Dell Xps M1330 Ubuntu Drivers For Mac

Ubuntu’s Hardy Heron is out!!! Here is the updated that I wrote for my Dell XPS m1330.

Dell Xps M1330 Ubuntu Drivers For Mac Free

One of the most popular articles on my blog and not even theology! So here’s a how-to on how to get your M1330 running with linux. You won’t have to be a slave to Vista any more! Device Compatibility Processor – Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7500 @ 2.20GHz Works Slim and Light LED Display with VGA Webcam Works DVD+/-RW, 8X Works 128MB NVIDIA® GeForce™ 8400M GS Works Sound – Built in sound and speakers Works Dell Wireless 1505 Wireless-N Mini-card Works USB Works Firewire? Express Card Slot Reader Works Remote Control Works Biometric Finger Print Reader Works.

VGA Web Camera Works. Media Keys Works. Built-in Bluetooth capability (2.0 EDR) Works Integrated 10/100 Network Card Works HARD DRIVE, 160G, Serial ATA, 9, 7.2, SE080 Works.

Headphones – both jacks! Works ExpressCard Sound Blaster X-Fi® Xtreme Audio Sound Card Not Yet Hibernation Works.

Suspend Works. Notes: Install. It’s stable and a very good operating system for a new linux users. It offers support. Dell loves it. It’s got great helps and a bleeding edge kernel that you’ll need for Dell’s latest computer. The m1330 has the Intel Core2 Duo.

You want to get the 64-bit Ubuntu Hardy Heron cd. You’ve got the dual core. Hard Drive Partitioning & Media Direct Gotta partition your drive. If you don’t and hit that Media Center key, bad things happen! Here’s a guide to how to shrink your drive and keep the media center stuff working. There is a guide. It involves a fresh install of Vista.

You’d do that anyway, wouldn’t you? Who wants all that Dell stuff slowing down your system? Moving Your Home Directory I would move your /home directory to a different partition. This will preserve it in case of problems. SUSE does this on install. Ubuntu can do. Manually partition your drive and select a different disk for '/home.'

If you can’t figure that out, no fears! Partition a separate drive. I suggest this Wireless – Dell Wireless 1505 Wireless-N Mini-card The biggest problem with new users and linux is that the wireless doesn’t work out of the box. We gotta fix that.

It’s not that hard. Ndiswrapper is the way you wanna go.

There’s a great guide. Or you can simply do this If you don’t have internet near you, load synaptic (System–Administrative tools–Synaptic).

Go into Settings–Repositories. Check the Ubuntu Hardy Heron install cd. After you get wireless working, uncheck it. Sudo apt-get install ndisgtk ndiswrapper-common ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 Then, download file. Extract it on your desktop. Cd Desktop/bcmwl5/ sudo ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf sudo ndiswrapper -m Then, we need to make a few changes to ensure that this will work afterward we reboot sudo gedit /etc/modules The file will open and add ndiswrapper to the bottom of the file. Then, one other thing sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist Make sure that you see # replaced by b43 and ssb.

Blacklist bcm43xx This will ensure that bcm43xx isn’t going to mess up ndiswrapper. Reboot and enjoy wireless! Don’t forget remove the CD repository if you had to add it.

Graphics – 128MB NVIDIA® GeForce™ 8400M GS Envy is your friend. It’s located in the repositories for Hardy Heron. Sudo apt-get install envyng-core envyng-gtk envyng-qt Then Applications–System Tools–EnvyNG.

Install NVidia’s latest drivers. If you have problems running EnvyNG, go into synaptic and Settings–Repositories–Updates. Click Pre-released updates (hardy proposed)and unsupported updates (hardy-backports). Update and booyah!

Compiz Fusion Icon You are gonna want Compiz Fusion activated and installed. Hardy Heron. Sudo apt-get install fusion-icon compizconfig-settings-manager emerald Now, we need to make it so the icon starts every time we boot up.

Hit the 'Add' Button. In the Name field put 'Fusion Icon.' In the command field put fusion-icon. When the icon loads on reboot, right click on it. Go to Compiz Options. If you have an Nvidia card select, 'Loose Bindings' and 'Indirect Rendering.' If you want to try Emerald, make sure to select it in the options.

Webcam There are some guides that talk about how to get this to work, but my webcam worked out of the box with Gutsy. I use kopete and amsn. Sudo apt-get install amsn kopete libjasper-runtime Biometric Finger Print Reader The m1330 can also be configured with a fingerprint reader. There’s a Ubuntu guide. I’ve been told that fprint is much better. I’m gonna try it soon and post and see.

Dell Award Winning Support I was almost seduced by my friend Lemon to the dark side (Mac), but Dell’s award winning support is why I have a Dell. I dropped my computer last week on a Wednesday night.

Dell had support here on Friday night to put in a new LCD. Gotta love Dell. When Dell asks for your service tag number, resist the temptation to turn the computer upside down. Yes, it weighs less than 4lbs.

