In my continued coverage of getting my BenQ S52 laptop running correctly under Ubuntu Linux, I recently had the need to use the integrated memory card reader with an SD card. And Lucky me it didn’t just work so I hunted around the internet which lead me to an article on the Ubuntu forums. However [...]
Posts tagged Laptop
BenQ s52 v54 ACPI
I have now had a few requests from non native English speakers for the compiled version of the ACPI DSDT that I have created for my laptop. So it is linked here. Compiled DSDT for BenQ s52 v54 The source copy is located on the acpi website. Please note that this is the upgraded BIOS [...]
wikidPad
For a while now I have been waiting for tomboy to be ported to windows because I am stuck in windows land for now because of my sound problem. However on the net it is always talked about having tomboy for Windows but no one has ever released anything that could be considered usable. So [...]
Laptop Support From Where?
I would like to say that I am completely disgusted with the support some vendors provide for their hardware. I have been trying to get sound working under Linux now for my BenQ S52-v54 for a long time now, it has now come to the point that I am trying to write a patch myself, [...]
Downtime
Hey all. It’s been a while but hey buildtolean’s mysql server was down for about 5 days making blogging impossible and made me start to thing whether or not it is time to move to a more stable provider. Possibly one I would pay for. But hey I’m a tight arse and I’m not going [...]
Speed up that laptop
I realised that acpi was not working correctly on my Laptop installation of Ubuntu so when I saw a tip for getting it working on the Ubuntu Forums I decided to give it a shot. Just by adding: acpi=force as a kernel parameter, either at boot using grub and saved it into /boot/grub/menu.lst And too [...]
How long can an install take?
After my success with installing Ubuntu on my Desktop system last week I installed it on my old Laptop as well this weekend. Bad idea The laptop 400 Celeron with 192mb ram was running Fedora RC 2 so not too old and running at an acceptable rate :). So upgrading shouldn’t hurt it too much [...]
