Just got a used laptop from work today (a lenovo t60p) and decided to install Ubuntu 9.10 on it. Most things were working pretty smoothly, I got the fingerprint reader working by following some of the stuff on http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_enable_the_fingerprint_reader_with_ThinkFinger. I also got the hard drive protection stuff working which is pretty nifty, never had that on a laptop, and I played tux racer by moving my laptop side-to-side, haha.
I had some problems with audio though. I tried several solutions I found on a forum here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=346676 and http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1043568 but I think the thing that really made it work was that for some reason I was not in a group that would allow access to sound devices. The page here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingSoundProblems said to make sure you have permissions for it…I figured this would be the last thing that would work since I was the user that installed the system, well, I guess I was wrong, the little checkbox wasn’t checked, I checked it and restarted and it work, who would have thought?
Now I just need to get bluetooth working…wasn’t seeing my phone…
