Well it’s been a very busy 14 days for me, I’ve recently acquired a new work rig and in the process of converting my desktop to a local file server. The main goal for me acquiring this monstrous 19 incher is just so I can move around (mind you this mofo is huge, so my moving around is limited) my house and not just stay couped up in the study. A couple of important things happened when I got this laptop:
- I rediscovered my love for the Windows OS – I really don’t know what Microsoft haters are bitchin’ about, Vista runs very nicely and I was surprised at the great interface (which of course Microsoft haters bitched about). I was so impressed with Vista, that I decided to not reformat the Hard drive and actally dual boot.
- I can now run Ubuntu instead of Xubuntu
while I liked Xubuntu, it lacked the polish and completeness a desktop environment like GNOME brings to the table. Especially coming from investigating the sh*tloads of issues I had with setting up Ubuntu due to driver issues and other sh*t – this is not specifically a Ubuntu issue, more a linux one. but anyway… I eventually managed to get my wireless working on Ubuntu, I’ll give you the step by step in later posts
Needless to say, installing Ubuntu on the LG S900-U.CPS1A Notebook was very painful would you believe that the built in ethernet did not work?! FFS!
* AR5007E Does not work (Ndiswrapper)
* Ethernet does not seem to work. (Hmmm)
* Brown background on logon (Change /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default
* Gamma reverting on screen saver: Don't use gamma setting in nvidia-settings, instead set in Monitor section of xorg.conf
* Slow on Emerald - So I decided to use the standard gtk-window-decorator.
* Brightness being reverted to 100%
o System >> Power Management
o Set brightness in "On AC Power" tab. (I've set mine to 60%).
* Easy way to toggle touchpad on and off
o qsynaptics
* add to authorized_keys for passwordless sshingWell, there’s a bunch of issues I resolved there – like I said in not so many words, I’ll elaborate more on the finer points later in time
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Woah that mofo is one huge mother! If you threw it at someone it would kill em!
I’m glad to see you’ve crossed back to windows (insert evil laugh here).
I bought an S900 with Vista
While paging through some pictures on a CD I got the blue screen of death and Vista crashed – unbelievably pathetic
My Microsoft Visual Studio gets errors from Vista “this software has known issues with Visual Studio” – in other words “you must buy more Microsoft software”
My favorite CAD program won’t run under Vista because the file system isn’t compatible with NTFS – how stupid
Vista is junk. Kubuntu 8.04 installed and ran fine, but I had to go back to WinXP.
Are you still using Ubuntu on S900? Did you face any problems with the Keyboard?
Yes I am – never had problems with the keyboard. What kind of problems are you having?