Comments on: Aspire One - What about Work?

By: chika

chika — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:16:19 +0000

I tried to install Virtual Box on my Aspire 1, but the installation doesnt complete, instead it gives an error saying my present kernel may not support the program

By: Morris Lee

Morris Lee — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:56:34 +0000

you can only view video if you purchase codecs from acer, or you can instal vlc player

By: peter frustrated

peter frustrated — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:57:11 +0000

okay…just need a straight answer:

Bought the acer aspire 1, complete with Media master.
Needed it to take on a critical biz trip. Needed mostly to show a very short but vital video clip.

Unable to open anything .mov, .wvm, .avi…

The unit is at the airport now, awaiting boarding call and a quick download of the vid file from here.

Out of the box, no time to screw around, what video format will work? Now.

thanks

By: Morris Lee

Morris Lee — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 05:51:10 +0000

if you are talking about the windows, then yes, it will work fine, only limitation is the hardware processing horse power, I believe sims 1 runs fine on low graphics settings, and unplayable(reported by some users) for sims 2

but you never know, he/she might had stuff like antiviruses Nort… cough..cough.. instaled to slow the game down.

I am running XP with the SSD and able to run Halo on low settings, just to give you an idea on ther power that AA1 is got

By: mikalob

mikalob — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:09:27 +0000

hey can i use a USB CD/DVD-rom to install a gamne like sims or something and will it run on it and work properly ????

By: OptusBen

OptusBen — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:51:02 +0000

Does anyone know how to set up a E169 USB 3G modem step by step?? Im not a techy, but work in the Telco industry and want to be able to set this up for a customer.

Thanks guys.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 09:39:57 +0000

>How does one get a command line interface.
http://www.aspireoneuser.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=28

>What’s the default root password.
I lost it as I powered off when the wizard ran ‘cos I was installing extra RAM. But “sudo su” works then “passwd” will change it

>Does it come with GCC installed.
No.

>Can one use Fedora rpms to add new programs.
Yes. And yum, which is set up with the correct repositories AFAIK. So far I’ve added openssh and rdesktop.

>Are most codecs present.
No. The mplayer Win32 codecs directory /usr/lib/codecs is empty. However, codecs can be added from the Mplayer site. http://andrew.daviel.org/media.html

> Why is JFFS not used ?
(from the Nokia tablet community) -
JFFS2 requires a direct interface and the SD cards are mounted over a SCSI emulation. Write levelling is taken care of at a low level.

By: Sid

Sid — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:12:05 +0000

The SSD is easier to change than the ram, some folks at the Aspire user forum are fitting 300x CF cards in place of the SSD.

http://www.aspireoneuser.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=59&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&hilit=300x

By: Igor Savin

Igor Savin — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:53:55 +0000

Thanks for the reply. Interesting. I wonder why none of the Flash-storage oriented filesystem were used, be it JFFS, YAFFS or LogFS. Or, in any case, why it’s ext2, not ext3 (journalling causes additional writes decreasing flash lifespan?..)

It’s rather curious to speculate how much would appropriate filesystem expand the forecasted 3-year life of AA-One SSD drive.

By: Sid

Sid — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:55:54 +0000

The system monitor reports ext2.

regards