[Nottingham] Acer Aspire One linux tweaks (including bluetooth)

[Jason Liquorish]

Martin wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> After a session of Googling...

[...]

> So why isn't it far far simpler?! OK, I'll be trying out the
> connectivity for Mandriva and Gentoo sometime...

I found things to be rather difficult on Linpus which just strengthened 
my decision to put a full featured distro on my Aspire One. Asus have 
done a great job making Linpus simple and easy to use for people new to 
Linux and if you just want to do basic things then it is pretty good for 
that. I found that dumbing down the interface and making it "simple" has 
made it harder if you want to start customising or tweaking. I know 
netbooks are meant for just surfing, IM and email etc. but I still want 
to be able to do other stuff.

> All good fun!
> 
> Cheers,
> Martin
> 

I don't know if this will be of much help to you but it is worth a shot. 
I have written up a guide on the Crunchbang wiki on getting the Acer 
Aspire one fully functional. The instructions should, and in my 
experiences do work for Ubuntu as well and I do not see why they would 
not work on other Debian based systems.

The page is at http://crunchbang.org/wiki/howto/aspireone/ and I would 
appreciate if you could let me know if the steps work for you.

Thanks for the work you put into this and I shall be sure to look at the 
links you mentioned later on.

-- 
Jason Liquorish - <jason at dropshock.com>