[nzlug] Acer + Ubuntu: initial impressions.

[Robin Sheat]

On Tuesday 01 April 2008 22:59:21 Simon Bridge wrote:
> Interesting idea - such a person would want ext2 and would disable
> sources by commenting out the lines in sources.list

Yep.

> However - they went to the trouble of moving said HW into the new
> form-factor. Perhaps I should play closer attention to how the live disk
> behaves?

I haven't compared it to other ones, but if you were making a laptop 
specifically for linux, the first person you talked to would tell you to not 
use a network card that required a windows driver.

> Lets see - HW DRI is disabled too ... so compiz won't work.
> Isn't there something about compiz-fusion and the "intel" driver?

Apparently some work, some don't. I think compiz knows which is which, and 
won't run on incompatible chipsets anyway.

> are doing to their distro. Anyway - reinstalling from an official ubuntu
> disk solved all issues.

Did wireless work out of the box, or does it still require ndiswrapper? When 
I'm next down or my folks are next up, I might put hardy on it. It'll be 
released properly by then (and hopefully the wireless failing after suspend 
issues I'm having with it on my HP laptop, which didn't happen in gutsy, will 
be resolved).

> I discovered that the recovery boot in the grub menu has a reliable
> terminal and used that. Guess what... this machine has been used for

Oh yeah, that's right. I forgot about that.

> training (the username was "DECA Training"). I'm definitely calling DSE
> tomorrow.

When you do an OEM install of Ubuntu, you have to provide a username that is 
temporary that it uses to do the setup. I think (although I didn't check when 
I was playing with it today) that it goes away/gets renamed after the user 
sets it up. It's likely that's what you're seeing. Maybe they did that on the 
machine they used as the image base.

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