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

[Jason Liquorish]

Jason Liquorish wrote:
> 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.
> 

Woops, should not have rushed that reply while I was on my break. The 
page is at http://crunchbanglinux.org/wiki/howto/aspireone/ not the 
previous link. Also I did mean Acer, not Asus *blushes* I will be sure 
to check my emails better next time before hitting send.

Thanks

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Jason Liquorish - <jason at dropshock.com>