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Re: Dell Vostro 1320

2009-12-02T07:11:18Z

Hi Willian, Am replying to the list as it helps to have archives for
others that google for solutions. In gmail use the 'reply-to-all'
button and if you use linux mail clients it is supported there too.

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 09:18, Willian Itiho Amano <itihoitiho@...> wrote:

> I installed the kubuntu 9:10 twice. The two plants was the same problem.
>
>
> # lspci
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory
> Controller Hub (rev 07)
> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset PCI Express
> Graphics Port (rev 07)
> 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI
> Controller #4 (rev 03)
> 00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI
> Controller #5 (rev 03)
> 00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI
> Controller #6 (rev 03)
> 00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI
> Controller #2 (rev 03)
> 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio
> Controller (rev 03)
> 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port
> 1 (rev 03)
> 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port
> 2 (rev 03)
> 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port
> 3 (rev 03)
> 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port
> 4 (rev 03)
> 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port
> 5 (rev 03)
> 00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port
> 6 (rev 03)
> 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI
> Controller #1 (rev 03)
> 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI
> Controller #2 (rev 03)
> 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI
> Controller #3 (rev 03)
> 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI
> Controller #1 (rev 03)
> 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93)
> 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev
> 03)
> 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller
> (rev 03)
> 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev
> 03)
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G98 [GeForce 9300M GS]
> (rev a1)
> 08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B
> PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 03)
> 0e:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 5300 AGN [Shiloh]
> Network Connection
> 1a:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): O2 Micro, Inc. Device 10f7 (rev 01)
> 1a:00.1 SD Host controller: O2 Micro, Inc. Device 8120 (rev 01)
> 1a:00.2 Mass storage controller: O2 Micro, Inc. Device 8130 (rev 01)

Above, there is no listing for IDE interface. In my machine its :
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE
Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB (ICH5) SATA Controller (rev 02)

I found an old kernel bug #334249
http://www.google.com/webhp#hl=en&ei=zIIWS4z-CYzq7APXnsC7BA&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&ved=0CAYQBSgA&q=Dell+Vostro+1320+IDE+interface+not+detected+Ubuntu&spell=1&fp=5314be7db8b10649

Can you try "dmesg" in the terminal and post the output to the list?

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Re: Dell Vostro 1320

2009-12-01T19:22:38Z

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 23:04, Willian Itiho Amano <itihoitiho@...> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I bought a Dell Vostro 1320 and installed kubuntu 9.10 and suddenly he
> crash, but does not show anything in the logs.

Can you provide more details : Did the installation complete? Were you
able to boot into the system, etc... If you were not able to complete
installing Ubuntu on your machine then check for device driver issues
and see if a bug has been filed. Most times I've had wi-fi cards that
are not linux compatible, but you never know if other compatibility
issues exist.

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Re: Dell Vostro 1320

2009-12-01T11:58:55Z

Willian Itiho Amano wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I bought a Dell Vostro 1320 and installed kubuntu 9.10 and suddenly he
> crash, but does not show anything in the logs.
>
> I tried to install the generic and 586 kernel but the problem remains
> the same
>
> Intel® Core 2 Duo P8700 (2.53GHz, 3MB L2 Cache, 1066MHz FSB)
> 3GB,DDR2 SDRAM 800MHz, 2DIMMs
> NVIDIA® GeForce™ 9300M GS 256MB
> HD SATA 250GB 7200 RPM
> LCD de 13.3" WXGA with TrueLife™
> Windows Vista® Home Basic SP1
> Dell Wireless 355 Bluetooth 2.0 Vista
> Intel® WiFi Link 5300 (802.11a/g/n) miniPCI card
>
> Sorry may english
>

Hi William,

You'll have better luck getting answers for Dell + Ubuntu related
questions in this mailing list:
https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-desktops

Both Canonical and Dell people monitor it, in addition to many Dell +
Linux users.

