intel model=laptop,dell-vostro position_fix=0,1

If you don't like the new interface with mutter, you can get the old netbook-launcher back:
apt-get install netbook-launcher-efl

Ubuntu netbook SD card reader issue in Acer AspireOne

Recently I got a new netbook Acer AspireOne D255

Installed Ubuntu 10.10, unfortunately the new clutter windows manager - mutter was a big disappointment, it has an obvious performance issue when comparing without mutter even on a slower atom processor! this made me go back to 10.04.

The new model seem to be using a different brand of SD card reader which has no driver support from linux...
lsusb shows the following:

ENE Flash

UB6250

606569746801

After google around, several of suggested grub and modprobe config changes doesn't work at all, finally found the driver has just been recently added to the kernel from version 2.6.36, which 10.04 came with 2.6.32 obviously wouldn't work.

The new kernel isn't available in the standard repository, but to add it, just follow these simple steps:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kernel-ppa/ppa 

sudo apt-get update

apt-get install linux-image-2.6.37-8-generic

reboot with the new 2.6.37-8 kernel then you'll see the SD card!

Reference:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/633852

gnome NetworkManager disappeared under AspireOne Linpus

After an unclean shutdown of my new AspireOne, the gnome NetworkManager under linpus doesn’t show up, it was very fustrating that both wireless and wired network doesn’t work anymore. It turns out to be the connection profiles have been corrupted, to fix this just simply delete the connection profiles under the home directory:

rm -rf $HOME/.gconf/system/networking/connections