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Dell Inspiron 6400

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6/26/06 at 11:09am
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I'm contemplating buying a Dell Inspiron 6400. Just wondering if anybody has any experience with K/Ubuntu Dapper on this machine. Does it work without too much hassle and configuration? Is the ATI Radeon card usable in K/Ubuntu. What about the sound?

Is the Dell XPS 1210 any better / worse?

Thanks in advance.
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post #2 of 3
6/26/06 at 1:22pm
Well, the ati issue you can easily fix by installing the xorg-driver-fglrx and after that you generate an initial standard xorg.conf with aticonfig. .

As for the rest of the things, I think i read somewhere ubuntu only uses teh dual core after you recompile the kernel: oh sweet, here is the page on what works for the 6400 and how to ge things to work :ie. kernel recompile etc.

http://individual.utoronto.ca/jaelle.../inspiron6400/
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post #3 of 3
6/26/06 at 2:20pm
from what i just looked at in my synaptic there are SMP kernels available.

fglrx is really easy to get going on ubuntu, with the correct resolution

wireless shouldn't be that much of a challange.
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