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Re: Dell Vostro 1320

2009-12-01T11:28:23Z

Willian Itiho Amano wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I bought a Dell Vostro 1320 and installed kubuntu 9.10 and suddenly he
> crash, but does not show anything in the logs.
>
> I tried to install the generic and 586 kernel but the problem remains the
> same
>
> Intel® Core 2 Duo P8700 (2.53GHz, 3MB L2 Cache, 1066MHz FSB)
> 3GB,DDR2 SDRAM 800MHz, 2DIMMs
> NVIDIA® GeForce™ 9300M GS 256MB
> HD SATA 250GB 7200 RPM
> LCD de 13.3" WXGA with TrueLife™
> Windows Vista® Home Basic SP1
> Dell Wireless 355 Bluetooth 2.0 Vista
> Intel® WiFi Link 5300 (802.11a/g/n) miniPCI card
>
> Sorry may english
>
>

It may just be a one-time crash, or are you not able to boot into Ubuntu
at all? Are you able to boot from a LiveCD and recover your files?

-Make sure you are fully updated
-Take a look at the following link for issues with this particular model:

http://www.google.com/custom?hl=en&client=google-coop-np&cof=FORID%3A13%3BAH%3Aleft%3BCX%3AUbuntu%2520Search%3BL%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fintl%2Fen%2Fimages%2Flogos%2Fcustom_search_logo_sm.gif%3BLH%3A30%3BLP%3A1%3BVLC%3A%23551a8b%3BDIV%3A%23cccccc%3B&adkw=AELymgVuoyPWAbnWQAMLrtkvFpU_gNhdfhaaYDqoJWqQujqC1xcL1eVMQLVyjrkOiZdzdcu9QXMLT8BpbC3pLI17-HPDor3DUfANy-OqsjawxoNfmM2kEyA&boostcse=0&q=vostro+1320+ubuntu+karmic+9.10&btnG=Search&cx=001461844748502826593%3Ahh-ikmexth4

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Re: laptop testing

2009-12-01T11:23:23Z

Vijay Salian wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Recently, I reported a bug. But unfortunately, It remained unanswered. Hence
> I am no more interested in Laptop_Testing-Team.
>
> The bug report was, TATA USB Modem does not work in Ubuntu 9.10 on ASUS
> eeePC.
>
> --
> VKSALIAN
>
>

Please include the bug number or URL. Modem support for soft modems is
very bad (non hardware
modems). Have you tried installing sl-modem-daemon to see if it helps?

The only modem I have even successfully used on ubuntu was a hardware
serial modem.

Cheers,

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Dell Vostro 1320

2009-12-01T09:35:32Z

Hello,

I bought a Dell Vostro 1320 and installed kubuntu 9.10 and suddenly he crash, but does not show anything in the logs.

I tried to install the generic and 586 kernel but the problem remains the same

Intel® Core 2 Duo P8700 (2.53GHz, 3MB L2 Cache, 1066MHz FSB)
3GB,DDR2 SDRAM 800MHz, 2DIMMs
NVIDIA® GeForce™ 9300M GS 256MB
HD SATA 250GB 7200 RPM
LCD de 13.3" WXGA with TrueLife™
Windows Vista® Home Basic SP1
Dell Wireless 355 Bluetooth 2.0 Vista
Intel® WiFi Link 5300 (802.11a/g/n) miniPCI card

Sorry may english

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Dell Vostro 1320

2009-12-01T09:34:38Z

Re: laptop testing

2009-12-01T09:00:24Z

What version of ASUS EeePC do you have?

On Dec 1, 2009, at 8:50 AM, Vijay Salian <salianvk@...> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Recently, I reported a bug. But unfortunately, It remained
> unanswered. Hence I am no more interested in Laptop_Testing-Team.
>
> The bug report was, TATA USB Modem does not work in Ubuntu 9.10 on
> ASUS eeePC.
>
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laptop testing

2009-12-01T08:50:21Z

Hi,

Recently, I reported a bug. But unfortunately, It remained unanswered. Hence I am no more interested in Laptop_Testing-Team.

The bug report was, TATA USB Modem does not work in Ubuntu 9.10 on ASUS eeePC.

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Wiki Template

2009-11-29T13:32:08Z

Greetings,

Is anyone planning on updating
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeamTemplate ? I am new to the
team and am now busy creating a page for my new laptop.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/AcerTimeline4810TZ

I attended UDS-L for Lucid Lynx in Dallas and am excited to find
organized ways that motivated Ubuntu users, especially LoCos, can
contribute to making Ubuntu better. Laptop hardware testing is an
excellent example.

