Questions related to Dell hardware and troubleshooting Ubuntu
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How to setup a wi-fi hotspot (access point mode)?
How to setup a wi-fi hotspot (access point mode)?
Point to be noted: Wireless hotspot aren't same as ad hoc networks.
Significant difference is there. In short, adhoc networks aren't
supported ...
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Dell Upgrade to 13.04 & 13.10 No wifi, graphic card driver and bluetooth Problem?
(Dell inspiron m5040 Upgrade to 12.04 LTS from 11.10 wifi wont work and has two bluetooth icons?) Old title of post!
No Wifi/Bluetooth Problem. "Both Fixed", see below comments for bluetooth fix and ...
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ATI 6470m & intel HD graphics 3000 drivers?
I have a Dell 15R 2nd Gen with an ATI 6470m GPU and Intel HD graphics 3000 (form the i5 processor). I just installed Ubuntu 11.10 and can't get the graphics card to install. In system information it ...
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Dell Inspiron N5110 Keyboard & Touchpad
I have Dell Laptop " N 5110 "
How do make 2 finger scrolling work + 2 fingers zoom in & zoom out work
How to Fn + f3 To ...
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Alps Touchpad on Dell: how do I install the DKMS driver to enable multitouch?
Now I know that this has been asked several times here but I couldn't find any decent solution to it.
I am running Ubuntu 12.04 on my DELL N5110 and my touchpad is detected as a mouse, So I don't ...
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ALPS touchpad on DELL Inspiron I15RN-3647BK with Ubuntu 11.10 x64
I can't make work the multitouch of the ALPS touchpad in my Dell Inspiron I15RN-3647BK with Ubuntu 11.10 x64, kernel 3.0.0-17-generic... I have tried with this driver but it doesn't work ...
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Dell Inspiron 5720 Wifi (Broadcom BCM43142, Ubuntu 12.10) [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I install BCM43142 wireless drivers for Dell Vostro 3460/3560?
I've installed Ubuntu 12.10 on Dell Inspiron 5720. Cant get wifi to work.
sudo lshw -C network:
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Is there a way to autodetect when a display is disconnected?
I am running 10.10 on a Dell Latitude with the latest Nvidia drivers. Basically what I want is when I disconnect my external display that everything goes back to the main one without having to change ...
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Touchpad not working on Dell XPS L501x
I just installed Ubuntu 11.10 (64 bit) and my touchpad is dead. Some ideas?
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Dell inspiron 1545 wired and wireless do not work
When I realized my wireless wasn't working with ubuntu, I plugged my laptop in to try and figure out the problem online - only to find it doesn't work that way, either. The problem isn't my internet/ ...
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WI-FI doesn't work (Hard Blocked)
Yesterday I installed Ubuntu 12.04 for the first time (I've always been a Windows user) as I was at the office and I had the Ethernet connected.
At home I only use WI-FI. When I started Ubuntu it ...
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Vostro 3400 touchpad multiple gesture and two finger scrolling not working
I recently bought a dell vostro 3400 i3 with 4 gb ram. Everything works smooth as silk and I am using maverick but I can't get two finger scrolling and multiple gestures such as zoom etc which it says ...
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How do I enable multi touch on a Dell inspiron n5110 with an ALPS touchpad?
How can I enable touch pad gestures(multi touch effects) of alps touch pad which comes with dell inspiron n5110 in ubuntu 11.10. These gestures worked fine with windows.
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Install ubuntu on windows 8 with intel smart response
I have a dell inspiron 15z (ultrabook) with two drives, one HDD (500 Go) and one SSD (32 Go) managed by a kind of raid 0 array called intel smart response, and Windows 8 already installed.
Dell ...
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Dell Inspiron N5010 overheating
I've installed Ubuntu 11.10 on a Dell Inspiron N5010. It gets too hot and is automatically shutdown. Can anybody suggest why this is happening and how to fix it?
The application is use the most often ...
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Dell Studio 1569 Cannot Shutdown in Ubuntu 11.10 or 12.04
I have not tried a version of Ubuntu prior to 11.10 on my machine.
The laptop will not shut down or restart. Shutting down causes it to pause at "Will now Halt", where upon it sits until the battery ...
