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Re: dell studio 1749
Guys,
This might be of help:
I wanted to upgrade my Dell Studio 1749 to 11.04 via a fresh install.
But, I could not for the life of me figure out why the Natty 11.04 Live CD would not boot on my Dell Studio 1749.
32 bit, 64 bit, alternate CD, nothing worked. I eventually upgraded to 11.04 from within 10.10 (64 bit). The upgrade installation completed without errors, but tragedy struck again, after a reboot I could not boot the 2.8.38 kernel!
Long story short: THIS IS THE SOLUTION:
The Dell Studio had the A05 BIOS installed. I upgraded to the A08 BIOS and now everything works!
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Re: dell studio 1749
Today I,ve made fresh install of 11.10 32bit on this laptop.
Everything works fine, but...
1.installed latest AMD Catalyst driver from AMD website - working.
2.wireless BROADCOM did not work after install - found solution:
-Download the 32 or 64-bit version:
http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php
-Download patch for > 2.6.37 support:
http://www.mindwerks.net/wp-content/...l-2.6.38.patch
-Extract the sources:
cd ~/Downloads; mkdir -p wl; cd wl; tar xf ../hybrid- portsrc*-v5_100_82_38.tar.gz
-Patch the sources, compile and install:
patch -p1 < ../broadcom-sta_4_kernel-2.6.38.patch
make; sudo make install; sudo depmod; sudo modprobe wl
Give Ubuntu a few seconds after loading the “wl” kernel module, then eventually the Network Manager will start looking for wireless networks.
3.(thank's to oly)by default the earphone jacks (there are two) do not work, to fix this edit the file /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf and add the line below:
options snd-hda-intel model=dell-m6
then reboot and the sockets will work.
4.installed SKYPE - but internal microphone is not working. I was trying to play with alsamixer, but with no results. Then found this in internet:
Try adding the line in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf :
options snd-hda-intel model=6stack-dell
After doing so and reboot - mic is working but earphone jacks not. As far as I understood, after editing /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf only the last added line is making effect on the system. Is there any solutuion on how to make them both - earphone jacks and microphone working?
For SKYPE already installed pavucontrol and pulse audio control.
Any suggestions?
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Re: dell studio 1749
No idea, I'll try this myself. I'm having the same issue with the internal mic. I think the mic worked up to version 10.10, so since then everything went downhill. They did fix the suspend issues in 11.10 so it's not all bad.
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Re: dell studio 1749
I can't get the internal mic and headphone working at the same time. I just use a usb mic now. I've also tested the mic jack next to the headphone jack, and you can connect a mic to that and still get headphone sound.
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Re: dell studio 1749
Adding this line to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf solves the headphones/microphone problem:
Code:
options snd-hda-intel model=dell-m6-dmic
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Re: dell studio 1749
Thanks, this helped me alot.
¨options snd-hda-intel model=dell-m6¨