Colony 4 report

[Sami Dalouche]

Hi,

I am running -686 at home on a Pentium M, and no kernel panic.. So I think -686
is supposed to be working with Pentium M...

Concerning rhymbox, it supports GStreamer plugins, so you can just add the
gstreamer plugins for playing mp3 and it will work.

There is a nice (french) script available at :
http://placelibre.ath.cx/keyes/index.php/2005/09/18/40-easy-ubuntu-22beta-nouvelles-easy-ubuntu
that is called "EasyUbuntu". The goal of this script is to install the missing
pieaces to make an Ubuntu box work.
So, just run this script on a newly installed machine, and everything useful
(multimedia, mplayer, codecs, etc) are going to be installed :)

Regards,
Sami Dalouche

Quoting Nils <elitepenguin at gmx.net>:

> Hi all,
>
> I installed ubuntu colony 4 on a compaq nx 7010 about a week ago and I
> must say im pretty impressed by this distro: Hardware recognition
> worked perfect and everything just worked as expected. Even stuff like
> multimedia keys, Synaptics touchpad, wireless lan, etc. I also use
> fuse to mount some ssh server, which i just installed by installing
> the package fuse-module, fuse-utils and sshfs. I used debian before
> and always had to compile the kernel myself..
>
>
> However I also have some questions and remarks:
>
> - Suspend to disk worked, then only thing i had to do is append
> "resume=/dev/hda3" to my kernel options in grub (hda3 is my swap
> partition). However after resuming again i was not able to mount my
> firewire hd i saw no reaction in dmesg after turning it on, there was
> also no /dev/sdXX file created.
>
> - There are 2 kernel packages for 2.6: linux-image-2.6.12-8-386 and
> linux-image-2.6.12-8-686. ~386 was installed by default. I tried ~686,
> but i got a kernel panic. In the package description is written:
> PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV, however I have a Pentium-M. Is this the
> reason why it didn't work?
>
> - Rhythmbox does not support mp3s by default, why is this I tought
> patent probems with mp3s would only affect enconding them. However mp3
> seems to work fine on beep-media-player and xmms by default.
>
> - Ubuntu has mplayer packages (wow :)
>
> - I noted that u can install beagle and best on the gnome desktop, but
> it's not by default. Will ubuntu use beagle as the default search tool
> in the future?
>
> Regards
>
> Nils
>
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