Rony, This post belongs on Wiki! That way those who come 'late' also benefit. :-)
TIA for taking trouble to repost it on ILUG-Bom Wiki. With regards, On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Rony <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Today Kubuntu 8.10 was installed on the LG X110 netbook. Unlike Acer > which has no recovery CD and uses a 20 GB hidden partition, LG's X110 > comes with driver CDs and there is only one partition of 160 GB that's > installed with Doze XP home. A Moserbayer DVD writer temporarily plugged > into an external USB IDE HDD adapter was used as the external USB CD drive. > > After booting flawlessly into the Live session of Kubuntu 8.10, > installation is pretty simple. When you come to the partitioning part, > it stops at the first option to partition the disk 50-50 for Doze and > Linux. Select your option and the rest of the installation is automatic. > If you choose 50-50 then the first time you boot into Dose post > installation, you will get a file system error and the scandisk option > will pop up. Do not bypass it. Let it happen and it will restart the > system after correcting the disk space entries. After that the system > boots into doze normally. > > After installation run 'sudo apt-get update' and install multimedia > support with 'sudo apt-get install kubuntu-restricted-extras'. It is > better to run this command in a terminal or gui terminal like konsole as > the Java license agreement choices cannot be navigated properly through > a GUI package manager like Adept, Synaptec etc. It will hang there. > > To add firefox3, simply use 'sudo apt-get install firefox'. Please note > that Firefox 3 is a gnome package and it will download a bulk of gnome > based support packages. For the webcam interface use 'sudo apt-get > install luvcview' Luvcview is a nice software but the gui needs a little > getting used to. Pictures clicked are good and in a raw format. You can > later convert them into your favorite format. It does video recording too. > > While the Realtek LAN is up automatically, the Realtek wireless drivers > need to be installed and that is done from this site > http://julienpecqueur.com/tutoriaux/install_driverwifi.html The site > is in French but the commands to be executed are in English so simply > copy/paste them into a terminal. Remember, the 'uname -r' is to be > replaced by the actual output of 'uname'r'. So do that first and make a > note of it. Download the tarball and untar it using 'tar xzvf > rtl8187se_linux_26.1023.0928.2008.tar.gz' then go ahead with the rest of > the instructions. Basically you download the builder packages and build > the drivers from the tarball. Then you save the modules into the > respective locations. > > Bluetooth is still a gray area and hopefully it will get resolved soon. > What is surprising is that peripherials like BT, Camera, Cardreader etc. > do not show up in lspci. I will see if the output can be posted to the > list. Maybe there is a patch in the Doze side to get these devices > detected. Anyway the system is now up and running with Kubuntu 8.10 with > LAN and Wireless support and Camera. > > -- > Regards, > > Rony. > > GNU/Linux ! > No Viruses > No Spyware > Only Freedom. > > -- > http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906 Blog-1: http://dineshah.wordpress.com/ Blog-2: http://dineshah.blogspot.com/ Samuel Goldwyn - "I read part of it all the way through." -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
