Comments on: Ubuntu Linux on DELL Inspiron 6000

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 23:07:14 +0000

I have a dell inspiron 6000 and am running ubuntu 8.04 hardy heron and so far it seems to be working well. One of the only problems I have is that the video wont seem to display 3d graphics very well, at least google earth. the refresh rate drops to like 1. Other than that, it seems to be working ok. I havnt pushed it and try to make it crash or lock up. I was looking for proprietary driver for the intel graphics chipset, if anyone knows where I can get it. Thanks

By: JAM

JAM — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 11:34:02 +0000

Tried for several years on my wifeś inspiron 6000. Could not get it to work no matter what distribution. Last week I purchased a Netgear PCMCIA and it worked well with knetworkmanager. I will use the command you listed ¨ENABLED=1
OPTIONS=”-D ipw -i eth1 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -Bw” this evening.

By: Kush

Kush — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 21:28:12 +0000

My network card is not working at all.

I tried Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Fedora KDE.

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Thu, 30 Nov 2006 02:21:33 +0000

[...] Somebody didn’t do very good research. There’s even a whole website dedicated to how various Linux distros run on various laptop brands. Take my favorite distro, Ubuntu (yes, I know, but I like it), on my laptop — a Dell Inspiron 6000. There are multiple reports of it working great, and not a single one to the contrary. In fact, even the media buttons on the front work (they don’t in Windows… wow!) There goes that excuse, onto the next. [...]

By: Johannes

Johannes — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 12:49:20 +0000

Did the TV-out work?

By: Martin Henze

Martin Henze — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 10:37:39 +0000

@nick: The Ubuntu Wiki has a nice article about your question.

By: nick

nick — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 20:16:01 +0000

Well, I am also interested in installing Ubuntu on my Dell laptop. But I am new to the Linux OS. Can you please tell me if installing linux affects my Windows XP already installed on the laptop. Also, how do I create partitions of my only C: drive..

thanks,

By: Martin Henze

Martin Henze — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 13:35:57 +0000

I managed to get my Inspiron's SD-card reader running, read here.