I Just got the time to install the Colony 4 AMD64 on my laptop's extra partition. The install was very similar and usual to the hoary install, no hickups.
Once booted however, X doesn't show which was and is a problem with Hoary. Apparently, the X700 card on this laptop has some wierdness to the ordering of the LCD and the external display's and the xorg.conf file provided with both hoary and breezy don't properly config the laptop, so it shuts off the LCD display. Unfortunately, the resolution I chose was higher than my external monitor so I had to switch to a virtual console to fix it. Adding: Option "MonitorLayout" "LVDS,CRT" to the device section fixed the problem. The virtual console however, had some wierd fuzzy issues going on, which made the text increasingly harder to read as it approached the left of the screen.
Restarted GDM and was given something similar with X, so I killed it using CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE, and was returned to a now fixed console. Started GDM again and voila X was working. 3D acceleration was not however. Not sure if this was the same bug others have reported with ati's drivers. Most likely so as I have it working nicely in hoary, with minimal configuration.
Once USplash was configured properly it worked very well, and looks very nice.
The main set of things which weren't working were sleep/hibernate. I haven't been able to even get these working with a fair bit of work, so it's not a big deal.
In terms of the Laptop Testing I have filled out a report here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/AcerFerrari4005WLMi
Thanks so much for all the good work. Nearly all of the Fn keys worked out of the box, including the launch application keys. The touchpad with the edge-scrolling features works out of the box.
Ubuntu rocks.
Lakin
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