General :: Distro To Use On Old Dell Inspiron 7000 Notebook?

Jan 14, 2010

I want to convert an old Dell Inspiron Notebook (circa 2000) to a linux based machine. Any suggestions on which distro to use, or some sites that will tell me how to accomplish this task?

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General :: Ubuntu Server 10.10 Installation On Dell Inspiron 7000

Mar 11, 2011

I have an old dell inspiron 700 that I want to turn into a home file server. I have installed ubuntu 7.10 and after a huge amount of google work got all my hardware in line. Then I realised that I should have installed 10.10 So I downloaded and burnt the new ISO and tried to install it. The install does not recognize my Xircom RealPort Ethernet card but that is okay, 7.10 didn't either and I got it working post install. But 10.10 can't detect the pci hard drive. I have tried various things but since I am not that familiar with linux I am just stabbing in the dark.

What bios settings should I be aiming for? What boot options should I set and how? Why are the russians being such kill joys over the discovery of fossilized meteorites?

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Ubuntu :: Version For Dell Inspiron 7000 (vintage 2000-2001)?

Aug 3, 2010

What is the best distro of ubuntu to install on a Dell Inspiron 7000 notebook circa 2000-2001?

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General :: Good System Distro To Run On An Older Touchscreen Notebook?

Jan 24, 2010

I have an old Fujitsu Lifebook B series (B3020D) notebook with a touchscreen. Is there a good Linux distribution to use with this machine?

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OpenSUSE Install :: Windoze Driver From Dell's Site Dell Inspiron 5160?

May 24, 2010

This card has been the bane of my existence for a while. In the old days I could get it to work with Fedora using a generic video driver. A friend recommended OpenSuse because of my love for KDE.

The good news is that install went greeeeat. But after that, I once again got a black screen with a line randomly done it. Is there a way to change? I tried changing those resolution options but it didn't work. I have the Windoze driver from Dell's site. Its Dell Inspiron 5160.

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General :: Can't Get HDMI Working On Dell Inspiron 1525

Dec 27, 2010

I'm on a Dell Inspiron 1525 running Arch Linux with an Intel 965 GM video chipset (from dmesg). I'm using the xf86-video-intel driver, and Xorg (using xfce4) works flawlessly, including compositing. Before getting into details about the HDMI, I'd like to ask why I don't gave an xorg.conf.d/10-moniter.conf, it's not there, just evdev, quirks, and synaptics (because I figured that moniter.conf could be modified to include HDMI). So, basically when I'm on my XFCE4 desktop, I plug in the HDMI cable and to the TV, and on windows, it would would work, but on Arch the TV just says: "No input", and my desktop just stays the same, so absolutely nothing happens. If I have it connected upon bootup, the HDMI displays (the BIOS and grub menu on the TV) until I select to boot Arch linux on Grub, then the tv screen goes blank. I've tried Googling this but I got no decent results, just a bunch of random posts of audio not working with Nvidia.

PS - I did dmesg and lspci (with grep HDMI) and no results, so maybe it doesn't even recognize it, but then what do I do? There's obviously Linux support for HDMI...

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General :: How To Install RedHat 9.2 On Dell Inspiron 1545

Jun 10, 2010

How can I install Linux Red Hat 9.2 on my new dell Inspiron 1545. When I want to installed it, it will get to a stage and will ask me of drivers. But on my desktop I don't have such problem.

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General :: Slitaz 3.0 Dell Inspiron 8500 No Keyboard?

Mar 4, 2011

I have a Slitaz 3.0 install on a UBB stick (via tazusb). It uses the cooking version. After a boot, all seems to be working except for the keyboard. Not a good start. Nothing wrong with the keyboard (typing this in Ubuntu and no probs in XP) so must be something wrong in Slitaz.

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General :: 11.04 On Dell Inspiron - Wireless Completely Disabled ?

May 31, 2011

I recently upgraded from Ubuntu 10.4 to 11.4 on my Dell Inspiron laptop, and now my wireless is completely disabled, and I do not have an ethernet cord I can use. (I do not have internet access at home, I rely on public wifi.)

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General :: What Version Is Better For An Old Dell Inspiron 1501 Laptop

Feb 14, 2011

What Linux version should i get if i want to revive an old laptop? Im talking about a Dell Inspiron 1501, with a Mobile AMD Sempron Processor 3500+789 MHz, 448 MB RAM, running on Windows XP 2002 professional edition.

