Using the webcam with Cheese

The webcam on the hp 2133 is amazing and could be very fun to use if you have a cool application like Cheese which is a gnome based application.With Cheese you can take photos and record yourself, the cool thing with this app is that you can add effects, it's similar to the Mac OS x webcam app if you've ever tried it. Some problems has occurred according to other blogs I've read, we're gonna deal with them next week. Anyways you can go ahead and try it before:

To install cheese
In a terminal type:

sudo apt-get install cheese

Ubuntu 8.10 Graphic Drivers (Beta)

I've tried Ubuntu on so many computers* and the graphic drivers for Linux really sucks(* haven't tried Nvidia). Before i decided to sell my dell 1501 i installed the lastest ati driver but seriously it's like playing around with windows 98, compiz work pretty good though. Gaming and watching HD movies was a big joke so i really hope the drivers for the via card is better then the drivers from AMD.

Via is working hard on their drivers and they recently released beta drivers click here to check it out. I will release an install guide for the drivers, probably next week.
If someone already installed them please post a comments and/or suggestions!

Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex 8.10 Install Options

Since Hp 2133 does not have a CD/DVD player we got to use a different method to install Ubuntu.

The first method is to download Wubi, if you haven't heard of Wubi i recommend you check it out!
Wubi is a installer that will install ubuntu with just a few VERY easy steps in Windows. When you're done with the installation reboot, after reboot it will give you an option to boot in to Windows or Ubuntu choose Ubuntu and it will take some time for the installer to finnish, then you're done with the complete installation, if you want to remove it later just go to add/remove software in Windows and uninstall it.

The second method is using a Usb flashdrive. It's also very easy. What you need is the ubuntu iso which you can dowload from Ubuntu's website.
Then download UNetbootin which makes it the drive bootble.
1.Format the usb flash memory via fat32.
2.Open UNetbootin
3.Browse you downloaded .iso image
4. Find what drive letter of your Usb flash memory is.
5. press ok!

Then restart and when the Hp screen appears hit F9 and boot into usb harddrive.

Ordered my Hp 2133 today!

If you decided to run Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex on your HP 2133 you came to the right place. This blog is a great starter guide for getting things to work.

I'm gonna order my HP 2133 today december 10th. And i'll expect it to arrive monday or tuesday. Right now TigerDirect.com is having a sale on it, $399 after rebate! So hurry over there and order one.

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HP made different versions of the HP 2133 so i really recommend that you go over to Hp2133guide.com and check which version you got.

I got the HP 2133 Mini-note PC KX870AT the difference between the versions is performance, memory etc. I recommend you to go for the version i've ordered since it's a faster.
I'm not a Linux pro but i'm sure we all can help each other out!

This blog is inspired by the Ubuntu1501 blog which is a great blog that helped me a lot with my 1501 but after so much trouble with it i decided to make a change.

I will install Ubuntu as soon as i get my system and create starter guides, so be updated!