Comments on: Upgrading from Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04) to Karmic (9.10) on the eeePC 1005HA (and 1008HA)

By: varanasi

varanasi — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:55:32 +0000

@Justin Thanks! Worked for me. Wouldn’t have gotten it fixed without you.

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 03:24:01 +0000

I was able to get my microphone working with the following…

Open up a terminal and type “alsamixer”
Hit Tab until you see the screen with 3 vertical columns
Their names should be something like

Capture Input So

Hit the Right arrow key until “Input So” is selected/highlighted

Hit the up arrow until “Int Mic” is displayed

Hit Esc — That should be it, open up sound recorder and give it a shot.

You might also have to increase the Capture dB (not sure if that is necessary)

Good luck

By: Franco

Franco — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 03:34:27 +0000

I think that it you disable and re-enable wireless after having suspended the eeepc, it starts, eventually, to work again.

Does anyone knows how to lock the processor speed at highest even after suspending? It always gets back to “power saving” which makes my laptop obsolete.

By: jwpeddle

jwpeddle — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 10:35:41 +0000

Has anyone had any luck with wireless working after suspend?

By: Fernando

Fernando — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:51:30 +0000

john,

I go to make a clean install of the 9,10 karmic then wanted to know if multi touch, Fn+space keyboard keys, Fn+F3 functions? how?
I have that to install the same packages of the repository satux in karmic 9.10?

By: fernando

fernando — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:30:40 +0000

I go to make a clean install of the 9,10 karmic then wanted to know if multi touch, Fn+space keyboard keys, Fn+F3 functions? how?

By: Guy

Guy — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:19:57 +0000

Cannoli, have you checked that the Karmic backports option repository has been ticket in “Software Sources”. Open up the “Updates” tab and tick the box

By: Cannoli

Cannoli — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:40:25 +0000

Also where do I get linux-backports-modules-alsa-2.6.31-17 as this seems to be required by most of the packages I’m trying to install related to the alsa package? I have 2.6.31-16.18 installed but don’t see .17 anywhere

By: Cannoli

Cannoli — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:36:15 +0000

OK, I’m reading to install linux-backports-modules-alsa-karmic but I can’t find that module in Synaptic Package Manager. I checked all the check boxes as outlined but still can’t find it. There are ones listed with generic and 2.6.xx-xx in the name but not that’s it and those are saying they cant be installed because something else is “not installable”.

Any ideas??

By: Guy

Guy — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:50:54 +0000

Hi, are there any updates on the microphone problem. I also have tried everything that has been suggested so far but cannot get the mic to work. Aside from that my wireless was really weak until I installed the backports, which doubled the strength of the wireless signal. 1 additional thing that people may find useful is to re-enable the use of the backspace key for navigating to the previous webpage, which does not work in Karmic. This actually requires a fix in Firefox. Type “about:config” into the address bar and heed the warning before proceeding. Double click the “browser.backspace_action” line and change the value to 0. Exit config and your backspace button will now take you to the previous webpage when pressed. Any news on the mic would be appreciated