Showing posts with label ubuntu. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ubuntu. Show all posts

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Wireless Suspend and Resume on Aspire 4530

The issue has been fixed with the latest Linux Kernel 2.6.31-16 updates, I will still leave the post open in case someone needs sleep, resume custom scripts.

As noted after suspend resume the wireless doesn't work due to a bug that broke suspend and resume in ath9k drivers.
However I found a workaround.
Create a script with the following inside
!# /bin/sh
sudo modprobe -r ath9k
sudo modprobe ath9k

Call it ath9kreset for easy recalling of its purpose.

Then put the script into /etc/pm/sleep.d folder.

Make it executable by running

sudo chmod +x /etc/pm/sleep.d/ath9kreset

After that wireless should work after each suspend.

Saturday, September 26, 2009

For Those Who Hate a Brown Theme

For those who uses Linux on Aspire 4530 you do not have to do much tweaking to get it working, but you might hate the default brown theme you can replace it with Ubuntu Studio Theme

Just run this in terminal
sudo apt-get install ubuntustudio-look

This will pull in all Ubuntu Dependencies required as well.

Alternatively you can use other themes for other Ubuntu Derivatives according to your preference.
Reason I don't use Ubuntu is IMO the realtime Kernel is rather unstable and the "support out of box" isn't as good as Ubuntu.

For mainline Ubuntu 9.04 please boot the kernel with the parameters pci=nomsi
otherwise you might encounter a lot of stability issues.