I decided that since I wasn't really using Vista much on my laptop, booting almost exclusively into XP, that it was time to try out Ubuntu again. I got rid of the Vista boot manager, then the Vista partition, and went about installing Ubuntu 7.10 on that partition of my laptop.
The only real headaches I ran into were:
1. Wireless card. I needed to use the special unsupported driver for the Broadcom card that came in my Gateway laptop, but I needed some supporting libraries installed, which I couldn't do from the CD. I finally figured out that I needed to use a cable to plug into my router to update to this driver. Then all was well!
2. Video card. See above. Along with this, to run Compiz Fusion with this accelerator (ATI something-or-other), I needed to install xgl and set my x sessions to use it. Simple enough!
I now have the slick graphics turned on, and have installed some gooey Gui fun: Some screenlets and the Avant Window Navigator now adorn my Ubuntu Desktop.
The only headache left to solve is the suspend/hibernate modes. I cannot get the laptop to wake up from this, requiring a hard reset via the power button if I decide to close the laptop lid while booted into Ubuntu. My guess from the little research I've done so far is that I won't be able to solve this nicely, as it appears to be an issue with the video drivers required for the slick graphics.
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