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Ubuntu 9.10 Netbook Remix and MSI Wind U100

November 2nd, 2009 Guillaume Leave a comment Go to comments

Ubuntu 9.10 Netbook Remix

You’d better have to wait ! I’ve upgraded the netbook of my son this weekend and the result is not as good as it should…

Screen is flashing… USB peripherals are not working and the webcam is dead too…

Back to Jaunty 9.04 : it works fine…

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  1. Massimiliano
    January 17th, 2010 at 19:15 | #1
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    USB broken and webcam not working is the same bug. If you disabled webcam, USB worked.
    Now this is fixed and both work properly-
    As for the blinking screen, you can fix it yourself.
    Just do as following:

    rename /usr/bin/gnome-power-manager into /usr/bin/gnome-power-manager.save
    install guidance-power-manager (from kde)
    create a symlink:
    ln -s /usr/share/kde4/apps/guidance-power-manager/guidance-power-manager.py /usr/bin/gnome-power-manager

  2. Sylvain
    March 19th, 2010 at 15:25 | #2
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    Hello

    I’m a complete newbie with Linux/ubuntu. I tried to rename the gnome-power-manager after granting myself root privilge (I think: sudo su), but the option to rename the file is greyed out?
    This is my second attempt to run Ubuntu netbook remix on my MSI Wind U100, but that screen-flicker is really discouraging… Another few attempts, and I’ll load up Windows again.

    Many thanks in advance

    Sylvain

  3. Guillaume
    March 19th, 2010 at 17:38 | #3
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    You have to do this inside a “console/terminal” in command line…

    Open menu Accessories > Terminal
    Then type the following lines :

    sudo su -
mv /usr/bin/gnome-power-manager  /usr/bin/gnome-power-manager.sav
apt-get install guidance-power-manager

ln -s /usr/share/kde4/apps/guidance-power-manager/guidance-power-
manager.py  /usr/bin/gnome-power-manager

    The last instruction must be enter on a single line…

    If it doesn’t work… you should give it a try to the Ubuntu NetBookRemix 9.04 version… it’s working pretty well out of the box on my MSI Wind U100…

    By the way… this article on my blog is also available in french

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