Comments on: Installing Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope on an Asus Eee PC

By: eeeuser

eeeuser — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:09:21 +0000

Hi again,

Thanks for you reply. I found out that CPU scaling is no longer supported (unless you have an Atom CPU). It was simply removed from the newer versions by the developers. It didn’t really save the power, but it helped keeping my eee 900 cool and quiet, and after the upgrade from 8.04 to 9.04 it became pretty warm and noisy. However, I managed to fix the problem by upgrading the BIOS. Latest BIOS versions fix some issues with the thermal policy settings.

By: Marcel

Marcel — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:55:24 +0000

You could take a look at the utilities mentioned a few comments before. I don’t use CPU frequency scaling on my Eee PC 701, because the power savings are not worth the trouble in my opinion.

By: eeeuser

eeeuser — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:36:16 +0000

Hi! Thanks for a great walk-through. Now I upgraded my Eee 900 from 8.04 to 9.04. It went almost without any problems. The only thing I am missing right now is the automatic cpu frequency scaling. Ubuntu 9.04 says that it is not supported, but it worked fine on 8.04. Any ideas on how to fix it? Thanks in advance.

By: Marcel

Marcel — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:38:04 +0000

Thanks Dave, I fixed it. Indeed some filter replaces two dashed by one.

By: dave

dave — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:07:34 +0000

Oops, it looks like some kind of filter on this page makes two dashes display as one. I was trying to say the command parameters need two dashes in front of them, but I see in my comment where I put two dashes it now displays as one on the website. I guess you probably typed it correctly the first time too.

By: dave

dave — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:04:21 +0000

Thanks for this walk-through. One thing, under tweaks, number one. Where it says -type and -set in the command, it has to be –type and –set. Or -t and -s.

By: Marcel

Marcel — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 05:31:12 +0000

You could try to install for example:

EeePC ACPI Utilities
eee-control
Eeeasy Scripts

By: Guilherme

Guilherme — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:47:59 +0000

and the wireless hot key?
how I can fix it?
can you help me?

By: toto

toto — Sun, 31 May 2009 12:59:48 +0000

I added those two useful ones:

Unconstrain windows to the top of the screen

# gconftool-2 –set /apps/compiz/plugins/move/allscreens/options/constrain_y –type bool 0

All applications can go full-screen using F11

# gconftool-2 –set /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/toggle_fullscreen –type string “F11″

By: toto

toto — Sun, 31 May 2009 02:48:19 +0000

thanks a bunch, all works fine for me.