Thanks for the information. I've added my contact information and
everything that I have about what the setup required to the
pages. I hope it's ok that I've added myself to the laptop
testing team. This is one way that I'd really like to get
involved with Ubuntu. <br>
<br>
I'll be transfering all the information that I have on the laptop to
the appropriate pages on the WIKI over the next week or so, and then
will begin testing breezy and provide feedback.<br>
<br>
Lakin<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/14/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Daniel Robitaille</b> <<a href="mailto:robitaille@imapmail.org">robitaille@imapmail.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Lakin Wecker wrote:<br><br>> I just bought an Acer Ferrari 4005 laptop. I spent a week getting the things<br>> I needed working, to work. There were quite a number of small problems to<br>> overcome after the hoary install.
<br>><br>> I've detailed my progress at the following website:<br>> <a href="http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~weckerl/ferrari_ubuntu_64.html">http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~weckerl/ferrari_ubuntu_64.html</a><br>>
<br>> Now that the laptop has (nearly) all of the things working that I need to<br>> work with it, I'll be going back to working for a bit.<br>><br>> Two of the fixes I needed were simply using software from the breezy
<br>> repository, which is promising. I've set aside a partition for breezy<br>> installs and I am willing to test any install iso's or new breezy software<br>> on this laptop to ensure that the best support for it is available in the
<br>> breezy and future releases. I just need to be informed when there is new<br>> software to test and what exactly needs to be done.<br>><br>> To give a bit of background, I've used debian based distributions for nearly
<br>> 5 years now (almost exclusively). Most of the time, my desktop was using<br>> Debian sid, which means that I am comfortable breaking and rebuilding a<br>> system without losing my own data and work. I also have a fair bit of
<br>> experience with Python, C++, and other Development related tasks. This means<br>> that I can probably do a bit more digging into things than some testers, and<br>> I am willing to do this. I also hang out on the #ubuntu-devel irc channel
<br>> and would be willing to work closely with devs if need be.<br>><br>> Thanks to all of the ubuntu developers for an amazing operating system.<br>><br>> Lakin<br><br><a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTesting">
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTesting</a><br>and<br><a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam</a><br><br>are probably good places to start. The best way to help is to test
<br>your laptop, document what and what doesn't work on the wiki so that<br>other people see what you have found, and fill bugs in the bugzilla for<br>things that don't work correctly so that developers know about them.<br>
<br><br>--<br>Daniel Robitaille<br><br><br>--<br>ubuntu-devel mailing list<br><a href="mailto:ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br><a href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel">
http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel</a><br></blockquote></div><br>