Posts by Miles Prower

Miles Prower · Help & Support (Stable)

From what I gathered, a journaling fs does not actually hurt SSDs that much. Deactivating the SWAP while keeping the original 512Mb RAM and having the system crawl for a halt because it tries to create a temp swap file seems to hurt a lot more, and that's what I currently have every other day (yeah, i'll look into that too). I don't expect my Eee to last for over 10 years anyway - I think I might even sell it soon to get a 901 instead. And an extra battery. Just for kicks.

As I told before, my #! install on the machine is brand new. I did spend some time optimizing it, so of course I'd be quite disappointed if I break it. But there's quite an easy way to backup the whole stuff, I think. And moreover, there is no critical data on the machine and there never will be. So why not give it a shot?

dd if=/dev/sda | gzip --fast > (path to device)/sda.img.gz

My aim is just to achieve a really fast boot on the system, and even if there are still other issues I need to tackle first, I think Ext4 could help a lot there. If it does not work properly for some reason, heck, I'll just wipe the drive clean and start again on a Ext3 partition. No big deal. It will only cost me some time.

Jake108 wrote:

But I don't think this would actually work the way you want it to.

What do you mean? No boot time improvement?

Miles Prower · Help & Support (Stable)

My Eee PC does not exactly contain critical data. What' I'd loose would only be installed programs and their configuration. I can deal with that. Plus, I do have backups wink

And if an Ext4 fs can bring the boot time down to 20 seconds as on the recent Jaunty test, I'd just be amazed. The boot seems to take ages compared to the Xandros system the Eee came with, but at least it now has the versatility of a full Linux distro… and a lot less bugs.

Miles Prower · Help & Support (Stable)

Thanks for the answer.

I managed to install OOo3 with those PPA without any hassle (haven't disabled the lines in my sources.list yet), but for some reason I can't get Impress 3D transitions to work, even if openoffice.org-ogltrans is correctly installed. No idea why. Anyhow, it's just a minor issue.

For some reason, OOo3's modified interface doesn't seem to fit quite well the Eee701 screen as OOo2.4 did, even with the interface scaled at 80%. You have to undock things to actually see the options you might need (an exemple would be Impress: it's quite hard to select a slide transition). But that will do it.

Miles Prower · Help & Support (Stable)

I removed eee-control (had issues with the wifi card) and installed the elmurato scripts instead. Seems to work nice. I'm still using the 512Mb RAM that came with the Eee.

Miles Prower · Help & Support (Stable)

Hi,

Even if Ext4 is still unstable, I'd like to make the transition to this filesystem in hope that the system boot time will be significantly improved.
Is it possible to convert an existing CrunchEee 8.10 installation from Ext3 to Ext4? CrunchEee uses a modified kernel optimized for the Eee PC, and I don't know if it already supports Ext4.

So far, my installation relies on 2 partitions: a 16Mo EFI (in order to enable Boot Booster in the BIOS) and /.

Thanks.

Miles Prower · Help & Support (Stable)

Hello,

I'd wish to install OpenOffice 3.0 on CrunchEee 8.10. I need the following applications :
- Writer
- Calc
- Impress with OpenGL transitions (package: openoffice-ogltrans)

I'm not willing to install other parts of the Office suite, as I won't need Base for instance on this machine, not Math or Draw.

What's the best way of achieving this? Ubuntu's repositories only contain OOo 2.4. I'm not sure if there is a PPA for OpenOffice 3 (there used to be one, at least), or if I should download and install the official DEB files instead. Moreover, I'm unsure if I need to install OOo or Go-oo in order to get the extras (3D transitions, …).

Thanks for the help

Miles Prower · Help & Support (Stable)

Hi,

I just noticed that when my battery is low and I want to plug in my Asus Eee 701 on AC Power, the system sometimes just freezes. I have to hard-reboot it by holding down the power button.

Is this a known bug? Is there a workaround?

Miles Prower · Help & Support (Stable)

It seems that Gnome-Power-Manager crashes without even reading /etc/acpi/powerbtn.sh
I tried to modify it with a dirty hack, to no avail.

When the power button is pressed, I got this error message in the logs :
“acpid: client has disconnected”

Pressing the button twice does not shutdown my Eee 701.

Miles Prower · Help & Support (Stable)

Hello,

I successfully installed and tweaked CrunchEee 8.10 on my Asus Eee 701. Works great overall!

I do have a minor annoyance with the system though: the Power button does not work as expected. In Gnome-Power-Preferences, I have specified that I would like the OS to ask me what to do when the button is pressed. But the reaction is quite different: pressing this very button just kills the battery icon in the system tray, and that's it.

How could I fix that?

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#1 Re: Help & Support (Stable) » Moving an existing installation to Ext4 » 2009-02-24 15:03:02

#2 Re: Help & Support (Stable) » Moving an existing installation to Ext4 » 2009-02-23 18:44:25

#3 Re: Help & Support (Stable) » Installing OpenOffice.org 3 » 2009-02-23 11:54:07

#4 Re: Help & Support (Stable) » Plugging in the Eee 701 makes the OS unstable » 2009-02-22 23:49:11

#5 Help & Support (Stable) » Moving an existing installation to Ext4 » 2009-02-22 22:18:33

#6 Help & Support (Stable) » Installing OpenOffice.org 3 » 2009-02-22 22:14:29

#7 Help & Support (Stable) » Plugging in the Eee 701 makes the OS unstable » 2009-02-22 22:08:59

#8 Re: Help & Support (Stable) » power button pressed » 2009-02-21 20:34:08

#9 Help & Support (Stable) » CrunchEee 8.10, ASUS Eee 701 : Power button problem » 2009-02-21 00:15:42

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