Comments on Ubuntu on the Dell Inspiron 1501: Your Dell 1501 is Ready

so in gutsy... modem works..

2008-01-07T14:41:00.000-06:00

so in gutsy... modem works..

provaif you looked around the site you would find ...

2007-10-13T16:08:35.971-05:00

prova

if you looked around the site you would find an article talking about how the modem does work in fesity. works 100%

redDEAD, do you say the modem works because you go...

2007-10-13T12:18:00.000-05:00

redDEAD, do you say the modem works because you got it working on your dell, or because you heard it from someone ?
Sorry for bothering all of you with this question, but without modem there is no sense for my in buying this laptop.

Thanks.

prova,The modem works in feisty you dont have to p...

2007-10-11T23:43:59.924-05:00

prova,

The modem works in feisty you dont have to pay a dime. the howto is on the blog. look for it if you want your modem to work. the modem will work in gutsy once dell releases the deb.

It looks there is no solution of getting modem wor...

2007-10-11T11:22:00.000-05:00

It looks there is no solution of getting modem working without pying extra costs - pls confirm.

I have a question for you, maybe OT: would 1501 get connecting through an external modem (via RS-232 for instance, or USB) ?
Thanks

Yeah, I hadn't had an issue since my last post til...

2007-09-30T13:39:00.000-05:00

Yeah, I hadn't had an issue since my last post til this morning. Happened twice. I am way too much of a newbie to figure this out but I can share two things so far. My laptop is dual boot with vista and my family routinely uses vista. It has never happened on vista and has happened 8 times running ubuntu ff. I also noticed that it is my cap lock and shift lock key (not num lock). I will continue researching and share whatever i find.

I'm afraid not, Steve. It seemed like I was havin...

2007-09-21T22:19:00.000-05:00

I'm afraid not, Steve. It seemed like I was having a good 2 or 3 weeks without any problems, but now it seems to have come back in the past couple of days.

Joel said... Is nobody else having their computer ...

2007-09-20T00:50:00.000-05:00

Joel said...

Is nobody else having their computer lock up seemingly at random? Everything seems to work great, except that maybe once a day, sometimes not, the computer will completely freeze. I don't know what causes it -- sometimes I'll be doing email or something, sometimes I'll be away from the computer and come back and find it frozen. The caps lock and num lock keys flash when it freezes, and I have to do a hard reset.

Yep, having the same problem the last two days?? did you get resolution?

right click either of gonomes menu bars, then sele...

2007-09-05T00:23:04.077-05:00

right click either of gonomes menu bars, then select add to panel, then choose battery charge monitor, drag it onto the menu were you want it. then you can customize this applet by right clicking it and selecting preferences.

Hi.I have a question: does anybody know how to see...

2007-08-29T23:45:00.000-05:00

Hi.
I have a question: does anybody know how to see the Battery State? I'm using Ubuntu 7.04.
In Windows Vista i can see a tray icon with that info, which says for example: "charge 70%, 4 hours left". But in Ubuntu i cant find anything.
Thanks in advance!

Bios version 2.4 update. I picked up 4 of the 150...

2007-08-28T01:19:00.000-05:00

Bios version 2.4 update. I picked up 4 of the 1501s for my office they were a great but at $499 with the AMD64 x2 and 80gb hd.
The came with Vista and Bios v. 2.4.x
I installed Kubuntu 7.04 on one and Xandros 4 Pro on another.
Xandros installed fine no need for boot parameters like pci = nomsi .
The big differences are Xandros can not use the SDIMM slot, nor Hibernation and no ACPI so no AC or Battery Monitor. Otherwise all works. WiFi with ndis.
Kubuntu 7.04 is a different story. All that didn't work in Xandros works with Kubuntu 7.04..
I am very satisfied with the install and will probably install all 4 as Kubuntu 7.04..why not?
The only annoyance is that after install I had 114 packages waiting to update. I wasn't sure so I took them all. If something breaks I will investigate and reinstall not sure if it was a wise move to install all 114.
Thanks for a Great Blog. I probably would have kept Xandros except for your Blog.I am feeding the kitty.

Joel,Sounds like your computer is messing up. Call...

2007-08-12T11:38:02.352-05:00

Joel,

Sounds like your computer is messing up. Call Dell.

Is nobody else having their computer lock up seemi...

2007-08-11T22:18:00.000-05:00

Is nobody else having their computer lock up seemingly at random? Everything seems to work great, except that maybe once a day, sometimes not, the computer will completely freeze. I don't know what causes it -- sometimes I'll be doing email or something, sometimes I'll be away from the computer and come back and find it frozen. The caps lock and num lock keys flash when it freezes, and I have to do a hard reset.

hi redDEAD, great blog without it i would still be...

2007-08-08T18:08:00.000-05:00

hi redDEAD, great blog without it i would still be getting really annoyed with vista!

