Martin Notes » Hardy Heron

Hardy Heron RC

Martin — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:04:40 +0000

The Ubuntu Hardy Heron release candidate has been released. So far it runs fine, though suspend still gives problems.

Hardy – graphics

Martin — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:25:32 +0000

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

Martin — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:20:45 +0000

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