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By: callum

callum — Wed, 19 May 2010 08:20:26 +0000

I have just tried this on my agora running Ubuntu 10.04 netbook as the touchpad wasn’t working, and now it does. Good work Tom.
thanks

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:51:55 +0000

Very prompt response from Jesse @ Kogan this morning. He suggested that the quote marks were perhaps not quote marks around “quiet splash i8042.nomux” and when I retyped the quotation marks instead of the cut and pasted ones I had previously…sucess!

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 01:45:26 +0000

I’m getting the same message as Andrew when trying to update the grub

/etc/default/grub: 9: splash: not found

Don’t really want have to reinstall netbook remix. Is there another way around this problem anyone?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:57:37 +0000

fixed, my original image on my usb key must have been dodgy as i tried reinstalling from it 3 times with the same result. I then made a new usb image and all works fine

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:56:55 +0000

the instructions worked perfectly for me when i first installed 9.10 in ealy November.

i had an unrelated issue and decided to reinstall 9.10 and now i get an erro when trying to update grub

/etc/default/grub: 9: splash: not found

any tips??

By: Abd Allah Diab

Abd Allah Diab — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:44:52 +0000

I have tested it but it doesn’t work for me, I’m using Ubuntu 9.10.
I edited the /etc/default/grub:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”quiet splash i8042.nomux”

I updated the GRUB and restarted.
But it doesn’t work, still synclient gives me:

Can’t access shared memory area. SHMConfig disabled?

By: Late night coder

Late night coder — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 05:06:07 +0000

Another tip that you should write up an article for – I don’t use WiFi, and I didn’t see a way to disable wireless by default in the Agora BIOS, or in Ubuntu 9.04 (if I disabled it in Ubuntu’s NetworkManager, it was automatically enabled after every reboot). I didn’t want to remove the card in case I wanted cafe Internet access … so with a little googling I crafted my own auto-soft-off feature;

1) In a terminal/shell, create the Wifi Disabler script;
a) Start a terminal;
Click -> Accessories -> Terminal

b) As root, edit (Create) /usr/local/bin/diswifi.sh;
sudo gedit /usr/local/bin/diswifi.sh

c) Add the following, then save and text;
#!/bin/bash
dbus-send –system –type=method_call \
–dest=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager \
/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Set \
string:org.freedesktop.NetworkManager string:WirelessEnabled \
variant:boolean:false

2) Make the script executable;
sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/diswifi.sh

3) Add the script to the system start-up;
Click -> Preferences -> Startup Applications -> Add;
Name: Wifi Disabler
Command: /usr/local/bin/diswifi.sh

This configuration will leave the Agora with Wifi administratively
disabled by the OS on each start up. After boot it can be enabled
and disabled via the NetworkManager in Ubuntu as you would
normally expect/do.

By: Late night coder

Late night coder — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 03:01:54 +0000

Thanks for the tips on your site – I used them to get myself running on Ubuntu 9.04 when I picked up my Agora about a month ago.

FYI on 3D acceleration – enabling DRI in X seems to provide the 3D hardware acceleration layer needed for OpenGL. You should prolly run an article on that. My current X config (/etc/X11/xorg.conf) is;

Section “Device”
Identifier “Configured Video Device”
# Option “AccelMethod” “uxa”
EndSection

Section “Monitor”
Identifier “Configured Monitor”
EndSection

Section “Screen”
Identifier “Default Screen”
Monitor “Configured Monitor”
Device “Configured Video Device”
EndSection

Section “DRI”
Group “video”
Mode 0666
EndSection

With DRI enabled, I am able to (enjoyably) run OpenArena (the Open Source Quake Arena). Note that I believe this Intel chip set is OpenGL v1.5 compatible, not OpenGL v2.0 – which newer/funkier software may be looking for (you didn’t buy a netbook for WoW though, right?)

Note that UXA does provide 2D acceleration under Ubuntu 9.04 (aka Desktop Effects), but the visual integrity seems to fall apart (uncomment the UXA line above, to see what I mean). The Agora seems to share the Intel Mobile 945GME with a number of (name brand) Netbooks – so there is hope.

From an Agora Ubuntu root shell;
# lspci | grep -i vga
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)

Citing;
http://forum.compiz.org/showthread.php?t=9224
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/UxaTesting
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=64289

Am interested to learn of a solution to the 2D acceleration.

Thanks again for your very helpful site.

By: Mike Brown

Mike Brown — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:09:07 +0000

Worked a treat for me!

Many thanks to you and Tom.