Anyone running Ubuntu on a Dell Studio Hybrid?

[taylorkh]

If so, what version? Any issues? Looks like a neat little unit for light use.

Thanks,

Ken

[timothy truckle]

I am running Ubuntu 8.04 LTS on a Studio Hybrid. My first attempt to install failed. The I chose "save graphics mode", which forces X to use the vesa driver, I guess.

I succeeded with installing Ubuntu. Afterwards I had to set the resolution in xorg.conf to 1680x1050 for my wide screen LCD and install and configure 915resolution to make this resolution available for X. At the moment there is no intel driver shipped with ubuntu which works out of the box, so for the moment I had to stay with the vesa driver.

For getting wlan working I had to install ndiswrapper and configure it to work with the bcmwl5 driver (which I found somewhere in web).

[HiBot]

8.10 Alpha 4 video works if your willing to do a little minor editing of config files.

First off install 8.10 alpha 4 in safe mode graphics. Once the install is complete make sure the box is fully patched. Reboot after patching and first make a copy of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. Go back to this file if you mess something up (boot off the CD to do this roll back).

sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.save

Once you've made a copy of your xorg.conf make the following changes to it.

1. remove the following line

      Driver          "vesa"

2. In the "Device" section add the following line.

        Option          "monitor-LVDS"   "LVDS"

3. Modify your "Monitor" section so that it resembles the following.

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier      "LVDS"
        Option          "Ignore" "True"
EndSection

Save the file and press Ctrl+Alt+Backspace and you should be up and running on the intel driver.

[tati]

Once the install is complete make sure the box is fully patched.

Sorry, what does this mean?

And are the changes to xorg.config monitor-specific or will they work with all Dells?

[HiBot]

Once the install is complete make sure the box is fully patched.

Sorry, what does this mean?

It means you should run the Update Manager and apply all system patches.

And are the changes to xorg.config monitor-specific or will they work with all Dells?

The changes shouldn't be monitor specific. However I only have my one HDTV to hook up via the HDMI port to test with.

[oddonto]

I am running 8.04 on my Dell Studio Hybrid with the vesa driver works "fine", but can't use the dvi only vga signal and only with vesa. Google Earth is a problem and I guess other sophisticated (OpenGL) program.

[bryceharrington]

Here is a Hardy deb that fixes the problem with graphics not coming up when x starts:

http://bryceharrington.org/ubuntu/In...u13.7_i386.deb

It's still not perfect but at least it works now (no xorg.conf modification required).

[tati]

How do Ubuntu noobs use that deb?

[miver]

How do Ubuntu noobs use that deb?

wget http://bryceharrington.org/ubuntu/In...13.7_i386.deb; sudo dpkg -i xserver-xorg-video-intel_2.2.1-1ubuntu13.7_i386.deb

[miver]

Afterwards I had to set the resolution in xorg.conf to 1680x1050 for my wide screen LCD and install and configure 915resolution to make this resolution available for X.

Thanks for solution!