Wednesday 9 December 2009

Latest Asus UL30/UL80 fixes

The Asus UL30/UL80 Launchpad team continues to add new members, who are contributing to make this ultra-thin laptop series work flawlessly under Linux. The team page has now been updated with the latest fixes to some minor problems:

Wifi dropping connections in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic). A team member suggests:
sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-karmic

Laptop brightness control in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic). A team member suggests:
sudo apt-get remove gnome-power-manager
do a reboot, then
sudo apt-get install gnome-power-manager

Longer battery time. A team member suggests:
http://www.arsgeek.com/2008/01/16/cpu-scaling-ubuntu-battery-life-and-you-how-to-scale-your-cpu/
Also, set the overclocking to 0% in the BIOS menu.




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