{"id":82,"date":"2009-09-20T13:19:19","date_gmt":"2009-09-20T11:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/new-compaq-notebook-running-ubuntu-karmic\/"},"modified":"2009-09-20T13:19:27","modified_gmt":"2009-09-20T11:19:27","slug":"new-compaq-notebook-running-ubuntu-karmic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/new-compaq-notebook-running-ubuntu-karmic\/","title":{"rendered":"New Compaq Notebook running Ubuntu Karmic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/compaq-presario-cq61-140ei-sound-problem-and-solution\/\">yesterday&#8217;s post<\/a>, I got a new <a href=\"http:\/\/h10010.www1.hp.com\/wwpc\/za\/en\/ho\/WF06b\/321957-321957-3329742-89318-89318-3873829-3938530.html\">Compaq Presario CQ61-140EI<\/a> Notebook.&nbsp; I did not had much choice in the hardware so had to take what I got.&nbsp; The specs of the machine is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Intel Pentium Dual-Core T3400 (2.16GHz)<\/li>\n<li>15.6 LED HD Brightview Widescreen<\/li>\n<li>250GB Hard Drive<\/li>\n<li>3GB DDR2 SDRAM<\/li>\n<li>802.11 b\/g WLAN<\/li>\n<li>Lightscribe Super Multi DVD\u00b1RW Double Layer Support<\/li>\n<li>nVidia GeForce G 102M Graphics with 512MB DDR2 memory<\/li>\n<li>5-in-1 Digital Media Reader<\/li>\n<li>Webcam<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh and it had Vista also installed on the machine.<br \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 500px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mariusb.net\/blogimages\/20092009002.jpg\" \/><br \/>Yes, you are reading correctly, it does come with a HDMI out connector (Now I just need a HDMI cable).&nbsp; Also it has an eSATA connector that can double as an USB connector.&nbsp; Further has it another 2 USB connectors, Audio In and Out and the normal VGA connector.<\/p>\n<p>I initially decide to keep the Vista on the machine and make it a dual boot machine together with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubuntu.com\/testing\/karmic\/alpha6\">Ubuntu Karmic Alpha 6<\/a>.&nbsp; I resized the existing partition and created some other partitions to install Ubuntu on.&nbsp; After installing Ubuntu and when I rebooted, it failed horribly with no proper Grub setup.&nbsp; Not wanting to try solving it I just went ahead and wiped Vista and installed just Ubuntu Karmic. I would not have used Vista much so why waste the hard disk space.<\/p>\n<p>I was particurly interested to see what worked and what not and expecting some things not to work.&nbsp; <br \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 500px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mariusb.net\/blogimages\/20092009001.jpg\" \/><br \/>Here you can see the machine running Ubuntu Karmic happily.&nbsp; Except for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/compaq-presario-cq61-140ei-sound-problem-and-solution\/\">sound problem mentioned yesterday<\/a>, which is now fixed, everything else works.&nbsp; Wireless worked out of the box.&nbsp; Starting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skype.com\/\">Skype<\/a>, I went to see if it picked up my Webcam and there it was, working out of the box.&nbsp; Have now installed <a href=\"http:\/\/projects.gnome.org\/cheese\/\">Cheese<\/a> and using my Webcam happily.<\/p>\n<p>The white little thing on the left of the machine is a USB 3G modem plugged into the eSATA\/USB combo port and it worked without any problems.&nbsp; Network Manager picked it up automatically, ask me what cellular network I am using and then just prompted me for my PIN.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I love the HD screen on this machine and can see it becoming my movie watching machine.<\/p>\n<p>Overall I am fairly impressed with what worked and what not.&nbsp; Karmic looks like more polished than Jaunty and although there is still some messages that fill the screen on bootup, I am sure that by <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/KarmicReleaseSchedule\">release time in October<\/a>, those will disappear.<\/p>\n<p>That bring&#8217;s the count of Ubuntu\/Kubuntu machines in my household to 4.<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/compaq\" rel=\"tag\">compaq<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/presario\" rel=\"tag\">presario<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/karmic\" rel=\"tag\">karmic<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/ubuntu\" rel=\"tag\">ubuntu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned in yesterday&#8217;s post, I got a new Compaq Presario CQ61-140EI Notebook.&nbsp; I did not had much choice in the hardware so had to take what I got.&nbsp; The specs of the machine is as follows: Intel Pentium Dual-Core T3400 (2.16GHz) 15.6 LED HD Brightview Widescreen 250GB Hard Drive 3GB DDR2 SDRAM 802.11 b\/g [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[83,86,85,118],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ubuntu","tag-compaq","tag-karmic","tag-presario","tag-ubuntu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1SHVw-1k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}