[HLUG] laptop installation problems

[Matt Jones]

looking here (
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-bugs/2008-December/045511.html) it
appears to be fixed in the 64bit version, so you may want to give that a
try.

On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 3:30 PM, j michaelson <jmichaelson at gmail.com> wrote:

> it's a compaq 6715s and i've semi-installed ubuntu 8.10 32bit on it.
>
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> On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 9:36 PM, george @hotmail.com
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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:
> >>
> >> > 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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