this is a sequel to my earlier My linux laptop :)
after looking at my cool laptop fully loaded with Ubuntu, my friend wanted to install Ubuntu on his laptop which is a dell latitude D630 .
we had some issues initially as it was not recognizing the display drivers correctly.we have called dell technical support and they said they dont support linux on this model .
after searching through the net we found couple of interesting links. which talk about how to get the display to work with Ubuntu on dell latitude D630.
we had download alternate desktop CD from ubuntu download.
and installed Ubuntu 7.04 using the text based installer . then updated / upgraded the distro using the following commands.
:~$ # sudo aptitude update
:~$ # sudo aptitude dist-upgrade
then removed the package xserver-xorg-video-i810 from aptitude . it automatically installed the xserver-xorg-video-intel-2:1.9.94. and then just restarted the machine .
thats it Ubuntu was able to recognize the display driver , cool ..........
my friend is now enjoying the ubuntu flavor :)
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