[HLUG] laptop installation problems

[Matt Jones]

What laptop is it?

On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 8:42 PM, j michaelson <jmichaelson at gmail.com> wrote:

> i'm trying to get ubuntu installed on my brother daniel's laptop. for
> some reason it the install cd kept hanging, so what i did was stick a
> harddrive in my laptop, install ubuntu on it and then put it back in
> daniel's and booted.
>
> it seemed to work to some degree, the laptop booted, i could log in
> and the desktop appeared, but everything was painfully slow. if i
> clicked a desktop icon then it would take about 10 seconds to come up.
> i ran top and xorg was taking up 20% of the processor even when
> nothing was happening. so i'm guessing it's because the hardware it's
> running on isn't the hardware it was installed on.
>
> anyone know how i can get ubuntu to repeat all the hardware detection
> stuff it does during install?
>
> thanks.
> john.
>
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