[HLUG] laptop installation problems

[j michaelson]

it's a compaq 6715s and i've semi-installed ubuntu 8.10 32bit on it.


On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 9:36 PM, george @hotmail.com
<dicegeorge at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Do you mean like update drivers in windows?
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> 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:
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>> > 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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