On Monday 22 June 2009 20:12:04 Sean Russell wrote: > Here's another 4810 experience:
Welcome! > I replaced the internal harddrive with a 30GB OCZ SSD that I had > already formatted via USB on another Linux box, to ensure that the > block sizes were "optimal" > (http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2009/02/20/aligning-filesystems-to-an-ssds-era >se-block-size/). This is a great move, how much does this beast costs? > I installed from a Kubuntu 8.10 CD and did a dist upgrade to 9.04. > Everything went fine, except upon reboot the BIOS hung (didn't even > get to GRUB) and then rebooted; when it came up, I went into the BIOS > and changed the interface from AHCI (or whatever it was) to IDE; that > fixed it. It booted without problems directly into KDM. I prefer to boot with libata.noacpi=1 until properly fixed. > 2. Wireless networking started out beautifully, but at least once > the connection would drop and KDE would refuse to reconnect. > Again, at the moment I'm blaming KDE (see below). Yes, blame plasma-network-manager, I installed wicd and everything worked as expected. > 7. Suspend/resume worked with no problems. In fact, it's got the > *fastest* resume of any laptop I've seen -- it is incredible. Probably because of SSD. Nice and well detailed report, many thanks for it. -- ESC:wq _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~acertimeline Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~acertimeline More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
