Ubuntu on Widescreen, AMD64 as dual-boot
I had a lot of trouble installing Ubuntu (additionally) on my new HP Compaq 6715b- Notebook. I got a lot of help by a friend. He solved that the main problem is the wide-screen of this laptop. Wide-screens aren't supported by the default graphic driver versa. So here is a little How To, to solve this and other problems, like getting Wireless LAN running.
Preparing your Windows PC to dual-boot
Some steps must be taken before you can start installing Ubuntu.
Partitions
First of all, use a partitioning program of your choice to create two (additional) Linux partitions you ...
Problems installing (easy_install) PIL
One very basic Python library is PIL (Python Imaging Library). It is used for image manipulation.
To install packages, I usually use easy_install, but installing PIL using this tool, I got an error:
:~#easy_install PILSearching for PILReading http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/PIL/Reading http://www.pythonware.com/products/pilReading http://effbot.org/downloads/#ImagingReading http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/PIL/1.1.6No local packages or download links found for PILerror: Could not find suitable distribution for Requirement.parse('PIL')Fortunately, I found someone, who shared my problem, so this is the way ...
