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Yes, I was made it to set up easily but it's not recommended for daily use anyway, since there's significant delay between video captured rendered to the screen. Click the video below to see my experiment on my Asus Travelmate 6291 and Samsung A10 (available only in Bahasa).


So, forget about it & use your smartphone to make video conference (Google Meet, Zoom, etc), unless you want to present your presentation file from computer screen.

Labels: Acer TravelMate, Handphone, Samsung

Precisely today, 13 years ago...

https://paparadit.blogspot.com/2007/06/installing-sata-hard-drive-with-windows.html

After 13 years using Windows XP until finally I wiped it out couple weeks ago with 64bit Windows 8.1. And here below the story...


But somehow I couldn't find the driver for the LAN & built-in Wifi. So, I'm using my TP-Link TL-WN725N USB Wifi Adapter to connect it to the internet.

Labels: Acer TravelMate, USB Install, Wifi, Windows 8.1

When I want to install fresh OS from USB flash disk on my old laptop, it failed due to problem with USB boot. Somehow, the screen show "EFI Part Please remove this media and press any key to reboot" and the boot installer system couldn't continue.

If this screen shows up when you try to install ISO operating system image in a legacy computer or laptop from your USB flash disk, then you need to change the partition scheme of flash disk from GPT into MBR. So, now I'm going to show you how to fix it from Rufus.

First, put your flash disk on the USB slot & open up your Rufus. Let default selection of boot to disk or ISO image & select the file. For example, I'd like to load Windows 8.1 64 bit in this case. Next, don't change image option. Jump to the partition scheme & change it to MBR, so that there will be no other option available on target system except BIOS or UEFI-CSM.

Skip to the file system & cluster size selection & let it by default. And, now you are ready to load the image. See below video for detail above explanation.



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Labels: Acer TravelMate, USB Install

Thousands of blog writers has been reviewing about how succeeded they were after installing Fedora 13 on their various machine. Anyway, I will not write the same things in this article, sorry. As a runner distro – after Ubuntu at first as listed on distrowatch.com-, Goddard seems to be a more human friendly or might become a future Linux desktop. Don't worry, this is my judgment – as far as I'm concerned after I've proofed my self on my Aspire One AOA 150. It's signed by the whole parts of hardware which had been detected correctly by the kernel without using any tweak or hack. Well, this is not happened even when I using Fedora 10 a years ago.

I still loved Fedora - than Ubuntu – because it's a derivative from the ancestor - Red Hat. However, now my favorite desktop manager has moved to Gnome from KDE. In my opinion, Gnome offering a simple desktop, fast, light & weight than latest KDE. Again, this is relative judgment. But one thing for sure, most users like their desktop because of it's appearance. For example, many users moved to Windows Se7en because of it's skin (but it doesn't works for me since I still using XP for some works & games).

Mac4Lin on Fedora 13
I beat that workers who live with computer (like me, red) is always keep the desktop as useful & unique personalized as it can be. Talking about personalizing desktop – especially on Gnome – lots of themes available to apply. After a day busy on completing package I need – including enabling 3D compiz, now comes a time to personalize my desktop. There's no beautiful desktop as much as Mac OS X did – it remained my using it on my 12” Travelmate. Fortunately, a group of peoples out there has done their job to provide a transformation pack named Mac4Lin project. The goal is to make Linux desktop as closer look as OS X did.

Try to reach the package over this link & following the how to steps. In short, perhaps your desktop maybe similar to mine now.



The package complete with Mac theme, desktop background & icons. And it's absolutely suitable for Gnome, except the GDM which isn't changeable yet (even I had tried to tweak it with Ailurus or GDM2Setup for Ubuntu). Anyway, you can set it to auto-login mode so that it wouldn't display GDM login window anymore. Look at snapshot below, the left side of the screen displaying Nautilus (which is similar to Mac file browser) while the right side is Firefox (with extra add-ons & themes, will make much close to Safari browser appearance).



On the bottom of the screen, laid the Avant Window Navigator – A dock similar to Mac desktop. All available in a single package of Mac4Lin transformation pack. All you need to do is follow the instruction, a little yum download & bit of compiling tar balls. After it succeed, I guarantee for your satisfaction. Just try & believe me.

To change Plymouth animation (known as Red Hat Graphical Boot), try to take a look at gnome-look.org or kde-look.org & find one suitable for you. As I've tried, to changed this you need to compiled manually. Please take carefully to do that, once you follow the instruction then your Goddard may be safe.

BURG on Fedora 13
Last but not least is how to modify default GRUB into BURG. Well, a complete hand book I've found on their project website. Like others said that BURG is stand for GRUB, it's a unique name mirrored from GRUB ~ an update model of GRUB bootloader which used high graphic for boot background. I said, this is a revolutionary & pretty cute boot loader than used on Mac or Windows Se7en.

