First of all, the video card driver that comes with it works great! What a change!! Very easy to enable desktop effects, Compiz, etc.

Also, I installed the fnfxd, and my brightness buttons work great. I didn’t try them before installing though, so they may have been working before. Nonetheless, no tweaking needed there for me!

I haven’t had problems with sound, although, once in a while, the sound will hang – move to a dead crawl, which is very annoying because you hear almost exactly the same sound over and over…if anyone knows a fix for this, I’d love to hear it! Of course, it doesn’t happen often, so I’m not too worried, but it’s no fun having to reboot just for that.

One thing though…Since putting Ubuntu on my laptop, (first Hardy and now Intrepid) I have not been able to get it to wake up from suspend (it seems to wake up, but the screen stays off), and hibernate will NOT work, no matter what I try. It says it can’t create the image because there isn’t enough space! :-O When I type in ’sudo s2disk’, I get this error:

s2disk: Could not stat the resume device file. Reason: No such file or directory

This is no fun at all, because I am always turning my computer off completely instead of hibernating or suspend, and when my battery is low I can’t have it set to do anything, because it won’t work anyway, so it just sits on until it dies. I could cry! Aaarrgh! Any other suggestions? I’ll try just about anything!

Just one final note. I was trying to uninstall a bunch of stuff to see if that would help – you know, in case something I’d installed to make it work was actually preventing this recent fix from working – and I removed hibernate and pm-utils

DO NOT REMOVE PM-UTILS!!!

Stupid, stupid me! I was hoping to just uninstall and then reinstall, since that has fixed a few things for me before…The problem was, it uninstalled a bunch of other stuff with it, including Network Manager – not good at all! I’ve uninstalled Network Manager before, and was able to reinstall it again right away without the internet…but not this time! And it also made my CD-Rom drive almost useless…so when I downloaded a copy of the .deb for Network Manager on another computer and burned it to a CD, I couldn’t read the disk! I couldn’t get on the internet for ANYTHING, not wired or wireless, I couldn’t even connect to another computer directly…I finally had to go out and buy a USB drive and copy the installer that way…Then I was able to fix it!

Well, don’t be like me, and if you want to laugh at all that, go right ahead!!! I know I am (now that it’s fixed). And after all that, I still can’t get hibernate or suspend working!!! My goodness!!!!!

Thanks and have a nice day!

Moz,

You can run:

sudo rm /usr/sbin/pmi
sudo dpkg-divert –rename –remove /usr/sbin/pmi

Note that is dash dash rename and dash dash remove. For some reason they don’t show up correctly in comments.

I obtained this information from http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/118.

I apologize for the latent reply.

I tried what you wrote, but there is no s2ram command available after installation of uswsusp package. And now I would like to undo what has been done by the command:

sudo dpkg-divert –rename –divert /usr/sbin/pmi-disabled /usr/sbin/pmi

how do I do that?

Moz

> Does the power management fix (i.e. using uswsp instead of the
> default for suspend to disk/ram), fix the problem where after
> suspend to ram the screen does not come back to life?

I believe uswsp does fix that problem. Its not perfect though. In my experience, uswsp occasionally will not properly sleep, and occasionally it will not properly wakeup.

post if it worked for you.. I’d like to know how it works on a 135

I also completely wiped off Vista and installed XP .. zomg .. it’s like 5 times faster, no kidding. If you have a 4666 or 4527 there are some XP driver links here:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=2174464

Otherwise I would STRONGLY suggest you try “driver genius” (the demo).