Kubuntu Jaunty Jackalope on a HP EliteBook 8530w
Monday, September 28. 2009
Some days ago I got my new notebook that replaced my previous HP Compaq 8240: An HP EliteBook 8530w. Of course the first thing I did was to shrink the Windows Vista partition to make room for a fresh Kubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope installation (32 Bit).
Out of the box hardware support is pretty good - I just had some minor problems that I have sorted out in the meantime.
| Device | Status | Comments |
| Graphics | Works | Had to install Nvidia drivers manually due to missing proxy settings during installation. |
| Audio | Works out of the box |
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| LAN | Works out of the box |
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| WLAN | Works | Had to install new firmware and replace knetworkmanager by wicd |
| Suspend to Disk |
Works out of the box | |
| Suspend to RAM |
Works out of the box | |
| fn Functionkeys |
Not working |
Can't adjust brightness of screen (but this works with the KDE power management settings) |
| Specials Keys |
Works out of the box | Volume slider works like two buttons |
| Memory Card Reader |
Works out of the box | Only SD cards tested |
| Smart card reader | Not tested |
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Road Warriors Proxy
Thursday, September 17. 2009
Do you have a Notebook running Linux?
Do you frequently use it in different network environments with different proxy configurations?
Are you sick of frequently reconfiguring all the applications that have their own proxy settings like the web browser, the Java IDE, the desktop and the applications that uses its settings, the other desktop environment that uses other settings... and so on?
If your answer to these questions is yes, yes and yes then read on. The solution I present here allows you to configure proxy settings in any of your applications just once and will even change the proxy settings automatically as soon as you connect your laptop to a network.
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