students@work » 8.04 http://www.stupent.at Antworten auf die die Menschheit gewartet hat! -- Heisenberg war hier ... oder auch nicht! Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:51:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Ubuntu Linux on a Dell Vostro 1510 – A review http://www.stupent.at/2008/06/22/ubuntu-linux-on-a-dell-vostro-1510-a-review/ http://www.stupent.at/2008/06/22/ubuntu-linux-on-a-dell-vostro-1510-a-review/#comments Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:20:24 +0000 Cici http://www.stupent.at/?p=176

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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