Following my previous post, finally I got the new Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex on my Dell XPS M1530 laptop. The verdict: Pure Awesomeness. The installation is very quick and simple (it just that it took me a while to write this post). Almost everything works out of the box. The driver support is better. The …
Dell XPS M1530
Getting Dell XPS Trackpad to work on Ubuntu Hardy
I had trouble getting my Dell XPS M1530 track pad/touch pad to work when I updated the BIOS from A07 to A09. However, it is fairly an easy fix. Edit your ‘/boot/grub/menu.lst’ file with: sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst Then add: i8042.nomux=1 at the end of the ‘kernel’ line. It may look like below: title Ubuntu 8.04, …
