Dell D620 Laptop using Feisty Fawn 32-bit report
- Visuals: Works with 1440×900 native resolution works after installing 915resolution package
- Docking station works
- Hibernate works
- Dual head works. Dual head also works with 3d desktop using AIGLX (one caveat: the maximum texture size, which is a hardware limitation, is 2048×2048. This means the second head must be configured above or below so I can fit the screen in that. This would be the same on any 3d desktop supported operation system though, not just linux)
- Suspend works
- Wireless works after installing bcm43xx-fwcutter package
- Audio works
- Touchpad and blue knob on keyboard work
- All usb ports etc work
- Both processors work, and so does cpu scaling for battery life
- DVD / CDRW works
It is really cool to see Linux work so well out of the box on this system. My coworkers are amazed at how functional my trihead setup is (using laptop lcd, lcd hooked up to docking station, and a third workstation using synergy), and working with almost no effort this well reflects very nice for linux.
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#1 by Manfred Odenstein on May 22, 2007 - 9:13 am
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Hi,
could you please send me your configuration for suspend and/or hibernate, or better post in the ubuntu forums,
because I and other users with a D620 have problems with hibernate and suspend.
regards odi
#2 by Huygens on May 22, 2007 - 10:39 am
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Hy, nice summary, perhaps you could help the documentation team and update this page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/DellLatitudeD620
As I have a Dell D600 myself, I’m taking care to maintain the other counter-part page. It would be nice if you could update the above one too.
A few questions: do you manage to control the luminosity using the Gnome panel applet? There is such a bug on the D600 (see the issue section on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/DellLatitudeD600 about ACPI supports for LCD brightness is not yet supported) and it seems to affect all Dell laptop.
In case you are interested, I have found a solution (should be applicable to all Dell laptop having the problem): http://www.berthon.eu/wiki/foss:ubuntu:wikishelf:hal:feisty
With this solution, I manage to activate the “dim on idle” feature of Gnome Power Manager, which seems to save me a few minutes more of battery life
#3 by Travis on May 22, 2007 - 2:20 pm
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Actually, there is a way around the max texture size. We’ll probably soon have support for this in compiz. It’s not pretty (code) and not nearly as fast (but your root/desktop window doesn’t need a lot of speed) but at least it’ll work.
#4 by Dave Lay on March 25, 2009 - 7:05 pm
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Hi,
I just wanted to add my thanks to all of the people who have done such a great job with Ubuntu. I haven’t enjoyed using a computer so much since I owned a Commodore Amiga. So many of us are just end users who are limited in what we know or want to learn about systems. I have gotten more than a few of my friends interested in trying out Ubuntu and have been giving out copies of the disk. Once again thanks.