Comments on Ubuntu on the Dell Inspiron 1501: Overview of Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon on the Dell 1...

Hello Matt,Many thanks for a brilliant guide that ...

2008-03-04T04:58:00.000-06:00

Hello Matt,

Many thanks for a brilliant guide that has inspired me to go out and buy a refurbished Dell Inspiron 1501 from Dell Outlet and install Ubuntu Gutsy as soon as I received it (which was yesterday). So far so good and everything works as you have explained on your blog.

Therefore,a big thanks and a small token of my appreciation to you my friend. Please keep up the good work and Viva Linux and may ubuntu go from strength to strength.

Thank you from London, UK

if suspend worked and hibernation worked with s2di...

2008-03-03T11:12:00.000-06:00

if suspend worked and hibernation worked with s2disk or s2both, see this link to make s2disk your default hibernation in gnome and gdm

http://blog.paulbetts.org/index.php/2007/02/11/fixing-software-suspend-hibernate-with-uswsusp-in-ubuntu-feisty-and-edgy/

with Envy now suspend is working but hibernate sti...

2008-03-03T10:36:00.000-06:00

with Envy now suspend is working but hibernate still not working

thanks Ken and Reddead for this

This may come out silly but I still have to share....

2008-02-17T03:29:00.000-06:00

This may come out silly but I still have to share. I tried installing for nearly 4 hours using original and alternate versions of Ubuntu 7.10 downloads burnt to a CD-RW. Eventually, re-downloading from a different mirror and burning to a CD-R did the trick. Still don't know which one did it but I'm not sure using an RW was a good choice to begin with. Either way, 20 minutes from now, I'll follow your post for my E1505. Thanks for providing this.

I tried installing ndiswrapper according to the di...

2008-01-21T21:35:00.000-06:00

I tried installing ndiswrapper according to the directions here and I get the message to insert the disk labeled
'Ubuntu 7.10 _Gutsy Gibbon_ - release i386 (20071016) in the drive '/cdrom/'
When I do it just pops up with the same message...this is the CD I installed from and downloaded from Ubuntu.com...
Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks!

redDead, Has your 1501 display ever get flaky. Lik...

2008-01-15T17:19:00.000-06:00

redDead, Has your 1501 display ever get flaky. Like losing background settings - ATI card or display problem (mine just slipped out of warrenty . . .

Awesome Job!!I installed fresh copy of Gutsy 7.10....

2008-01-12T00:28:00.000-06:00

Awesome Job!!

I installed fresh copy of Gutsy 7.10. and directly came to your blog to fix all my problems. I have inspiron e1505. and, after your guide, everthing works. well, the graphics, wifi, brightness... everything.

gr8 job!!!
keep it up

Just to add a note about using Mesa drivers. In my...

2008-01-11T02:54:00.000-06:00

Just to add a note about using Mesa drivers. In my setup, without fglrx, encrypted dvds (the normal movie kind) didn't work. On the upside, at least ati's finally getting around to open-sourcing their drivers.. so maybe suspend, hibernate, and all these worries will go away in a year or so.

btw, thanks for the blog!

ken, what bios version are you using? it does not ...

2008-01-02T12:43:00.000-06:00

ken, what bios version are you using? it does not seem to work for me (downgraded to v1.70 in order to get the brightness controls to work...)

Hi, I've just solved restarting several times in "...

2007-12-29T11:06:00.000-06:00

Hi, I've just solved restarting several times in "safe" mode...

Hi, I'm trying to install Ubuntu 7.10 on a new 150...

2007-12-26T07:01:00.000-06:00

Hi, I'm trying to install Ubuntu 7.10 on a new 1501 but the boot freezes...
The last lines I see:

* Starting deferred execution scheduler atd [OK]
* Starting periodic command scheduler crond [OK]
* Checking battery state... [OK]
* Running local boot scripts (/etc/rc.local) [OK]
_

...and it freezes!

Any idea? Thnaks in advance...

The new ATI catalyst 7.12 driver is out! Suspend a...

2007-12-22T12:00:00.000-06:00

The new ATI catalyst 7.12 driver is out! Suspend and hibernate are now working on my 1501!

The Envy for the driver can be found here:

http://www.albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html

Once you install it and reboot, compiz will be broken. You just have to open up a terminal and type
sudo gedit /usr/bin/compiz

then:
"change lines 30 and 31 to:
COMPIZ_BIN_PATH="/usr/bin/" # For window decorators and compiz
PLUGIN_PATH="/usr/lib/compiz/"

and then a few lines down, change to:
COMPIZ_NAME="compiz.real" # Final name for compiz (compiz.real)"

(found this info here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=585252)

Suspend for me works as it should. Hibernate didn't work via gnome power management, but does work with s2disk and s2both. I've done some tweaking to my hibernate settings so that may be the reason. Don't know.

Enjoy!

Thanks for your blog! That's really helpful.As add...

2007-12-12T09:06:00.000-06:00

Thanks for your blog! That's really helpful.

As add, be sure that you select "Subpixel smoothing" for rendering within fonts configuration. That is get more friendly effect of fonts ;)

Thanks for making this blog. I am about to receive...

2007-12-09T14:46:00.000-06:00

Thanks for making this blog. I am about to receive a Dell Inspiron 1501 and I am new to Ubuntu. I hope I will find a lot of usefull information here ;)

These pertain to the Ubuntu 7.10 32 bit release. I...

2007-12-08T13:05:00.000-06:00

These pertain to the Ubuntu 7.10 32 bit release. I don't use or offer support for the 64 bit version.

redDead, do your posted manuals/blogs pertain spec...

2007-12-07T19:25:00.000-06:00

redDead, do your posted manuals/blogs pertain specifically to AMD64 (K)ubuntu? I presume they do, but I wanted to make sure since, as you already know, things can be different between 64-bit and 32-bit architectures. Best regards.

pablo,no wish i did, i've been searching for it to...

2007-12-06T21:30:00.000-06:00

pablo,

no wish i did, i've been searching for it too. have a post in ubuntu forums that was never answered.

hello redDead, do you know how to change the memor...

2007-12-06T20:54:00.000-06:00

hello redDead, do you know how to change the memory size of the Radeon xpress 1150 IGP in Ubuntu? i have been searching a lot without positive results.