{"id":293,"date":"2014-02-22T04:57:23","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T04:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marstella.net\/?p=293"},"modified":"2014-02-22T06:23:53","modified_gmt":"2014-02-22T06:23:53","slug":"acer-c7-c710-with-ubuntu-13-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marstella.net\/?p=293","title":{"rendered":"Acer C7 C710 with Xubuntu 13.10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a brief note that I did a fresh install with Ubuntu 13.10, allowing updates as I went. The Intel video driver now seems to be active as I can install and run glxgears with a reported frame rate of 304. Previously, since the driver wasn&#8217;t fully available I wasn&#8217;t able to do any GL stuff at all.<\/p>\n<p>For anyone that might be interested, this is a fantastic little notebook that has sufficient power to run a Windows 7 virtual machine in VirtualBox and still maintain decent playback quality on video or YouTube. I use it for classes on a daily basis as well as my normal daily uses and haven&#8217;t experienced any problems.<\/p>\n<p>Edit: One other issue that you might find is that the volume control applet doesn&#8217;t work. If so, try installing indicator-sound-gtk2. If that works, you&#8217;ll probably have to reinstall it occasionally until Xubuntu includes it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a brief note that I did a fresh install with Ubuntu 13.10, allowing updates as I went. The Intel video driver now seems to be active as I can install and run glxgears with a reported frame rate of 304. Previously, since the driver wasn&#8217;t fully available I wasn&#8217;t able to do any GL [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marstella.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marstella.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marstella.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marstella.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marstella.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/marstella.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296,"href":"https:\/\/marstella.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marstella.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marstella.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marstella.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}