On 20 August 2010 22:00, Graham Lauder <yorick_(a)openoffice.org> wrote:
On Friday 20 Aug 2010 21:09:03 Bruce Kingsbury wrote:
The last few laptops I've installed have not been a problem. Ubuntu restricted drivers dialog pops up, I tick the box, it installs the drivers. I presume the modem works after that, I don't have a normal prone line or a working dialup account to test it with...
I don't have a prone line either, mine stands up... :D
I'd be bloody rapt to get mine working. Have you tried it on a T60 Thinkpad?
Looks like I might have to come to a fixit day.
Thinkpads are usually the easiest, but apparently you need the non-free (non-libre and non-gratis) "linuxant" drivers for that one. The same modem as the T42.. http://learn.clemsonlinux.org/wiki/Laptops:IBM_Thinkpad_T42#Modem BTW I have an OOo question for you... I have a friend who's very good at remembering to save documents, but not so thorough about closing all the OOo windows before shutting down or rebooting, and he's finding autosave to be more trouble than it's worth. But making it go away turns out to be not so easy. There's an option to turn off "save autorecovery information", but after a crash OOo still wants to recover whatever files were open (which makes no sense when autorecovery information isn't being saved). There's also a --norecover option you can give OOo to stop it trying to recover after a crash, but it's a real pain editing every menu shortcut and file association so that OOo never tries to do the autorecover thing. I think it would make a lot more sense for OOo to just do the --norecover thing any time it sees that the "don't save" option is set... because it already knows there won't be anything there to recover. How do I get someone at SunOracle to take a look at this?