Ubuntu on my Lifebook A3120

As I said in my previous post, I installed Ubuntu on my Laptop (Fujitsu Lifebook A3120). Installation was not as straightforward as it had been when I installed the Debian unstable. Here are some notes ....
1. The Ubuntu livecd does not work. Fails to recognize the hard disk. So I was forced to take to the álternate' Ubuntu CD, which is based on the plain old debian installer.
2. The laptop has an unusual CD drive too, so installation from the CD too failed. So I installed using a pendrive. Creating an installer pendrive is very simple. I did that using System->Administration->USB-Startup-Disk-Creator menu entry on another debian/ubuntu machine.
3. As was the case with debian, the latest fglrx drivers do not work on my laptop any longer. So I had to uninstall these drivers to get working graphics.
4. The best guide to swapping caps-lock and ctrl keys is on the emacswiki page. For X11 it is the best to use the System->Preferences->Keyboard->Layouts->Layout-Options menu.
5. For dinovo edge keyboard to work instantly, modify the file /etc/default/bluetooth
and change the line:
HID2HCI_ENABLED=1
to
HID2HCI_ENABLED=0
But this may actually disable the bluetooth dongles if you are using (in addition to the keyboard specific one).

From Sid to Ubuntu

Recently I made a shift away from SID to the enchanting world of Ubuntu. I installed Ubuntu Jaunty on my laptop. What made me move away ....

1. SID was pretty heavy on my limited bandwidth resources. Upgrades are available far too often and I am not a guy who can sit idle even when an upgrade to packages that I never ever used are available.
2. SID brought in too many beta versions on my 2 years old laptop. The OS was breaking my laptop too often and everytime I was spending wasteful hours trying to recover and reconfigure.
3. Being in hardware design and verification domain, I seldom need latest versions of various packages. SystemC, C++ and Python are the I can get to the software domain.