Note that I don't recommended it if you're newbies on Linux since it's totally hand made (manual) but If you dare to do this, than prepare for install all of the dependencies. First, connect to the internet & give below command on terminal:

#sudo yum install autoconf automake bison flex make gcc ruby python gettext-devel freetype-devel

also provide required extra software for the emulated version requires:

#sudo yum install ncurses-devel SDL-devel

To download the source, you need to install bazaar binary package.

#sudo yum install bzr

After it completed, create a folder named burg on your home folder and enter to that folder. While you're on it & for the first time need to downloading the source, from terminal, enter:

#bzr branch lp:burg

Then, let it sync a previously downloaded source tree to the latest version (This still should be run in your burg source directory):

#bzr pull

After each update, you need to regenerate the configuration files by running this command in the same burg source directory:

#./autogen.sh

After that, download themes pack from this link since the original source doesn't include it yet. Those above commands purposed for preparing BURG source code in burg directory on your home folder. Based on the original manual, you should specify BURG compile & install directory. In my experiment, I supply both with different directory, burg_nb for the compilation & burg_install for the target installation. Just follow it & create 2 new directory, then copy all of files from burg directory into burg_nb (except the zipped themes file, we will use it later).

Now enter to burg_nb directory via terminal and get start to compile with commands below:

#$HOME/burg/configure --with-platform=pc --prefix=$HOME/burg_install
#make
#make install

After compilation completed, extract zipped themes pack to folder burg_install. Continuing to create a default configuration file named by burg & save it to $HOME/burg_install/etc/default. Here below is my default burg configuration file:

GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""
GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT=true
GRUB_GFXMODE=saved
GRUB_THEME=saved
GRUB_FOLD=saved

Just in case you need a backup, copy burg files to folder /etc/default. Now, tell BURG that you have others OS (eg: Windows) on your machine. To define this, open 40_custom file from $HOME/burg_install/etc/burg.d folder & specify where partition your Windows reside. See my 40_custom modified file below:

#!/bin/sh
exec tail -n +3 $0
# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the
# menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change
# the 'exec tail' line above.
#

menuentry "Acer Recovery" --class windows --class os {
insmod ntfs
set root='(hd0,1)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 3ab0e580b0e542cd
chainloader +1
}

menuentry "Se7en" --class windows --class os {
insmod ntfs
set root='(hd0,2)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 3ab0e580b0e542cd
chainloader +1
}

As you can see on my example above (first partition contains Acer recovery partition & followed by Windows partition), please make an appropriate to your partition machine. Now, as root, install it to MBR so that it will take effect on the next boot:

#sudo $HOME/burg_install/sbin/burg-install /dev/sda
#sudo $HOME/burg_install/sbin/burg-mkconfig -o /boot/burg/burg.cfg

Then last, copy the extracted themes pack into /boot/burg. To check & re-check, make sure that you have already directory structure like mine below (or repeat from first step if it not the same):



Please note that users directory on picture above is your home directory. If there's no error reported after both commands above resulted, you may safely reboot your machine & get ready to see a changes.



See that, now GRUB has disappear replaced by BURG bootloader interface. To change themes, press “T” keyboard or “F3” to change the screen resolution or you can do some tweaks from configuration files modification (icons or backdround image) by reading the manual. Now, I have my favorite OS on my netbook, but I don't know how long it can stand. As the final words from this current article, I order to Fedora developer to enable GDM setup anymore (like previous GDM version) & add BURG as default bootloader on future release of Fedora. Please, share your own experience on Goddard on below comments box before leaving this blog. Thanks for passing by.

Labels: Acer Aspire One, Acer TravelMate, Fedora, Linux, Mac OSX86, Open Solaris, Ubuntu

It's been a long while I had Open Solaris 2008.11 on my Acer Aspire One ~ it's particularly 2nd generation model AOA150 got from Google with 8.9” screen & 120 GB hard drive. I think it's enough to play through with Open Solaris & need to try to get back to Fedora which I passed it for last 5 major version.

Now, I have Goddard – a codename of Fedora 13 – iso & a brand new Western Digital Passport (an external hard drive with 320 GB capacity) I bought from bhinneka.com. Since I don’t have an external optical drive, I always used USB mass storage to installing OS on my netbook. This time, I'd like to try my external 320 GB hard drive as the iso master installation rather than my 8 GB USB.

At first, I had unboxing the hard drive & let it parted with a free partition kit named by EASEUS Partition Master 6.1.1 Home Edition. After that, I'll have 4 partitions on it. See it on partition table illustration below:



On that table, I'm planning to store out my data into partition #2, #3 & #4 – so we can ignore it from now. Let focus on first red partition table (10 GB) which I prepared for Fedora 13 iso with FAT32 partition type. Like usual, I also use Fedora LiveUSB Creator to make USB flash disk boot-able. I thought that it would be succeed either on USB external hard drive but it wasn't!



