I installed Cheese as a quick and tested the WebCam, so, I assuming it works with most anything. The fn keys all seem to work, use fn f7-8 for brightness, f9-12 control Rhythmbox.īluetooth works, I not really use, but, tested it. 8~P It worked!īoth suspend/hibernation return to a dimmed display and I have to increase birghtness, no problem there. I normally do not make a swap or use hibernation, but, as more local people are asking of this feature, I made a 3 GB swap to test and showoff the hibernation, 'Hoping' it went into hibernation and returned to my saved work. Installed a new Western Digital 500 GB HDD. I will update this post as I gain more experience with the laptop and possibly discover hidden bugs. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that this particular model (AMD/ATI) works almost like it was designed for Ubuntu. Although the gnome battery indicator always says 'Laptop battery (estimating.)', the percentage can be found by clicking it and opening Power Statistics.Īfter reading some of the headaches other HP G62 owners experienced using Ubuntu, I expected nothing to work. I haven't tested it in Windows 7 for comparison because I almost never boot into it. Doing normal web browsing with lowered LED brightness will drop the charge 50% in less than an hour. Touchpad light-sensing on/off switch does not workīattery life is terrible. Hardware buttons: Brightness keys, sound keys, wifi toggle, and application shortcut keys all work. does Fn+F12 send F12 or toggle wifi radio) Function key functionality is toggled in the BIOS (e.g.

Inserted 8GB card and could easily import photos using Shotwell's pop-up dialog. HDMI output: no hassle plug and play (tested with AOC Envision TV) Two-finger scrolling capability enabled by synaptics-dkms package.

Webcam and microphone (tested with Skype, Cheese photo booth) Graphics, Visual Effects in Gnome on 'Extra' (using ATI proprietary drivers) Compatability: Everything seems to work 'out of the box'

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