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How much longer will the battery last with an SSD instead of a hard drive?

Never did a comparison with a hard drive one, but my Lemur with an SSD lasts about 2.5 hours.

Yea, tried a while ago and mine lasts about the same (~2.5 hours). But did anyone who actually tested with Lemur claim this battery lasts 4-5 hours?

Thanks savantelite. I want to hear more voices like yours :-)

Other than the Skype issue I experienced and the fan noise, it's really a nice laptop, and overall I enjoy the Intel SSD performance...

Oh, also, Linus does ask for help on normal stuff that normal people (like you and me) care, not to mention reporting bugs/errors is part of this "distributing knowledge" thing.

I do agree the...

All the drivers that System76 develops are in one driver package which is publicly available.

I said "latest drivers," and it's not publicly available *yet*. Tom said it will be publicly available...

As for the webcam issue, I thought we handled that quite expediently for you.

Yes you did, thank you. I think your customer service is quite good, although I think you could improve on certain...

We haven't updated anything since Lemurs started shipping.
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It doesn't appear there is (or was) a skype/pulse problem for the Lemur.

Yes there was/is. It's you who suggested installing the...

Great! So you updated the Ubuntu that comes with Lemur, and it sounds like that fixed the Skype/pulse problem.

Where can I download the image for fresh install from your server? Can I install it...

Hi bvandev,

Thanks for sharing. I have a few comments and questions..
(I'm not a Starling user BTW, my computer is Lemur Ultrathin that came with Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic (64bit).)

I could download...

Nope, the above solution didn't work for me - I get the same "Call Failed" message.

I found the following blog post. Not sure if it works, but I'll look into it.

Skype on 64 bit Ubuntu
http://oligofren.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/skype-on-64-bit-ubuntu/

Sorry if my response sounded rude. Actually it doesn't sound rude in my taste, but hey, English is not my first language so maybe there are many people offended by this tone of English. Again, sorry,...

If they've stopped maintaining a version of it that is optimized for Ubuntu, then a work-around may well be the only option we can offer you.

Well, but the problem is the "work-around" you offered...

Tom, I'm glad you apologized for the situation, but..

(1) Although I could choose "HDA Intel, ALC272 Analog (hw:0,0)" after doing what marshmallow1304 mentioned, test call still failed. I also...

I think that's because you are not running the whole tutorial.

Hmm, I think I did run the whole thing.. I removed Skype from Synaptic again and tried the following.
Please see below and tell me...

Thanks Tom and marshmallow1304.

As I said in below link
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=8498771&postcount=11
I couldn't install Skype using apt-get. I get this error message: "E: Package...

Mark, your mic should not be set to pulseaudio. It should be set to one of the HDA Intel settings. (...within Skype's configuration, that is...)

Ok.., but in Skype Options, PulseAudio seems to be...

Awesome, after I installed Driver 2.4.2, the cam is working on both Cheese and Skype! Yay :-)

http://imgur.com/DCyPxl.png
BisonCam, NB Pro Recognized


Now...

Skype test call still fails as...

I clicked the "About" button in "System Information" tab in System76 Driver Installer, and the version seems to be 2.4.1.

Sounds like an update to the driver is available, so I'll email you to ask...

Let's take this one up via a phone conversation for efficiency's sake. Can you give me a call when you get a chance?

Well, I tend to miss a lot of things on a phone conversation so I actually...

Go to http://planet76.com/repositories and download the latest driver. It will be the second link from the bottom.
Once you get it downloaded, install it.

Thanks for your support.

I downloaded...

1. "Media test failure" when booting up

Definitely boot order.


Thanks. This problem was solved (please see one of my above posts) :-)


2. Skype Doesn't Work Out of the Box

Hi,

I'll post the result of dmesg | grep uvcvideo, if that's of any help:


$ dmesg | grep uvcvideo
[16376.568351] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device BisonCam, NB Pro (5986:0241)
[16376.568368]...

Hi,

For the 1st problem about the PXE error, after I changed the BIOS Boot Sequence (I moved the Ethernet item at the top to bottom), the error message went away. Thanks marshmallow1304 and...

[..] setting Connector to Microphone 2

Sound Recorder worked with this setting! Thanks a lot. Now I know at least the mic is not defective :-)

However, Skype test call still fails:
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