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[Heikki Wilenius <heikki.wilenius@xxxxxx>]

I've been running an upgraded 12.10 from 12.04 since September I
think, with no problems (Z13 here as well). Last week I re-installed
12.10 from scratch. Everything went well, expect Grub fails to install
if you have your hard disks set to raid0 (like they initially are). I
had to boot from the Ubuntu installation USB drive, install
boot-repair, and run it. When it asks where to install grub, I
selected /dev/mapper/nameofyourraiddevicehere from the options that
boot-repair offered. Now everything worked OK!

I use bumblebee too, it's great (with the nvidia driver, not nouveau).
You need to keep the hardware switch on "Speed" for it to work, but it
does not affect power consumption, so it's ok.

The *only* problem I have at the moment is that in my upraded 12.10
HDMI audio worked right out of the box, but now with the fresh install
it doesn't any more, the audio gets re-routed to the laptop speakers
instead. Any tips on getting HDMI audio to work?

Cheers,
Heikki

On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Wouter van der Graaf <wouter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> No problems here with 12.10 desktop on my VPCZ13. I use the following extra
> packages:
>
> bumblebee - for realtime powering down NVidia GPU and running optirun
> command to enable GPU for some games.
> fingerprint-gui - for fingerprint support (sudo using your finger).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wouter
>
>
>
> Op vr 14 dec 2012 11:39:36 CET, Martin Lütken schreef:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I am using Ubuntu 12.04 and it seems to work out tof the box at least
>> with Intel card on my Z12.
>> I believe that any recent distribution will work.
>>
>> -Martin
>>
>> Den 14-12-2012 10:10, Piotr Zalewa skrev:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've been using my Vaio with Gentoo for quite some time (almost 2
>>> years now), but I've got some lib conflict and stuff and decided to
>>> reinstall the system to a less hassle one.
>>>
>>> Which one should I choose? I won't use the default KDE/Gnome/XFCE/WTV
>>> so this is not a question about preferences, or start of a flamewar.
>>> I can handle any Linux. I'm looking for a distribution which should
>>> run "out of the box" with some tweaks.
>>>
>>> I'm looking at Ubuntu (maybe server edition to avoid bloatware) and
>>> OpenSuse.
>>>
>>> Do I still need to go through some special installation procedure
>>> like it used to be the case 2y ago?
>>>
>>> The best answer would be: "I'm using Suse - here are the installation
>>> instructions, this and that is not working."
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> zalun
>>
>>
>>
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