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
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