However, thеre’s no wаy of customsing whіch folder thе screensaver rеads іf уou wаnt to uѕe уour Pictures folder to ѕtore pictures, but manage whіch of thеse images іs uѕed.

A workaround іs аs follows:

Create a nеw folder somewhere (іt doеsn’t hаve to bе undеr thе ‘Pictures’ folder)
Οpen a terminal window (select Terminal undеr Accessories)
еnter thе following:
gkѕu gеdit /uѕr/ѕhare/applications/screensavers/personal-slideshow.desktop(еnter уour password іf prompted)

Scroll down to thе lіne (nеar thе еnd) thаt begins
Εxec=slideshowΑdd thе following аfter thіs command:
--location=(Υou wіll hаve to uѕe standard escape sequences іf уou hаve spaces іn thе pаth.)

Ηere’s аn example:
Εxec=slideshow --location=/homе/myusername/Pictures/Μy\ ScreensaverΑnd thаt’s іt. Ѕave thе fіle, аnd restart уour screensaver. Ιt wіll now onlу search for pictures іn уour chosen folder.

To resolve this I downloaded the drivers from here

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/filter_results.aspx?strTypes=all&ProductID=1862&OSFullName=Windows*+XP+Professional&lang=eng&strOSs=44&submit=Go%21

I had to change the properties on the exe to run as administrator and in Windows XP compatabilty mode to install it but seems to be working fine.

I used the information here to allow me to mount network drives as local folders which works a lot bettr as I can then browse through the content as if it was on my machine.

to install it in ubuntu

wget http://linuxcentre.net/get_iplayer/packages/get_iplayer-current.deb
sudo dpkg -i get_iplayer-current.deb
sudo apt-get -f install

you can then run
get_iplayer
to get a list of the tv shows

then using the number next to the show you want to download
get_iplayer --get 123

additional commands at
http://linuxcentre.net/getiplayer/documentation/

I went with crashbang as it looked like most of the stuff worked...even though it had a dodgy name
I followed this guide

I had to rebuild it shortly after as I found that if I installed the recomended kernel I couldnt get my Vodafone mobile Connect USB stick to be recognised by the netbook.

I installed vodafone mobile connect from here
follow the instructions under the Debian, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Netbook Remix, Linux Mint secion

Only other configuration I have had to do so far is to get the mic to work in skype I had to set the inbound sound to use the device HDA Interl (hw:intel,0) from the dropdown options in the skype sound devices configuration.

Had to zero the drive first to reclaim all the space I had been using otherwise my backup was just too large

Acer Aspire One Backup
AA1BACKUP is a backup solution for the Acer Aspire One based on free and open source software. It makes an exact copy of the drive, bit for bit, and therefore works with any file system, partition table or operating system. And to emphasize its operating system independence it can be installed from either Linux or Windows.

In Windows just download the installer from here.
In Linux open a terminal and run the following commands.

wget -O aa1blinux http://sites.google.com/site/aa1backupinstaller/1/aa1blinux
chmod 755 aa1blinux && sudo ./aa1blinux

The only selectable option is the drive letter or device node.

You can now reboot and press F12 to select the USB drive from the boot menu. The next menu will only have two options: BACKUP and RESTORE. Selecting either of them will start the fully automated backup or restoration process. There will be no further prompts or warnings.

A sufficiently large USB drive is obviously required to store the backup on. If your USB stick or external USB hard drive matches or exceeds the size of the internal solid state disk or hard drive you're set.

In most cases a smaller USB drive will also work due to the data being compressed during the backup. Not already compressed data is compressed by a factor of 2:1 on average at a speed of about 40 MB/s, which exceeds the write speed of any USB stick and most portable external hard drives. Free space is compressed by a factor of 250:1. Note that most of the free space may not be really empty, depending on the amount of data already written to the drive, but just not indexed in the file table. To get the increased compression ratio just overwrite all free space with zeros. There are probably a few freeware tools to do this in Windows, one of them is eraser. In Linux only a single command is required.

dd if=/dev/zero of=zero; rm -f zero

Another benefit of zeroing the free space is an increased backup speed, especially if you only have a slow USB stick. And most of them are very slow. If the write speed is not specifically advertised or mentioned anywhere then it's usually just 3MB/s. External hard drives are usually fast enough, but a 120GB or 160GB backup will take a while in any case.

