As i recently got my new Dell Vostro 1510 and encountered some problems when using Ubuntu 8.04 i decided to create a post about my experiences and create a checklist and link to people who have solved some problems mentioned!
So this is my system:
Dell Vostro 1510
- Intel Core 2 Duo T8300 (2.4 GHz, 3 MB L2-Cache)
- 3 GB Ram
- 1440×900 WXGA+
- CardReader (SD/MMC/MSPro)
- Front-Side Mic&Headphone jacks
- 2 Megapixel Webcam
- 4x USB (2left,2right)
- 1394 (right)
- NVidia Geforce 8400M GS
Checklist:
| Component | Status? |
| Display / Graphic-Card | Works out of the Box |
| WLan | Works out of the Box |
| Lan | Works (1) |
| Function Keys | Works out of the Box |
| Media-Keys (Volume etc… located above the keyboard) | Works out of the Box |
| Supend-Modes | Works (3) |
| Sound | needs some work (see this post) |
| Card-Reader | Works out of the Box |
| DVD / CD-RW | Reading: works out of the box! Writing: Works using brasero (2) |
| Bluetooth | works out of the box |
(1): Lan: Sometimes it seems that the gnome-network-manager won’t work. Using dhclient (sudo) on console helped me!
If it doesn’t work though try this: http://www.martinhenze.de/2008/05/24/ubuntu-linux-on-dell-vostro-1510
(2) Thank you Ignacio for reporting this!
(3) RE-starting your current runlevel brings X back to live! (CTRL-ALT-F7)
What i already found out, is that my Sony DSC-W30 is not correctly mounted (sometimes waiting for an update just does the work)
Edit: Cardreader works out of the Box.
LAST EDIT: 09 of Jan.09
Giuseppe Says:
Juli 11th, 2008 at 09:02
Hi there, I’m currently using ubuntu 8.04. I had serious problems with the Realtek RTL8111/8168B Gigabit Ethernet controller (all packets dropped). The module name is r8169. I would like to report that I was able to fix the issue by passing the pci=nomsi parameter to the kernel at boot time.
elle Says:
Juli 17th, 2008 at 13:28
Hi, I purchased a dell vostro 1310 and suspend and hybernatework so i think suspend should work on 1510 too.
Card reader reads for sure SD cards.
Hope this helps.
Danilo Says:
Juli 18th, 2008 at 16:52
What wlan card you using in dell vostro 1510?
Cici Says:
Juli 21st, 2008 at 11:48
Thank you very much!
I will test hibernate in the next few days, but i think it should work. I was too stupid to create a swap-partition thats big enough for hibernate [swap=ram size] because NOBODY would ever need 3GB swap
geoback Says:
Juli 21st, 2008 at 21:37
Thank you for your blog.
When you have ubuntu running, like surfing on the internet, how is the fan? Is it going on and off every 1 Minute? Is it noisy? I know, noisy is not easy to say, because everyone sees it differently. But go ahead.
geoback
Cici Says:
Juli 22nd, 2008 at 11:35
Hi geoback,
yes the fan is going on and off – this seems to be related to a buggy relationship between firefox & X (as cpu load increases when visiting some particular scroll-intensive websites)
This is not a ubuntu-specific problem: http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=ubuntu+firefox+X+high+cpu+load&ei=UTF-8&fr=moz2
thanks for your comments!
cici