After the last kernel update, my wlan-led is blinking on traffic, what is quite annoying! And i’m not the only one, as you can see at this bug ticket:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/250211
And although studying computer science i don’t really want to edit and recompile the driver myself. So i was looking for an alternative, and guess what, there is already one, posted at this blog.
Today i found a solution to use both my notebooks display [1440x800] (Dell Vostro 1510 with NVidia 8400M GS) and my flatpanel tft [1280x1024] under Ubuntu 8.04.
This is what my xorg.conf looks like (only the important parts!)
Section “Screen”
Identifier “Default Screen”
Device “nVidia Corporation G80 [GeForce 8400M GS]”
Monitor “Generic Monitor”
DefaultDepth 24
Option “TwinView”
Option “MetaModes” “1440×900 1280×1024″
Option “TwinViewOrientation” “LeftOf”
SubSection “Display”
Modes “1440×1440″
EndSubSection
EndSectionSection “Screen”
# Removed Option “metamodes” “CRT: nvidia-auto-select +1440+0, DFP: nvidia-auto-select +0+0″
Identifier “Screen0″
Device “Videocard0″
Monitor “Monitor0″
DefaultDepth 24
Option “TwinView” “1″
Option “TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder” “DFP-0″
Option “metamodes” “CRT: 1280×1024 +1440+0, DFP: nvidia-auto-select +0+0″
EndSection
This config was partially done using: nvidia-settings (apt-get install nvidia-settings)
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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