Sleep sleep sleep: part 2

Well as it happens I’ve now discovered exactly what it was that has been causing my suspend problems since I bought my laptop. It was the wireless card. All this time I was thinking that it was a power management problem and that meant my system wouldn’t suspend. Well, since believing that it was having [...]

Sleep sleep sleep…

Last week I updated my laptop to use packages from the Ubuntu 9.04 repositories. Since then my laptop now has the ability to suspend (hibernate isn’t quite there yet, but with some tweaking it’ll come…). This ticks the final box for me and I’ve now got a fully functioning laptop. Woo!!
I’ve also been playing with [...]

3 week project – part 4

So I’ve been using Slackware for about a week now… As I approach the end of week two I have to admit that I’m not all that satisfied with progress on this experiment.
Slackware is definately faster than Ubuntu was. Though the same could be said for Fedora 10. I now know that to make the [...]

3 week project

I have set myself the challenge of making my laptop work better. I’m off of work for 3 weeks and so that is my time limit… I figured that if it’s not completely usable in 3 weeks time then I’ll just put Fedora 10 back on it and wait for things to improve over time.
I [...]

Here we go again…

For someone who in the past has wasted a lot of time hopping between different GNU/Linux distributions in the past I now have to think of a number of reasons before changing again, just so that I know I’m not just slipping into old habits.
Buying a brand new laptop can be a fairly problematic process [...]

Scanner, xsane

My housemate was throwing out an old scanner because “it doesn’t work”. What he meant by that is that it doesn’t work with Windows Vista… shame… The scanner is a Packard Bell Diamond 1200 Plu.
I plugged it in, installed xsane, retrieved a driver from http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/gt68xx-backend/ and moved it to /usr/share/xsane/gt68xx/and hey presto: it worked straight [...]