Having issues getting hardinfo to work on Xenial

flocculant at gmx.co.uk flocculant at gmx.co.uk
Sat Jan 23 18:51:50 UTC 2016


On 23/01/16 17:43, EdLesMann wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I had a Surface Pro 2 dumped on my desk at work. WTH am I going to do
> with this? Hrm...Will Ubuntu install? I had a 13.04 Lubuntu disk sitting
> near by...and it installed! But i didn't like the upgrade. Never really
> booted after that.
>
> If I am going to test, might was well do a proper test using the latest
> version. I grabbed a copy of Lubuntu Xenial 16.04 Daily Build From
> 2016-01-22. Smooth install. Smooth update. I have tested a bunch of my
> normal stuff and things are working great. Maybe I should tell someone!
>
> Maybe I should to testing based on the Ubuntu Laptop testing guide.
> That way I do a proper test and not just the few apps I use. Besides,
> why not? :-)
>
> The system is fully updated.
>
> Following this:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Laptop/Procedures
>
> It says to get my hardware from this:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Hardware
>
> [snip]
>
As an aside - that information is no longer applicable, the option to 
include hardware to test results has been removed.

I've added a warning to the wiki page reflecting that. (Which appears 
rather large - hard to ignore ;) )

regards



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