Grant Bowman
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Re: (no subject)

2009-11-24T13:49:39Z

Hey Brett,

Sorry, but I didn't receive any text in the body of your massage...

Are you needing assistance with something?

On Nov 24, 2009, at 1:44 PM, Brett Murch wrote:

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2009-11-24T13:44:49Z

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I want to buy a IBM ThinkPad 390 laptop battery, Need Help!

2009-11-17T00:43:44Z

jerry9920@...Do you have more experience in shopping from nuvav.com?

How about the price?

IBM ThinkPad 390, i1700, Series Laptop Battery 4400mAh(02K6513, 02K6520)

Re: Elantech & Wireless

2009-10-22T04:44:41Z

Mon Sagullo wrote:
> I am please to inform everyone that the "Elantech" Touchpad is now
> working under Koala Beta. Though it is not as responsive when I boot
> into WinXP, at least now, I don't have to plug in a mouse to use my laptop.

If it's presented as a USB device as I suspect, it would be nice you
shared the USB ID and also reported is as working at
http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/

> Before I went the upgrade path from 9.04, shuffling my laptop between my
> workplace and my home, I have no problem with wireless making connection
> at work after I upgraded. But last night, my laptop could not connect to
> my DD-WRTed WRT54GL at home. And when I went to work earlied today, I my
> laptop can identify the APs at work, but could not connect to the same
> AP I used yesterday.

Likewise, sharing the results of sudo lshw -C network will provide
information about your wireless chipset and current driver.

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Elantech & Wireless

2009-10-22T01:47:59Z

I am please to inform everyone that the "Elantech" Touchpad is now working under Koala Beta. Though it is not as responsive when I boot into WinXP, at least now, I don't have to plug in a mouse to use my laptop.

Before I went the upgrade path from 9.04, shuffling my laptop between my workplace and my home, I have no problem with wireless making connection at work after I upgraded. But last night, my laptop could not connect to my DD-WRTed WRT54GL at home. And when I went to work earlied today, I my laptop can identify the APs at work, but could not connect to the same AP I used yesterday.

Of course, being in Beta, my expectations are more realistic. Just the same, so far I am impressed with how Ubuntu is turning out to be. Great work guys!

Mon Sagullo
Philippines

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Re: Contract Bridge Players problem

2009-10-17T19:25:20Z

If you have not already, I would try using WINE. This is a pretty good
Microsoft emulator and may do the trick for you. There is another
application that you may want to give a try called "play on linux" It
works pretty much the same way that WINE does but is made more for
playing games made more for use with Microsoft operating systems. Good
luck.

Ward Duncan

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> I have been using Ubuntu for a few months and one by one have managed to find most of my answers.
>
> Today I hit one that I am surprised I haven't struggled with already.
>
> I went to a site for Contract Bridge Players to download their game software. All of my attempts to
> download and install have failed and I believe the culprit to be their using Microsoft and is incompatible
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Re: Question

2009-10-17T06:58:20Z

Welcome to Ubuntu!

> I went to a site for Contract Bridge Players to download their game
> software. All of my attempts to
> download and install have failed and I believe the culprit to be their using
> Microsoft and is incompatible
> with my laptop which is 100% UBUNTU and I wouldn't trade it for anything
> else right now.
>
> Is there a conversion available?

If only Windows versions of a piece of software is available, you
could try using WINE (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wine). It
allows Windows programs to run under Linux. You can also try the
program's website support forums to see if other have been successful
either getting and compiling source code (if it is available) or
installing the software with WINE.

Also, this mailing list is used for testing development releases of
Ubuntu on laptops and should not be used for support. For support,
use:
ubuntu-users@...
or see
http://www.ubuntu.com/support/communitysupport

Enjoy Karmic in a few days!
Regards,
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Question

2009-10-17T01:24:06Z

Saturday October 17th, 2009

Hi and thank you for allowing me to join as an UBUNTU "Newbie" .

I have been using Ubuntu for a few months and one by one have managed to find most of my answers.

