[hllug] Re: ubuntu, again
- From: Lee Parmeter <geek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: hllug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:22:09 -0600
paul wrote:
> After a bit of tinkering I find I really like Ubuntu. It's not perfect
> but neither am I. It's interesting, too. But not waking from Standby
> irks... it works with XP...
>
> Oh, and to install Slimserver, that process seems weird to me. No .exe
> to download, "just" edit /etc/apt/sources.list to include:
>
> deb http://debian.slimdevices.com stable main
>
> Seems easier to d/l an .exe so I can save it if I need to re-install.
> <shrug> I'm trying to not be a stick in the mud but my age is starting
> to show. :)
>
> Anyway, the box is a p4/2.4GHz blah blah.... google "eMachine T4080".
> The machine has a 75Gb drive. I had Ubuntu on a 13Gb drive.
>
> Not enough space for 63Gb of music and any hope of using the box as a
> basic file server.
>
> I removed the 13Gb drive and ran a program called "MBRFix" to get rid of
> Ubuntu. That worked.
>
> Bought a WD 500GB SATA drive for this machine and put the year old 400Gb
> Seagate IDE drive into the p4. Played around in Disk Manager (in XP)
> and made the drive into two partitions. Disk Manager is much nicer than
> fdisk.
>
> Hopefully this install will be better. Windows installs differently
> every time, why wouldn't another OS?
>
> Power saving /is/ going to work.
>
> paul
Nice to hear from you Paul! Glad to hear you are having some fun and
success with Ubuntu.
There is quite a bit of effort going into getting the power saving support
(Standby/Hibernate) to work on more hardware. I expect to see wider support
within the next year or so. One of the biggest problems is related to the
video chipsets and related vendor support. ATI/AMD based video cards
general have the most problems waking up after entering Standby. I have had
more luck getting Hibernate to work then Standby,
Hibernate does work on an older Dell CPx laptop (Ubuntu) and on my home
desktop (Fedora 8). Standby has worked on my wife's Dell Inspiron 1100
laptop on most Ubuntu Releases beginning with 6.10. It has an Intel Video
chipset which general will "play nicely". However, I don't have it enable
right now because Standby will not wake-up for "cron" jobs and I have a
cron script setup to sync her disk drive to the file server daily.
-Lee
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Lee Parmeter
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"When it comes to Vista: just say NO! If you're not ready for Linux, buy a
MAC!" - Lee Parmeter
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- Lee Parmeter
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