Compaq Presario 2100
Michael Scottaline
mscottaline at gmail.com
Fri May 20 14:08:39 UTC 2005
On 5/20/05, Troy Davidson <clandaith at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am about to take my first steps into Ubuntu, specifically Kubuntu.
> I have been a Mandrake fan for years, but went to their latest release
> on my laptop and have had poor support for hardware where the support
> was there before.
>
> Anyway, I figure I will give Ubuntu a try. I am curious how Ubuntu
> does on the Compaq Presario 2100 laptop. I read a few sites, and
> some messages from the Ubuntu forums, but they are all older posts.
>
> Are there any gotchas that I should be aware of before I take the
> leap? How does ACPI support go? Is it easy to get working? This
> used to work on Mandrake, but now with their newest release, it only
> partially works.
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Have you considered trying the Live CD?? That should give you some
idea of how well your hardware is supported (or not...) before
installing.
Peace,
Mike
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