Facts on Thinkpad W510 and Ubuntu 10.10

I got FHD no touch screen, no color calibration. It has 500G hard disk, 8 G ram, finger printer, camera, i7 720 CPU.

The high resolution would never be a problem, coz you can change the DPI. Now win 7 works well with zoom in. In Ubuntu, zoom in firefox can be set up by Noquints plugin.

Pros:
Very bright screen.
Windows blur in compiz.
More RAM of course. It's the reason I bought it.
Camera, audio, microphone work.

Cons:
You can't have both Xinerama and compiz.
Ubuntu can't boot with USB hard disk in USB 3.0 Port.
Multi touchpad not fully work. No zoom in/out. Two fingers scroll works some times with gpoint settings.
Finger printer not set up yet.

Stupid NVIDIA

I am depressed by the fact nvidia can not work with both ximerama and compiz. My poor T60 can work so well with them.

I have to settle down with No compiz or No ximerama. How frustrated!

One good thing is the window blur finally works on this new W510.

My smart Q7 is on the way

It's available now in China. I asked my friend pay for me and the product has been directly delivered by retailer to US. The price is $176. I didn't ask the shipping fee.

I have been looking for a linux tablet for long time. Previously, Nokia 810 was very expensive. Now, it's still more than $200. Actually, I like to get the keyboard for fast input. However, the big screen of smart Q7 seems to be more attractive. I will give some review after I got it.

Jaunty open source ATI driver flickering solution

My chip is radeon X1300

Change the driver from ati to radeonhd.
It's done.

How to change the gnome-do icon

I like gnome-do docky's function but the default icon and the background color. The color can't be changed. But we can change the purple icon, which is very urgly due to size and color.

sudo cp /usr/share/pixmaps/ubuntustudio-floater-logo.svg /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/gnome-do.svg
sudo cp /usr/share/pixmaps/ubuntustudio-floater-logo.svg /usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/gnome-do.png
sudo cp /usr/share/pixmaps/ubuntustudio-floater-logo.svg /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/gnome-do.png

Then restart gnome-do,done.

Flashplayer in Jaunty ubuntu 9.04

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=772490

Upgrade to Jaunty Jackalope from ubuntu 8.10

Settings->Administration->Update Manager

You will see a button for upgrade. Click and wait util it is done.

The problem in Alpha 6 is sivp is not consistent. I didn't solve it. It makes I can't install and remove other packages.

The other problem is flash player 10.0 doesn't work but 9 does.

Blender doesn't work under gnome even after shut off compiz. But it works under E16.

My video card is ATI X1300, the opensource driver works fine. Here is the configure file:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "ati"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Good things:
Compiz 0.8 is good. The Tab effect works right now, which lost the icon in previous version.
Volumn Control has been changed, more convenient.
Ubuntustudio theme is pretty, which maybe changed before.
New login window.
New default font configrations.
Ext4 support. I didn't change the file system coz is an upgrade.
I can't tell if the boot time really shortened.

What I expect actually is ibus input method, which has not been solved yet.