But, really this suggests Now that’s just cool! Sudo dmidecode -s system-serial-number Suspend & Hibernation Suspend and Hibernation are just buggy in linux. After much work, I have it working perfectly. It just requires a bit of tweaking. Sudo gedit /etc/default/acpi-support Change the following # Note that network cards and USB controllers will automatically be unloaded # unless they’re listed in MODULESWHITELIST MODULES='uvcvideo' # Should we attempt to warm-boot the video hardware on resume?POSTVIDEO=false # Should we save and restore state using VESA BIOS Extensions?SAVEVBESTATE=false # Add services to this list to stop them before suspend and restart them in # the resume process.

STOPSERVICES='networking' That should make everything work perfectly. Brilliant article. As really helped me get my feet wet with linux. I have same laptop but can’t seem to get the mic working at all. Am i doing something wrong? I have fiddled with the settings but to no avail.

Regards, Matt. You want to click on that volume icon.

Go to properties and check everything in every section. Then, by the process of elimination, you’ll find which one is the microphone. Microphone works perfectly.

I have to update this in the next few days to include pulseaudio stuff. Pulse audio rocks. EDIT: I included the exact instructions on the latest edit of the blog. I installed Kubuntu Hardy with the new KDE4 interface, and sadly I was underwhelmed because there is still a lot of stuff missing. KDE3 is still in the Kubuntu repositories and I installed the ubuntu-desktop meta-package to get the standard ubuntu desktop along with the Kubuntu desktop. I like Hardy as well, and I am thrilled with the new features in Gnome such as merging directories in Nautilus. My only gripe is that I wish Compiz was disabled by default as my Nvidia card doesn’t work well with it even with hardware acceleration turned on.

“blacklist video” is not an adequate solution for the fn brightness keys, because it causes other, more serious video problems, at least on my laptop (low-end xps m1330, integrated intel graphics). “blacklist video” is not an adequate solution for the fn brightness keys, because it causes other, more serious video problems, at least on my laptop (low-end xps m1330, integrated intel graphics).

Thanks – didn’t realize that “this” was a link. 2nd question. On the Dell site, the default wireless card is listed as a Dell 1395, not a 1505. The bcmwl5 driver did not work for me. Is there another driver I could use?

Note also that the ubuntu 7.10 which came pre-installed from Dell uses an ipw3945 driver, which shows up under Restricted Drivers. It worked fine out of the box, but I had to do a clean install because this is a work laptop and our company requires full-drive encryption – so I use the alternate 64-bit iso and encrypt the entire drive with dmcrypt/LUKS (which, btw, is far superior in my mind to Windows encryption schemes which my workplace enforces). I would love to just pull off whatever I need to do to get that ipw3945 driver working on a clean install of 8.04 just as it did under 7.10. Dell support wasn’t too helpful as they didn’t like it that I immediately changed the configuration. Thanks again – very helpful instructions here. Regarding my comment above for my wireless setup. The device is actually an Intel Corp.

PRO/Wireless 3945ABG and uses the iwl3945 driver by default under Hardy. I was updating my home wireless router anyway and with a Linksys WRT160N router (802.11n, but connects using 801.22b), the iwl3495 driver works perfectly out of the box without resorting to ndiswrapper.

The only downside of the driver and/or network-manager is that it evidently could not switch to the old 802.11b protocol with my old 802.11b wireless router. Thanks for these tips, many of them proved very useful 🙂 As for my wireless, it somewhat started working after I installed automatic updates (as in the wireless was recognized and can detect different networks around), but still I can’t connect (I think I may be just setting something incorrectly though, because when I created a network on my laptop, I could connect to it successfully from another laptop). Anyway, there’s another issue I’m still having, which wasn’t covered above. When I plug in my SanDisk memory stick nothing happens. I read at some other site to check whenever there appears an additional /dev/sd. device, but no change happening there, there are just the usual sd1+ hdd/partitions. Thanks for these tips, many of them proved very useful 🙂 As for my wireless, it somewhat started working after I installed automatic updates (as in the wireless was recognized and can detect different networks around), but still I can’t connect (I think I may be just setting something incorrectly though, because when I created a network on my laptop, I could connect to it successfully from another laptop).

Anyway, there’s another issue I’m still having, which wasn’t covered above. When I plug in my SanDisk memory stick nothing happens. I read at some other site to check whenever there appears an additional /dev/sd. device, but no change happening there, there are just the usual sd1+ hdd/partitions. I never was able to get my wireless to work apart from the use of ndiswrapper. I look forward to it working out of the box in later additions of Ubuntu. It finds, but doesn’t connect.

Admittedly, I haven’t taken the time to play with it to make it work out of the box. It works with ndiswrapper. As for the SD card, mine works. I never was able to get my wireless to work apart from the use of ndiswrapper. I look forward to it working out of the box in later additions of Ubuntu.

