Mitchell Brown wrote: > Good point. Sorry I didn't have a lot of time to get into it. Nor do I > now. But, briefly: > > * The Kubuntu installer hung half way through. Pressed disk, brand > new. On repeated attempts too.
If I remember right, you were using a "pre-release" version of Kubuntu for that. Did you try d/l'ing the ISO, checking the MD5, and then burning that? (this is a legitimate problem in some cases, but usually easily worked around) Or maybe the drive is not up to spec? (i.e. might be a warranty item) > * It will not boot some CD's. It just goes right by them like theyre > not even in the drive. This one sounds more like the quality of the media you're burning to. Again, a common problem. Don't know how many coasters I've made.. :) > * The Acer eRecovery partition gets in the way. If you remove it, it > makes it impossible to get "that other OS" back without the disks Er, yeah.... You can't install ANY OS without the installation media. To do what you're after here requires a little more understanding of drive partitioning. (though I think you've gotten this already). I know of at least ONE person on this list who took a shiny brand new laptop, and wiped the partitions without first booting the thing and burning the restore media. But this is a lesson for everyone - new laptop, boot it up the way the MANUFACTURER expected it to be at least once.... Burn any media needed, then do your thing to it. > * I cannot make my wireless work (ipw2200), despite repeated > attempts and help from others Wireless is *still* a relatively newer technology. It is most definitely starting to stabilize, but there are going to be issues until a common approach is taken by all. Are you sure you want the ipw2200 drivers? My acer used the ipw3935 (?? - from memory) drivers. > * acpi doesn't work as expected (SuSE). no battery meter. Again, a known issues with most laptops. Some work great, some don't. Some distros get it right, some don't. Finding the combination that works for you is sometimes a black art. > > All in all, not a great expierience. Yet with my dads Pavillion, all of > these problems are non-existant. > Just my $0.02... You get what you pay for though. The HP Pavillion, Compaq Presario, etc. are usually consumer grade equipment (read that as very proprietary, and the cheapest parts they could find). I understand this may not be the case with the laptops, but my old experiences are coloring my view of them. My thoughts... Shawn _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