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How to control fan speed in Dell Inspiron 5010 (15R)?
How can I control fan speed on Inspiron 15R? I installed i8kutils as instructed on ubuntuforums but don't know how to use it. Fan makes quite a noise and runs all the time.
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GMA 5700 MHD Dell Vostro 3300 externel vga monitor is flickering
I use the Dell Vostro 3300 und Ubuntu Lucid 10.10. The VGA for the external monitor is flickering. The problem seams to be the Intel Graphics.
lspci / grep “VGA” says: VGA compatible controler: Intel ...
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Keyboard and touch pad is not working on a Dell XPS 15z
I am new linux user, I dont anything about how linux works, i am working on that, but mean while, i installed ubuntu on my Dell xps 15z, it works fine, except for the keyboard and the touch pad mouse. ...
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Two finger scrolling not working [closed]
My question is related to this question in askubuntu. Yesterday, I tried installing Ubuntu 11.04. The problem with my touchpad still persists. Although the touchpad section in Mouse says two finger ...
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How can I reinstall Broadcom STA drivers?
I'm having problems enabling the Broadcom STA proprietary wireless driver.
I was using it previously, since I installed Ubuntu 10.10. I found out recently that this was causing problems with wired ...
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Where to get Dell Inspiron 1545 drivers for the Dell 1397 wlan minicard wireless card?
I cant seem to find the drivers for my Dell Wireless WLAN 1397 Minicard for ubuntu 11.04 andone know how i can get them and install them im sort of new to ubuntu?
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Headphone jack not working?
I have a Dell Studio XPS 1647 and headphones do not work (though , internal speakers work like a charm) , I have dual boot Windows 7 and headphones work perfectly fine ...
I also tried -adding in ...
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How do I get HDMI output working on a Dell XPS 15 L502x?
Recently I've bought my dream's notebook, a Dell XPS 15 but since then this dream became a kind of endless nightmare.
I'm almost getting crazy to make my graphic card driver work properly, but it ...
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No “Touchpad Tab” under Mouse and Touchpad settings. Detected as PS/2 Generic Mouse
I have a Dell Inspiron with Ubuntu 12.04 installed. I can use my touchpad fine but I can't scroll with it. When I run windows it uses two finger scrolling but for some reason it won't work on Ubuntu. ...
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Can't install on Dell Inspiron 15R
I just purchased a Dell Inspiron 15R and use Ubuntu as my primary operating system. Well I tried to install all of the following without any success:
Ubuntu 10.04 x86-32bit
Ubuntu 10.10 x86-64bit
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How do I deactivate dynamic contrast on a Dell XPS?
I am experiencing annoying automatic backlight brightness changes under ubuntu 12.04 LTS on my Dell XPS ultrabook.
It seems to be connected to the amount of white pixels on the screen (switching ...
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Dell Inspiron 1525, Upgraded to 12.04 and have lost Wireless Internet Connection [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Wireless doesn't work on a Broadcom BCM4312
I've just upgraded my Dell Inspiron 1525 to 12.04. Wireless connection worked before, but now it doesn't. I can't seem ...
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How can I configure the touchpad and keyboard settings on a Dell Inspiron 5110? [closed]
I am using ubuntu 11.10.
I want the following 3 things:
I have dell inspiron 5110 laptop. There is button at the top right corner of laptop which can be used for turning the screen off. It works in ...
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How to activate subwoofer in Inspiron 17r?
I have a Dell Inspiron 17r, after a fresh install of 12.10, the subwoofer seems to be not utilized. No sound comes from it and in the Sound Control Panel the settings appear grayed out (see ...
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I can't install Ubuntu on my Dell Inspiron 15R at all
I'm attempting to install Ubuntu 12.04LTS, 64bit onto a Dell Inspiron 15R laptop. I've shrunk down one of the windows partitions and even used GParted to format the vacant space as ext4.
However, ...
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Short Battery life for dell xps 15z
I bought dell xps 15z and installed Ubuntu 11.10 on this laptop.
Laptop and ubuntu liked me.
But I have problem with battery life.
In windows it can 4-5 hours, but in ubuntu it is not more 2 hours.
