Feisty-Fawn 7.04 install on Acer 5100-5033

[kenta]

On Thu, 3 May 2007, Alex Hewitt wrote:
> All the other features just seem to work.

My brother's friend did encounter the same issue with a broadcomm based 
WiFi card.  Not sure if he resolved that, but as a Linux noob I'm hoping 
he gets it easily corrected so I can hear his feedback as a first-time 
linux user.

Have you turned on the "Desktop Effects"?

Months ago I tried to get Beryl/Compiz effects working on my Edgy box with 
no luck.  This is an older desktop machine with an ati rv350 card. 
However after a few tweaks to the xorg.conf and following some 
instructions they are working just fine under Feisty. I'm impressed with 
the eye candy features that linux has to offer, especially since these 
days people are making their oooOOOO's and Ahhhh's regarding Vista's look 
and feel.

Rest of the features are nice. So far, everything works but I can't tell 
if a lot of it is because I'd already done a bunch of things to get them 
working under E.E.

I like the inclusion of the Banshee Music Player.  It's a music player I 
hadn't tried before.  Amarok was croaking previously when trying to 
enumerate all my music to build it's DB.  Songbird was incredibly slow. 
Some other players didn't have features I was looking for... like the 
ability to rate music, then create dynamic playlist (a.k.a "Smart 
Playlist") that will play music with a particular rating. Podcast support 
as well was a must-have.  Banshee appears to do it all.

My only gripe is that Hibernate is not working out of the box for some 
reason. Pushing the button says it will Hibernate my system however it 
doesn't.  I haven't researched yet why this isn't working.

Other than that, I'm happy with the Feisty install.  Upgrade was cake, 
effects are slick, and *almost* everything works.

-Kenta