Good progress..
Don Gould wrote:
Hugo Vincent wrote:
Maybe the CLUG and free software in general are just not for you then.
Perhaps not.
Perhaps *the way of Microsoft is a much better way to go*.
If the suit fits..
..we are tailors :)
Funniest thing I've seen this weekend...
I just finished installing Mepis on my HP. I resized the U6 pat I had
and installed it. The installer asked me if I wanted to use GRUB...
It then completely ignored the U6 installation and only set it self up
with 2 version of XP and itself....
Hummm.... ROFL!
It might be all that GRUB can see; i.e. the U6 partition no longer
exists. This is probably a good thing. AFAICT, you now have the best
distro available installed - for what you need to do.
I did exhaustive install tests last night to match your environment as
much as possible, on an HP Compaq nx9110 laptop for which I now have my
very own (inarticulate) bug-report going on Ubiquity:
https://launchpad.net/bugs/54527
Summary: these advanced (HP) laptops are a problem for Ubuntu/Linux.
The Broadcom bcm43xx wifi isn't tho. Despite the 'microcode error -
bcm43xx driver not loaded' (completely, i.e. just some registers?) early
bootlog guff, the device runs well with any Ubuntu 2.6.15-23/6 distro.
It's the rest of the O/S that's the problem. 6.06 incl Edubuntu both
crash Gnome on this test box, at the moment the panel load passes from
system sound to batt/ac indicator applet, despite 154MB of apt-get
updates done.
Kubuntu looks a lot more promising, allowing me to bluetooth a phone
jpeg to livecd desktop in Linux for the first time ever (Yay! - it looks
functional in my own Ubuntu, but I haven't mastered how yet). KDE 3.5.2
was truly plug'n play wifi, impressing me no end. Hence my support of
your Mepis experiments. Downside was that the Kubuntu installer fails at
partition time, seemingly unable to read hda, so was even uselesser than
Ubuntu.
So good luck with Mepis 6 Don!
*Ubuntu isn't quite ready for you, by the look of things.
No one is forcing you to use Linux etc.
but we really need you to enjoy it like we do :)
hth
--
Rik
