Ubuntu 10.04 on Core i5 - ASUS EAH5750
Intro
Clean install of Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04.
Specs
PSU: CORSAIR CX400W, whisper quiet operation and active power factor correction circuitry (CMPSU-400CX)
Case: ANTEC Two Hundred Mid-Tower Gaming Case
RAM: PATRIOT 4GB Kit (2 x 2GB) 1333Mhz DDR3 7-7-7-20 Extreme Performance Gaming Series
CPU: INTEL CORE i5 750 45nm (2.66) 8MB LGA1156 1156FSB Boxed with cooler
Mobo: GIGABYTE GA-P55M-UD2 DDR3 (Micro-ATX, Dual PCI Express, IntelŪ P55 Chipset, Ultra Durable 3, 7 SATA II RAID, eSATA, 4 DDR3 2200+ Dual Channel, 2 PCI, 8 Channel Audio, Gigabit LAN, Firewire, 14 USB2.0)
HDD: WESTERN DIGITAL 640GB 16MB Sata300 7200rpm Caviar Blue WD6400AAKSS
graka: ASUS EAH5750 FORMULA/2DI/1GD5 Radeon HD 5750 1024MB GDDR5, Clock Rate 700Mhz, Memory Clock 4.600 GHz, DisplayPort, HDMI, DVI, Crossfire ready, Retail
Screen: SAMSUNG P2350 Black 23 inch wide screen 1920X1080/2ms/50000:1/300 cd/m2/DVI/170°ViewingAngle/43W
Wireless: LINKSYS WMP600N-EU Wireless-N Dual Band PCI Adapter
Keyboard: CHERRY eVolution STREAM XT Corded MultiMedia Keyboard BLACK Extremely flat, stylish and elegant USB/PS2 AZERTY G85-23100BE-2
cd-rom: WriteMaster
Burning to CD sucks, so I 'install' the iso to an USB-stick. LiLi USB Creator is my preferred application, as it has the ability to boot the iso in VirtualBox.
Booting
As expected: normal boot doesn't work...
When booting from the USB-stick, you will see this screen:
Press the Tab-key, and you will see the booting options.
Remove the "quiet--" at the end of the line and replace it with "i915.modeset=0 xforcevesa". This will allow you to boot the usb-key (although in a slightly lower resolution)
When the Ubuntu-desktop comes up, you can install Ubuntu as you normally would on the harddisk.
1920*1080 resolution / ATI 57501920*1080 works after installing the (restricted) driver for the ATI card. (Ubuntu will prompt you automatically for it after updating your packages).
This page has good instructions on how to install the latest Catalyst Centre (and how to fix broken drivers :p).
LINKSYS WMP600N-EU Wireless-N Dual Band PCI AdapterDoens't work with WPA !!!
Use another (working) computer to go to the RaLink site (http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=2 (Software --> Linux)) and download the RT2860PCI driver.
I had to unpack the tar.bz2 file in Windows, since Ubuntu said it wasn't a valid archive.
Installing instructions are available here.
- Unpack the driver from the site
- Go to "/os/linux/config.mk" in the unpacked folder.
Find the lines "HAS_WPA_SUPPLICANT" and "HAS_NATIVE_WPA_SUPPLICANT", and put a "y" after them (this is to enable WPA). - Open a terminal and cd to the unpacked folder
sudo make
sudo make install (these 2 steps were for driver compilation)
sudo ifconfig wlan0 down (disable the wireless)
sudo rmmod rt2860sta (remove the old, faulty driver)
sudo mv /lib/modules/2.6.*/kernel/drivers/staging/rt2860/rt2860sta.ko /lib/modules/2.6.*/kernel/drivers/staging/rt2860/rt2860sta.ko.dist (rename the old driver so it doesn't load)
sudo depmod -a (search for new drivers)
sudo modprobe rt2860sta (load the newly compiled driver)
You should now be able to connect to your wireless WPA.
On reboot, we would loose all this, so let's copy the new driver to a location were it can be found by the system while it boots:
cd to the unpacked driver folder and cd to /os/linux
sudo cp rt2860sta.ko /lib/modules/2.6.*/kernel/drivers/staging/rt2860/ (copy the new driver to were the old one was)
sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-wireless-lucid-generic (don't know if this is really necessary)
The /lib/modules/2.6.* is responsible for this...
Keyboard and USB-mouse (Logitech)
Just works.
Sound
Just works.
PulseAudio manages all the sound. No problems so far...
CD-burner
GnomeBaker/Brasero/the Gnome cd-writer should do the trick.
Not tested (yet).
Webcam (Logitech QuickCam Zoom)
YeeY, this works out-of-the-box :-)
(tested with Cheese)