Today I hit one that I am surprised I haven't struggled with already.

I went to a site for Contract Bridge Players to download their game software. All of my attempts to
download and install have failed and I believe the culprit to be their using Microsoft and is incompatible
with my laptop which is 100% UBUNTU and I wouldn't trade it for anything else right now.

Is there a conversion available? I have tried to write to them, but I doubt if it will be found and answered.

Thank you so much,

Ron Kent
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SiS on Medion 9020, 64AMD Laptop

2009-06-11T15:58:23Z

Hi Everybody, after struggling for some hours I just purchased one of
this little things and made sure it is Ubuntu compatible. Sis simply is
so in love with Windows that it does not bother to update for Linux
(tried it also with opensolaris with same results) and it is really
important to make sure that the Laptop is working B4 U buy one.
The Medion I will now only keep as a little sweet Windows pet from the
past.
I have to give here a compliment to the developer who wrote the script
for the various printer!

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Re: Dell XPS m1530 - Problems with Resume after suspend/hibernate

2009-06-03T04:46:07Z

Hi Robinson,

Taking a look at Canonical's certified hardware (
http://webapps.ubuntu.com/certification/ ) the m1530 has not been
officially certified for Ubuntu (only the m1330). If you are running the
nvidia binary driver, try disabling it in System > Administration >
Hardware Drivers and then reboot and test suspend.

There are more bugs which deal with suspend on the m1530:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/354424
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/324031
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/360289
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/362889

There are a few fixes/workarounds listed, but they most likely don't
apply to Jaunty:

http://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Dell/XPSm1530
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/InstallingUbuntuOnADellXPSM1530#Fixing%20Suspend%20(S3)

Hope this helps,

-komputes

Robinson Tryon wrote:

> I haven't been able to get my Dell XPS m1530 to resume properly after
> suspend/hibernate. I filed a bug on launchpad
> (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/366264) a month
> ago and have been trying to get help from people on #ubuntu,
> #ubuntu-kernel, and #ubuntu-bugs to help me triage and work on this
> bug. I've done some testing based on what I've dug up on the wiki, but
> I'm not sure what to do next.
>
> Is the laptop testing team the right place to go for help with this
> bug? Is there another forum that would be more appropriate?
>
>
> Thanks,
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Dell XPS m1530 - Problems with Resume after suspend/hibernate

2009-06-02T12:51:52Z

I haven't been able to get my Dell XPS m1530 to resume properly after
suspend/hibernate. I filed a bug on launchpad
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/366264) a month
ago and have been trying to get help from people on #ubuntu,
#ubuntu-kernel, and #ubuntu-bugs to help me triage and work on this
bug. I've done some testing based on what I've dug up on the wiki, but
I'm not sure what to do next.

Is the laptop testing team the right place to go for help with this
bug? Is there another forum that would be more appropriate?

Thanks,
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Re: Medion AMD64 SiS .....

2009-05-29T04:56:03Z

Salut Theo,

> As Pro Photographer I have to deliver, to convince my editors I have to be as good as they are with Photo-Mechanic and Photoshop C4 (which is consuming so much RAM) I can not have any failiures, then these guys say: "We have told you".

In America it's "told you so" but it sounds more like "tol ja soh" with a nice melody to it ;) - Hopefully you'll be the one telling them, told you so I could do it on linux!

> I work with Olypus E3 and Leica and each image has at least 10 MB as JPEG

Dude! The E3 is a huge camera. Hopefully you won't get that confiscated.
I thought you were trying to pass through without seeming like you have
much equipment, but I guess an SLR is needed to even be considered for
publishing, plus you get to swap lenses to your need which makes fore
more specific picture types. I suggested a netbook because battery wise
you get 3+ hours and they are small, but obviously size is not an item.

> As I had been in Chad, 40° Celsius, same in Pakistan recently,the
Medion really is giving up after ca 200 images. TOO HOT!

