Re: 8.04?

Avi Schwartz wrote:

Victor Sterpu wrote:
For desktop use Ubuntu is great.

I used a laptop for a few weeks and I had a bad surprise.

It works good only with Vista because only Vista knows how to cool it properly.


I tryed XP, Ubuntu 7.10, 8 alpha and Vista and only Vista knows how to cool it properly.

The laptop is a Toshiba and this is a fact that I found it on a Toshiba forum.


It is weired how Toshiba chooses to promote Vista.

lm-sensors can't find the cpu fan and the temperature is 100 degrees celsius.

So I had to quit using Ubuntu on that laptop. : (

Toshiba will deffenetly not be my choice for a laptop.


Avi Schwartz wrote:

Shuai Yu wrote:
intel 3945 pro wireless should work fine in ubuntu. If you have the new kernel and it still does not work properly, you could report the problem so programmer would know this issue and try to solve the problem. Otherwise, nobody could really help you there.
I have to wonder about something. I received my laptop yesterday and promptly replaced Vista with 8.04. I did have a problem with the proprietary drivers manager that kept crashing when I tried to enable the Nvidia driver. I did not report it since I was offered to send the crash report by the system. Should I follow it up with an actual report or is the crash report sent by the system enough?

It depends on your laptop. I had/have a wonderful experience with the combination of Ubuntu and a Dell Latitude D820 and it seems I will have a great experience with a Dell XPS m1330 (since you can get it pre-installed with Ubuntu).

Avi


I also have a very good experience with Ubuntu and a Acer Travelmate.
Toshiba is the only vendor that had this problem until now(from my experience I worked with Dell, Acer and Toshiba).
The most intreresting thing is that my thread where I disscussed about the heating problem had dissepeared from the Toshiba forum. :))
I guess someoane really didn't liked that I figured out that my Toshiba Sattelite L30 PSL33E doesn't support other OS that Vista(not even XP).
My other posts are still there, just the heating problem disseppeared. :))

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