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    Ubuntu 7.04 (feisty fawn) on Vaio FX

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by maxinflixion, Jul 12, 2007.

  1. maxinflixion

    maxinflixion Notebook Guru

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    Over the last couple of years, I have had my share of trials and tribulations w/ getting Linux to run on machines of various ages, shapes and qualities.

    I recently picked up a Vaio FX-370 (1ghz PIII/512mb RAM) to refurbish.

    I have to say that this machine booted every Live Distro I threw at it flawlessly. Ok, ALMOST flawlessly. There was a touchpad issue where it would "tap" when it shouldn't, which frustrated me. The touchpad issue was fixed with a little edit to the xorg.conf file though once I finally settled on Ubuntu as my distro.

    I wanted to share this, because this is a machince that can be found fairly cheap nowadays, and it has plenty of pep left in it to run Ubuntu.

    I am still testing out the suspend/hibernate stuff, but so far, no issues w/ audio (recording and playback) or video.
     
    maxinflixion, Jul 12, 2007
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    nicedream Notebook Guru

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    Excellent...keep us updated on the suspend/hibernate stuff, as well as any other issues you run into. :cool:
     
    nicedream, Jul 13, 2007
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  3. yin

    yin Notebook Consultant

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    Yeah, please do tell us how the hibernate/suspend stuff goes. I'm using Ubuntu Feisty with Beryl installed, on a nVidia Go7600. I'm a complete Linux newbie, and I haven't been able to get hibernate or suspend to work. I'm looking forward to your experiences!
     
    yin, Jul 28, 2007
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