DELL VIDEO DRIVERS FOR UBUNTU INSTALL
DELL VIDEO DRIVERS FOR UBUNTU UPDATE

To check the state of the AC adapter, we can do it with the following : cat /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/ACAD/state But if the system is running on the battery, I want it to turn on the standby mode when the lid is close.ДЇirst, the ACPI scripts are located in the /etc/acpi directory, and the configuration file for the lid event is /etc/acpi/lid.sh I want to check if the system is on the AC adapter, if it's, locking the screen is the good action.

DELL VIDEO DRIVERS FOR UBUNTU UPDATE

Now that the suspend is working since I update my kernel to 2.6.20, I want to customize the lip action a little bit. For now, each time I close the lip of my laptop, the system automatically lock the screen.

I decide to play a little bit with the ACPI configuration. The new interface is very clean and I found the new tools easy to used. So far, I found the installation of the Ubuntu Feisty Beat release very easy. To fix the problem, I follow the step from this blog:ДЇor the internal modem, it will work with the Conexant HSF softmodem driver. We need to used the ndiswrapper tool with the Windows Driver. To fix the problem, edit the / etc/X11/nf and change all the '1024x768' '800ењ†00' '640x480' to '1280x800', the real screen resolution.ДЄgain the wireless Broadcom Corporation Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-PCI Card doesn't work out of the box. Note that with the default installation of the fglrx driver, the font look a little bit fuzzy, this is cause by a bad screen resolution configuration. OpenGL renderer string: RADEON XPRESS Series OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc. This is what I got after the installation: With this new configuration tools, you just need to enable the ATI accelerated graphics driver and they your system will be configured with the fglrx driver. So I decide to update it with the new the help of the Restricted Drivers Manager. Whit the default installation, the distribution use the ati driver. The video card on the Dell Inspiron 1501 is an ATI Radeon Xpress 1100. In fact it was really easy, just boot from the CD and follow the normal installation process.ДЄs for the tweak, this is what I do to configure my system.

DELL VIDEO DRIVERS FOR UBUNTU INSTALL

My previous installation was done with Ubuntu Edgy (6.10), with the new one we not need the pci=nomsi boot option to be able to install the distribution and have it working. I just download the latest Ubuntu beta release, Ubuntu Feisty (7.04).

Dell video drivers for ubuntu