[HLUG] laptop installation problems

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Do you mean like update drivers in windows?

yes, it would be good to know how to do that in ubuntu...

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> Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 20:52:42 +0000
> From: matt at mattjones.me.uk
> To: herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [HLUG] laptop installation problems
> 
> 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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