Thanks for the link... That is by far the best claimed success that I have seen. I have done a fairly thorough check every time we have had issues with it. I am surprised to find that someone finally claims to have gotten the touch screen digitizer and touch pad to work. They were a little marginal to start with.
No problem. Looks like bluetooth and sound need some sort of configuration.
I’ve got an old Acer AspireOne that has been killing me. The very light distros don’t support the display. I just get a garbled screen. It has an HDMI port so I’ve been trying to make it a Streaming Box. Kodi workes fine but using a browser for cackle, plutoTV or other free streaming site doesn’t work worth a damn. In fact, general web surfing doesn’t work well at all. Wifi or Cat5 cable makes no difference.
Some models of the Acer AspireOne actually came wit Linux pre-installed. I’ve got a few older Thinkpads that will surf and stream from web just fine but they don’t have a HDMI port to connect to the TV and my TV doesn’t have a VGA port like our prior TV did.
I’m not looking for High Def - 4k or anything like that. The PlutoTV addon for Kodi works great but is only available for Kodi Krypton, the latest. I did figure how to install Krypton on Ubuntu 18.04 but it was tricky. Normally 18.04 comes with Kodi Leai which the PlutoTV addon doesn’t work for.
PlutoTV is the best free streaming I’ve found. The rest have super B grade stuff I’ve never heard of. I still do a little bit of the torrent thing for stuff that I just can’t find anywhere else. Stuff I download play fine on the old Acer. Just found Firefly and my son hasn’t seen it yet. Both he and I are into Sci-Fi and the boy makes me proud because he loved the original Star Trek series but has no use for the newer versions of the series.