A fresh system installed from the recovery image with some modifications takes up about 2-4GB of disk space, depending on the amount of actual software removed or installed. The backup fits nicely on a 2GB stick and can then be used as an updated recovery image, which avoids going through all the modifications again on every reinstall.

The backup itself is split into 1GB files and stored in the backup folder in the top directory of the USB drive. The files are automatically removed before the next backup, but you can still keep several backups if you move them to another medium or simply rename the backup folder if there's still enough space for another backup.

And despite its name suggesting otherwise AA1BACKUP is not limited to the Acer Aspire One, but will also work with all other currently available netbooks like the Asus EEE, Dell Inspiron Mini 9, Samsung NC10 or Lenovo S9. Probably most notebooks as well. There is however a limitation: it only makes a backup of the first physical drive and it does probably not work with non-SATA controllers.

As a final note a few words on the software used to realize this project. The installer is a custom version of Unetbootin and the distribution is based on Linux Live scripts with a slimmed down version of SLAX.

1. You need a USB flash drive (SanDisk or any Generic brand)
2. Make it bootable to DOS by following these instructions:
Just download the file from here
Set the distribution to FreeDOS 1.0 and set the drive letter to be the USB drive
3. Download the latest BIOS and Extract all files from the BIOS zip file onto the USB stick.
4 Reboot and press F12 to select a bootable device. Choose option 5 when prompted by DOS and ignore the error about a missing CD-ROM. Change to drive C: and if that doesn't work try drive B: instead.
5 Run the included batch file to flash the BIOS by simply entering its filename, The AC adapter must be connected or else the flash utility will wait until it is.

Download the installer from here, and save it to your Desktop.

Then, open a terminal, and run:

cd ~/Desktop
sudo sh vodafone-mobile-connect-card-driver-for-linux-2.0.beta3-ALL-i386-installer.run

When prompted, enter your password

You will be prompted to enter users who should have permissions for this: enter your username, and root

When installation has finished, you should be able to run the utility from the terminal by typing:

sudo vodafone-mobile-connect-card-driver-for-linux

or, if you modify the entry in the Internet section of the Launch menu, so that the command "vodafone-mobile-connect-card-driver-for-linux" is prefaced with "sudo", you can run it by clicking on there instead.

http://www.acer.com/aspireone/support/files/connect.html

The netbook comes with a cut down version of linux on it called linpus. Its quite locked down so that its nice and easy to use.

To unlock it I followed the instructions here

http://jorge.fbarr.net/2008/08/06/acer-aspire-one-tips-and-tricks/

First I unlocked the deskop by doing

SUPERUSER
sudo su -

NOTEPAD style editor
mousepad

But the thing is, when you replace xfdesktopnew with xfdesktop-xfce, a script called xfce-mcs-manager won’t start up, and that is what some people find so “horrible” about the regular xfce-desktop. If we open up the file xfdesktopnew located in /usr/bin/, we find the following:

#!/bin/sh
if [ -f /usr/bin/xfce-mcs-manager.new ];then
sudo mv /usr/bin/xfce-mcs-manager.new /usr/bin/xfce-mcs-manager
fi
/usr/bin/xfdesktop2 & >/dev/null 2>&1
sleep 5
if [ -f /usr/bin/xfce-mcs-manager ];then
sudo mv /usr/bin/xfce-mcs-manager /usr/bin/xfce-mcs-manager.new
fi
As you can se here the script xfdesktopnew starts the application xfdesktop2. What that script contains, I’ve no idea. Try opening the file for yourself, you’ll see what I’m talking about. Anyway, in order for this to work, change the line:

/usr/bin/xfdesktop2 & >/dev/null 2>&1
to:

/usr/bin/xfdesktop & >/dev/null 2>&1
Save it and close it. Next, open up the file /usr/bin/xfdesktop, and change line 6 to look like this:

/usr/bin/xfdesktop-xfce & >/dev/null 2>&1
Save, close, and reboot. You should have a fully working xfce desktop, with icons!

