Have you ever wondered, what is happening when your media keys keep flashing?
This means your kernel has some sort of panic 
This happend to me with some sort of strange combination of wlan-access-point and ubuntu-kernel. Whenever i got a new dhcp-lease from this one access-point, my kernel paniced and the last log message was that i got a new IP.
See google for more information on kernel panic reasons!
Today i got to take snapshots with the integrated camera of my Dell Vostro 1510!
After some tries using mplayer, gqcam, camstreamer and others, I thought it would never work. But some adjustment of the parameters passed to mplayer it finally worked to get out movies:
mencoder tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:device=/dev/video0 -ofps 60 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mjpeg -o test.avi
To record single images use these commands:
mplayer -vo jpeg -fps30 tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:device=/dev/video0 -frames 1
The file 00000001.jpg now contains your screenshot!
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
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
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