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> I'm on the road this week and have a new Lenovo X200. I planned to run
> Windows 7 primarily and as a host for Ubuntu in a VM but I have changed
> my mind. For some unknown reason the keyboard seems to go crazy in
> Windows 7. This is a recent Windows 7 clean install as I had the same
> problem a few weeks earlier and thought it might be a Lenovo driver or
> app problem so I did a fresh install minus any Lenovo stuff not provided
> by Windows 7. Windows 7 worked fine for a while but then the other
> night the keyboard started acting up again. Rebooting would not solve
> the problem. The interesting thing was I could switch to Ubuntu in the
> VM and the keyboard worked just fine but when I returned to the Windows
> 7 host it was crazy again.
>
> After a couple days of headaches with the same Windows 7 keyboard issues
> I decided I had to do something. Normally I would not try a fresh
> install on the road as I'm traveling without a DVD Drive or any install
> disks. A bad install would mean no connectivity for the remainder of
> the week. I remembered that I had downloaded a Ubuntu 9.10 iso in the
> Ubuntu VM earlier so I decided I would take a shot at making a boot-able
> USB thumb drive. It was easy as could be, simply ran Ubuntu in the VM,
> selected USB Start Up Disk Creator, pointed to the iso and to the USB
> thumb drive and in a short while I had Ubuntu booting off the USB thumb
> drive with all hardware working.
>
> After backing up a few files to the cloud I decided it was time to
> format the SSD and do a fresh install of Ubuntu from the USB Thumb
> drive. Install went fine and I now have a very usable machine with
> Ubuntu 9.10. I connect to the office using Citrix and Citrix works fine
> in either Windows, OS X or Linux. I've been doing any and everything
> I've wanted to do with just Linux so Ubuntu may have found a new home on
> this computer.
>
> I met with a customer earlier today and low and behold the corporate
> laptop he has was giving him the BSOD. I suspected it was an XP driver
> problem but just to rule out a hardware issue for the heck of it I
> pulled out the USB thumb drive and booted Ubuntu from the drive.
> Everything worked perfect so hardware issue was ruled out and I left the
> machine with a service request to tech support to fix it.
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> I'm not suggesting my situation is typical for all but twice now this
> week Ubuntu has come to the rescue and continues to work like a charm.
> Since there seems to be only a couple of programs that have held me back
> from a switch I think rather than reinstalling Windows as the host I'll
> simply add Windows XP in a VM for those times where I want to run iTunes
> or some other Windows specific programs.
A family member called me today after failing to get Wi-Fi to work in
Windows XP (it has been 5 days). A security patch apparently 'broke'
wireless networking. Anyway, he eventually used the Mandriva Live
CD that I gave him and it worked like a charm (he never used Linux
for more than a few hours, but he figured it out for himself).
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~~ Best of wishes
Roy S. Schestowitz | What is all that lipstick in XP's close button?
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