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Nearly there!

July 26th, 2008
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The webcam of my Sony is now working! http://download.tuxfamily.org/arakhne/pool/ricoh-webcam-r5u870/

[Update 2 Nov 2008]

The URL has been updated: http://wiki.mediati.org/R5u870. But please mind that the current release doesn’t work on the latest releases of the kernel. The fix is in progress.

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Ubuntu Hardy Heron

April 9th, 2008
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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

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