Hardware

After about 2 or 3 years away from Linux, I busted it back out when my free trial of Windows 7 expired. The first problem I ran into, as many do, is getting the wireless LAN to work. I didn't find a thread relating to this exact laptop, and had to do a bit of research of my own to find the answer, so I figured I'd post a quick howto for anyone else running into this problem.

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1413313

1) Introduction

Here's a longish guide to unlock, root and run Debian on your Nexus One.

It's based on various guides and forum posts around (see embedded links), but with more details, with some missing pieces and corrected mistakes, all compiled into a (hopefully) newb-friendly step by step guide.

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1398554

This all-in-one is supposed to work out of the box in Ubuntu 9.10 but the scanner didn't work when I plugged it in. In fact, scanimage -L didn't even list it.

Karmic comes with hplip 3.9.8 which should support the f4440. I tried installing the newest version of hplip from http://hplipopensource.com (3.9.12 at the time of writing this) but the script kept aborting due to an error when it was running the make command. So here is what I did to get the all-in-one working.

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1395876

This how-to is based on a German wiki, the man page of randr and some own experiments. It addresses some projector detection and configuration problems in Karmic:

I just upgraded a first generation Atom netbook from Jaunty to Karmic. It has the ordinary Intel GMA950 integrated graphics,
lspci | -grep VGA gave me:

Source: http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/open_pc_one_step_closer_open...

At the Gran Canaria Open Desktop Summit in July 2009, the Open-PC project was announced. The statement said the project aimed to “cooperatively design a Free Software based computer by and for the community”. Further this PC would use only hardware for which there are free software drivers available. This would be a PC with the minimal compromise required for running a free desktop. In January 2010 the project announced the launch of its first product.

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1376576

I needed to install my canon mp620 printer and didnt find good drivers
so by combining some post from different forums i got a sollution for my problem
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...=canon+printer
http://www.nervous.it/2009/04/canon-...ess-on-ubuntu/

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1370258

As this was a issue for most Karmic users I thought of writing this, Hope this will help you guys.

First open a terminal

in the terminal type :

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1357974

I know it has been posted many times. But i decided to start a new thread because the method is a little controversial because i have only one computer to test it and i can't resist the excitement to post it here before i wander to test it to other computers.

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1347098

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1333343

I recently bought a Microsoft VX-1000 webcam and spent a few hours trying to install it. Since i was successful (at least for the video part) i wanted to share the steps i followed with everyone:

1. Download the gspca driver from: linuxtv.org