[handylearn]

I have today installed Meego 1.1 on a Samsung NB30 Pro Touch.
It works. Sound plays, Webcam works, Bluetooth finds my mobile phone.
I now have a dual-boot together with the original Windows 7.

What is missing is support for the touch screen. Does anybody know what I can do there?

Problems I needed to solve during installation:
1)
Samsung put Windows 7 with partitions C: and D: and with a Recovery Tool.
All together it had 4 primary partitions on the disk. I have shrunk the partition of D: so that I had enough free space. But the Meego installer was not able to use this space (same with the ubuntu installer). I needed some time to figure out that only 4 primary partitions are allowed on a disk, and that is the reason adding of partitions is a problem.
I solved it by deleting the d: partition from the windows partitioner, and recreated it with a smaller size. Then an extended partition was created (of course all data on windows d: were deleted, but c: together with windows system were still ok). Then the Meego installer has successfully used the free space and created its own partitions inside the extended partition.

2)
As said, the Samsung has some kind of Windows Recovery tool. When I first booted with the automatic created entries, the call to Boot Windows was actually calling the recovery tool. It booted into Windows, but it was also overriding the boot loader again, so I was not able to boot Meego again.
I found more informations about the issue in the blog post:

http://canne.wordpress.com/2010/12/29/meego11-n150/

The steps from the blog to just restore the boot loader were not working for me. I have reinstalled meego, than changed the boot menu like mentioned, and than it worked. I can now boot to the original windows 7 or to Meego.

Hope this helps somebody.

Regards

Karsten Meier

[handylearn]

Now I also got the touchscreen to work

I used some information from an ubuntu blog.
www.greenhughes.com/content/installing-ubuntu-1010-samsung-nb30-touchscreen-netboo

Afaik the touchscreen is an usb device, and Linux need to be prevented from using its own drivers and try to handle it (as mouse or whatever ). So the process is:

1) Find out the exact usb parameter
call "lsusb" in command shell
On my netbook, there is this line that seem to be the touchscreen:
...
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0eef:480e D-WAV Scientific Co., Ltd
...
Notice the address 0eef:480e

2) Add a parameter to the boot call:
In file /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf
add a parameter
append ro ... usbhid.quirks=0xeef:480e:0x40
Don't forget "0x" and also add a ":0x40", that why it has worked for me first.

3) add a line to this file
etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
blacklist touchscreen

4) reboot

and the touchscreen worked, and Meego is much more fun.