René Samselnig's Weblog » msi http://sdm-net.org Personal Entertainment and Knowledge Management Wed, 21 Dec 2011 06:08:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 My MSI MegaBook S260 http://sdm-net.org/2007/01/my-msi-megabook-s260/ http://sdm-net.org/2007/01/my-msi-megabook-s260/#comments Wed, 17 Jan 2007 08:16:14 +0000 René Samselnig http://www.sdm-net.org/2007/01/my-msi-megabook-s260/ Last year I got myself a new laptop. Actually it is my very first laptop ever. Although I never really wanted to have a laptop I found it useful to have one for studying purpose and more. Of course I set it up with Ubuntu. Hardware This is the configuration I bought the laptop with. [...]

]]> Last year I got myself a new laptop. Actually it is my very first laptop ever. Although I never really wanted to have a laptop I found it useful to have one for studying purpose and more. Of course I set it up with Ubuntu.

Hardware

This is the configuration I bought the laptop with.

  • Intel centrino 1.73GHz
  • 1024MB RAM
  • DVD+RW/R DVD+RW/R DL Writer
  • 12″ Display 1280×800 WXGA Crystal Bright Display
  • 80GB harddisk
Software

Ubuntu 6.10 is about to be the operating system of my choice. After installation I had to add some more applications to fit my needs, but all in all the base installation gives you quite a lot you need.

Further Tweaking

If you like to have more recent mplayer versions then add the marillat source to the sources.list file. Remember to backup your sources.list before changing it!

echo “deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sid main” >> /etc/apt/sources.list

Since we don’t have the public key of Christian Marillat we have to import it from the keyserver. You can do it like this:

gpg –recv-keys 07DC563D1F41B907 && gpg –export 07DC563D1F41B907 > marillat.sig sudo apt-key add marillat.sig

You might have to rerun the first line since gpg creates your personal config file when first running and doesn’t load it the first time. Just check the message given.

Suspending

All modes of suspending (to RAM, to Disk) are working now. At first Suspend to Disk didn’t work because my swap-disk wasn’t set up properly. I had a hell of a time figuring this out, but at last it works fine now. It takes some time to suspend (hibernate), but it’s worth the wait.

I’m not sure if one really needs the hibernate package, but here’s how to install it:

sudo apt-get install hibernate

Further Reading
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