hot new laptop for ubuntu 10.04, and detecting DDR3 memory?

[NoOp]

On 05/15/2010 10:42 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Sat, 15 May 2010, NoOp wrote:
> 
>> Were I you, I would be more concerned to determine if you can actually
>> run 64bit virtualization on the machine...
>> You might find this thread of interest (and note that it's not just
>> Intel processors):
>> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user/212314
>> or
>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2010-March/213448.html
> 
>   my check for virtualization is to simply look for the corresponding
> "svm" or "vmx" in the flags in /proc/cpuinfo.  are you suggesting
> there's more to it than that?  i guess i'll follow those links above
> and see what's happening.

Worth checking further :-)

Also check:
https://launchpad.net/+search?field.text=dv7-3085dx
  https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/109113
and be aware that that laptop most likely has a Conexant CX20582 (or
CX20583 (Pebble) audio chipset. If you follow Zongo's & my posts on
sound with these devices you'll see that there are issues (sound comes
from headphones & speakers at the same time, if modified internal mic
doesn't work etc). These might get you started:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/573284
[reminder to self to file bugs for my CX20583 (Pebble)]
<https://launchpad.net/+search?field.text=CX20582&field.actions.search=Search>
<https://launchpad.net/+search?field.text=CX20583&field.actions.search=Search>