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General :: Dell Inspiron 6400 Wireless Driver Installation?

Jan 28, 2010

i can use internet in my Laptop. My laptop is only connected with wireless. No cable connection avilable here. Wireless is functioning well in windows 7 but in openSuSe 11.2 it is not functioning. I've searched on this issue in net and found that i've to install Packman repository or install driver from broadcom website. Please help me by giving easy way to do so. Following is the detail of my wireless device and some other information.

Code:
linux-gkpt:~ # lspci -v
0b:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-Card
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at efdfc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [58] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-

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General :: Wifi Not Working Dell Inspiron 6000 And Suse 11.2

Jul 4, 2010

I just installed open suse 11.2 on a dell inspiron 6000 and i can not get the wifi card to work. Yast sees it, but that's about it. Ethernet works fine- hence the post.... any ideas? Model: intel pro wireless 2915abg calexico2.

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General :: Brightness Keys Not Working In Dell Inspiron Laptop With Fedora 12 OS

Apr 25, 2010

I have installed Fedora12 on Dell Inspiron laptop. Here are my key details of my laptop.

<Fn + F4 > ---- For decreasing Brightness
<Fn + F5 > ---- For increasing Brightness
<Fn + F2 > ---- To enable Bluetooth

I am able to enable bluetooth by pressing <Fn + F2>, But I am not able to increase OR decrease brightness of my laptop screen.I have attached keymap of my laptop by the output of

Code:
xmodmap -pke
Please find the attachment keymap.txt.

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General :: Configure Bluetooth In Dell Inspiron Laptop Running On CentOS 5.3

Apr 15, 2010

I have bluetooth enabled in a Windows desktop Machine, which is connected to internet.

I would like to connect to internet through bluetooth available in my laptop which is running on CentOS 5.3.

I referred to many tutorials in internet, still couldn't configure bluetooth.

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General :: Fedora 14 On Dell Inspiron 2600 No Keyboard Or Trackpad Response

Feb 20, 2011

I am able to boot Fedora 14 to the GUI, log in on the keyboard, see the desktop, and then I get no response from the laptop's keyboard or trackpad.

I do not know how to obtain hardware specifics on my keyboard or touchpad, so perhaps that would be good info for me to start with...

BTW my ultimate goal is to run an Amahi server on the laptop. 2600 has a pentium III 1.13GHz processor and 512Mb RAM

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General :: Set Up Wireless Network Connection On Dell Inspiron 1501 Laptop?

Apr 28, 2011

Wireless problem with Dell laptop running Ubuntu 10.10

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Jul 4, 2010

I have had to install the B43 diver before to get wireless to work.

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Jan 20, 2010

Broadcom BCM4306KFB will not connect to internet.how do I download the firmware? I entered the following on the terminal:sudo/usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware...File does not exist....any ideas?I am running openSuSe 11.1

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General :: Ubuntu 10.04 - Wireless Card Not Working On Dell Inspiron 2200

Oct 9, 2010

I am new to Linux. About 72 hours in, and I must say. I am quite impressed. Except for a small issue. I cannot seem to figure out how to get my wireless card working. I have used the bcm43xx technique with no avail. And am working on ndswrapper. The good news is I think I have the .sys file that works. But I don't have the .inf. However any way I could make this work would be great. Below I have posted my lspci stats.

Lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03) .....

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General :: Driver For A Dell 1390 Wlan Mini Card In A Inspiron 1590 For Ubuntu 11.04

May 29, 2011

Can not get Ubuntu 11.04 to recognize my Dell 1390 Mini Card WLAN. IT works fine with a Ethernet connection but does not find my WLAN. Can someone please offer so much desired help? I have a Inspiron 1521 with an AMD 64X Processor.

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Jun 29, 2010

I have an old Dell Dimension 2400 running Windows XP.I want to dual boot a Linux Distro on this PC. It has a Celeron Processor (2.60Ghz, 400 fsb. 256 cache) Hard Drive is 40GB IDE Installed Ram is 256Mb (Though I am in the process of maxing this to 2Gb). I have 10 GB Free space. I want to run a Linux Distro on this space.

