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Everyone seems to be posting their laptop success/failure story, so I can't stay behind ;)

I got a HP-NW8240 to test from Canonical. Lots of things don't work yet for breezy though:

• The default "ati" display driver won't give me a stable image on 1920x1200 (the native LCD resolution). It's all jumping/moving around.
• Because of this (the fglrx driver does work), it's impossible to switch back to the text console from X (bug in fglrx). Also, resuming from sleep nicely doesn't work, probably because of the same (or a related) bug.

The rest of the laptop (hotkeys, docking station, even the LED in the mute button!) seems to work perfectly.

For the first time in almost 5 years, the 3 audio hotkeys on my ancient laptop work. And not only that, but they do the right things after a clean install of the daily breezy. Breezy is getting better every day.

Because I haven't received the shiny new Ubuntu-test-laptop yet, I've decided to start creating installation reports on my old laptop: a MyNote C730 from late 200. It has a 600MHz Pentium III Coppermine, and a whopping 192M of memory, and it has never worked completely out of the box.

I was a bit surprised by how well the hoary install went (I had previously only installed warty, and upgraded from there), and almost everything worked immediately, even hibernation (which used to cycle a lot: it re-hibernated every time it came out of hibernation, very annoying :)). There were still a few thing that didn't quite work as expected, like IrDA and the sleep button, but that's not a big issue.

Installing breezy is almost the same as installing hoary, except it offers to reize your current partition and create new partitions in the reclaimed space (cool), or installation using LVM (even cooler). Installation of packages after the first reboot looks a lot nicer to. No long lists of dpkg output, but a nice progress bar, so you know how much coffee you need to make before you're able to use the system.

The brand-new breezy install still has some problems too, the most obvious one being thet X doesn't start (but that's supposed to be a temporary problem). I'm going to try again tomorrow. Stay tuned.

You can find the results on the LaptopTestingTeam/AsusL7300G page in the Ubuntu wiki.