I just thought i should point out this thread on the ubuntu forums:

www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=508576&highlight=ubuntu+kills+your+hdd

If you hear a click or pop sound just before power off you should go here to fix it:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.17/+bug/67810/comments/60

redDEAD perhaps you could do a guide on this so that more people get to know about it.

Apparently it could kill your hard drive if you don't use the workaround at the link above!!

e-ternalI don't know maybe some of the readers wil...

2007-08-06T04:30:22.618-05:00

e-ternal

I don't know maybe some of the readers will though.

WTF these tutorials are bulletproof. Thanks!Got ub...

2007-08-06T04:25:00.000-05:00

WTF these tutorials are bulletproof. Thanks!

Got ubuntu Studio running great! And an xp part just there offline for only 2 programs used live so I never wanna crash. Acid and Numark Cue(w/TC Vinyl).

If there are any solid 'clones' of these for linux let me know then I can kiss windows good bye and kick things into high gear! Thanks again! (if my question is too off topic feel free to 'sigkill' me)

honeybadger,Yeah usb flash drives and usb hard dri...

2007-06-27T09:43:48.282-05:00

honeybadger,
Yeah usb flash drives and usb hard drives work out of the box and work better than they do in Windows. Once you use these things in any Linux flavor you'll never want to go back.

The audio jacks work as well. I know the audio out (headphones) runs perfectly, the audio in (microphone) has been reported by others to be working.

Hi. One quick question.Does the stuff like USB Fla...

2007-06-27T02:09:00.000-05:00

Hi. One quick question.
Does the stuff like USB Flash drive and/or USB ext. hdd work well out of the box.
Does the sound (and Mic jack) work well.

I am thinking now of buying this model of laptop (i choosing between Inspiron 6400 and 1501), but these two things are critical for me because i like to download movies and i need to use skype.

kuronosanWhat are you doing to cause it to "crap o...

2007-06-26T11:11:09.066-05:00

kuronosan

What are you doing to cause it to "crap out"?

Hey, I'm also a 1501 Owner that has recently switc...

2007-06-26T08:43:00.000-05:00

Hey, I'm also a 1501 Owner that has recently switched over to Ubuntu FF. Most of your stuff here works great, but I was wondering if you or anyone else has noticed problems with the 1501's USB controller under linux.? Mine seems to crap out under any heavy load. Works absolutly fine in XP.

Any hints on what needs to change for KDE/Kubuntu?...

2007-06-02T12:25:00.000-05:00

Any hints on what needs to change for KDE/Kubuntu? My XGL login just loops back to the login screen and I'm guessing it has something to do with the line:
exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session kde-session

on a machine without gnome...

1501, amd turion 2.0 GHz. 2GB ram, 80 GB (70GB ac...

2007-05-16T20:37:00.000-05:00

1501, amd turion 2.0 GHz. 2GB ram, 80 GB (70GB actual) SATA 2 HDD. ATI 1150 XTreame Mobile.

Unfortunatly it will not even boot on my system. It gets so far, then the caps lock and scroll lock flash, meaning the OS is not correctly accessing the RAM. It then freezes and will not proceed any farther. If I had an error code, I'd give it to you, but it never showed me one. I am trying to install the x64 version with no avail. I'll keep at it and hopefully I can send you the fix.

Can you list the exact hardware you have? We sell ...

2007-05-14T18:46:00.000-05:00

Can you list the exact hardware you have? We sell Dell and we may have what you have in the store instead of ordering.
Thanx!

Kevin, somebody already asked me that on my blog (...

2007-05-09T13:28:00.000-05:00

Kevin, somebody already asked me that on my blog (maybe you?). This is my response:

The driver is not finished yet, so there are some problems. iwconfig tells me that the card is running at 11Mb/s, but speedtests report something around 17 Mb/s. Anyway, the best speed I got was with the wireless card set at 24Mb/s, around 20Mb/s real speed. To change the rate, use sudo iwconfig eth1 rate 24M.
To change this permanently, you can add the command to /etc/rc.local, but I’m not sure if the network manager will let it like that.

Hello. A few months ago, I had a Dell Inspiron 120...

2007-05-08T20:21:00.000-05:00

Hello. A few months ago, I had a Dell Inspiron 1200 running Dapper, and I was pretty happy with it. Then I upgraded to an Inspiron 1501, and I've been dragging my feet in installing Ubuntu, worrying about the stability of Edgy and whether it would even be worth it to attempt to install Ubuntu on a 1501. Now, though, it seem that Feisty has been very good to the 1501, so I'll probably try. I have no real problem with using ndiswrapper; it was more the pci=nomsi and ATI graphics drivers that had me worried. But if I can install Feisty and hopefully Beryl/Compiz, that would be great!