Hardy Heron Alpha 5 on T61P
Hard drive arrived on Thursday, Hardy Heron Alpha 5 was released on Friday. I downloaded it this morning, and installed it. Twice.
Just for grins, I tried out Wubi. It picked up all my information except my password. I entered my password (twice) and increased the installation size, and let it go. After it churned for a few minutes, it told me I had to reboot. In the boot menu, there is now a third option: Ubuntu. Selecting it caused me to proceed to the Ubuntu installation, which required a second boot after done. Selecting Ubuntu again worked flawlessly: video, audio, wireless etc were all picked up. Per the FAQ, suspend/resume doesn’t work under Wubi.
I briefly looked into KVM and QEMU, but the instructions I found require me to install a new copy of windows instead of making use of the version of Windows that I already have installed.
I then proceeded to install on a clean hard drive. Again, the installation went flawlessly. Video, audio, wireless work, and suspend/resume all work without the need for any restricted drivers. There is a restricted driver available for video, but it causes Firefox to miscompute the DPI (workaround) and fail to suspend/resume. I’m sticking with the open source driver for now.
Not happy with the initial font selection for Firefox 3 Beta 3. Some sites look fine. Mine does not. Will need to play with that a bit.
Swapping back to Windows hard drive, I note that the time is GMT. Here's a way to fix that.
Sam Ruby: Hardy Heron Alpha 5 on T61P
“Video, audio, wireless work, and suspend/resume all work without the need for any restricted drivers.” on top-of-the-line laptop hardware....Excerpt from del.icio.us/wearehugh at
Hi Sam, I’m going to buy a T61 too and I’ll be running Ubuntu on it, but I don’t know which video card I sould get (I’d like the Intel one with a 4:3 screen). Which one do you have?
Posted by Michele Campeotto at
$ lspci | grep VGA 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Quadro FX 570M (rev a1)Posted by Sam Ruby at
Hi Sam,
I have a T61p. I was wondering, are you able to use hdaps with your t61p?
Thankx,
Cantor
Posted by cantor atI’m seeing the same problem with hdaps on alpha 5 as Noel saw on alpha 3. This looks cool.
Posted by Sam Ruby at
Sam Ruby: Hardy Heron Alpha 5 on T61P
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