[Gloucs] Dell Inspiron 15xx series laptops

Sean Keeney seany at seanyseansean.com
Sun Jan 13 03:29:23 GMT 2008


The Intel cards are rock solid in Ubuntu, so no problems there. Don't
expect anything great in Compiz though (I have no idea whether the
drivers support a composited desktop)

The wireless should be fine though.

On 12/01/2008, Andrew Oakley <andrew at aoakley.com> wrote:
>
> I'm about to take delivery of a Dell Inspiron 1520 laptop with MS Vista.
> One of the first things I'm going to do is dual-boot it with Ubuntu
> (probably the Alpha 2 pre-release of 8, Hardy Heron, as this will be a
> long-term support version).
>
> Does anyone here have an Inspiron 15xx series laptop, or any machine
> with an Intel GMA X3100 or similar series graphics card? If so, would
> they mind me possibly bothering them with questions if I encounter any
> problems?
>
> The main things I want to get running initially are the dual boot, the
> wireless networking card, and Compiz.
>
> --
> Andrew Oakley
>
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