[olug] ubuntu 5.10

[Rob Townley]

On my Dell Latitude with Debian, the  only way the screen comes back
is to do Fn+CRT/LCD key combo - the key that switches LCD, CRT, or
Both.  Brings the display back.

On 2/18/06, Matt Anderson <manderso at cs.wisc.edu> wrote:
> After an 18 month Linux-on-the-desktop hiatus (been using a OS X
> PowerBook), I installed Ubuntu on my old Dell Inspiron laptop a
> couple of days ago.  I was mostly very impressed at how smoothly the
> process went -- it autoconfigured X windows to use the 1920 x 1440
> display, and once I found the graphical network interface
> configuration tool, setting up my D-Link DWL-G650 wireless card was a
> snap.  Mostly, everything just worked, and worked out of the box.
> The hardware volume buttons (fn-page up and fn-page down) even work
> and a little graphical volume meter pops up in X when I adjust the
> volume with them.
>
> A couple of big annoyances though:
>
> * tcsh is not installed by default, and doesn't seem to even be
> available part of the default package set.  After adding most of the
> unsupported package repositories, I was able to find a tcsh-kanji
> (which I installed and it works fine), but no plain old tcsh.
>
> * There is no emacs or xemacs (or micro emacs either).  Not installed
> by default, and maybe not in the supported package set either (I
> can't recall if I looked before I added the non-supported sets).  I
> think that's just *bizarre*.  I can find packages through apt-get or
> synaptic, but I get dependency errors and complaints about packages
> that can't be or won't be installed for some reason or another.  So
> no emacs or xemacs that's easy to install.
>
> Does anyone have experience with these issues?  Did I miss something
> obvious, or are there some moderately big problems with this Ubuntu
> release?  I doubt I'm the only one that thinks a lack of tcsh and
> emacs is a big deal.  :-)  I haven't much desire to grapple with the
> debian/ubuntu package management system, and though I don't really
> *want* to install emacs from source either, it sounds like the
> easiest thing to do at this point if I want it installed.  Anyone
> already deal with this issue?  What did you do if so?
>
> A additional minor annoyance -- If I uncomment the line
> "#ACPI_SLEEP=true" (which should enable suspend to RAM or 'sleep')
> in /etc/default/acpi-support, and then execute /etc/acpi/sleep.sh,
> the laptop (apparently) goes to sleep just fine, but refuses to turn
> the display back on when it wakes up.  I've never had a working
> suspend on a linux laptop, so I think I can live without it, but I've
> become very accustomed to those little details working without a
> hitch since switching to OS X.
>
> Things have really come a long way in the 8 years since I first tried
> to install linux on a laptop, but man, I still wish things would work
> just a little better, more smoothly, than they do.
>
> --
>   Matt Anderson
>
>
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