Ah, laptops in hot conditions, this one is tricky but you can find them.
From my experience cheap AMD chips heat up too quick. I don't even have
to be in Chad and my computer can shut down from heat. For this you can
tone down the CPU power (Right click top Panel > Add to Panel > CPU
frequency scaling) if your computer supports it. I'm not sure how you
acquire your used laptops or if you can be picky and try them out, but
if you can. I would prepare a 1h movie and 10GB of files to play and
transfer simultaneoustly. This is what I would test:

1 -Turn on the laptop you are testing and let it sit for 10 minutes.

2 - run the following command (may be different for your CPU but
pressing tab, should auto-complete the different part) and record the
temperature.

example:
komputes@mini:~$ cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/TZ01/temperature
temperature: 47 C

The TZ01 part is the one that will differ from laptop to laptop, but
pressing tab at that part should auto-complete it for you, you just need
to add temperature afterwards and press enter.

-Now copy the 10GB of data and play the movie simultaneously

Repeat the same command (cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/TZ01/temperature)
and see how hot it gets. The CPU with the least amount of change as well
as the lowest temperature is the one for you.

Have fun and keep in touch!

-komputes

T.Fruendt wrote:

> Hello,
> thank you for taking the time for such comprehensive answer! Well, yes that the one: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 661/741/760 PCI/AGP or 662/761Gx PCIE VGA Display Adapter. On the web I found someone in Austria who was spending lots of time to develop a driver but even having been working ages ago on UNIX systems and being familiar with DOS things have changed. Thanks for the advice, I will just install 9.04 on the laptop now, not studio. I will get all data of this silly Medion RAM 2020 as you said.
>
> Will test Picasa but moving some 70.000 images is not as easy, still struggling gaining enough experience with Ubuntu (currently on my
> desktop I use 9.04 and I find it really comfortable to work with). As Pro Photographer I have to deliver, to convince my editors I have to be as good as they are with Photo-Mechanic and Photoshop C4 (which is consuming so much RAM) I can not have any failiures, then these guys say: "We have told you".
>
> I work with Olypus E3 and Leica and each image has at least 10 MB as JPEG, not to mention RAW... also for Linux are nice tools for RAW. I hope on long term I can bring in some experience in this field because for young colleagues, starters, software is really a issue in terms of investment. So, for now I must say digiKam is close to be perfect! Fast, RAW imports via DNG converter etc etc... Very smart solution!
>
> Regarding the Laptop: As I had been in Chad, 40° Celsius, same in Pakistan recently,the Medion really is giving up after ca 200 images. TOO HOT! To your experiances what is the most suitable machine und Linux, Ubuntu 9.04? I can handle the good old 15 inch size. What do you
> think about the old Compaqs? Its more important being robust when carried in a rucksack, 1 or 4 kg more, I don't care... have to wear often a flak-jaket and this is allready 8 kg...
>
> Thanks again
> Theodor
>
> On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 22:10 +0200, komputes wrote:
>
>> Bonjour Theodore,
>>
>> Thank you for reviving the laptop testing team mailing list!
>>
>> Now that that's out of the way, I think I know what you're talking about
>> when you say SiS screws up your VGA display. You did not make it clear
>> what make/model laptop you currently have. I would also recommend you
>> reply with the model of the video card in the laptop - you can get all
>> this information by running this command in a terminal, and attaching
>> the output from your home directory to the reply email:
>>
>> lspci -vvnn > ~/pci.id.medion
>>
>> I have an Acer and it has an AMD Turion in it, basically I have video
>> issues as well. I thought I would try to help you out. Obviously Acer
>> went the cheap route when equipping their laptops with video cards and
>> passed the savings (and grief) along to their customers.
>>
>> Take a look at the following bugs which may describe what you are
>> seeing. My friend and I can confirm these issues on the Aspire 3000/5000
>> series.
>>
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/317658
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/291294
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/264769
>>
>> I have tried contacting the maintainer of the driver, but have not
>> gotten a response. I have also contacted Bryce Harrington - Ubuntu's
>> lead X.org expert, who has taken a look at these bugs. All I can tell
>> you is that I have had video problems with this card (Silicon Integrated
>> Systems [SiS] 661/741/760 PCI/AGP or 662/761Gx PCIE VGA Display Adapter
>> [1039:6330]) only after Ubuntu 7.10 - so you can try the work around
>> explained in these bugs (the sisfb option) or you can backup /home and
>> go back to 7.10 which has flaws and has hit end of life recently (so is
>> no longer getting security updates).
>>
>> http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/gutsy/
>>
>> Either way, event though I am a free software advocate, I would
>> recommend Picasa over F-stop any day (I'm talking about quality here),
>> and Ubuntu over Ubuntu Studio. If you have to get a cheap laptop that
>> you can hide from those who may want to confiscate it, i would recommend
>> a small netbook - under 1KG (and under $300) which you can pass along in
>> a small bag with a thin camera. Get us some nice pictures! Hopefully
>> some of the kids of the region holding up the ubuntu logo: the circle of
>> friends. Hope this helps.
>>
>> Cheers and peace,
>>
>> -komputes
>>
>> Theodor Fruendt wrote:
>>
>>> Hi to everybody,
>>> you might find this funny, but against all pro photographers
>>> recommendations I want to take things seriously and try to give Ubuntu
>>> Studio a try.
>>> Working mainly on low budget laptops (I report from hostile regions and
>>> socially unstable societies where confiscation of equipment is common).
>>> So I can not drag a Ubuntu machine around. Currently I work on a Medion
>>> AMD64, a cheap thing because the Accer found a new owner in Afghanistan.
>>> However I came across this SiS thing which screws up my VGA Display. Due
>>> to my lack of experience this seems not to be solved any soon unless
>>> some one of you has time to send me some hints.
>>> It is already tough to explain picture desk editors that I am not
>>> willing to use Adobe products unless they are willing to increase,
>>> instead reducing, their fees. Also, I'm pretty happy working with GIMP
>>> and F-Spot instead of Photoshop and I-View oder Fotomechanic.
>>> Being native German speaking, living in France, I'm would help with
>>> translations and with evaluating in photo editing issues.
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>>
>>>

