D00mM4r1n3
June 13th, 2007, 04:58 AM
Got my Dell Ubuntu laptop today, and took a couple of photos. Everything went smooth except for a minor wireless networking issue, and the video driver problem that others have already mentioned. The networking problem was due to the network utility in System > Administration. It didn't see my network or allow for WPA encryption settings. After a quick search online I found some info saying to use the Network Manager tool, which I didn't realize was the icon in the menu bar that had 2 computer screens. Once I opened that, connecting to my wireless network was a breeze. The video problem was solved by installing the xserver-xorg-video-intel driver through the package manager.
If there is one great thing I would say about the laptop, it's that so far I have not had to open a terminal once to get anything working/installed. Everyhting (almost) just works, and the 2 things that didn't were just user confusion (network issue) or corrected with a GUI tool (video driver).
I took all of the photos with a Kodak V530 digital camera (5MP), but didn't use a tripod or proper light source so they're not the best. I took the memory card out of the camera, plugged it into the memory card slot on the right side of the laptop, and a photo viewer popped open and offered to import them. It worked flawlessly, and was a welcome surprise. The last time I tried Ubuntu I had problems with USB memory sticks and memory cards, but haven't had a single problem with either this go around.
I put all of the photos in a photo set on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pjarvi/sets/72157600346728042/
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1109/543429781_7cdcbc36b1.jpg?v=0 http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1255/543446977_8452b815b0.jpg?v=0
If there is one great thing I would say about the laptop, it's that so far I have not had to open a terminal once to get anything working/installed. Everyhting (almost) just works, and the 2 things that didn't were just user confusion (network issue) or corrected with a GUI tool (video driver).
I took all of the photos with a Kodak V530 digital camera (5MP), but didn't use a tripod or proper light source so they're not the best. I took the memory card out of the camera, plugged it into the memory card slot on the right side of the laptop, and a photo viewer popped open and offered to import them. It worked flawlessly, and was a welcome surprise. The last time I tried Ubuntu I had problems with USB memory sticks and memory cards, but haven't had a single problem with either this go around.
I put all of the photos in a photo set on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pjarvi/sets/72157600346728042/
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1109/543429781_7cdcbc36b1.jpg?v=0 http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1255/543446977_8452b815b0.jpg?v=0