eisber’s blog

I installed it on a Dell XPS Gen2.
The installation took +2h (I guess because of 3 different Visual Studio I have installed and who knows what else).

After restart my display resolution was capped at 1280x1024. This happend because my graphic card (Geforce 6800 Ultra, Dell-branded ) was detected as Standard VGA Adapter.

First I called at Microsoftie and complained. Then I started the Device Manager, chose the Standard VGA Adapter and clicked Update Driver. Couple of minutes later the NVidia Driver was downloaded and installed. Know the system works.

Experience so far:

• Math Input Panel is as cool as I expected. Outputs MathML. Need to check how to integrate this with MediaWiki and I can't wait to get a Latitude XT2.
• Explorer died once during file copy
• New task bar is nice.
• Had to upgrade to Skype 4.0 beta - confusion!
• Daemon tools is NOT working anymore

environment: Windows Server 2008, Mobile Device running Windows CE 4.2, Visual Studio 2008

problem: Develop something for the device and deploy it.

solution: Download and install Microsoft Windows Mobile Device Center 6.1 for Windows Vista. Attention: 6.0 crashed on my machine.

environment Windows Vista

problem Installation of Nokia Software Updater failed

solution run "regsvr32 vbscript.dll"

environment Sony VGN-S2HP, Windows Vista, Sony Memory Stick Reader

problem No drive

solution

1. Get Windows XP Preinstalled drivers from Sony
2. Extract MemoryStick\1.0.2.0.zip
3. Go to device manager and select Update driver and navigate to the extracted files from 1.0.2.0.zip

environment Sony VGN-S2HP, Windows Vista, SoundMAX Integrated Digital Audio

problem No audio

solution

1. Get Windows XP Preinstalled drivers from Sony
2. Extract Audio\\5.12.01.3559Logo-040308
3. Right click Setup.exe/Properties/Compatibility/Run this program in compatiblity mode for: Windows XP (Service Pack 2)
4. Install using Setup.exe
5. When prompted for Driver, provide location: 5.12.01.3559Logo-040308\\SMAXWDM\\W2K_XP

All in all: *sigh*

environment Vista, Emacs, ESS, R

problem Getting Some Emacs with ESS (Emacs Speaks Statistics) running on vista

solution Install GNU Emacs and follow ESS installation guide.

Create c:\\_emacs.el (start Notepad elevated = Run as Administrator) and insert

(load-file "C:/Tools/emacs-21.3/site-packages/ess-5.3.4/lisp/ess-site.el")
(setq-default inferior-R-program-name "C:/Tools/R/R-2.4.1/bin/Rterm.exe")

Adjust the paths to your need (and I don't have a glue if it works with c:\\Program Files)

Many thanks to Georg Gutjahr for his help.

environment Vista, SAS 9.1 (Learning Edition)

problem Turning off UAC and marking the setup.exe with "Windows XP SP2 Compatiblity Mode" gets you through setup, but SAS won't work. You can't even create a dataset.

environment: Windows Vista RTM

problem: Installation of CodeGear JBuilder 2007

solution: Goto

JBuilder2007\\Disk1\\InstData\\VM\\jbinstall.exe

Properties, Compatibility Tab, Check "Run this program in compatibility mode for: Windows XP (Service Pack 2)" and "Run this program as administrator".

Run jbinstall.exe, ignore the warnings. done.

Environment Windows Vista, Netgear FM 114P router incl. printer port, HP Deskjet 720C

Problem Printing from Vista using network printing port of FM114P

Solution DON'T install the Windows XP/2000 Netgear drivers. Don't work and mess with your Windows Vista.

You want Unix Print Support from Vista (Control Panel\Programs and Features: Turn Windows features on or off): Print Services\LPR Port Monitor.

Then "Add Local Printer", "Create a new port", select "LPR Port", enter IP address of your router and L1 as the queue name (see FM 114P Reference Guide).

Finally I had to select the appropriate printer driver.