Android-x86 Honeycomb 3.2 for Acer1825 series – Beta 2

December 19, 2011

[Beta 3 available: http://www.ceh-photo.de/blog/?p=430]

After some positive feedback on beta 1 release of Honeycomb-x86 for Acer1825 series convertible laptops I spend some time (too much time I think ;-)) on improving it.

So now the second release (beta 2) is available: read more

Android-x86 Honeycomb 3.2 for Acer1825 series

December 8, 2011

[Beta 2 available: http://www.ceh-photo.de/blog/?p=417]

So its long time ago that I wrote  something about Android-x86 and my Acer1825 but now I could tell, that I was not lazy in between.

I was working on builds based on the former work for froyo-x86 of arobase (we are still in contact, but he does not own the Acer1825 anymore). read more

Install all Google Apps on Androidx86 with Market,Mail and everything else

April 22, 2011

I made huge progress on using my installed androidx86 on my Acer1825(build). Today I found out, how to install all google apps included synchronization of mail,contacts.. and all funny apps like google talk, maps, youtube and don`t forget the original google market!!! And I can say it works. I can’t believe, it works! read more

Android x86 Multiboot with Win7 and Ubuntu on Acer1825

April 17, 2011

Most of you know that nice Androidx86 release from arobase for the Acer1825, but a lot of you asked for installation on hard-disk. I have done it and here comes, how it works:

First my start configuration: I had a installation of Windows7 (seldom used) (NTFS) and Ubuntu 10.10 on LVM(ext4), no free space for a new partition. read more

Automatic placing of onscreen keyboard in linux

March 10, 2011

This guide is writte for my Acer 1825 but it should work on all linux devices which need a onscreen keyboard like onboard.


I got the idea of building this script from Tom/drnessie from the ubuntuforums.org (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1486671&page=17), because he tried to make a improvement of my onscreen keyboard show/hide script from this post. read more

Using ginn for adding multitouch gestures to ubuntu (for Acer 1825)

February 20, 2011

In my last post I explained were you found a tutorial for installing a real multitouch driver for the ACER 1825 and said I don’t know how to use these multitouch support. Thanks to Tom/drnessie who recommended ginn to me.

Ginn is a daemon which recognizes multitouch gestures with the ubuntu utouch interface and translates them to global or application specific shortcuts. read more

Improvements on gyro auto rotation for ACER 1825

February 18, 2011

In two old posts I described, how you could use the gyro sensor of the Acer 1825 for auto rotating your screen and how you could enable and disable this feature with a special button.

http://www.ceh-photo.de/blog/?p=244

http://www.ceh-photo.de/blog/?p=186 read more

ACER 1825 enable “multitouch” (easy) install of touch driver in Ubuntu 10.10

February 18, 2011

Hey,

thanks to Tom he mentioned a working howto for installing the touch driver on Ubuntu 10.10.

http://lii-enac.fr/en/architecture/linux-input/multitouch-ubuntu-howto.html

I tried this guide after doing

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and rebooting and touch works fine. I also tried the gesturetest application from the utouch framework read more