Ubuntu 10.10 on Core i5 - ASUS EAH5750

Intro

Clean install of Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat 10.10.

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, Intel® 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

I downloaded the iso and checked the MD5-sum with HashTab and UbuntuHashes. All good to go !

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
Booting from usb just works ! No fiddling around with "i915.modeset=0 xforcevesa".

1920*1080 resolution / ATI 5750
1920*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).
As a result of installing the ATI drivers, booting is fugly. Resolution is (at best) completely wrong, textual (error)messages are overlayed on the booting screen,...

LINKSYS WMP600N-EU Wireless-N Dual Band PCI Adapter
Apparently, Ubuntu has updated the 'driver': wireless WPA just works now.

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)


Outro
Check out the customization page !