Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook on Lenovo S10-3C

Ubuntu would not detect the keyboard during installation. I had to use an external keyboard to install the distro. Now do the following to get the keyboard working:

go to /etc/default
sudo vi grub
edit the line GRUB_CMDLINE="" to read GRUB_CMDLINE="noapic acpi=off"

save this file and run the following command:

sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Now reboot the system and VOILA the keyboard begins to work.

Admirably everything else works fine except that after shutdown we have to press the power button when the UBUNTU screen is displayed. A very small price to pay :-)

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