[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu on PC Specialist Laptops

[Simon Greenwood]

On 8 July 2012 21:51, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On 4 July 2012 14:10, Simon Greenwood <sfgreenwood at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 4 July 2012 13:59, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Has anyone any experience of running Ubuntu on laptops from PC
> >> Specialist [1]?  I am particularly interested in the Genesys IV [2].
> >> They will supply without Windows with a reduction of £80.
> >>
> >> I believe they are based on Clevo laptops.
> >>
> >
> > I have the System 76 Lemur which is the PCSpecialist Xenon. It works out
> of
> > the box with Ubuntu but System76 provide an open source driver that
> allows
> > the control buttons to function correctly.
>
> Simon: do you know which control buttons do not work without the
> drivers, and would the drivers be ok on a PC Specialist machine?
>
>
The control panel applet for 12.04 says just the brightness buttons (Fn F8
and F9), which is actually very useful - the screen is very bright and can
be a drain on the battery. I believe that the drivers are open source but
are presented on the System 76 website as specifically for their models.

s/
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