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Re: Medion AMD64

2009-05-28T13:10:39Z

Bonjour Theodore,

Thank you for reviving the laptop testing team mailing list!

Now that that's out of the way, I think I know what you're talking about
when you say SiS screws up your VGA display. You did not make it clear
what make/model laptop you currently have. I would also recommend you
reply with the model of the video card in the laptop - you can get all
this information by running this command in a terminal, and attaching
the output from your home directory to the reply email:

lspci -vvnn > ~/pci.id.medion

I have an Acer and it has an AMD Turion in it, basically I have video
issues as well. I thought I would try to help you out. Obviously Acer
went the cheap route when equipping their laptops with video cards and
passed the savings (and grief) along to their customers.

Take a look at the following bugs which may describe what you are
seeing. My friend and I can confirm these issues on the Aspire 3000/5000
series.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/317658
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/291294
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/264769

I have tried contacting the maintainer of the driver, but have not
gotten a response. I have also contacted Bryce Harrington - Ubuntu's
lead X.org expert, who has taken a look at these bugs. All I can tell
you is that I have had video problems with this card (Silicon Integrated
Systems [SiS] 661/741/760 PCI/AGP or 662/761Gx PCIE VGA Display Adapter
[1039:6330]) only after Ubuntu 7.10 - so you can try the work around
explained in these bugs (the sisfb option) or you can backup /home and
go back to 7.10 which has flaws and has hit end of life recently (so is
no longer getting security updates).

http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/gutsy/

Either way, event though I am a free software advocate, I would
recommend Picasa over F-stop any day (I'm talking about quality here),
and Ubuntu over Ubuntu Studio. If you have to get a cheap laptop that
you can hide from those who may want to confiscate it, i would recommend
a small netbook - under 1KG (and under $300) which you can pass along in
a small bag with a thin camera. Get us some nice pictures! Hopefully
some of the kids of the region holding up the ubuntu logo: the circle of
friends. Hope this helps.

