A friend asked if he should give Ubuntu a spin as a desktop OS. I was a little hesitant because to be painfully honest, it was not the easiest thing in the world if you are starting from zero Linux experience. Because of work and personal interests, this is not my first dip into Linux [...]
Trackpoint.Configuring the trackpoint sensitivity and speed settings was a piece of cake once you install configure-trackpoint but I am having this annoying problem with losing the trackpoint settings on resume (after a suspend/hibernate). Coming out of suspend/hibernate, the trackpoint will go back to its default extremely sluggish behaviour. And it’s not just me. I have [...]
Hibernate. Suspend/sleep (suspend-to-ram) worked beautifully out of the box but hibernate (suspend-to-disk) wasn’t working. It would do an immediate resume once I put the system to hibernate from GNOME. I couldn’t figure out what was wrong, until I initiated a pm-hibernate manually from terminal. Something about a swap file error came up and that was [...]
Still no luck with getting the trackpoint settings to stick after a suspend. While researching a fix for the trackpoint, I got distracted trying to get APS to work. APS is sort of a harddisk shock protector available in recent models Thinkpads. This post worked great for me (kernel 2.6.28) to get the hdaps module [...]
I have been messing around with my old Thinkpad X60 (short story: Wii Tennis casualty, Ebay, LCD, DIY) to take the opportunity to see if I could switch to Ubuntu for my personal work. I kept the old XP partition (part nostalgia, part just-in-case) and carved out a new partition using GParted from the free [...]