General :: Which UNIX Distribution Works On A Dell M5010 Without Having To Compile Any Drivers
Jul 22, 2011
I want to have UNIX or Linux on my laptop but I found that the wireless did not work on all the ones I tried. I have not tried again for over 6 months but don't have the time to experiment. It took me a week straight last time, I tried PCBSD (8.1), Ubuntu, OpenSUSE (11.3), and various others. The laptop was just released then, so I can understand why all the drivers might not have been compatible then.
I am hoping someone else has successfully added a distribution and can tell me which.
LAPTOP: Dell Inspiron M5010 (15R) [not to be confused with Dell N5010, which is the Intel version]
The Gosalia Enterprise and we are in the midst of creating a Linux Distribution.
I have been set the task of creating Wubi-like application for our ISO (Ubuntu9.10-based) but I don't know how to, so I came here to ask.
How can I compile WUBI for our ISO of Gosalia? Also, how can i create an ISO of Gosalia, we know that we can use Remastersys, but what is the PROFESSIONAL way of doing it?
I'd really like to start using Linux, but I don't know much about it. I tried installing Mandriva One 2010, but it apparently isn't compatible with my laptop. Does anybody know what would be a good distribution to use with an old Dell Latitude CPx? I'd like to get a free bootable CD one for starters, if possible. I mainly would like to use it for surfing the Web.
I have used a new header file named curses.h in my program.when i try to compile my program it shows me the following error "No such path or directory".What may be the problem?A part of the program is shown below
Is there a Ubuntu distribution in which sound "just works"? I'm booting into Windows 7 far too much.I am running both Jaunty (on an old P4V533-MX desktop) where for some reason my sound went away, and Lucid, on a new Dell laptop (all-Intel Studio 14). I thought a new installation of Ubuntu 10.04 on modern hardware would give me rhythmbox back, but I get no sound of any kind from the Dell laptop after installation, although everything works Ok if I boot into a W7 (came with the purchase) partition.
I don't want to fiddle with configuration files any more - just wondering if there is a "most-dependable" Ubuntu with respect to audio. Which I will install. Frustrated and impatient after weeks of this.I am an old (hairy eared) Unix fan but IMO if Linux continues to complicate itself so freely (i.e. Pulseaudio - I don't know an audio mixer from a can opener and would prefer to remain that way), then the small market share it has will slip away rather than grow.
I'm new to Linux, been running Ubuntu 9.10 on my laptop, love it. I set up a dual boot with XP on my desktop, but it's seemingly impossible to get my ATI Radeon 9250 working with any reasonable performance with later versions of Ubuntu (as several more experienced users have assured me).
Does anyone know of decently easy-to-use distributions that work out-of-the-box (or without dedicating more hours of work) with the Radeon 9250?
I've tried Ubuntu 9.10, 8.04, and OpenSUSe, latest version. No dice.
I purchased Dell xps15 I got 1GB NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M graphics with Optimus I installed ubuntu 10.10 64bit and then installed the nVidia drivers by following procedure given as [URL] when rebooted I was dropped down to cmd prompt! then i reinstalled it and now want to install nVidia drivers so what should i do ?
I would like to install a program (R for statistical computing). I am using Slackware. On the download page of R (The Comprehensive R Archive Network) there are options to download the code for Debian, Redhat, Suse, and Ubuntu. Which one should I download in my case (using Slackware)? Is there any of them which I should not download?
Currently our cluster is based on AMD opteron processors. We are going to add more nodes however I want to know is it good to add Intel xeon processors. They both claim to be x86 compatible however I don't know if they are really math each other.Does a program compiled on Intel xeon really works on opteron (amd64)?
This probably isnt the correct place to put this, But I can hardly understand how this forum is organized. And forget blogging, I dont even know what that is, let alone how to make one.
Anyway i see tons of requests for installing the ATI drivers in linux, I can only help with the debian based distros.
This was originally posted here http://www.mepis.org/node/13647
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Finally, after many days of research on how to install Ati proprietary drivers on Mepis 6.5 with 3D and dual-monitor enabled and my Radeon x1950Pro I have come to a successful install and i will share my method below.
My system specs are below.
I read a lot of documentation and tried many guides on Ubuntu/Mepis forums with no or limited results until I found a guide on a french Ubuntu forum that guided me to success.
I had to modify the guide to my needs since it was aimed at installing on Ubunto 7.04 Feity Fawn. Since Mepis 6.5 is based in part on Ubuntu 6.06 the core parts of the guide were adequate.
If you follow every step to the letter eveything should work right away, and fast. (Make a backup of your xorg.conf before you do this!) Make sure your monitor(s) is setup or detected properly in xorg.conf
So here it is customized, adapted and translated to english:
1)Go here and download latest ati drivers: [url]
In our present case these are:
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ati-driver-installer-8.36.5-x86.x86_64.run
2) If you tried installing previous versions of fglrx Use synaptics search function and remove everything with "fglrx" in its name before we start.
3)Open a console
Here is a one liner you can use that does everything above in one shot:
4)Reboot PC (Will probalby be command line logon with no GUI (X))
Login to your user and then su to root and enter: aticonfig --initial or in my personal case
I noticed on some of my tests that sometimes the xorg.conf files dissapears during this process. Seems like a bug. In such a case restore your backup and repeat the aticonfig routine.
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reboot
5)When you are rebooted you will have a working gui but no 3D acceleration yet. So open a console and su to root
When i'm trying to compile nvidia closed drivers, i got an error. I've tried binaries one on nvidia suse repo, but as i installed kernel 2.6.32-41 they didn't work. My laptop is a lenovo T61, with nvidia quadro nvs 140m, and intel chipset. And i'm trying to instal driver version NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-100.14.11.
That's the error i get when executing nvidia-installer: Code: nvidia-installer log file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' creation time: Fri Feb 19 20:56:25 2010
My Dell Vostro drives my HL-2240 after a normal setup. The setup on my HP mini went exactly the same but would not print the test page or anything else. The HP recognizes the printer. I'm using ubuntu 1010.
I've been running hostapd for a while in 11g mode with great success. Having upgraded the router machine to maverick today, I had a poke at getting hostapd working in 11n mode without too much fuss. From cursory reading of old forum posts, this appears to now be built in functionality without needing to compile drivers or hostapd from source - this is borne out by a few 11n-related lines in the default configuration file.
When adding those two lines to my config file, though, I get the same error message I did a few years ago when trying this out for the first time:
i have installed windows as well as linux on my system(dell optiplex 760).i m trying to install lan card drivers but the following error occur."Error resolving dependencies "unable to resolve the dependencies for some packages selected for instalation.
In a previous thread I stated that I had updated my old dell's nvidia drivers only to receive a blank screen (of deadly doom) in return. Now however I would like to try and install them again, but this time not through the hardware drivers app. Where do I do this and which drivers should I get. My google searches has failed me.
My book is Dell-I1524D-128 with Beze1 with Camera, these days I need chatting with my parents, but it is cant used with my camera in CentOS. I dont know can i download the drive from here?
