pc/laptop

[Ilija Milicevic]

Yeah, there isn't much info on P300 out there, so I'd recommend eating the
Winblows tax and running it under dual boot, unless you have an extra hard
drive lying around. Not much solid info on Toshibas, especially P300 out
there. Most of the info is for older versions before the way they changed
the way Ubuntu handles hardware and did a f***load of bug fixes. I'd be
cautiously optimistic. If nobody's complaining while running a newer
version, everything could run out of the box...

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 8:58 AM, raymond house <raymondh40 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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