I have installed Ubuntu 9.04 in my Dell Mini 12 for more than three times. It always freezes, slow. And the Openoffice cannot be used for 10 pages Chinese documents. In terms of performance, eee pc is better.
Finally, I tried xubuntu 904. What surprises me is the 3 cell battery can be used in 3 hours with internet connection. I also installed the EIoffice 2009 for Chinese documents.
Here is what I did last night:
1. Install Xubuntu 9.04
Everything works except the graphic display.
2 Install Xserver-org-video-psb
Update linux kernal to Linux 2.6.28-13-generic
Add the following two lines to source.lst
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mobile/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mobile/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
authenticate the PPA
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys C6598A30
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-psb
Anytime you update your kernel, you need to reconfigure the driver
sudo dpkg-reconfigure psb-kernel-source
Visit this page:
https://edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mobile/+archive/ppa/+index?field.name_filter=&field.status_filter=published&field.series_filter=jaunty
3 Fix freeze problem in ubuntu
edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf to look exactly like this:
===============
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
Option "DRI" "off"
Option "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "DontZap" "False"
EndSection
=============
The following are added:
Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
Option "DRI" "off"
Option "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"
Restarted X. If anything goes wrong, removing these three lines
4 Install Aircraft-manager
Note: some people report that Aircraft manager once turns on, you can not charge your battery.
Add the following two lines to sources.lst
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/opensource-subakutty/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/opensource-subakutty/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
authenticate the PPA
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 8FF4DAC0
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install aircraft-manager
Visit this page:
https://edge.launchpad.net/~opensource-subakutty/+archive/ppa
Install Chinese Office and Input
First install, ubuntu-tweak
http://ubuntu-tweak.com/downloads
Under Ubuntu-tweak, you can insall EIoffice and IBus.
EIoffice Chinese Personal edition is free, but the English one is trial version.
Install IBus
IBus is so far the best input for Chinese Pinyin.
http://code.google.com/p/ibus/wiki/Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install ibus ibus-pinyin
sudo apt-get install ibus-gtk
im-switch -s ibus
Ibus PGP Public Key
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