Hardy Heron RC
April 19th, 2008
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Hardy - graphics
April 9th, 2008
I replaced the default intel 810 driver with the experimental mode setting driver. This made my external monitor work.
Section "device" #
Identifier "device1"
Boardname "Intel 945"
Busid "PCI:0:2:0"
# Driver "i810"
Driver "intel"
Screen 0
Vendorname "Intel"
EndSection
The graphical tools to set the graphics card, monitors and resolution are still crappy. I guess this is related to the intel board because it never worked correct. The strange thing is: I know it can work. I’ve changed my xorg.conf in Gutsy and I could get it to work as it should. But it looks like the graphical configuration is still complicated in X 
Ubuntu Hardy Heron
April 9th, 2008
I installed Hardy (8.04) on my laptop because Gutsy did not run very nice out of the box and I was too lazy to make it work smoothly. So I went for the beta version. So far it runs ok. There are glitches, but it’s stable and it looks good.
I run it on a sony vaio TZ21MN, the smallest of the TZ series.
What works:
- Graphics on the intel 950
- Network, wireless and wired
- Sound, including switching off the speakers when I plugin the headphone
- All ’special’ keys: volume, brightness, media keys
Still strugling with:
- Suspend, this is extermely annoying since it did work after one update, but died after the next
- Webcam, frankly I don’t care
- The MemoryStick and SD slots, irritating, but I can live with this