Non-free drivers and laptops
Suddenly my new laptop stopped waking up from sleep. At first I thought that it was ubuntu’s new kernel version, but later I figured it must be a new driver. And indeed, after removing Linuxant’s Connexant non-free modem driver, the laptop was able to wake up again. Amazing that they charge $20 for it.
On other laptop news, I am selling this LinuxCertified laptop. I deleted its Arch Linux partition and installed Ubuntu in it. Amazing how I had everything the way I wanted it within 2 hours (drivers, codecs, third party apps and all). So, check the link above and tell me how much I should be selling it for. Except the fact that the battery is dead, it is a healthy portable computer & desktop replacement (it is not really a traditional laptop as it weighs over 7 lbs).
5 Comments »
It costs more than that. It’s a capable computer. 720p video works without dropping frames for example.
I’d buy that for a dollar !
500-600
I did not write that.
Do u have a sence of humor at all?
Comments are closed as this blog post is now archived.
Lines, paragraphs break automatically. HTML allowed:
<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <s> <strike> <strong>
The URI to TrackBack this blog entry is this. And here is the RSS 2.0 for comments on this post.