Updating the Galaxy Mini to Android 2.3.3 under Linux

The Samsung Galaxy Mini S5570 comes with Android 2.2 and can easily be updated to Android 2.3 if you are running Windows on your computer and if you get Samsung's fragile Kies application to run. If you have been following this blog you know that any Windows installations reside safely banned inside Virtualboxes so my … Continue reading Updating the Galaxy Mini to Android 2.3.3 under Linux →

HP Probook 4720s on Ubuntu 11.04 64bit

Last Winter I posted [1] about installing Ubuntu 10.10 64bit on a HP Probook 4720s with 6GB RAM which was only a moderate success, as it required a manual driver update for the WLAN, the touchpad right-click would not work reliably and the external microphone produced only static noise. Now that the new Ubuntu … Continue reading HP Probook 4720s on Ubuntu 11.04 64bit →

Ubuntu 10.10 64 Bit on an HP ProBook 4720s

Update: Ubuntu 11.04 seems a good improvement over the previous one. Read my adventures here installing it on the same laptop. The HP ProBook 4720s is what you'd call a business workhorse: metal casing, fast WLAN, 6 hours+ battery duration, a Core 3 and a matte (anti glare) 1600x900 LCD screen for a fair price … Continue reading Ubuntu 10.10 64 Bit on an HP ProBook 4720s →

Enabling the powerbutton in Ubuntu Server 10.04 on an AMD box

While shutdown –h does the trick of shutting down a server just fine, occasionally I’d prefer the haptic version. While I’ve never had problems getting the powerbutton to work with Ubuntu desktop versions, it didn’t work out of the box on my AMD Athlon XP. Fortunately the solution seems to be quite simple: sudo apt-get … Continue reading Enabling the powerbutton in Ubuntu Server 10.04 on an AMD box →

Fixing screen brightness on a Samsung R60 and Ubuntu 10.04

Finally the day came when all the clean installs in the world will not make Vista any faster on my old Samsung R60 (1.5 Ghz Dualcore), so I figured it's time for a Linux distro. Apart from high power consumption (it's a known bug [1]) nearly everything worked as expected, left two things: I wasn't … Continue reading Fixing screen brightness on a Samsung R60 and Ubuntu 10.04 →