After installing Karmic and Skype on the Ferrari One, Skype would not capture any sound. Eventually I found this thread that suggested installing pavucontrol and then maxing out one of the mic channels and turning down the second channel to 0 would make the mic work. That did indeed work. Hopefully, this all will work [...]
Wireless was a little iffy on the laptop when running 64-bit Karmic. It worked but the signal I was receiving was weak even though I was close to the AP. It would even drop completely once in a while. Often enough to be problematic. The solution was to blacklist ath_pci module, loading ath5k module and [...]
I got little tired with my old EEE 901A. So I went and frivolously spend some money and got me Ferrari One. For one the 12GB SSD in EEE was driving me nuts – slow. I already maxed out the RAM on it at 2GB. Also the keyboard on EEE was not the greatest. I [...]
I have used Sun Type 7 keyboard with my laptop for a while. Finally I got tired of not being able to use extra keys not found on standard PC keyboards. I did some searching and I found this thread which pretty much conains the solution. So, I used the information from the thread and [...]