FEISTY AND NON-COMPLIANT
Posted by ungraspiness Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:01:00 GMT
The last 2 weeks running Ubuntu on my macbook have been great. Feisty was almost a flawless install detecting all hardware. Setting up X was a little tedious but not that bad.
Things that work:
Trackpad (with some tweaking for 2 finger scroll).
Wireless – pretty easy considering the last few years with wireless on linux laptops.
Video – 3d and all for the intel chip
Suspend/wake – this is the first time it’s ever worked for me but there’s a slight problem.
Some issues:
1. If you shut the lid with AC power attached and then unplug the laptop does not go into suspend. I carry my macbook in a case so when I arrived at point B and took it out the fans had been spinning to cool things down and the battery was half drained. It should switch into suspend immediately when the lid is closed and the AC power disconnected.
2. External monitors can work with a fair amount of hacking at the xorg.conf file but it never seemed to give the desired resolutions for me i.e. 1280×800 on the book’s monitor and 1440×900 on the external.
3. Trackpad is very jumpy (probably too sensitive) could possibly look further into this. If anyone has any settings close to OS X please post them in the comments, would be a great help :)
Conclusion:
Things have come a long way and I’m sure much of the remaining annoyances will be gone in the near future. Some great work on Feisty guys, can’t wait to see more !
Here ends the first part of the experiment and it’s back to OS X again primarily but leaving Ubuntu on the other partition to see how things go from time to time.
