After 5 months of trying out umpteen different distros, Jaunty is finally working as expected! My Intel WiFi device was detected instantly and after installing the nVidia drivers, brightness controls are working flawlessly as well.. I couldn’t be happier! 
The only remaining issue is getting the brightness function keys to work, but that’s no biggie.. I can live without that. The important thing is that I can bid Vista buh-bye and get back to Linux… finally!
About Jaunty, it’s a wonderful distro, no doubt. Probably the best I’ve ever used… It boots so quickly that I almost fainted the first time around. The overall performance seems to have improved too, and not to forget the user-friendliness part – Canonical seems to be putting in a lot of effort into this aspect. Plus I chose to use the all-new ext4 file-system which is working great as well.
It’s hardly been a day since I installed it, and Jaunty has managed to impress me quite a bit. Let’s hope things don’t go wrong in the coming days.. You never know!
Update:
Here’s a screenie of my current desktop:
And here’s a link to my .conkyrc in case you’re interested..
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: jaunty, vista
I can’t seem to get the .conkyrc file to download from dotfiles.org Is it possible for you to post or send the code. It looks great.
Here you go:
# conky configuration
background yes
use_xft yes
xftfont Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=7
xftalpha 0.8
out_to_console no
update_interval 2.0
total_run_times 0
own_window yes
own_window_type override
own_window_hints undecorated, below
#,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
own_window_transparent yes
double_buffer yes
draw_shades no
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders no
stippled_borders 0
border_margin 10
border_width 2
default_color white
default_shade_color white
default_outline_color white
minimum_size 5 5
maximum_width 256
alignment top_right
gap_x 5
gap_y 5
no_buffers yes
uppercase no
cpu_avg_samples 1
net_avg_samples 1
override_utf8_locale yes
use_spacer right
TEXT
${color #888888}$sysname $kernel on Vaio CS
Uptime: $uptime$color
${font :size=10}${time %a. %b. %d, %G}$font
${font :size=20:bold}${time %I:%M:%S}$font
${voffset -5}${color #888888}${hr 1}$color$voffset
2.26 Ghz C2D${alignr}$loadavg
${voffset -8}${alignr}${cpugraph 25,200 000000 ff0000}$voffset
${color red}${font :size=11}${alignr}${cpu cpu0}% : ${cpu cpu1}%$font$color
${voffset -10}${color green}GPU: ${color purple}${execi 60 nvidia-settings -query GPUCoreTemp | perl -ne ‘print $1 if /GPUCoreTemp.*?: (\d+)./;’} ${color green}CPU: ${color purple}${acpitemp}$color$voffset
${color #888888}${hr 1}$color
${color green}${alignr}${membar 11,120}$color
${voffset -11}$memperc% RAM used: $mem${alignr}${offset 10}${color #888888}/$color$memmax$offset$voffset
${color green}${alignr}${swapbar 11,120}$color
${voffset -11}$swapperc% Swap used: $swap${alignr}${offset 10}${color #888888}/$color$swapmax$offset$voffset
Cache used: $cached
${color #888888}${hr 1}$color
${offset 65}${color #888888}Processes: $color$processes ${color #888888}Running: $color$running_processes$offset
${voffset -8}$voffset
${color green}NAME PID# CPU% MEM% $color
${top name 1} ${top pid 1}${top cpu 1} ${top mem 1}
${top name 2} ${top pid 2}${top cpu 2} ${top mem 2}
${top name 3} ${top pid 3}${top cpu 3} ${top mem 3}
${top name 4} ${top pid 4}${top cpu 4} ${top mem 4}
${top name 5} ${top pid 5}${top cpu 5} ${top mem 5}
${top name 6} ${top pid 6}${top cpu 6} ${top mem 6}
${top name 7} ${top pid 7}${top cpu 7} ${top mem 7}
${top name 8} ${top pid 8}${top cpu 8} ${top mem 8}
${top name 9} ${top pid 9}${top cpu 9} ${top mem 9}
${color #888888}${hr 1}
${color white} Battery: ${color green}${battery_bar BAT1} $color
${color white} Wifi Quality: ${color green}${wireless_link_bar wlan0} $color
${color #888888}${hr 1}$color
${voffset -5}${color green}Root: $color${fs_free /}${color #888888}${font :size=7}free$font${alignr}${color red}${diskio /dev/sda11}$color$voffset
${color #333333}${fs_bar 11,208 /}$color${offset -205}${font :size=7}${fs_used /}$font$offset
${alignr}${voffset -12}${diskiograph /dev/sda11 11,155 333333 ff0000}$voffset
${color green}Home: $color${fs_free /home}${color #888888}${font :size=7}free$font${alignr}${color red}${diskio /dev/sda10}$color
${color #333333}${fs_bar 11,208 /home}$color${offset -205}${font :size=7}${fs_used /home}$font$offset
${alignr}${voffset -12}${diskiograph /dev/sda10 11,155 333333 ff0000}$voffset
${color #888888}${hr 1}$color
${alignr}(${addr wlan0})
${voffset -8}$voffset
${font :size=8}${color red}Uploading: ${alignr}${color green}Downloading:$color$font
${font :size=12}${upspeedf wlan0}KB/s ${alignr}${downspeedf wlan0}KB/s$font
${color #888888}${upspeedgraph wlan0 25,104 000000 ff0000} ${alignr}${downspeedgraph wlan0 25,104 000000 00ff00}$color
${color #888888}Total: $color${totalup wlan0} ${color #888888}${alignr}Total: $color${totaldown wlan0}
${color #888888}Inbound Connections ${alignr}Service/Port$color
${tcp_portmon 1 32767 rip 0} ${alignr}${tcp_portmon 1 32767 lservice 0}
${tcp_portmon 1 32767 rip 1} ${alignr}${tcp_portmon 1 32767 lservice 1}
${color #888888}Outbound Connections ${alignr}Service/Port$color
${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rip 0} ${alignr}${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rservice 0}
${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rip 1} ${alignr}${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rservice 1}
${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rip 2} ${alignr}${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rservice 2}
${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rip 3} ${alignr}${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rservice 3}
${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rip 4} ${alignr}${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rservice 4}
${color #888888}Inbound:$color${tcp_portmon 1 32768 count} ${color #888888}Outbound:$color${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 count} ${color #888888}${alignr}Total:$color${tcp_portmon 1 65535 count}
${color #888888}${hr 1}$color