Cheers and peace,

-komputes

Theodor Fruendt wrote:

> Hi to everybody,
> you might find this funny, but against all pro photographers
> recommendations I want to take things seriously and try to give Ubuntu
> Studio a try.
> Working mainly on low budget laptops (I report from hostile regions and
> socially unstable societies where confiscation of equipment is common).
> So I can not drag a Ubuntu machine around. Currently I work on a Medion
> AMD64, a cheap thing because the Accer found a new owner in Afghanistan.
> However I came across this SiS thing which screws up my VGA Display. Due
> to my lack of experience this seems not to be solved any soon unless
> some one of you has time to send me some hints.
> It is already tough to explain picture desk editors that I am not
> willing to use Adobe products unless they are willing to increase,
> instead reducing, their fees. Also, I'm pretty happy working with GIMP
> and F-Spot instead of Photoshop and I-View oder Fotomechanic.
> Being native German speaking, living in France, I'm would help with
> translations and with evaluating in photo editing issues.
> Cheers
>
>

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Medion AMD64

2009-05-28T07:09:25Z

Hi to everybody,
you might find this funny, but against all pro photographers
recommendations I want to take things seriously and try to give Ubuntu
Studio a try.
Working mainly on low budget laptops (I report from hostile regions and
socially unstable societies where confiscation of equipment is common).
So I can not drag a Ubuntu machine around. Currently I work on a Medion
AMD64, a cheap thing because the Accer found a new owner in Afghanistan.
However I came across this SiS thing which screws up my VGA Display. Due
to my lack of experience this seems not to be solved any soon unless
some one of you has time to send me some hints.
It is already tough to explain picture desk editors that I am not
willing to use Adobe products unless they are willing to increase,
instead reducing, their fees. Also, I'm pretty happy working with GIMP
and F-Spot instead of Photoshop and I-View oder Fotomechanic.
Being native German speaking, living in France, I'm would help with
translations and with evaluating in photo editing issues.
Cheers

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iwlagn and 802.11n on an Intel Wireless WiFi Link 5100AGN card.

2009-05-02T11:10:19Z

Hello,

I had a problem with the driver (iwlagn) used for my wlan card (Intel Wireless WiFi Link 5100AGN), the max speed was at 6mbps.
The problem was resolved with :
sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-jaunty

However, i have another problem with the card. I can't connect to my G/N wireless router with N mode !? Can anyone help please :)

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hp2710p wacom tablet

2009-04-07T23:34:19Z

Hello,

I have a hp 2710p tablet pc with wacom tablet.
I used it on Ubuntu 8.10 with the modification in xorg.conf like sugested on:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/HP2710p_Hardy
It never worked correct (when I went to tablet mode my keyboard and mouse froze and no log messages)

Now I wanted to test on ubuntu 9.04 (to see if that problem was gone) and my wacom tablet is commented out in xorg.conf.
Do I have to set my wacom in xorg.conf or should the hal deamon take care of it because it doesn't do anything now.

On the side of my tablet I have two buttons (for tablet mode) :
ctrl-alt-del button -> works, pops up the menu for sleep mode, shutdown, ...
rotate screen button -> same freeze as I had with ubuntu 8.10, the keyboard and mouse don't work anymore

If I push the on-of button or the ctrl-alt-del button and the menu pops up, then my keyboard and mouse start working again and I get a error message:
psmouse.c: Mouse at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 1 byte away

An external mouse keeps working thru this process

Someone has some tips how I could resolve this or have more insight in the hal deamon?

Kind regards,

Brecht Verhaeghe

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Testing Question

2009-04-07T04:37:25Z

I have an Inspiron 1000 that I am retesting which was last tested on
Dapper/Edgy

(and retesting is such an easy job...)

One think I did notice is that when I Hibernate with the Wireless card
installed and then Resume with it not installed it gets stuck in "waking
up" for a very long time... Long enough to be considered 'forever'

Does this happen with other laptops or is it unique to my system?

In short... It sounds like a bug to me...

tom

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Dell and Ubuntu 2

2009-03-04T15:49:56Z

Dell still sells Ubuntu PC's, laptops, etc. Just bought a Dell Mini 9
with Ubuntu.

http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/linux_3x?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs

Billy - Sugar2k

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Dell Inspiron 15 Laptop

2009-03-04T00:12:27Z

Hello,

Just got myself one of the new Dell Inspiron 15 laptops (unfortunately
with Vista - they no longer do the Ubuntu pre-installed 1525). Thought
I'd let the list know that Intrepid runs out out the box with no
problems (wireless, bluetooth, compiz etc all work without any
configuration).

