Comments on: Reinstalling Ubuntu or other Linux on the webbook

By: aitch

aitch — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:40:33 +0000

ok, fixed it now

By: aitch

aitch — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 09:36:29 +0000

>> I may do another article when Jaunty is released.

would appreciate if you would, Alan. My screen is not detected properly, it’s using something that makes it run off the side and nothing I do changes it. I saw your post about it on wiki but don’t understand enough to fix it! any help available, please?

By: Shaun Wright

Shaun Wright — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:20:27 +0000

Hi Alan,

I’ve received a USB wrist vault for my Elonex Webbook, I need to recover it as some how it became corrupted. Elonex failed to send instructions on how to do the recovery and despite lots of phone calls to their support desk, nothing received.

Any ideas how I can perform the recovery, I’m no computer geek so appreciate any clear instructions on how to do this.

Thanks

Shaun

By: admin

admin — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:38:01 +0000

I may do another article when Jaunty is released.

By: Xyem

Xyem — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:39:35 +0000

I recently purchased one of these for my girlfriend but it came with Windows on it. Installing Ubuntu Intrepid has shown up a few problems:
Can’t boot from USB stick ( might be my fault, worked around by writing to HDD )
Intrepid minimal install showed at incorrect resolution so some was chopped off the bottom ( not too much of an issue as I know that installer by heart )

But the real downer is when I tried to start X. I can’t get the display to work with the OpenChrome drivers at all, even after modifying xorg.conf. I got it to work by forcing the ‘vesa’ driver and adding the “1024×600″ modeline but this will be un-accelerated.

Any chance of a re-upload of the xorg.conf so I can see if I am missing something?

By: Cristian

Cristian — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 20:20:37 +0000

I have tryed and failed the installation of ubunto on my webbook, what I wounder is there someone that has a fresh installation that can make a ghost img and sent it to me?

By: Richard McIntosh

Richard McIntosh — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:49:45 +0000

I had to add this into the xorg.conf to get it to work with jaunty jackalope

Section “Device”
Identifier “Configured Video Device”
Driver “vesa”
EndSection

Section “Monitor”
Identifier “Configured Monitor”
EndSection

Section “Screen”
Identifier “Default Screen”
Monitor “Configured Monitor”
Device “Configured Video Device”
Subsection “Display”
Depth 24
Virtual 1024 600
EndSubsection
EndSection

By: derek j bird

derek j bird — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 11:45:46 +0000

Hi,

Am desperately trying to do a clean install. I have used the instructions here before… and they are perfect. Unfortunately, the links etc no longer work – could they be fixed please or could someone e-mail me what I need. (abbeyman@verygreen.co.uk).

Thanks

By: Peter Ferguson

Peter Ferguson — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:27:20 +0000

How do I logon to the webbook in Linux, when the previous users have been deleted, but refuse to go! How do I put in a user and password? HELP! Peter

By: Alan Bell

Alan Bell — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:44:00 +0000

Hi Gray, I will have to start seeding that download again, or perhaps restart the tracker. In suse there is a root user with a password rather than using sudo. Try typing “su” then hit return, it will ask for your password and then give you a prompt ending with # which signifies you are the superuser. Then you can type “nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf” and hopefully that will work.