Hi All,
So that was one of the most intense few weeks of my life, but I did get the promotion yesterday.
Principal Field Technologist.
One of 134 in the company.
It feels really good, I'm proud to have been voted into such a great group.
I'm looking forward to the new challenges and responsibilities this position will bring.
On the Nevada topic, I tested the latest B120 this morning, suspend is still hanging up on the MSI Wind U100.
Dave
Hi All,
Survived two weeks with Grandkids, we had lots of swimming and ice cream.
I've been working on mandatory training :-)
Note from me, I'm usually always talking about Nevada, bad old habit I suppose, to many extras I add, can't teach an old dog new tricks :-)
Anyway, just testing B119 nightly (it's booting up as B120) on the Acer One 10" and MSI, I had B119 on both before.
B120 has the fix for the MSI touchpad not working after resume.
The luupgrade on the MSI to B120 went fine, cannot test the touchpad fix as the machine will not suspend at all, the HD light comes on and stays on, I'm working with the engineering team in LA to see if it's just a bad DVD or a regression.
Just finishing the B119 luupgrade on the AA1 10", I updated the BIOS and ACPI lid was working really fast on the B119 load.
I'll retest everything again now it's on B120.
I did just buy a couple of Pink MSI U100's of Ebay for friends, not my color, for $299.
If you do this look out for a really big difference in the offers, one has bluetooth and a 6 cell battery, the other one does not.
I assumed as they were both Pink and $299 they had the same hardware, I'll check better next time.
Dave
Hi All,
So it's been a couple of weeks, I've been working on trying to get a promotion, let me tell you without a lot of help from some great Sun colleges my documents would not be as good as they are. I found it difficult to write about me, a lot easier to do product presentations.
I've been playing with the Nvidia driver settings on the Acer C90S, with the separate X server on the LCD and external monitor, with Compiz and 4 desktops each, I'm getting about 5000 frames per second running /usr/X11/demo/glxgears.
Rotating the cube is really smooth.
The external 500Gb 2.5" USB hard drive is working out great, it's has a ZFS pool which comes up all the time after I have to kill the laptop.
I'm having a problem with the 2.27.3 evolution, if I click on a large attachment it's locking up the system, still have not worked out whats going on yet.
I did do a B117 install on the Toshiba Portege R200 just for fun, the 2.26 nautilus sometimes does not come up all the way and you need to kill it a couple of times, looks like a timing issue, Compiz is not working at all on the Intel video, I'll have to look at this later, suspend / resume works ok, though the back light does not come up on the LCD.
I'm taking a couple of grandkids down to Oregon for a summer vacation tomorrow, back in two weeks.
Happy July 4th
Dave