EDIT: Keys work dandy! Resized XP pro down 6G and installed Ubuntu Breezy. It all works pretty darn great. :mrgreen: Suspend is working but iffy--an upgrade to Dapper or Edgy should solve that. :D Network was configured without any input, wirelessly. 8) Graphics driver should probably be dealt with. Its an on-board ATI. Groan. :lol: Cant beat a $200 wifi enabled lappie with a fresh battery. :ptu: :D
Picked up a Dell Latitude w wireless, 256mb, and 750hz processor for $200. Nice professional machine. Friggin awesome screen...but I didnt check all of the keyboad keys. :roll: K and I dont worky. :cry: Not even if pry off the keys and wiggle em. :(
On the other hand, it booted Dapper Drake, and everything worked out of the box--even the battery indicator. Har dee har. Beat that Microsoft! :lol: Might wipe the whole drive even tho its XP Pro--it runs like molasses. Could be Norton or somthin.
Anyway, anybody have any general clues on how to fix a couple keys, or is the keyboard hosed? It aint dirty btw. :scratch:
Hmmm, I uninstalled Office, Norton, disabled Messenger, Explorer, and MSN. Got FF on there. Now its humming. :lol: Cant wait to dapperize it though. 8)
Defragging right now, then Ill thoroughly clean the underside of the keys. They pop right off, btw.
Another interesting thing: booted both Dapper and Breezy on it. Breezy set up the wireless by default and the touchpad settings were nicer. :shock: Battery level and all the doohickys work. :ptu:
Even superglued a couple case cracks. :D
Now I just gotta fix them keys. :(
Question: if I create a Fat32 partition, does XP see it as a separate drive? For shared media of course. /naive
If you have more than one partition it sees them all as seperate drives.
Cleaning keys did not help. Crap. New keyboards arent that expensive, but what a PITA. Grr.
Blew it out orally on a fluke. Bingo! Works like a charm and runs like a champ. Cant beat a solid $200 lappie with a wireless card.
What model is it?
Dell CPX-J. bout five years old, but runs like a zinger with Ubuntu installed. Up-apted to dapper overnight. XP Pro runs pretty nicely as well, once the cruft was scraped off.
hot sh*t max, just about to dapperise my current lappy as i am having some icky feelings from being windowized for to long :)
on a side note i miss gnome horribly...
Im now up-apted to Edgy Eft on the lappie. X broke as was expected. Hell, I started with Hoary or someptin. :lol:
A quick "sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" fixed most niggles. :D
Just make yerself a boontoo partition, red. No reason to wipe it.
thats what i was aiming to do, what with Ã,£100,000 of irated :D software which i cba to find the discs for again.
shall report later when i have stopped my ass hurting from my new bike :)