Ubuntu on the Samsung NC10

Karmic Koala install/upgrade experience

Yorkie — Wed Nov 04, 2009 9:35 pm

Author: Yorkie

Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 9:35 pm

Anyone installed or upgraded to Karmic Kola on their Samsung NC10 yet?

read that there has been a few problems

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1305924

Would like to hear how folk have gone on if they have

No low battery warning in Hardy

Yorkie — Tue Aug 04, 2009 8:28 pm

Author: Yorkie

Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 8:28 pm

My battery monitoring appears to be working OK in Juanty.

Mac have you thought about upgrading to Jaunty? Runs fine on my NC10

Fans Always On (and lm-sensors VS acpi)

JBack_Admin — Tue Aug 04, 2009 9:55 am

Author: JBack_Admin

Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 9:55 am

I'm not sure if have noticed any increased fan noise...
I have noticed a decrease in battery life however!

Ubuntu Netbook Remix

Yorkie — Wed Jul 22, 2009 7:50 pm

Author: Yorkie

Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 7:50 pm

But what are the advantages JBack_Admin?

Does it solve the disk spin up/down problems?

A welcome to new users and experienced Ubuntu users

Yorkie — Wed Jun 17, 2009 5:01 pm

Author: Yorkie

Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 5:01 pm

Hello all, though I'd call by and introduce myself, I've been toying with various distros' for a while but could never sumon the courage to take the big step away from Microsoft.

Recently bought a Samsung NC10 netbook and didn't want to burden it with windows and anti virus software so dual booting with firstly Ubuntu 8.10 a bit of trouble with the wireless network, nothing that couldn't be fixed with the help of forums etc but the hot keys were an issue, i then upgraded to 9.04 most of the hot keys were fixed, volume and brightness so everything appears to be OK for me at the moment.

Linux takes a bit of work but no more than Microsoft, can't understand what took me so long to change now.

Wouldn't go back now.

Look forward to talking more with you all.

Keep spreading the word.

Saw the Ubuntu user magazine at the newsagents, hints and tips in there as well, worth a look.

wireless/hardware problem

nickrich — Wed May 20, 2009 4:11 pm

Author: nickrich

Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 4:11 pm

A rather belated thank you Jon for the info.

Disappointing to hear that the problem is still there in 9.04. It seemed to get a bit better on my system (8.10) over the last couple of months, but has now come back more frequently. Strange.

Anyone know if this a known bug? Should it be reported somewhere perhaps?

Firefox Running Slow

matski — Mon Mar 23, 2009 9:24 pm

Author: matski

Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 9:24 pm

well, I cannot replicate this problem when connected to other networks. I am no longer having the problem as I have ditched my bonded adsl setup and gone back to one line. Still odd that it was only affecting firefox running under Ubuntu on my nc10.

Ubuntu Netbook Remix and Debian Lenny on the Samsung NC10?

matski — Mon Mar 23, 2009 9:16 pm

Author: matski

Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 9:16 pm

I followed the eeebuntu project and was enjoying using it until they released the remix version and didn't get on with the fullscreen interface

Another wireless driver problem

cwat — Mon Mar 16, 2009 11:03 am

Author: cwat

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 11:03 am

Well, after going through many tutorials given here and many other places of connecting using the wireless card, I finally managed getting the stupid thing installed. Sorry, maybe I'm not used to working in the Terminal for so long, it's quite frustrating. /rant

Into the problem, after "successfully" installing the wireless card driver from linux-backports-modules-intrepid (wow, I actually remember the whole thing, probably because I retried it like a hundred times...), and rebooted, there's still no internet.

The only way to go to the Internet is to connect it via ethernet, which sucks obviously. What's Ubuntu for when there's no internet on the fly? So, while spending many hours and sweat troubleshooting, I opened up Hardware Drivers and tried Activating the Atheros driver. (Why would it be disabled in the first place anyway?)

After asking for permission, it goes back to the original screen with the Activate button still... active. To explain better, here's a screenshot. (great, and it's not letting me post external img)
img7.imageshack.us/img7/246/cantconnectpic.png
Note that "This driver was just disabled..." appeared only after pressing the Activate button.

Well, I pressed it again hoping it will work this time, but no. Pressed it again, no, and again, no, again, no... as many times as I press the button, the stupid "This driver was just disabled, but is still in use" comes up again and again and makes no sense to me.

If you think I am very annoyed, sorry but it's really frustrating. But any help from you guys would be extremely appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

[Solved for 8.10] Laptop Hard Drive Load_Cycle_Count problem

TeutonJon78 — Sat Feb 28, 2009 10:41 pm

Author: TeutonJon78

Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2009 10:41 pm

I think in the laptop mode config file you can specify the spin-up and spin-down parameters.

I haven't played around with that file though, so definitely don't quote me on that.

And perhaps I should note that the "solved" problem was how to control the clicking---which is via laptop-moded. The best/working parameters is not solved, and it seems like there are lots of opinions out there.

Windows not fitting on screen properly

nickrich — Wed Feb 25, 2009 5:55 pm

Author: nickrich

Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 5:55 pm

Brilliant. That's done the trick. Many thanks.

So this is just a "fact of life" with Ubuntu on a small screen netbook it seems?

Nick

New BIOS update version 03CA

JBack_Admin — Wed Feb 25, 2009 1:49 pm

Author: JBack_Admin

Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 1:49 pm

Has anybody tried 04CA?

trackpad sensitivy

mac — Thu Feb 19, 2009 6:32 pm

Author: mac

Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 6:32 pm

nickrich wrote:

...Much as I appreciate all your help here, I wonder if it's worth perusing this any further really. I'm actually quite happy with the way the touchpad is behaving. It's slightly niggling not to have got the Touchpad application going, but no big deal really. So please feel free to call it a day! Thanks for the help.

I think you're probably right, Nick. The Touchpad app offers very minimal control - much less than you've already got via xorg.conf - and, like you, if I've got something running satisfactorily, I'm happy with that.

Glad to have been able to join in with your work on this. Let's hope someone else with more knowledge can add the next bit.

Good Ubuntu Installation Tutorial

Vend3tta — Mon Feb 16, 2009 8:06 pm

Author: Vend3tta

Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 8:06 pm

That would be great to have.

I'm currently using a fresh install using his instructions and everything is working well so far aside from a few typo errors from the translate which I found out the hard way (the touchpad stopped working haha). But it seems very stable to me in the couple of days I've messed with it. I've been watching videos, listening to mp3's, using OpenOffice, and Firefox.

Would be a good idea for others to test as well though.

Hotkeys

Auraomega — Sat Feb 14, 2009 12:46 am

Author: Auraomega

Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2009 12:46 am

That definatly did it, at first I ran the script and it just disabled the wlan, but the LED was on, checking with iwconfig it didn't appear listed and turning it on and off again disabled the LED too. Estimated battery life also increased so I assume its completely powered down.

-Aura