Ubuntu 7.10 Update

re: Ubuntu 7.10 Update

verydisapointed person — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:03:55 GMT

Bought a Dell bookshelf PC dimension. Try install Linux of all distro, non able to properly install without drivers problem. I even try liveCD version from Fedora to Unbutun to little Linux, all the same.

Linux is a major pain in the nexk, still far away from desktop user friendly stage yet. Linux should focus more on the common standard drivers 1st for the convneience, then let the users adjust to a more define proper driver for maximun performance.

re: Ubuntu 7.10 Update

Ryan West — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:44:58 GMT

Ubuntu 7.10 on an optiplex 755 intel core 2 quad

sound does not work out of the box, with A06 upgrade...been searching for "fixes" for almost 3 weeks, to no avail.

any ideas anyone?

re: Ubuntu 7.10 Update

Charles McCreary — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 01:18:03 GMT

My XPS M1330 arrived today. Everything works as I expected. I was considering a laptop from another vendor but the deciding factor was the built in dvd support.

My only gripe is that I was rather limited in my selection of models and the sales channel. I'm used to buying from the small business channel with rapid and knowledgeable pre-sales support.

So far, I'm quite pleased!

re: Ubuntu 7.10 Update

James Finstrom — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 21:06:52 GMT

Fixed the problem in Ubuntu where fn brightness keys don't work.

http://gods-geek.blogspot.com/2007/12/dell-vostro-1000-brightness-keys.html

re: Ubuntu 7.10 Update

Tom Gilliard — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 14:48:35 GMT

1-I have upgraded my E520n to 7.10 and it works fine. EXCEPT for having to eject the cd 2 times to get it to work properly..... I know this is a known bug but thought it would be fixed by now.

2- I go to Dell site /support and when it asks for service tag I enter it....Ubuntu is not listed on OS drop down box. WHY DOES IT NOT RECOGNIZE service tag is for E520n and direct me to linux drivers?

#2 also sent to: US_CAG_Customer_Care

re: Ubuntu 7.10 Update

Mark — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 03:37:46 GMT

Just a note to also let Dell know I appreciate their new official Linux and Ubuntu support. In the past I have carefully purchased Dell machines only once I could be sure that Ubuntu would mostly work on them. My E521 is such an example (I also dumped Vista that I was forced to purchase with it ...). The E521 had some problems with Linux during its initial release but Dell addressed them fairly quickly, It would be nice to have an expanded range of desktops/laptops pre-installed with Ubuntu - or at least some degree of (informal) Dell driver support - the wiki/mailing lists should help with this.

re: Ubuntu 7.10 Update

George — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:10:53 GMT

I bought an Inspiron 530 with Ubuntu 7.04 installed. I am loving it. When the upgrade notice for 7.10 showed up, out of inexperience, I just proceded with the install.

Fortunately everything seemed to go fine. When the upgrade scripts were flying by, I did notice that there was a failure on a DELL script. The scripts were scrolling so fast, I couldn't see what failed. However, it all seems to operate properly.

I installed the nvidia proprietary graphics driver to support the included graphics card. Now I get 3D graphics support.

Under 7.04 the highest monitor resolution available for the Dell SE178WFP LCD monitor was 1024x768. Under 7.10, I chose another monitor (Dell SE177FP and checked the wide screen box. The refresh rate was set at 60HZ. This gave me a wider range of resolutions to choose from. I now have it set at 1280x800. This seems to be working fine. Hope it dosent destroy the monitor.

re: Ubuntu 7.10 Update

Rodrigo Saraiva — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:01:49 GMT

John, thanks for your help, but i think my problem does't have solution yet.

Michael E Brown send this:

http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/libsmbios-devel/2007-October/000382.html

and Matt Domsch send this:

http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/libsmbios-devel/2007-October/000375.html

I hope Dell is working to solution this fast with linux and ubuntu developers.

re: Ubuntu 7.10 Update

DELL-John Hull — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:25:32 GMT

Rodrigo: please send an email to our desktop Linux mailing list about the problem you're seeing. That's the best place to have the discussion with the engineers on my team to get this resolved.

re: Ubuntu 7.10 Update

Rodrigo Saraiva — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 12:08:37 GMT

John Hull, Manager of Linux OS Engineering said:
rodrigo: what brightness control problem are you referring to? I'm not aware of any issues

November 1, 2007 7:52 AM

John, the FN Keys don't work on ubuntu and there aren't a place to change brightness. I read on launchpad that is a problem with HAL, etc. But i'm a basic linux user and i don't understand how to solution this.

I have a Dell Vostro 1000.

thanks.