I have a little experimental machine for playing with different distributions. Lately, the HP Mini 110-1081TU has been running MeeGo. Now it has been commissioned to run Linux Mint. This comes in a variety of flavours. The one reviewed here is Linx Mint Debian 201109. While the download was a monstrous 1.1G, the installation is the fastest I've ever seen. It literally took 10 minutes!
Post Installation - Wireless
This is where the fun begins. First off, I had trouble getting wireless to work. Reading dmesg gave very helpful instructions. Read the recommendations carefully! Doing so can save you much time and effort. The HP Mini 110 uses a Broadcom 4312 WLAN. Install the packages b43-fwcutter and firmware-b43-lpphy-installer. I recommend the Linux Wireless page as it has exceptionally good documentation.
This is where the fun begins. First off, I had trouble getting wireless to work. Reading dmesg gave very helpful instructions. Read the recommendations carefully! Doing so can save you much time and effort. The HP Mini 110 uses a Broadcom 4312 WLAN. Install the packages b43-fwcutter and firmware-b43-lpphy-installer. I recommend the Linux Wireless page as it has exceptionally good documentation.
Post Installation - Sound
Sound quality is actually better than under previous Linux distributions I've tried. So I was very happy that I need no special post installation tasks. This is more a reflection on the hardware than the software.
The settings for the HP Mini 110 are HDA Intel (Alsa mixer) with Master, Headphone and Beep controls active. Use the last control to silence that nasty boot-up PC beep. The beep is issued from GDM. If you get errors about not being able to open shared library libasound_module_ctl_pulse, then try using the device parameter, alsamizer -c 0 For more, see the related posts on LinuxQuestions.
Post Installation - TrackPad
Post Installation - TrackPad
Most posts I've read about this are asking how to turn it off, not on!
The instructions that worked for my machine are here.
This has been one of the easier installations I've done. The system starts up quickly, and is responsive. The Xfce interface is clean and adaptable for the smaller screen size. And, I really like the idea of a rolling release! I think Linux Mint and I will be friends ...
