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Screen & Monitors

Device

Works?

Bug #

in Feisty

in Gustsy

in Hardy

Screen

yes

yes

yes

Correct resolution?

only with 915resolution

same as Feisty

yes (screen reports wrong physical dimensions)

Correct refresh rate?

yes

yes

yes

3D Acceleration

don't remember

yes

yes

External monitor works?

Untested

Untested

Untested

External monitor - mirrors

Untested

Untested

Untested

External monitor - extend desktop

Untested

Untested

Untested

Power Management

Battery detected?

yes

yes

yes

Hibernates?

Untested

yes but breaks wireless network

yes!

Suspend

Untested

no (won't come back)

untested

Dim monitor on battery

yes

yes, can't raise brightness with hotkeys

yes!

Blank monitor on inactivity

yes

yes

yes

Lid Close

yes

yes

yes

Cpu frequency scaling

yes

yes

yes

Sound

Sound works?

only with fix (see above)

same as Feisty

untested

Correct volume?

not without fix

same as Feisty

lots of them

Hardware volume switch

N/A

N/A

N/A

Headphone jack

yes

yes

untested

Mic jack

Untested

No, produces noise and internal mic is not turned off

untested

Networking

Wired NIC

yes

yes

yes

Wireless NIC

Untested

yes

yes

PCMCIA NIC

N/A

N/A

N/A

Firewire

N/A

N/A

N/A

Bluetooth

N/A

N/A

N/A

Modem

N/A

N/A

N/A

Infrared

N/A

N/A

N/A

Touchpad & Mice

Touchpad

yes

yes

yes

Touchpad - Doubletap = double click

yes

yes

yes

Touchpad - Scroll down side

no

yes but area is smaller then print on touchpad

yes but area is smaller then print on touchpad

External mouse - USB

yes (except scroll wheel)

yes

yes

External mouse - Serial

N/A

N/A

N/A

Docking Station/Port Replicator

AC through replicator

Untested

Untested

Untested

USB

Untested

Untested

Untested

Serial

Untested

Untested

Untested

Parallel

Untested

Untested

Untested

External Monitor - VGA

Untested

Untested

Untested

External Monitor - DVI

Untested

Untested

Untested

Modem

Untested

Untested

Untested

NIC

Untested

Untested

Untested

PS/2

Untested

Untested

Untested

Additional Hardware

Fingerprint reader

Untested

Untested

Untested

CD/DVD drive

yes

yes

yes

PCMCIA cards

Untested

N/A

N/A

Parallel Ports

Untested

N/A

N/A

Card reader(s)

Untested

yes (tested only with SD-cards)

untested

Webcam

Untested

Yes with the syntek driver http://syntekdriver.sourceforge.net/

yes! (image flipped)

Function and other keys

Fn key

Operation

Keycode

Works?

Bug #

in Feisty

in Gutsy

Hardy

+ F3

volume up

only with no headphones

yes, change default mixer to PCM instead of Master in sound preferences. The headphone jack has it's own master mixer.

+ F4

volume down

only with no headphones

yes, change default mixer to PCM instead of Master in sound preferences. The headphone jack has it's own master mixer.

+ F5

switch screen

Untested

Untested

Untested

+ F6

brightness down

yes

yes

yes

+ F7

brightness up

no

no

yes

+ F10

mute

no

yes

yes

+ F11

blank screen

yes

yes

yes

+ F12

suspend

yes (but suspend won't work)

same as Feisty

untested

Other special keys

Key

Operation

Keycode

Works?

Bug #

Feisty

Gutsy

Hardy

Fn + arrow up

page up

yes

yes

yes

Fn + arrow down

page down

yes

yes

yes

Fn + arrow left

home

yes

yes

yes

Fn + arrow right

end

yes

yes

yes