Kubuntu Karmic Koala on a HP EliteBook 8530w

Sunday, November 15. 2009

I already wrote about my experiences with Jaunty Jackalope on a HP EliteBook 8530w. Now this article is a delta update for Kubuntu Karmic Koala (9.10).

All in all hardware support is much better now. I did not had to install updated NVidia drivers (and still have no problems at all - even the random artifacts after waking up are gone) nor an updated firmware for WLAN. Even the function keys are partially working.

Device Status Comments
Graphics Works out of the box
Audio Works out of the box
LAN Works out of the box
WLAN Works out of the box
Suspend to Disk
 Works out of the box
Suspend to RAM
 Works out of the box
fn Functionkeys
 Partially Working
 Brightness can be adjusted using the keys. Sleep, battery and monitor switch do not work.
Specials Keys
 Works out of the box
Memory Card Reader
 Works out of the box Only SD cards tested
Smart card reader Not tested
CD/DVD Writer
 Works out of the box See below for information on how to get lightscribe working.


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Posted by Carsten Schlipf Filed under Linux.
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Fun with Spring Actionscript and Maven (Updated)

Saturday, November 14. 2009

Spring Actionscript is a great library - no question. It makes it much easier to mock Cairngorm service delegates and rewire them for testing with FlexUnit. Testing the full event/command/delegate workflow is pretty easy.

However today I had quite some "fun" with the Maven artifact and it's transitive dependencies in combination with Maven 2.2.1. Spring Actionscript has some dependencies to these artifacts:

  • as3commons-lang
  • as3commons-logging
  • as3commons-reflect
All these required artifacts are available from the yoolabs.org repository so it's pretty easy to include these artifacts into your build. But today I struggled with two hefty problems.

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Posted by Carsten Schlipf Filed under Development.
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