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Kubuntu is it?

May 12, 2012 by Mr Lofven

Ok, I dropped Lubuntu. It was probably the most weird little distro I have ever tried to get along with. Although I really hate Unity, I still like Ubuntu a lot. And with the 5 year LTS on 12.04, it's tempting to stick with Ubuntu. And so I will. Just installed Kubuntu, an Ubuntu distro … Read more

Ubuntu 11.04 and Compaq CQ61

June 16, 2011May 7, 2011 by Mr Lofven

I have previously written about Compaq CQ61 with Nvidia graphics drivers, and the problem with 6 screens. See post. If you have a similar setup and solved the problem as described, then there should be no problem upgrading to Ubuntu 11.04.

Remedy for the overheated Compaq CQ61

April 3, 2011September 16, 2010 by Mr Lofven

I have made some posts about the Compaq CQ61 with Nvidia G103M graphics card and how to speed things up and get the screen working. On Ubuntu 10.04 another problem have been bugging me for a long time – overheating! Time to post a solution.

Ubuntu 10.04

September 29, 2010May 6, 2010 by Mr Lofven

It's here. And I made a fresh install. Read on..

Running Ubuntu on Compaq CQ61

September 29, 2010October 15, 2009 by Mr Lofven

So you thought Linux works with every piece of hardware these days? Sorry, hardware vendors still don't pay much attention when it comes to enable their stuff correctly on the platform. I wont go in to a religious flame-war telling who's fault that is. We can probably blame the Linux community and the hardware industry equally. In this post:

Getting the Nvidia G103M graphics card working on Ubuntu 9.10
Getting speaker sound to work on the Compaq CQ61