OK well, my laptop is currently a Gateway mx3230 and as anyone that owns one knows, drivers are a pain no matter what, so I'll attempt to show you how I've dealt with the initial problems right out of the box for the mx3230 after installing ubuntu feisty. Do not attempt to mail me, I won't answer any questions about it. I am going to link these issues, and what I did (line for line) to resolve them, with refferences.

• Sound:
  1. Open Volume Control (double click speaker icon upper left in gnome)
  2. go to Preferences (edit > Preferences)
  3. select all tracks to be visible
  4. close
  5. open again
  6. go to the Switches tab
  7. and UNCHECK External Amplifier

  Source: Trev's Travels

• Video:
  1. Modify the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file:
     sudo pico /etc/X11/xorg.conf
  2. Scroll down to the portion entitle Section "Screen", and change all instances of this:
     Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
     (mine also had a pixel specification on this line, but I removed that as well.)
     to this:
     Modes "1280x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
  3. In the "Monitor" section, add this
     HorizSync 36-64
VertRefresh 36-60
  4. Save the file.
  5. Restart the X server (Press Ctrl-Alt-Backspace)
  Total Output of changes should be like this:
  Section "Monitor"
      Identifier    "Generic Monitor"
      Option        "DPMS"
      HorizSync     36-64
      VertRefresh   36-60
EndSection

Section "Screen"
      Identifier    "Default Screen"
      Device        "Generic Video Card"
      Monitor       "Generic Monitor"
      DefaultDepth  24
      SubSection "Display"
            Depth   1
            Modes   "1280x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
      EndSubSection
      SubSection "Display"
            Depth   4
            Modes   "1280x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
      EndSubSection
      SubSection "Display"
            Depth   8
            Modes   "1280x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
      EndSubSection
      SubSection "Display"
            Depth   15
            Modes   "1280x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
      EndSubSection
      SubSection "Display"
            Depth   16
            Modes   "1280x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
      EndSubSection
      SubSection "Display"
            Depth   24
            Modes   "1280x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
      EndSubSection
EndSection


  Source: Trev's Travels

• Internal Wireless:
  1. get windows drivers
     Location 1
     Location 2
     Location 3
     Official Site
  2. extract this zip file to a permanent location on your puter.
  3. now prior to all of this I installed Automatix2 and that's how I got the ndiswrapper even on the laptop. If you don't want to install Automatix, then I suggest googling how to install ndiswrapper on Ubuntu Feisty
  4. 1. Go to where you permanently extracted the driver files (in my case cd ~/wireless
     2. Install the driver
        ndiswrapper -i net8185.inf
     3. Update the Driver with the PCI ID
        ndiswrapper -a 1799:700f net8185
     4. Restart the computer.
     5. After reboot ndiswrapper should show the driver with ndiswrapper -l
net8185: driver installed
device (1799:700F) present
     6. Now configure naturally (System > Admin > Networking

  Source: Ubuntu Forums

  UPDATE after linux did an auto update of it's kernal, my wireless stopped working, after some research through the ubuntu forums and bug tracking I found a solution...

  1. sudo pico /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
  2. uncomment rtl818x
  3. reboot
  4. network manager > manual > enter your ESSID with an extra character on the end (I think it needs to be a capital letter [e.g. linksysS])

  Ubuntu Forums

• Issues Currently Working on
  • Install and configure Beryl
    1. Install Openchrome drivers and get the system to use them.