Dell Latitude D420

From Midtiby

Revision as of 11:59, 13 November 2008

Things I have done to get my laptop to work properly with Ubuntu.

Things that have been done (sixth installation)

1. Installed Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex from CD)
2. Installed firmware for my wireless network using System -> Administration -> Hardware Drivers
3. Installed adobe flash player and mediaplayer connectivity in Firefox.
4. Added the mediubuntu repository

   sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/intrepid.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list

   sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get update

5. Installed the following packages

   apt-get install kile mc vlc inkscape skype texlive-latex-extra xournal mnemosyne subversion vim-gtk htop knoda octave dolphin kubuntu-desktop kdirstat

Things that have been done (fifth installation)

1. Installed Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron from CD)
2. Installed firmware for my wireless network using System -> Administration -> Hardware Drivers
3. Installed the following packages

   apt-get install kile knoda xournal mnemosyne inkscape amarok vlc vim-gnome kde4 kphotoalbum mozilla-plugin-vlc subversion mc htop

4. Added the medibuntu repository [1]
5. Installed the following packages

   apt-get install skype dvipng sun-java6-plugin texlive-latex-extra texlive-latex-recommended akregator synce-multisync-plugin imagemagick

6. Tried to install MediaPlayerConnectivity [2] in Firefox, but that failed.

Things that have been done (fourth installation)

1. Installed Ubuntu 7.10RC (Gutsy gibbon from CD)
2. Installed some stuff

   apt-get install xournal

   apt-get install texlive

   apt-get install g++-3.4

   apt-get install mnemosyne

   apt-get install kdenlive

   apt-get install knoda

Ting der er gjort (tredje installation)

1. Installeret Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn fra CD)
2. Installeret sikkerhedsopdateringer
3. Tilpasset skaermoploesningen vha. at installere pakken "915resolution"

   apt-get install 915resolution

4. Installeret foelgende

   Kphotoalbum, sun java 5.0 runtime, htop, sun java 5.0 plugin, touchpad, inkscape, amarok, kile, kpdf, gvim, subversion, mc, vlc

5. Rodet med traadloest netvaerk

   echo "blacklist bcm43xx" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

   installeret Windows wireless drivers

6. Aktiveret Desktop Effects (under System -> Preferences -> Desktop Effects)
7. Skiftet til kubuntu

   apt-get install kubuntu-desktop

8. Tilfoejet et synaptic device i xorg.conf

   apt-get install tetex-extra

   apt-get install openssh-server

9. Installeret kwifimanager

   apt-get install knoda, xournal

10. Installeret noget vpn ting ...

Ting der er gjort (anden installation)

1. Installeret Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake fra CD)
2. Installeret sikkerhedsopdateringer
3. Opgraderet til Edgy Eft

   gksu "update-manager -c"

4. Aktiveret "universe" vha. synaptic
5. Tilpasset skaermoploesningen vha. at installere pakken "915resolution"

   apt-get install 915resolution

6. Installeret en raekke programmer vha. "Programmer" -> "Tilfoej / Fjern"

   KSudoku, digiKam, Amarok, Inkscape, KimDaBa, Wifi-radar,

   Kile, KSeg Geometry Sketchpad, Htop, KPDF,

   Sun Java 5.0 Runtime, Sun Java 5.0 Plugin

7. Installeret vim-gnome vha. synaptic
8. Tilsluttet en "Wacom Graphire 3" tablet

   Devicet virker med det samme naar kablet saettes i, men mappingen fra devicet til skaermen er forkert. Jeg proever at benytte beskrivelse fra [3]

   sudo apt-get install wacom-tools

   Rettet "/dev/wacom" til "/dev/input/wacom" i filen "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"

9. Installeret "Media player connectivity" (firefox extension)

   sudo apt-get install mplayer

10. Installeret forskellige codecs

    sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-gl gstreamer0.10-plugins-base

    gstreamer0.10-plugins-good gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse

    gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse libxine-extracodecs w32codecs

    sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop

    sudo apt-get install imagemagick tetex-extra kdvi dvipng kphotoalbum

11. Installeret mnemosyne [4]

    sudo apt-get install subversion gnuplot-x11 mc

    sudo apt-get install linux-686 linux-headers-686 linux-image-686

12. Rodet med traadloest netvaerk

    sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-common ndiswrapper-utils-1.8

    echo "blacklist bcm43xx" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

    sudo ndiswrapper -i /home/midtiby/.wine/drive_c/dell/drivers/R102318/bcmwl5.inf

    sudo rmmod bcm43xx

    sudo modprobe ndiswrapper

    sudo apt-get install automake1.9 libgtk2.0-dev libgnomecanvas2-dev libgnomeprintui2.2-dev

13. Installeret xournal [5]

    sudo apt-get install vlc

14. Indsat en linie i en config fil til gphoto2, se [6]

    sudo apt-get install kpowersave

15. Installeret TexText extension til Inkscape [7]

    sudo apt-get install pstoedit skencil

16. Installeret CurlFtpFs version 0.9 [8]

Ting der er gjort (foerste installation)

1. Installeret Ubuntu 06.04 (Dapper Drake) fra CD
2. Tilpasset skaermoploesningen vha. at installere pakken "915resolution"

   apt-get install 915resolution

3. Installeret Kubuntu vha. apg-get
4. Compileret ndiswrapper vha. guiden fra [9]

   Det traadloese netvaerk virker dog endnu ikke.

   Hentet ndiswrapper-1.23 og udpakket det

   sudo make

   sudo make install

   wget ftp://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R102318.EXE

   sudo ndiswrapper -i /home/midtiby/.wine/drive_c/dell/drivers/R102318/DRIVER/bcmwl5.inf

   sudo route add default gw 192.168.0.1

5. Installeret java til firefox

   Valgt "Linux (self-extracting file)" fra [10] og flyttet filen til /usr/local

   cd /usr/local

   sudo ./jre-1_5_0_06-linux-i586.bin

   cd /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/

   sudo ln -s /usr/local/jre1.5.0_06/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so .

6. Tilsluttet en "Wacom Graphire 3" tablet

   Devicet virker med det samme naar kablet saettes i, men mappingen fra devicet til skaermen er forkert. Jeg proever at benytte beskrivelse fra [11]

   sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-wacom wacom-tools

   Rettet "/dev/wacom" til "/dev/input/wacom" i filen "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"

Traadloest netvaerk

• Installationsvejledning fra Ubuntu [12]

Links

• Dapper Drake on a Dell Latitude D420 [13]
• WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx/Dapper [14]
• Review af en D420 (norsk) [15]