I don't have any particular reason why I installed ubuntu 10.04 in my HP laptop (dv4t 1300), but I did it! Moreover, I don't have any window OS in this laptop now.
But it is becoming pain in my ass to use some hardwares of this laptop. I can't use my webcam even I installed Cheese webcam booth. The Cheese webcam booth shows the webcam but when I try to videochat using yahoo messenger, the webcam doesn't function. I don't know whether this Cheese webcam booth is to show the presence of webcam or it actually drives the webcam for other software applications. I also need to use meebo.com to use yahoo and window messenger. Individual programs of these messengers also don't work properly inspite of installing Wine.
Also I couldn't use my HP-F4440 printer as I couldn't find any linux driver for this printer. The funny thing is the machine works perfectly with laptop as a scanner. I tried to install hplips to make my printer work but as there are many packages with different version and different file extensions available, I lost completely following them.
I know there are many linux experts in Sajha. So if you drop some of your valuable suggestions in the issues I mentioned above it will be great help for me and other newbies to get along with Ubuntu.
Thanks for your time and support