I installed Ubuntu 7.04 (Fesity Fawn) today and installed the nvidia-glx package as well. There also seems to be a nvidia-gkx-new package, but it both requires and conflicts with nvidia-glx. meh. The current package works great with beryl (no more Copy method=increased framerate).

Next, I need to get my wireless working. Manually installing ndiswrapper was a nightmare – it failed for reasons i don’t know – so I’m going to try the packages from the repos now.

Feisty seems to come with a version of compiz but the window decoration is broken – I must need cgwd – not that I really care at this stage as beryl works fine and the beryl-compiz merge doesn’t seem to be very far along.
[edit] CGWD is included, I just had to enable it, Heliodor also works with compiz but not beryl, but it’s the one from the beryl repositories, explain that! [/edit]

Finally, there was some problem with the audio that adding this to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base:
# Added according to tips from launchpad.net.
options snd-hda-intel model=3stack
seemed to fix. [edit] It didn’t actually fix the problem so I’m going to google around for a solution [/edit]

This morning, while I was mucking around on old computers at school, I found that if you started the incredibly slow Celeron 600s in Safe mode with networking (Windows 2000 Professional), you’d get a Stop Error, due to ‘INACCESSABLE BOOT DEVICE’.

I then decided to do this to every computer in the room. So now there are 8 computers stuck on a BSOD in a room of 12.

I’m amazed that someone managed to find my blog (the domain’s only been active for 3 days).

In all the 8 months that my last blog was up I only got visits from people who I knew in the real world…

I just finished downloading Feisty, and before I install it I guess I need to bitch about how hard it is to get all features working under Linux.

First of all, the graphics card (Geforce Go 6150 UMA) only works in 16-bit colour with no Direct Rendering with the open-source drivers, and obtaining drivers with no net connection (as I will explain, the wireless does not work) under Linux is quite difficult

Next, the integrated nVidia sound adapter is a bit useless, it kind of works most of the time, but the microphone,
headphone socket and wine do not work at all.

Now, the worst problem, the wireless adapter (Broadcom 4311) does not work natively under Linux. However, ndiswrapper does not work either, as there is some sort of IRQ conflict between the ndiswrapper-ed drivers and the nVidia proprietary binary drivers.

Finally, my GRUB spontaneously somehow ended up pointing to the wrong partitions on my hard disk and no manual,
editing of the config files would get it working again.

I sincerely hope that most, if not all these issues are resolved in Feisty. I’ll install it when I have time this week.

And the line breaks in this are also borked

This will category contain – when I get around to it – anything to do with my new laptop (I’m not going to write out its model again). I’m actually writing this on my laptop.