The World of a Penguin

I have now installed Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) on my wifes laptop from Zepto . It's a 6014W . I do my installation, as usual, through network boot (PXE). I noticed that Zepto has the same bug as my MSI S271 in BIOS for PXE-boot. It will only bot through PXE some times, with no clear pattern when. Unfortunately, I do not like the LVM-configuration in the text based installation. The installation worked smoothly, except the LVM-part. The cause was that I wanted to change what partitions to create. The resolution for the screen got right in the xorg.con-file, but not in the reality. The xorg.conf said 1280x800 but the display showed 1024x768. The solution, which is not obvious, is to install the package 915resolution. I would like to see this installed by default. No extra configuration needed. The default volume control must be remapped to work to another controller in the mixer. The sound worked out of the box. Other things we have tested are: The wireless and network manager works...

Today, I did an upgraded of the BIOS in my laptop (MSI S271). I took a FreeDOS-image from the net and run dd to put it on a USB-memory-stick. I copied the unziped BIOS-files from MSI to the stick. Booted the laptop from the memory stick and run the BIOS update program. It is important to take the BIOS for the right type of hard disk and to have the computer connected to the power net. (Do not run on the battery!) Unfortunately, the problem with PXE-boot was not solved. All hardwarecomponents I have tested so far had worked without any configuration; wireless, sound, screen, touchpad, ethernet. Except that the screen resolution was not correct detected during the installation of Ubuntu Edgy. I have not tested firewire, bluetooth and the SD/MMC/MS-card reader yet. I have identified some activities that I have to do, to get things working like I want: encrypted home directory encrypted swap smoother switching between wireless and ethernet synchronization of the home directory and some oth...