It finds, but doesn’t connect. I have been pretty careful to only use the package manager for installs and updates and the iwl3945 wifi driver works great for me in all but a few instances. I have taken it on the road, connected in cafes, libraries, motels, The only problem I had was with my original old linksys router see post above Once I updated that to an 802.11n router all was fine (it connects as 802.11g). I also had a no connect in one airport. So although not perfect I think it’s close. THANKS SO MUCH! Got my 1330 about a month ago and had been fiddling with a lot of this (Hardy x64) for about two weeks.

Found this site, and now everything seems to be working much better. The only issue i’m still having is with extended displays (laptop and a 19″ dell lcd) on either the vga or hdmi. I can get the external working as a clone of the laptop, but I cant get both working in extended mode. BTW, I have my vista running inside of virtualbox on top of my hardy while it is marginally slower, I love having my work OS (Vista biz) running on something mature, stable and reliable. Hi, I’m using the ndiswrapper, it seems like its OK, but my wireless still not working It was using the proprietary driver “wl”, but its the most strange thing ever Just connects to my router without ANY cripto and if I try to use SSH under this connection it won’t work. =( I did the steps using the driver “bcmwl5.inf” but didn’t work. I boot my machine using Win Vista (snif) and found that it uses the driver “bcmwl6.inf”.

So I got it and did the same steps using this driver. Now the ndiswrapper tell me that the hardware is present, but I boot my machine and I don’t have any wireless ndiswrapper -l bcmwl6: driver installed device (14E4:4315) present (alternate driver: wl) Any ideas?

My XPS M1330 has the: Dell Wireless 1395 WLAN Mini-Card Thank you very much! Great article!!!

THANKS SO MUCH! BTW, I have my vista running inside of virtualbox on top of my hardy while it is marginally slower, I love having my work OS (Vista biz) running on something mature, stable and reliable. Cheers Mo Mo, I would love to know how you got Vista running in a virtual machine. The only way I can figure to do this is with a complete reinstall inside the virtual machine, but if there is some way to just run the install already in the other partition (dual boot), I would rather do that. Can you point me to an explaination? Thanks, Babs. As unique as Apple’s Cinema display might be in the world of 19″ to 21″ flat panel displays, it shares the same LG.Philips panel as the Dell UltraSharp 2005FPW.

There happens to be only a single panel manufacturer capable/willing to mass produce wide screen, high resolution flat panel displays for the PC market. Since these two displays are so similar, we thought it only necessary to review both side by side. Several sources have claimed that the 2005FPW had numerous discoloration problems and generally poor image quality. Obviously, if one of our displays demonstrates imperfections, we would expect to see both displays to be flawed. However, the Dell and Apple displays utilize different backlights, so we are open to the thought that there will be some dissimilarities between the units. Let’s take a closer look at our 20″ displays.

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It should work perfectly from there on. Does the WiFi catcher still work? Uploader: Date Added: 16 April 2014 File Size: 14.43 Mb Operating Systems: Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/2003/7/8/10 MacOS 10/X Downloads: 76210 Price: Free.Free Regsitration Required It seems to be a known bug in the Nvidia driver. Make sure its not muted. With the Nvidia xsp, it’s almost as good as with Vista. Is the backlight control automatic when you go to battery mode?

It should work perfectly from there on. Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device rev 05 Seems that the STA driver dell xps m1330 ubuntu not work so the other one should. Intel Corporation Unknown device rev 61 lspci -n Seems like their is still m330 bug regarding the internal mic: One thing you can do, rather than reboot Results 1 to 5 of 5. DELL XPS M1330: GPU temps lower under Ubuntu?

If you don’t dell xps m1330 ubuntu sound after a reboot, edit the sound preference, and look for the “Front” volume option. That will cause a different kernel to be loaded after resuming, which may lead to problems. Namely, only when ubungu computer is turned off or in suspend. Do the media buttons work and it is just sound that isn’t working or do they not respond at all? Join Date Jan Beans 1. Broadcom Corporation Unknown device rev 02 0c: But I have some little display problems the Network manager icon is not entirely displayed from time to time and the graphic acceleration is slow. Always shutdown or reboot after upgrading the kernel or initrd.

Upon the initial boot into Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device rev 12 I had this same problem dating back to Jaunty. With Nvidia proprietary drivers. In dell xps m1330 ubuntu to get wireless working, I have to start Ubuntu, put the physical wireless switch into the off position, restart the computer, and then put the switch back into the on position. Ubuhtu 3rd, 5.

InstallingUbuntuOnADellXPSM – Ubuntu Wiki Bookmarks Bookmarks Digg del. It is clearly a bug, but I can’t figure out where it is. Hibernate worked when I first tried it. Didn’t try it with a N AP though.

The time now is April 30th, 1. Once I restarted it was back Broadcom B43 is the one. Then, after ubuntu boots, hit Alt-F2 brings up the run screen and enter the following command: I have my own wifi network, which works with all the other Ubuntu Dell xps m1330 ubuntu around me.