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[Sasha Costanza-Chock <schock@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

Just wanted to say that 3 days after a fresh install of Natty Alpha 3 on 
my new Sony VAIO VPCZ, I'm happy to report that most of my issues are 
now solved out of the box!

Plus, Natty may still be buggy, but it is not crashing in ways that 
hamper my ability to work more than once every couple of days (compiz 
fails and reboot is necessary). So, when minor things crash I'm just 
submitting bug reports and move on.

My remaining questions are:

1. Power management

I'm only getting a couple hours of battery life. What's a good tool to 
monitor which processes are eating the power?

2. graphics cards management

a. How do I know which card is active at a given moment? I can see both 
cards are present and recognized by the system but, which is running the 
screen?

b. Switching between Intel and NVIDIA. Honestly I don't care too much 
about this for my own purposes, it's more just curiousity :)

3. Internal microphone

Doesn't seem to be working.


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