I decided to wipe my hard drive clean and install Ubuntu 8.04.

My first installed Ubuntu 6.10 on my notebook on Nov 2006. It replaced my Gentoo linux, which was just a toy for me at that time. It was duel boot with Windows XP.

I upgraded from 6.10 to 7.04. When 7.10 came out, I wiped out Windows XP, and Ubuntu became the only OS for me.

The 8.04 installation is not as smooth as I expected. It took a long time for the live CD to boot up. It seems it waited a long time to read floppy drive, which does not exist. The first try of disk partition failed, I had to reboot the computer to do it again.

On the good side, my SD card reader start to work again. It was functional on 6.10, stopped working for 7.04 and 7.10.

It also correctly found the legacy driver for my aging Nvidia graphic card. However, some tweaking are still needed 1) to prevent the black screen, and 2) to make it possible to resume from suspend/hibernation. That is, add the following to /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

Option "NvAG" "1" # add this to make it possible to resume from suspend/hibernation
Option "UseDisplayDevice" "DFP" #add this to prevent black screen

So the Device section of xorg.conf is like this:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "NoLogo" "True"


Busid "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "AddARGBVisuals" "True"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
Option "UseDisplayDevice" "DFP"

Option "NvAGP" "1"

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8.04 requires much less tweaking than previous versions. SCIM just works. I didn't do any thing to make Chinese web pages to look right.