Dell XPS M1530 - Ubuntu 9.10 x64 Compatibility

Version:
Ubuntu Desktop (Alternate) 9.10 - 64-bit

Download site:
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/downloadmirrors#mirrors


Hardware Compatibility:

Tested OK:

• Network (LAN + Intel 3945ABG WIFI)
  
• Sound (Internal + Output Jacks)
  
• HDMI - (Picture + Sound )

• Display + NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT (Both with default and nvidia downloaded driver)
  
• Touchpad + Keyboard (USA)
  
• Console Buttons
• Cards Reader
• Internal Webcam (with Cheese)
• USB
• Fingerprint Reader (UPEK) --> setup guide
  
• Bluetooth
• S-Video

Pending:

• VGA
  
• Firewire
• Mic (Both built-in + Jack)
  
• InfraRed (wait till I get the new battery for my Dell remote)

 
 
 
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Linux - VMware Workstation 6.5.3 - Installer hang

Instructions:

• Open 2 Linux terminals
  

• Become root in one of those windows
• Ubuntu --> sudo su -
  Other distro --> su -

 

• In the root-ed window run... 
• while true; do killall -9 vmware-modconfig-console; sleep 1; done

 

• In the non-root terminal run...
• sudo ./VMware-Workstation-6.5.3-185404.x86_64.bundle --ignore-errors

 

• Once the installer finishes go back to the root window and do a Ctrl-C to stop the kill loop

• In the root window run... 
• vmware-modconfig --console --install-all

Thanks to --> http://communities.vmware.com/message/1350962#1350962



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Ubuntu 9.10 x64 + NVIDIA Driver (binary)

Instructions:

• Reset the Xorg to its default conf, and backup the conf
• sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.original
• sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

 

• Installing packages and dependencies
• sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`

 

• Remove old version drivers
• sudo apt-get --purge remove $(dpkg -l | grep nvidia | awk '{print $2}')

 

• Download the latest driver from nvidia website (I'm using 64-bit)
• wget http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/190.53/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-190.53-pkg2.run -O NVIDIA-Linux-190.pkg.run

 

• Move the installer to /usr/src and link it
• sudo install NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-190.53-pkg2.run /usr/src/
• sudo ln -s /usr/src/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-190.53-pkg2.run /usr/src/nvidia-driver

 

• Stop X. Press "Ctrl+Alt+F1", login and stop gdm
• sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop

 

• Installing (I choose to let nvidia to reconfigure the conf at the last stage of the installation)
• sudo sh /usr/src/nvidia-driver

 

• Restart
• sudo reboot

Thanks to --> http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=99513



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