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Jockey not detecting my ATI IGP Xpress 1150
Will get to the point,
Fresh Ubuntu 11.04, I tried to edit the appearance settings for Gnome Do 0.8.4, get the error "you must enable compositing" help guides suggested to install Compiz.
Installed ...
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How do I get Ubuntu working on a Dell XPS 15?
I have a Dell XPS 15, (L502X) and I want to know If there is any problem, because of the 2 Video Cards, or anything else?
Core i5
8 GB
Nvidia GT525M
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Which partition should I install on on a Dell XPS 13?
I just bought the dell ultrabook xps 13, but I have some difficulties to install ubuntu 12.04.
Problem is about Hard-Disk partition.
Actually, the sda has already 4 part :
and I don't want delete ...
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Alps Loaded but PS/2 mouse also loaded!
i have Dell Inspiron 15R and i installed psmouse-alps package, it successfully recognized my Touchpad and i can see touchpad option under mouse properties as well, but my touchpad doesn't works at ...
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How do I setup a Dell 1135n Laser MFP?
Trying to setup Dell 1135n Laser MFP on Ubuntu 11.10
/usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertosamsungspl failed
I copied the rastertosamsungspl from the DVD
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Laptop overheats and turns off even though the fan runs
I installed Ubuntu 12.10 on my Dell Studio 1747. The laptop fan is up and running as soon as the Ubuntu log on screen appears (even when the laptop is cold). The laptop ends up overheating and turning ...
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Dell Latitude D510 Installation Alternate? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
My computer boots to a black screen, what options do I have to fix it?
Does the alternate installation work on a Dell Latitude D510 with no OS installed? I want to use ...
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64 bit ubuntu installation fails Dell XPS | 15Z
I tried to install 64 bit ubuntu desktop to the machine I stated above. When I try to do so by CD, the screen freezes, and when I try to do so using USB drive, the screen freezes again just after the ...
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How to disable touchpad on Dell Latitude E-Series (E5510, E6510)?
I want to disable the touchpad. I want to keep the trackstick.
Is it possible?
The Alps touchpad is recognized by the kernel as a PS/2 Generic Mouse.
Not all its features are supported by the kernel ...
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How do I get a Dell Latitude e6420 working?
I've just installed Ubuntu 12.04 (64-bit) on a brand new Dell Latitude e6420, and I'm having a few problems. This laptop has an Optimus (?) setup - i.e. integrated gfx and an Nvidia Quadro NVS 4200M.
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SSD Tweaks for Ubuntu 12.04 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I optimize the OS for SSDs?
I need to tweak my Dell XPS 13z SSD for maximum performance and life cycle than I read the solutions explained here, but it is for ...
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Wifi disabled due to hardware switch. Not re enabling. What should i do ?
I'm using Ubuntu 11.10 on Dell Inspiron mini 1018. I disabled the wireless network and it does not enable again. It reports that wireless is disabled by hardware switch. Pressing the hardware switch ...
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Dell Inspiron 9400 SD card reader not working
I'm new in Linux, just installed Ubuntu 11.10 in a Dell Inspiron 9400, everything works fine with the exception of the SD card reader, everytime I insert a card the computer doesn't do anything, its ...
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1080p External Monitor through a Dell XPS 15 L502X?
Did someone succeed using an external monitor through the HDMI or Mini DisplayPort of the Dell XPS 15 L502X under Ubuntu 11.10. IF so can you please tell me what you did?
The Discrete graphics card ...
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Problems with nvidia drivers on Dell XPS
Just trying to install Ubuntu on my laptop and can't get nvidia drivers to work. Have been googling and trying for a while, but since I am not used to Ubuntu I am not sure quite how to diagnose the ...
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Dell Inspiron Wifi off
I installed a fresh install of Ubuntu 12.10 and this is my first Ubuntu install. I have a Dell Inspiron 6400 and my wifi is turned off and cant seem to switch it on. I searched a lot on it but can ...
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How to make my Dell 1390 wlan minicard work
I have a dell laptop with at dell wireless 1390 wlan mini-card driver, when I installed Ubuntu side by side with Win7 I assume it was missing a wireless driver since that's what it said. Later on I ...
