Testing Dapper Beta on a Dell Inspiron 6000

[Julian Yap]

Hi all,

I recently installed Dapper Beta from the install CD.  I
installed about a day after it was announced so at the time, it
was the original kernel.  I also keep my system updated so I'm
running the latest everything.

1) Does suspend/resume to disk work? To RAM?

Suspend doesn't work for me.  Or more so, it suspends but it
doesn't resume.  I get a black screen on resume and I can't get
out of it.

Hibernation didn't work for me 'out of the box'.  After I
installed the package 'hibernate' it worked.  It is a lot more
erratic than Breezy.  Sometimes it hangs when hibernating.  If I
left it going it may eventually hibernate but I get impatient. 
This is even after all programs are shut down.

Sometimes it doesn't come up after hibernation and just does the
normal boot sequence.  Again, I don't know when it will work for
me so it's very frustrating.  Breezy always worked for me.

Upon resumption of hibernation, I am not asked for a password.

2) Does X get configured correctly?

Yes.  It also gives me the option of 1024x768 which is handy for
presentation on a projector.

3) SD slots are more likely to work now.

Yet to test this.

Some more:

4) i686 kernel.

This had huge and erratic CPU consumption.  For some reason,
there's only the i686-SMP kernel available.  Under Breezy I ran
the i686 kernel without a hitch.

I'm adding some of my issues and progress here:
http://julianyap.com/wiki/Ubuntu_Dapper_Beta_issues

Thanks for the great work.
Doing my bit to test it all out before Dapper final ships! :P

- Julian