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Jun 15, 2011

I have been trying to do some testing with server cloning and partitioning and hit some walls. The server is question is a Dell PowerEdge 2950 and the Distro's I have tried are :-

Clonezilla-live-1.2.8-46-i686
Parted Magic 6.2 & 6.2

The problem is a little strange is that the console appears to keep reporting either unreadable sectors on sr0 for clonezilla till SQUASHFS fails to load/locate and it panic's or in the case of Parted Magic.. copying files to RAM ..cp: read error: Input/output error

Mounting pmagic-6.2.sqfs... mount: wrong fstype, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so Mounting //sqfs_disk/pmagic-6.2.sqfs failed.

type "exit" to reboot the computer
bash-4.1#

Now the only problem here is I can't check the log's or dmesg the thing because it freezes the KVM and as I am offsite I have no spares with me Parted Magic does boot on a number of other servers like the R900 but will not boot at all here, I have tried safemode and disabling various other flag's but I must be missing something.

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Ubuntu Installation :: Kernel 2.6.35 On Dell D810 Notebook ?

Dec 31, 2010

I am using a Dell D810 Notebook and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS with all the latest upgrades, I would like to know if it is ok to upgrade to Ubuntu 10.10. I have read the release notes and I am not certain if Linux kernel 2.6.35 supports my Notebook. Below I have included out put for cat /proc/cpuinfo and x86info -a

Ubuntu 10.04 works very well on my Dell D810.

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Ubuntu Installation :: Freeze On Install In A Dell Notebook?

Apr 13, 2011

im trying to install ubuntu 10.10 on a dell precision m2400.The problem is that it goes into the "ubuntu" logo and it reads the cd... and nothing happens, it never leaves that screen

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Fedora Networking :: Wireless On Dell Inspiron 15r?

Aug 31, 2011

i have a dell inspiron 15r that i plan on running fedora on, however, today i booted fedora from a live cd and it was completely oblivious to the fact that i have a wireless card, obviously i need certain drivers for it, problem is i dont know what drivers those would be, or where to get them, http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/inspiron-15r/pd this is my laptop model, and it says i have a "Standard Dell Wireless 1501 802.11 g/n" wireless card, if anyone could tell me how to get this working,

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Ubuntu :: Dell Inspiron 600m Running Hot

May 21, 2010

I have a 4-5 year old dell inspiron 600m that i have been running on linux ubuntu for the past 2-3 years. Last week i took it apart to paint the casing, got that done and since I put it back together it has a tendency to become very hot. When i got it back together i also installed a good number of updates.
Also, I can no longer stream videos/ music from the internet. I am not sure if i messed something up when i was putting it back together, or if something in these updates has caused a problem. I have always been able to stream on previous installs, and i cannot honestly remember if i could before i took it apart. i am trying to watch a video on ..... and the cpu usage went clear to 100% and the cpu temperature went up to 99 Deg Celcius. The audio and video didnt even match but for a second or two at the very beginning. When the computer is sitting idle browsing the internet the cpu usage is very low, maybe avg. 15% and the temp drops to 55deg C fairly quickly.

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Ubuntu :: Brightness Adjustment In Dell Inspiron 14R

Aug 18, 2010

I am not able to adjust the brightness in ubuntu. I am using gnome and ubuntu 10.04. I can see some folders DD01, DD02 in /proc/acpi/video/GFX0/ with value as given below. cat /proc/acpi/video/GFX0/DD01/brightness <not supported>

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Ubuntu :: Install In Dell Inspiron Mini 10

Feb 5, 2011

i want to install ubuntu in my dell..ive already installed one in my desktop can i use that installer to my dell mini inspiron 10?? i have a usb hard drive..or better to use usb stick? well what about blackbuntu? seems awesome can i install that in my dell?

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Ubuntu Installation :: 11.04 On Dell Inspiron 8100?

Apr 28, 2011

i just installed version 11.04 on a dell inspiron 8100 the install went perfect up to the point where it asks me to restart. once i restarted i can not see the desktop.

dell inspiron 8100 20GB HDD, 512MB RAM, Pentium III.

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Ubuntu :: New Dell Inspiron 5030 - Unity 2D?

Jun 9, 2011

This computer has the ATI Radeon HD 4250 which wont run unity apparently. It runs in classic mode without effects, it also runs on unity 2D. How can I get it to default to Unity 2D so that my girlfriend doesn't have to select it each time?

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