The machine itself is a Compal JHL 90 (Korean, not Japanese, my bad). Gorgeous screen to it. The Compal manual is online in various places. I would be very grateful if anyone could tell me whether this machine really has "bleeding edge chipsets".
Alan Pope wrote: > 2009/3/2 Rowan <rowan.berke...@googlemail.com>: > >> One, the thing already installed some of the auto-updates, then got >> stuck, because it had disabled the interface and couldn't download the >> rest, so I shall have to tell it to stop complaining about this fact >> until I am sorted. >> >> > > Yes, the instructions that Sean and LC provided should get you back > online. Of course you could then install more updates that break it > again, and so you'd need to go through the procedure again. It should > take only about 1 min once you have got your head around the commands. > > >> Two, in fact, it appears the machine was not purpose designed, with or >> without "bleeding edge chipsets" (lovely phrase!) - it was designed and >> built in Japan to run Vista, and these LinuxCertified people just >> rebranded it. >> >> > > Pretty much all laptops these days are "designed for vista", and most > linux vendors simply buy those laptops and rebrand/reinstall on them > to get a more acceptable solution. > > Of course things are getting better. Canonical and others are testing > hardware and providing feedback both to western > distributors/manufacturers and the original equipment manufacturers in > the far east. Things are a lot better these days than they were a few > years ago. > > Some of us were in a Sony store recently and one person put a bootable > Ubuntu linux USB stick in one of the display Sony laptops. It booted > up and everything we tested worked, straight out of the box. Now I'm > not saying everyone should go out and buy Sony kit, but in the past > Sony laptops had been somewhat troublesome in getting working in > Linux. To be able to boot one off a usb stick (or CD/DVD) in a store > and find _everything_ work is quite a mean feat. I'd say it's only > going to get better as companies like Canonical, Novell and Red Hat > test and certify kit. > > But then I'm a "glass half full" kinda guy. > > Cheers, > Al. > > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
