On 8 July 2012 21:51, Colin Law <clan...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 4 July 2012 14:10, Simon Greenwood <sfgreenw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > On 4 July 2012 13:59, Colin Law <clan...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> > >> Has anyone any experience of running Ubuntu on laptops from PC > >> Specialist [1]? I am particularly interested in the Genesys IV [2]. > >> They will supply without Windows with a reduction of £80. > >> > >> I believe they are based on Clevo laptops. > >> > > > > I have the System 76 Lemur which is the PCSpecialist Xenon. It works out > of > > the box with Ubuntu but System76 provide an open source driver that > allows > > the control buttons to function correctly. > > Simon: do you know which control buttons do not work without the > drivers, and would the drivers be ok on a PC Specialist machine? > > The control panel applet for 12.04 says just the brightness buttons (Fn F8 and F9), which is actually very useful - the screen is very bright and can be a drain on the battery. I believe that the drivers are open source but are presented on the System 76 website as specifically for their models.
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