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

• 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:

(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

Recently i got my new Dell Vostro 1510.

Ubuntu 8.04 works out of the box, only my microphone isn’t working, and the speakers aren’t muted, when plugging in the headphone. So the next few post will cover my battle against Ubuntu and the ALSA drivers

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 PCI Express Root Port (rev 0c)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8400M GS (rev a1)
06:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN Network Connection (rev 61)
07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)
08:05.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): O2 Micro, Inc. Firewire (IEEE 1394) (rev 02)
08:05.2 SD Host controller: O2 Micro, Inc. Integrated MMC/SD Controller (rev 02)
08:05.3 Mass storage controller: O2 Micro, Inc. Integrated MS/xD Controller (rev 01)

First I installed the backports, as this blog post suggests: http://linuxtechie.wordpress.com/2007/10/19/getting-intel-ich8-family-rev-3-sound-card-to-work-in-gutsy/

sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-hardy

# not -generic (named different now!)

Edit:

inserting the following line to /etc/modprobe.de/alsa-base did a great job for now:

options snd-hda-intel model=toshiba position_fix=0 enable=yes

The microphone still has a litte problem, as it seems that is faaaaaaaar to loud, so recording with the mic gives me just garbage noise (but i can identify my words [that they start & end] ), but muting the speakers now works!

Edit2:

Microphone now works: just turn down PCM to about 1/3 and increase mic-boost to 100.

Edit3: (5th of July)

Check if no channel is muted (using alsamixer on console!)