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HP 2133 Mini-Note: Lessons Learned
Blog Comment It might interest you to know that openSuSE 11.1 uses the same X server version as Ubuntu 8.10, which means that you can just copy the openchrome driver files over (/usr/lib/libchrome* and /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/openchrome*), and change the...
[March 11, 2009, 7:29]
ASUS N10J - A Big DUH for me, and a small one too!
Blog In my recent blog post about the ASUS N10J, I mentioned that with the nVidia graphics enabled, Ubuntu Netbook Remix performed very poorly on it, presumably because of the lack of 3D support in the nVidia driver.
[July 23, 2009, 16:03]
Weekend Success - Ubuntu 8.10 on the HP 2133 Mini-Note
Blog Comment Your post pointed me in the right direction for a solution, but I'd like to add that to get the networking enabled, I needed to follow http://www.ubuntugeek.com/ubuntu-networking-configuration-using-command-line.html/comment-page-2#comment-6270...
[March 2, 2009, 10:45]
An Impressive Week with Ubuntu
Blog I found the hardware management window, and according to that, there were only a few "problems" - the built-in softmodem required a proprietary driver which had not been loaded automatically, the Atheros WiFi adapter also required one, but it had...
[May 30, 2008, 13:59]
Weekend Success - Ubuntu 8.10 on the HP 2133 Mini-Note
Blog The Ubuntu WIki indicates that you should be able to install 8.10 on the Mini-Note by forcing it to use the vesa graphic driver, but nothing I tried, and I mean absolutely nothing, would work. I even got one extra benefit - openSuSE 11.1 uses the...
[February 15, 2009, 16:00]
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny) Released
Blog Comment As I said, this works extremely well for me, once I got the latest openchrome driver installed 8.10 is pretty much perfect on the HP 2133, it definitely does NOT have the graphic problems that Ubuntu 9.04 and Debian 5.0 have.
[February 18, 2009, 13:21]
Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) Final Release
Blog I have not installed the Ubuntu Netbook Remix (UNR), because it has serious performance problems with the openchrome driver in my HP Mini-Note netbooks. As well described in an article by David Meyer here on ZDNet UK, Canonical released Ubuntu 9.04...
[April 24, 2009, 9:18]
HP 2133 Mini-Note: Lessons Learned
Blog Comment After that, you can use the commands from the Ubuntu Community Documentation to install the dependencies and compile and install the 2D driver. I just went through the Ubuntu 8.10 installation from the alternate install CD, to check that this was...
[March 9, 2009, 11:40]
P3 Xubuntu
Blog With an earlier version of Ubuntu it was a little more lively. The admin tools typically found on Ubuntu and Debian Gnome desktops are installed. There is a render issue with the desktop and it might be a compatibility issue with the X driver.
[December 30, 2008, 8:35]
What Do We Expect from Netbooks?
Blog Comment I use it with ubuntu 8.10 and windows XP in dual-boot. The only time I use Windows is to print photos @ my canon Pixma 5000 printer on canon photo paper pro, skype video calls with the HP (in ubuntu, the internal mic is not working), and connect to...
[March 27, 2009, 15:37]
Fusion-io ioDrive (80GB) review
Reviews Despite a number of attempts, CentOS just didn't want to play with us (likely due to a kernel/driver mismatch), so it was off to Ubuntu for Linux testing. For Ubuntu, it seems as if installing the supplied .deb does all the firmware work for you.
[June 24, 2009, 15:16]
Windows 8/2012- Intel graphics driver support
Talkback I read a comment that one of the reasons they didn't use Linux/Ubuntu was because they would have to read through pages of code to install something as simple as a mouse. Yes how times have changed.I put a disc into my computer running Ubuntu 9.04...
[May 11, 2009, 9:28]
openSolaris 2008.11
Blog Primary, Ubuntu 9.04 None of the Linux distributions I have installed are using that any more - a few have still got 1.4, most have 1.5, and Ubuntu 9.04 is already on 1.6! The Ubuntu 9.04 installation is expendable, since it is still in Alpha test...
[March 20, 2009, 12:13]
Is Windows 7 better than Vista on (Slightly) Older Hardware?
Blog Before connecting to the Internet from the new Windows 7 installation, I decided to see how Ubuntu would support the hardware, so I rummaged about for a Live CD but could only find Ubuntu 8.04 in my home-made collection of CD's.
[October 27, 2009, 12:44]
Struggling With the Vistaster Disaster
Blog No sweat, I set up a Linux partition and loaded Ubuntu quickly, which saw the XP partition and put it in the boot menu. I recall writing a recent blog post about loading Ubuntu for a friend, and someone posted a comment saying that the problem with...
[July 30, 2009, 12:23]
It Just Works: a happy tale of Linux and printers
Blog Ubuntu didn't have a ML-2240 driver, so I had to choose between an ML-2250 and an ML-1640. I unboxed it and plugged it into my Ubuntu 9.04 installation. As someone who's come from that forgotten land where printers just didn't work because - and...
[July 16, 2009, 13:53]
Vista versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment Before you do that (Automatix has been known to cause serious stability issues that people then go on to blame on Ubuntu), try one of the new features in Gutsy:" Ubuntu isn't perfect - in some areas, it's still lagging behind XP.
[October 24, 2007, 21:14]
Which printer? What else?
Talkback The driver disk that came with your printer won't work in Ubuntu, but you should be able to download a package that supports it. What is it that you can do in Windows that you cannot do in Ubuntu? Also, you should probably ask on the Ubuntu mailing...
[May 22, 2008, 11:28]
Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic Koala) on Netbooks - Part 1 (Overview)
Blog Comment Best to allow Ubuntu to auto-detect and load the appropriate open-source driver at each boot-up? Good info, Jamie. I haven't read reviews about the N10J. I reckon that, with both Intel and nVidia GPUs, it's a nuisance to install proprietary video...
[November 4, 2009, 16:16]
HP 2133 and Linux - Strange Happenings
Blog I had seen it only with Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha, and only when installing the Broadcom STA drivers. I have mentioned in a couple of my write-ups on the HP 2133 Mini-Note that the display sometimes worked initially after Linux installation, but then...
[March 19, 2009, 13:03]
