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[Joseph Zitt <jzitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Following up, a month later:

Well, it looks like I've figured out all these problems -- except the most
vexing one. Printing, the external monitor, the keyboard, all do what I
expect them to, on my Asus Eee 1001P running Ubuntu 10.10.

The system still will go into a state in which the disk sounds like it's
thrashing endlessly and the interface freezes. I can sometimes nudge the
mouse pointer a little, but that's it. The only thing to do is to forcibly
power down. This has been happening, pretty much consistently, after it's
been up for an hour or two, when I've gone a little while without using the
keyboard or mouse. This happens both when I'm running the Netbook edition
with the Unity interface and the Desktop edition with the Gnome interface.
It does not happen when I run Windows 7 on the same hardware.

Unfortunately, this happens consistently enough that I end up running
Windows most of the time. Since I prefer Linux and am more comfortable with
it, I would like to run Ubuntu on the system as my default, only hopping
over to Windows for specific tasks (such as managing my iPhone, which I
would leave to my PowerPC Mac running OS X Panther, except that, like a lot
of people, I can't get it to talk to my 2WIRE DSL connection effectively).

Searching the web, I haven't found other instances of the problem with
Ubuntu freezing up, but I may not be searching on the right terms.

Might this added info point to a solution?

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:17 PM, Joseph Zitt <jzitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> First, my apologies for posting outside the key topics of politics or
> dentistry.
>
> I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition with the Unity interface on an
> Asus Eee 1001P. [0]
>
> The system has some quirks, such as starting with the keyboard NumLocked
> (which led me to think that i couldn't log in at all until I realized it)
> and not supporting an external monitor well.
>
> It also sometime grinds effectively to a halt. I hear it continuously
> accessing the hard drive, but can't do anything. This sometimes happens when
> I revive it by pressing a key after it's been idle for several hours, but
> also see it in some other less well-defined circumstances. (One thing I
> found was that opening the Files and Folders screen, so I don't use that
> anymore, sticking with Gnome Commander.) When this happens, all I can do is
> forcibly power down then power it back up.
>
> I seem to remember there being scripts, and possibly even software
> packages, that straightened this stuff out, but I'm not seeing them anymore.
>
> BTW, I hated the Unity interface when I first experienced it, but have
> grown to like it. With the help of Gnome Do, a bunch of Firefox plugins,
> Dropbox, and a few other tools, this is a surprisingly useful little PC.
>
> So... does anyone have any pointers on getting 10.10 to work better on this
> Eee?
>
> [0] http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=5AH8HAdGuhiQIXgg
> --
> Joseph Zitt ::http://www.josephzitt.com
>



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