[CS-FSLUG] A short experience with Ubuntu

[Josiah Ritchie]

On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 03:07 -0400, Don Parris wrote:

> Hmmm, I'll have to try an MP3 on our ministry's recently acquired Dell
> C610 laptop.  I threw an audio CD in the drive and played it without a
> hitch.  I have a music video that came with Msft Windows 98 as a
> multimedia demo thingy.  I'll try to play it, and see what happens. 
> Other than Ubuntu nor SUSE being able to hook up the touchpad (I can
> still plug in a regular PS/2 mouse and be fine), I've not had any
> problems so far.  I need to try my old Handspring Visor - it worked on
> the Warty Warthog version of Ubuntu, but I haven't tried it yet with
> Hoary (5.04).

I have a C610 and the touchpad has worked with Ubuntu (Hoary Hedgehog)
out of the box. It lacks a bit of sensitivity, but I haven't looked into
the possibility of setting changes yet.

JSR/