mostly harmless
Hardware
- 15" screen
- webcam
- modem
- LAN
- keyboard and surround, screen surround are white.
- 250GB hard drive: Toshiba MK25555GSX
- optical drive: HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GSA-T50N
Minor issues:
- optical drive tray wouldn't open — needed to be pressed closed until it gave an extra click; seemed to be easier after a while.
- power button is slow to respond when running on battery only
Installation
Installed 32-bit Ubuntu 9.10 from the 'alt' CD
No problems.
On start-up, offered the slmodem driver as a 'restricted driver' (see below).
Sound
aplay -l lists the sound chip as ALC622 rev1
typewriter computer
sample keyboard