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]
Here is my hardware (from Speccy):
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[code]...
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Mar 4, 2009
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
aticonfig --dtop=horizontal --overlay-on=1 --force-monitor=crt1,crt2
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.
type
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
kwrite /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Add:
To the end of your xorg.conf
CTRL-ALT BACKSPACE or Reboot
Test in console as root and you should have 3D
fglrxinfo
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You can also run:
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config file for kernel compilation that will only contain the drivers for the current hardware that are needed for the running kernel?
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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
[Code]...
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[Code].....
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The distro is RHEL 5.
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