Ubuntu 9.04 Installation Notes 10-10-2009 My HP Mini 311 Atom 280/Ion LE Netbook arrived 3 days ago, so obviously I had to try installing Jaunty on it:) The standard 32-bit i386 Ubuntu Jaunty (desktop - not netbook remix) was installed from a Live CD without issue. Most things seemed to work right out of the box (keyboard, backlighting keys, sound up/down keys, hibernate). Wifi did not work. Sound was somewhat crippled, working only through the headphones but not through the built in speakers. Suspend can be triggered by the standard HP key (fn-f1) but resume triggers part way through suspend and goes straight back to a login prompt.

The Broadcom 4322AGN 802.11bgn wifi was fixed following the instructions posted here:

http://art.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1263730 In summary:

1. Enable the backports repository: Administration > Software Sources > Updates and enable “Unsupported Updates (jaunty-backports)”.

2. Install the linux-backports-modules-jaunty package

3. Install the linux-restricted-modules package

4. Go to System -> Administration -> Hardware Drivers and enable the Broadcom Wireless chipset.

Sound was fixed by upgrading Alsa to version 1.0.21, which was well documented here: http://monespaceperso.org/blog-en/2009/08/31/upgrade-alsa-1-0-21-on-ubuntu-jaunty-9-04/

I had difficulty enabling the NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (version 180) - I could see it listed under the Hardware Drivers menu but could not select it to enable it at first. Updating Jaunty fixed this.

I'm currently using kernel 2.6.28-generic and have not found a solution to suspend/resume.

10-12-2009 I have been trying to troubleshoot suspend/resume. I also found hibernate to be unreliable. I noticed a "btusb_bulk_complete: hci0 urb eo439280 failed to resubmit" message during both suspend and hibernate. I searched the forum and found similar instances of Jaunty having difficulty properly shutting down some USB hardware on suspend. The HP Mini 311 and other netbooks and notebooks have separate hardware switches for turning BT/Wifi on and off. I found that I could get acceptable suspend and hibernate if I turn off bluetooth/wifi (blue-lighted round switch - upper right - turns orange when off) just prior to suspending/hibernating. Then I just turn on the blue/tooth/wifi as the computer is resuming or after logging back in. Hopefully this will be fixed in 9.10.

12-05-2009 I upgraded the HP Mini 311 to Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" just prior to it's official release. I had an easy time upgrading from Jaunty to Karmic using aptitude. Suspend/resume and hibernate/resume initially had the same issues in Karmic as in Jaunty. The issue was resolved via updates to Karmic about a week or two after it's official release and I can now suspend or hibernate without manually turning off the wifi/bluetooth hardware. The "btusb_bulk_complete" error message still pops up when suspend or hibernate initiates but eventually the hardware is brought down in an orderly manner and suspend and hibernate work fine, as does resume. I also upgraded the Mini 311 from 1GB to 3GB of RAM to improve Compiz graphics and to boost video performance.

HP Mini 311 Summary

Author(s)

J. McDonald

Introduction

The HP Mini 311 is the first netbook in the U.S. equipped with Nvidia's GeForce 9400M (MCP79) chipset. In the case of the Mini 311, this is the nVidia Ion LE GPU chipset without DirectX 10 support.

Specifications

Distribution

Compatibility

Additional Notes

The GPU still uses shared RAM. Using "extra" visual effects can quickly result in 40 - 50% RAM usage. The standard configurations of the HP Mini 311 shipping to the U.S. have an empty SODIMM slot available for additional RAM. Anyone purchasing this netbook with the intention of doing fairly graphically intensive operations should consider upgrading the RAM.