I seem to remember a thread a while back about getting a refund from
Microsoft for unwanted OEM copies of Windows - can anyone enlighten
me?

Andrew

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high average load and kernel recompilation

2009-02-21T15:00:23Z

Probably due to many applications always running, the average load of my
laptop, as reported by the 'top', is constantly around 5-6, users' cpu
percentage being around 90%, with no special application taking most of
that.
Machine is hp tc4200 laptop, 1.7 GHz (but i am used to keep it
in 'powersave'
mode, at 0.8GHz) , 1.5MB ram, 2GB swap.

About running processes:
As i log in, several system services are started: postfix, dovecot, dictd,
hpoj, wooffle, collectd. I one of my attempts, proxy was disabled in
webbrowsers, with no change in performance, so my guess is that wwwoffle
should not affect the average load.
After log in, a few applets (kbandwidth, clock, calendar, systray), two
konsoles monitoring log files with 'tail -f', amarok are started and, from
a few more konsole sessions, 'sudo su' to four more users.
So, there are five users, each of which starts konqueror, connects to gmail,
opens a few pdf files, starts kalarm and kgmailnotifier; sometimes lyx
editors and maxima (symbolic computations, spending most of the time as
idle) are started.
One of those users starts ktorrent; another one starts knode; another one
starts firefox (connecting to gmail and opening several google notebooks)

Any hints to lower the load?
Would kernel recompilation improve performance? (i am using kubuntu 8.04.2,
kernel 2.6.24-23-generic)

Thank you
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Re: Installation report generator

2008-10-27T03:29:44Z

Hi,

> What checkbox project? Do you mean that click through hardware testing
> thing in Ubuntu?

Yep, i meant exactly that. JFYI: http://launchpad.net/checkbox

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Re: Installation report generator

2008-10-25T07:53:25Z

2008/10/24 Andrea Gasparini <gaspa@...>:
> Second point: we'd like to support as soon as possible the international
> wiki; we saw the laptop pages:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam
> could we point us at some of these pages to take as examples/standard?
>
> (note: we already had contacts with the authors of checkbox project... )
What checkbox project? Do you mean that click through hardware testing
thing in Ubuntu?

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Installation report generator

2008-10-24T14:54:19Z

Hi,
Alessio[1] and I are working on a project born mainly for helping italian
user to report useful installation informations about their laptops.[2]

It helps people to gain information on his hardware and prepares a template
with which one can simply used to create wiki pages. [3]

Our main template is of course in italian, but we're looking in the
direction of providing more than only one backend, in order to be useful
for other LoCo team as well.

So, first point: if someone wants to suggest us some template for other
LoCo Team, we'll be glad of add them inside the project.

Second point: we'd like to support as soon as possible the international
wiki; we saw the laptop pages:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam
could we point us at some of these pages to take as examples/standard?

(note: we already had contacts with the authors of checkbox project... )
(note2: I'm not in mailing list, keep me in Cc,please. :P )
Thanks for any suggestions. Bye!

[1] https://edge.launchpad.net/~quadrispro
[2] http://launchpad.net/installation-report-generator
[3] could see some at:
http://wiki.ubuntu-it.org/Hardware/Notebook?highlight=(hardware)
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Re:

2008-07-19T15:15:44Z

Hi Zalán, that's not really a laptop issue. Couldyou please take your
question to the ubuntu-users list?

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Re: laptop-testing-team Digest, Vol 35, Issue 1

2008-07-19T08:16:36Z

Open Terminal and write this command

1. lspci -nn

2. dmesg

3. lsmod

Put the answers to messages.txt file and send it I try to found the problem.

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Hi Ubuntu!

I have an ALBACOMP Activa-Eco Mobil Silver Line
(ACP-MN-8615-014-LIN)with this condititions:
-Intel Celeron M 440 1.88Ghz/533Mhz 1MB L2
-Integrated VIA chipset.

I have some problem:
The "user changing", "outgo" don't operate. For examle:  if I change
user, the screen will be dark and there is no accessdialog. The outgoing
is the same. 
In windows I have 1200x800 resolution, and here only 1024x768.


Thank you, becauseof the help.

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