Hi, And what about Intel 4500 HD graphics on Ubuntu Jaunty? Does anyone has problems with that?
David On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 4:38 AM, Sean Russell<[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Marco Amadori <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> On Monday 22 June 2009 20:12:04 Sean Russell wrote: >> > Here's another 4810 experience: >> >> Welcome! > > Thanks. > >> >> > I replaced the internal harddrive with a 30GB OCZ SSD that I had >> ... >> This is a great move, how much does this beast costs? > > That's a funny story. First, I lied. It's a 64GB. I bought it a few > months ago for near $200 for my laptop, which I thought had a SATA > interface. It doesn't; it has an IDE interface. You can't return these > once you unpack them, so I was stuck with it; I knew we'd be getting my wife > a new laptop, so I wasn't too broken up about it. I then bought a 64GB IDE > Transcend for around $150 and have been using it in my TC4200. > > When we got the Acer, my wife played around with Windows for a while, then > asked me to put Linux on it. Really, I think that's only because she knows > that she's going to have to admin her own machine if she runs Windows, and > (to be honest) there's not much difference for her. So, I threw the SSD in > there and put Ubuntu on it. > > So, they're not too bad. Not as cheap as HDDs, but I love the silence and > the extra battery life. She's got the display on hers at about half > brightness, and the wifi on, and we're getting pretty close to the 8 hrs. I > need to play with the eco-button and if that makes any difference. Has > anybody here done any timings? > > You know, if the Acer had a docking port, I'd think about replacing my HP > with one. The Acers are really inexpensive, and so far, I really like it. > > The fan on my HP comes on way more often than it does on the Acer, but with > the SSDs they're both dead silent, otherwise. In fact, I don't think I've > heard the Acer's fan come on when it is on battery, yet. It's a nice change > from her old laptop, which we used to heat the main floor of the house; the > fans on that thing were only off for the first two minutes after you booted. > >> >> > 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. > > Doesn't that interfere with suspend/resume? I guess if it is targetted at > the *ATA interface, then it might not. > >> >> Yes, blame plasma-network-manager, I installed wicd and everything worked >> as >> expected. > > Hm. The only problem with wicd (which I like a lot, BTW) is that I can't > get it configured to connect to the company wireless network, which is WPA. > It won't let me close the darned config window unless I fill in everything, > but the only data that *should* be required are the CA and client certs. > Anyway, that's a topic for a different forum. > >> >> > 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. > > Really? Yours isn't blindingly fast? It was just as fast under Windows, > though, which was on an HDD, so I don't think it's the SSD. If I were > hibernating, then, yeah... I could see that. > > So... has anybody found anything out about that touchpad toggle button? > Does it work for anybody? > > --- SER > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~acertimeline > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~acertimeline > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~acertimeline Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~acertimeline More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
