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[David Hláčik <david@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

And what about Intel 4500 HD graphics on Ubuntu Jaunty? Does anyone
has problems with that?

David

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 4:38 AM, Sean Russell<seanerussell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Monday 22 June 2009 20:12:04 Sean Russell wrote:
>> > Here's another 4810 experience:
>>
>> Welcome!
>
> Thanks.
>
>>
>> > I replaced the internal harddrive with a 30GB OCZ SSD that I had
>> ...
>> This is a great move, how much does this beast costs?
>
> That's a funny story.  First, I lied.  It's a 64GB.  I bought it a few
> months ago for near $200 for my laptop, which I thought had a SATA
> interface.  It doesn't; it has an IDE interface.  You can't return these
> once you unpack them, so I was stuck with it; I knew we'd be getting my wife
> a new laptop, so I wasn't too broken up about it.  I then bought a 64GB IDE
> Transcend for around $150 and have been using it in my TC4200.
>
> When we got the Acer, my wife played around with Windows for a while, then
> asked me to put Linux on it.  Really, I think that's only because she knows
> that she's going to have to admin her own machine if she runs Windows, and
> (to be honest) there's not much difference for her.  So, I threw the SSD in
> there and put Ubuntu on it.
>
> So, they're not too bad.  Not as cheap as HDDs, but I love the silence and
> the extra battery life.  She's got the display on hers at about half
> brightness, and the wifi on, and we're getting pretty close to the 8 hrs.  I
> need to play with the eco-button and if that makes any difference.  Has
> anybody here done any timings?
>
> You know, if the Acer had a docking port, I'd think about replacing my HP
> with one.  The Acers are really inexpensive, and so far, I really like it.
>
> The fan on my HP comes on way more often than it does on the Acer, but with
> the SSDs they're both dead silent, otherwise.  In fact, I don't think I've
> heard the Acer's fan come on when it is on battery, yet.  It's a nice change
> from her old laptop, which we used to heat the main floor of the house; the
> fans on that thing were only off for the first two minutes after you booted.
>
>>
>> > 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.
>
> Doesn't that interfere with suspend/resume?  I guess if it is targetted at
> the *ATA interface, then it might not.
>
>>
>> Yes, blame plasma-network-manager, I installed wicd and everything worked
>> as
>> expected.
>
> Hm.  The only problem with wicd (which I like a lot, BTW) is that I can't
> get it configured to connect to the company wireless network, which is WPA.
> It won't let me close the darned config window unless I fill in everything,
> but the only data that *should* be required are the CA and client certs.
> Anyway, that's a topic for a different forum.
>
>>
>> >    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.
>
> Really?  Yours isn't blindingly fast?  It was just as fast under Windows,
> though, which was on an HDD, so I don't think it's the SSD.  If I were
> hibernating, then, yeah... I could see that.
>
> So... has anybody found anything out about that touchpad toggle button?
> Does it work for anybody?
>
> --- SER
>
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