pc/laptop

[raymond house]

Thank you all for all the helping info you have given me, this laptop is a
Toshiba satellite p300 for my daughter. What I will do is install Ubuntu
along side of Widows 7 and with time we will see if all the hardware works
ok with Ubuntu and then dump the other OS.  Ray

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Ilija Milicevic <engr3337 at gmail.com> wrote:

> By the way, I would just go down your laptop's list of specs to see how
> they play with Ubuntu.. The biggest will be graphics and wireless.. You
> should also check suspend/resume.. Everything else should work just fine.
> Actually, I'd start by googling "ubuntu your_laptop_model" Chances are that
> there will be a bunch of articles on how to install (stupid-easy) and what
> works, needs a tweak, doesn't work.
> With my laptop, suspend/resume didn't work and took a bit over a year until
> the NVidia driver and the hardware handling made it work. HDMI sound didn't
> work last time I checked, but I've been using a little nettop (Aspire Revo)
> as a media player and with it, it works like a charm. Built in mic also
> didn't work, but that one got fixed in short order.
> By the way, don't rely on wireless when installing Ubuntu. With my chipset,
> you need to download and install the proprietary broadcom driver (it's
> pretty much automatic but you need to be connected via ethernet cable to be
> able to do it).
>
> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Tony Yarusso <tonyyarusso at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> "desktop edition" just means it comes with a graphical interface, as
>> opposed to the text-mode alternate installer or server edition.
>>
>>  - Tony
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