On picture above, none of drive letters shows up on Target Device combo. Why was that happened? Explained on a FAQ WIKI pages, that Windows sometime detects certain drives as NOT being removable devices – perhaps a different device class between USB Mass Storage & USB Removable Drive. But with a clue on that, that kit can force the 1st mode. Don't run it from double click icon, just open up a DOS command prompt on active directory where that software placed & type:

liveusb-creator.exe --force X:

where X refer to your drive letter on your external hard drive. Look at the picture below, i used G: as the target partition. Hit enter on the prompt window & vice versa... the Fedora LiveUSB Creator now shows the G: drive letter.



As soon as this way succeed, i then continue to the rest of process which was #1) burning iso to the external drive (X:)



#2) copying also the iso to X: #3) and last, stand by for the first reboot to boot to the external drive from BIOS. Once it booted smoothly, you ain't have no trouble for more. Just follow the on screen wizard to complete your Fedora 13 a.k.a Goddard installation or you can found the manual documentation elsewhere over the internet. I'll be back for the next part of Goddard; the complete Mac OS X Gnome themes until change GRUB into BURG boot loader. Stay tune on this channel...

Labels: Acer Aspire One, Acer TravelMate, Fedora, Linux, Mac OSX86, Open Solaris, Ubuntu

Having two or more personal laptop or PC on home nowadays is not an extraordinary thing. Especially for those who play in rough with IT sector or gadget freakier, I called it “a-must have”. Survey research result found on internet clarify that 91 percent of those who have a netbook also own a laptop and 87 percent own a desktop. Some husband also equip their house with two laptop for their wife, so that there’s no more problem for both of them to kill their each pleasure time – husband working on his spread sheet business and wife sharing minds with her facebook page. But, how about if husband need to send email his work immediately while his wife still browsing for her lingerie on the internet? No problem at all if they have both modem, but troubling wife for her modem might become a big problem. This article will assist you how to setting up internet connection over wireless signal built-in on common laptop or PC, it’s a cheap trick than buying a new modem and more practice than using a cross cable.

First of all, make sure that both wifi on each PC or laptop is currently exist and active. Set wifi IP address on host machine where the modem plugged in (I used my 12” Travelmate 6291 for this) with 192.168.0.1 and subnet mask with 255.255.255.0 just like picture below:



From Wireless Network tab on the same Wireless Network Properties window, click Add button to add wifi network identification name. From example, I named it with “TravelMate” and configured it with Open Network Authentication. Don’t forget to check “This is a computer to computer (ad hoc) network“ on bottom of the window.



To test whether it succeeded or not, let the machine search for current wifi signal. It will found at least with your existing network name you made already. On example, it will display “TravelMate” wifi connection.



Next, plugged in the modem and activate the internet connection link. Mine was particularly Huawei E160 dongle USB modem with Unlimited IM2 Broom ISP SIM card. After the link is up, click on Advanced tab from properties window, check for Internet Connection Sharing and make sure to share it over wireless network connection.



Done for the host connection, now get ready to switch to guest device. Set wifi IP address from guest device to 192.168.0.2 with same subnet mask but point to host IP address as both gateway and DNS address (192.168.0.1).



Now, let the guest search for existing signal. It will found host wifi network signal (example: “TravelMate”) and make it try to connect to host.



After it succeeded “paired”, try to pinging an internet host from command prompt or you can open a page from browser directly. That’s all, if there’s nothing left, both device will have internet connection from single modem plugged in on one of the computer.



PS: I dedicated this article to my buddy and blessed for his brand new 10” Lenovo Ideapad S10 with Veriface Recognition software that I finally cracked and working on my Aspire One.

Labels: Acer Aspire One, Acer TravelMate, Network, Wifi

By a chance, I’ve been tried to upgrade my own Travelmate 6291 laptop series from it’s standard 512MB memory size into 1GB. However, there is no difference performance happened significantly after using both of memory (2x512MB DDRAM) except a faster loading when more than 5 applications are loaded in a same time.

Anyway, a new piece of 512MB PC2700 CL2 DDR has come with VISIPRO brand name. At first I doubt that the memory will compatible to the system but it did work fine. I recorded some of benchmark tests before & after the memory plugged onto the laptop with SiSoftware Sandra Standard just want to know the numeral result difference. And finally below here is the result (Memory Bandwith Benchmark, Cache & Memory Benchmark & CPU Multimedia Benchmark):










Note that I’ve done the above test twice to make sure that the statistical result is more real. From the benchmark record, I can concluded that the additional amount of memory will increase the performance of multimedia application since the cache & memory space are also grown up. Moreover, the memory bandwidth seems to be falling several digits. AFAIK, the use of dual plate of memory may become the cause since it will take a delay to transport the packet from & to between memory & system.



The good thing is, the are no more disk-swapping process happened even on Fedora 7 as shown on picture above.

Labels: Acer TravelMate