Usually when you’re in xfce you can right-click on the desktop to bring forth a menu. This isn’t enabled as a standard function with the desktop that comes with the Acer Aspire One. To enable it, do the following.

On your desktop, under the File category, select My Documents. When this opens, select File and then Terminal. When the terminal opens, type:

$ xfce-setting-show
This will bring up the xfce settings manager. Select Desktop, Behavior and click the box named Show desktop menu on right click. Voila, that should be it.

Installing Firefox 3

If you want Firefox 3 to be installed properly (via yum), you should add the remi repository:

# wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/remi-release-8.rpm
# rpm -Uvh remi-release-8.rpm
Edit the file /etc/yum.repos.d/remi.repo, and set enabled to 1 under [remi] and NOT [remi-test].

Then we proceed with removing the old Firefox and installing the new one. Now, a regular yum remove firefox won’t work, as it’ll drag a buttload of dependencies with it. However, this will only remove Firefox, without its dependencies:

# rpm -e --nodeps firefox
Then install the new one:

# yum install firefox
That’s all there is to it.

Now, having said that, a friendly chap named Nacho Marin made me aware of a problem that had totally slipped my mind. It seems that there are several programs that are depending on some libraries that Firefox 2 has, and not Firefox 3. The Acer Aspire One e-mail client being one of them, and the RSS reader too. The missing libraries are libgtkembedmoz.so, libmozjs.so, libxpcom_core.so and libxpcom.so.

A big thank you to Nacho for the heads up about the library-files.

Update: It seems that several people were complaining about how the e-mail program kept shutting down for no apparent reason. It seems that they need more than simply the library-files. I believe I’ve located the files, and that you now should be able to have both Firefox 3, and the email client working. Give me some feedback to let me know how the script turns out.

I (Jorge) have made a script to make this a bit easier to fix, so stay tuned.

Update: Script is finished, instructions are as follows:

Become root and open a file named recover_firefox_libraries.sh:

$ sudo su -
# mousepad recover_firefox_libraries.sh
Place the following in it:

#!/bin/bash
#
## Script to recover Firefox 2 libraries
## Jorge Barrera Grandon
## Version 2
#
#
## Usage: ./recover_firefox_libraries.sh

WGET=`which wget`
RPM_URL="http://jorge.ulver.no/files/firefox-files.tar.gz"
MV=`which mv`
CHOWN=`which chown`
CHMOD=`which chmod`
RM=`which rm`
TAR=`which tar`
MKDIR=`which mkdir`
RMDIR=`which rmdir`

cd /root/
echo "## Getting hold of the Firefox-files.."
$WGET $RPM_URL

echo "## Unpacking the library-files.."
$TAR zxvf firefox-files.tar.gz

echo "## Moving library-files.."
$MV /usr/acer/bin/AME /usr/acer/bin/old.AME
$MV /root/firefox-files/AME /usr/acer/bin/AME
$MKDIR /usr/lib/firefox-files/
$MV /root/firefox-files/* /usr/lib/firefox-files/

echo "## Changing permissions and cleaning up.."
$RM /root/firefox-files.tar.gz
$RMDIR /root/firefox-files/
$CHOWN -R root.root /usr/lib/firefox-files/
$CHMOD -R 755 /usr/lib/firefox-files/

echo "## Done!"
What the script basically does is to get hold of the file firefox-files.tar.gz (so be online when running it), moves the libraryfiles, changes the permission, and removes the file and the unnecessary directories it creates. Make the file executable, then run it:

# chmod +x recover_firefox_libraries.sh
# ./recover_firefox_libraries.sh
Enjoy!

Reset button is located under the Battery cover. Pull your stylus, along the Right side there is a round hole (no need to remove battery!)

Power off you X1.
Hold down the two "Soft" keys and turn power back on to your X1..
Release the two key....
You should see the white screen with blue text asking if you want to restore to the "factory" default setting....Press "r"