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[Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 22 June 2009 20:12:04 Sean Russell wrote:
> Here's another 4810 experience:

Welcome!

> I replaced the internal harddrive with a 30GB OCZ SSD that I had
> already formatted via USB on another Linux box, to ensure that the
> block sizes were "optimal"
> (http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2009/02/20/aligning-filesystems-to-an-ssds-era
>se-block-size/).

This is a great move, how much does this beast costs?

> I installed from a Kubuntu 8.10 CD and did a dist upgrade to 9.04.
> Everything went fine, except upon reboot the BIOS hung (didn't even
> get to GRUB) and then rebooted; when it came up, I went into the BIOS
> and changed the interface from AHCI (or whatever it was) to IDE; that
> fixed it.  It booted without problems directly into KDM.

I prefer to boot with libata.noacpi=1 until properly fixed.

>    2. Wireless networking started out beautifully, but at least once
>       the connection would drop and KDE would refuse to reconnect.
>       Again, at the moment I'm blaming KDE (see below).

Yes, blame plasma-network-manager, I installed wicd and everything worked as 
expected.

>    7. Suspend/resume worked with no problems.  In fact, it's got the
>       *fastest* resume of any laptop I've seen -- it is incredible.

Probably because of SSD.

Nice and well detailed report, many thanks for it.

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