Re: [ubuntu-uk] Good News For Acer Aspire One 521 Users

2011-04-30 Thread Trevor Hyde
I downloaded the beta2 version a couple of days back to try on VirtualBox, but wasn't able to install Unity because of hardware deficiencies. (This appears to be a well known issue and someone's published a workaround on the Ubuntu forum.) I ran it as a live disc on the main desktop, but

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Good News For Acer Aspire One 521 Users

2011-04-30 Thread Barry Drake
On Sat, 2011-04-30 at 04:43 +0100, alan c wrote: I was testing a version of 11.04 recently and a non techie friend who I help with Ubuntu saw it in passing and exclaimed 'Oh! I like that! When can I have it?' I was, and still am, trying to get used to Unity and its superficial lack of a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Good News For Acer Aspire One 521 Users

2011-04-30 Thread scoundrel50a
On 30/04/11 07:20, Trevor Hyde wrote: I downloaded the beta2 version a couple of days back to try on VirtualBox, but wasn't able to install Unity because of hardware deficiencies. (This appears to be a well known issue and someone's published a workaround on the Ubuntu forum.) I ran it as a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Good News For Acer Aspire One 521 Users

2011-04-30 Thread Alan Pope
On 30 April 2011 07:20, Trevor Hyde trevorh...@gmail.com wrote: I downloaded the beta2 version a couple of days back to try on VirtualBox, but wasn't able to install Unity because of hardware deficiencies.  (This appears to be a well known issue and someone's published a workaround on the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Good News For Acer Aspire One 521 Users

2011-04-30 Thread Alan Pope
On 30 April 2011 10:02, scoundrel50a scoundrel...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I was wondering, I am having problems with installing Natty on my machine as well, can you show me the workaround on the Ubuntu forums? Would like to have a look. I suspect the workarounds won't help your issue as he was

[ubuntu-uk] Good News For Acer Aspire One 521 Users

2011-04-29 Thread Nigel Verity
Hi I bought an Acer Aspire One 521 a few months ago to use as a media player. Unfortunately, with each of the last 4 versions of Ubuntu installed, the headphone jack was completely dead. The same situation applied with numerous other Linux distros. The only one to show any improvement was

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Good News For Acer Aspire One 521 Users

2011-04-29 Thread alan c
On 29/04/11 22:43, Nigel Verity wrote: [...] Maybe 24 hours is not giving it a fair chance, but I can't stand the new user interface. It strikes me as unintuitive and a retrograde step in productivity. I've installed XFCE instead which is great. It would be interesting to get the views of other