timothy's Journal: 2 thus-far annoyances of Ubuntu on the Eee

Two things I've noticed that bug me in my Eee running Ubuntu 8.10:

1) I know that "problems with hibernate and suspend" are long-time bugaboos, but for the most part suspend has seemed to work very well for me, surprisingly enough. However, I find that the machine "gets stuck" with the wireless networks that were last in play when it was closed; to get wireless working again (so that it seeks out the actually available networks), I find I must reboot the machine. This defeats much of the point of suspending rather than shutting down in the first place. (Not under all circumstances, I guess, but most of the time.)

2) This one's easier to deal with, and mostly just weird -- when I plug the AC adapter in to the running machine (on battery, that is), Evolution starts. Errr? I'm sure that Evolution is a fine product -- I used it occasionally, long ago, but right now I, personally, don't have any real use for it. It's easy enough to just close / quit, but this is a truly oddball behavior.

Evolution starting

[cerberusss]

Note that I don't own an EEE, however most Linux distributions have rules in /etc/hotplug.d which fire off some command when the kernel says something was plugged in (or disconnected). Maybe do a recursive grep in that directory for the 'evolution' command and find more that way?

Re:

[OctaneZ]

This was my first idea as well, granted I don't use ubuntu.

Searching bug reports beats working 268422

[tqft]

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hal-info/+bug/268422 [launchpad.net]
"Running Intrepid on an Eee PC 701.

If I attach the power cable while Ubuntu is running it attempts to open Evolution.

I have removed Evolution so all I get is this message :

Couldn't execute command: evolution
Verify that this is a valid command."

wireless problem

[crumley]

Did you try doing an "/etc/init.d/networking restart" instead of rebooting?