PDA

View Full Version : I am very happy to say that I had a succesful ubuntu install on my laptop



otake-tux
November 23rd, 2005, 08:40 PM
Wireless works with ndiswrapper, videocard works great, sound is perfect. Almost everything is fine. I'm surprised gnome is so small though. I have both gnome and xfce installed and it take little over 2 gigs. Along with dvd players , codecs, openoffice, etc. Kde is so much bigger.

I had been using gentoo for a year so I'm used to doing a lot of stuff the hard way. Ubuntu install was sooooo easy I feel like its dumbing me down. I'm very happy with this distro.

Now if only O could get rid of the choppyness in the dvd playback..

uberlinux
November 23rd, 2005, 08:42 PM
Now if only O could get rid of the choppyness in the dvd playback..
sudo hdparm -d1 /dev/hd* <~~whatever your dvd drive is

otake-tux
November 25th, 2005, 03:39 PM
sudo hdparm -d1 /dev/hd* <~~whatever your dvd drive is

If I am not mistaken, hdparm -d1 switches dma on. its already on and its choppy so... :( thx though.