> Time to switch to a more current distribution like Debian then? :) > [snipped] > > -- Raju
I actually took Raju's bait and installed debian testing on the laptop. And this mail is to thank him and record the preliminary results of the shift. 1. Debian (testing/lenny) installed without any issue. 2. As Raj had pointed out, the ethernet card worked once the latest kernel was used. 3. Wireless card worked with ndiswrapper. I had only the first dvd of the lenny distribution. Thoughtfully, ndiswrapper was provided on it so I did not have to connect to the internet to install it. 4. Interestingly, the internal mic did not work with ubuntu despite all sorts of tweaking. The webcam worked after some work. Quite a few people have written on the internet about problems with getting ubuntu to use internal mic on Del vostro laptops. These did not work with even the latest (2.6.27) kernel on ubuntu. With debian lenny (2.6.26 kernel), internal mic and the webcam worked straight out of box!! 5. I have both ubuntu 8.04 and debian lenny installed on the system. They share /home, and therefore, much of the gnome configuration files. With the same configuration, Debian's default appearance seems ugly in comparison with ubuntu. In particular, the fonts are too large and made the desktop and some applications look ugly. Both ubuntu and debian have the same screen resolution (1280x800) and it does not look like either has a problem with my graphics card (intel). My present solution is to shift to a smaller size, but that does not solve all the problems. For example, emacs still has HUGE fonts. 6. Running compiz on debian required some tweaking of xorg.conf. To sum, so far, debian lenny has worked much better on this machine than ubuntu 8.04 did. There are a few minor issues with the debian installation but it recognised all the hardware so much better than ubuntu did. Vikas _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
