Appearantly I wrote this a long time ago as Ubuntu 8.04 has just came out and I am about to upgrade my notebook. Anyway as I on a train now and have nothing better to do than cleaning up old, half written posts I add this too. Better than throwing it away I think.
After my Dell notebook broke down I bought an HP nc6400 to work on and use during training It says HP on the top of the notebook but next to the screen is says Compaq nv6400. When will they make up their mind if they are called HP or Compaq?
Anyway the notebook looks very nice. I installed Ubuntu 6.10 on it from CD and as 7.04 beta just came out I decided to try that and upgraded vi the network upgrade. Everything went very well and most of the hardware I tried works well.
The main problem I encountered is that I am using a Samsung SyncMaster 731b external monitor (connected via the standard HP docking station I bought with the notebook) but I could not yet figure out how to configure the screen so can see the full display on either the internal screen or on the external.
The same goes with overhead projectors. I tried one during a Perl Mongers meeting and it was a disaster. The left 20% of the picture showed up on the right side of the screen.