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HP Pavilion a1640n USB support in Ubuntu

By Diwaker Gupta | Published: August 28th, 2007
At work I have a fairly new box, the HP Pavilion a1640n. I'm running Ubuntu Feisty Fawn on it with all the latest updates. Unfortunately, none of the USB ports work, so I can't use my USB mouse, or any external drives or any of the other countless USB devices. Clearly not a great situation [...]
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Finally ATI learns!

By Diwaker Gupta | Published: November 14th, 2005
It has finally happened. ATI has released (still proprietary though) drivers for Linux with initial suspend/resume support. There's a howto for Ubuntu available. It works perfectly on my machine – now I have suspend-to-ram working with 3D acceleration! Yippeee! But it still needs some more testing. I haven't tested suspend-to-disk yet, but its usually less [...]
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HOWTO: Ubuntu on IBM Thinkpad T42

By Diwaker Gupta | Published: July 31st, 2005
I've updated my HowTo: Ubuntu on Thinkpad T42. If you have some suggestions/feedback, please leave them as comments to this entry. Update This HowTo is now listed on TuxMobil.org
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Useful (k)ubuntu repositories

By Diwaker Gupta | Published: July 27th, 2005
# KDE 3.4.1 deb http://kubuntu.org/hoary-kde341 hoary-updates main # KDE 3.4.2 deb http://kubuntu.org/hoary-kde342 hoary-updates main # KOffice 1.4.1 deb http://kubuntu.org/hoary-koffice141 hoary-updates main # Misc packages (qcomicbook, kftpgrabber, klibido, krename etc) deb http://dinton.no-ip.org/ kubuntu main
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