So "netbook's" seem all the rage these days, so i thought i would dust off my old Dell 700m, it's not quite as small as a current netbook, but it is nice and tiny.
My plans include putting in a nice little 32GB SSD drive, and upgrading the processor to a 2.10Ghz when they are ~20 (no rush, not a big difference in speed over the current 1.8Ghz Pentium M)
Anyway.. i installed Ubuntu on it, and it's been nice for surfing and basic tasks... but ran into a problem of it not shuting down properly. More like X was crashing...
There are a number of tricks out there to try and fix it, this one seems to make it happen less than any others.
First i shut off the splash screen's (edit /boot/grub/menu.lst)
then, in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, change:
it seems to make it better... we'll see!
EDIT: I'm including this link, as it has other options that might help on other hardware.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/208479
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "intel"
EndSection
to
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "intel"
Option "ForceEnablePipeA" "true"
EndSection