installing ubuntu 7.10 (gutsy) on a dell latitude d531
In this article I will try to describe some steps/hints to install Ubuntu Gutsy (7.10) on your Dell Latitude D531 machine and make all the interfaces work correctly.
Wireless
The DELL Wireless card needs the "ndiswrapper" package to function normally. Fully and detailed instructions about installing this can be found at:
http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Tech/Wireless/Truemobile_ndiswrapper
Video
For the ATI Radeon X1200 card that's inside the dell latitude d531 use the (un)official ati driver that you can download from the ATI Website. You can download the package here
Installing the ATI package is quit simple if you follow the next steps
1) first become root user or use sudo -s to make a root user session
[code]user@machine$ sudo -s[/code]
2) run the package
[code]sh ati-driver-installer-8-3-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/7.10[/code]
3) install the generated deb files
[code]dpkg -i *.deb[/code]
4) Stupidly enough, in most cases it still misses packages so the above command will fail after a while ( but SHOULD be run! ). So we install the needed packages using the following command
[code]apt-get -f install[/code]
5) Now run the command of step 3 again
6) Now reset the xorg.conf file using the following command
[code]aticonfig --initial -f[/code]
7) Now reboot and you got a fully working Xorg configuration and the GDM should be display
Audio
Install the audio package using:
[code]sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-generic [/code]
Reboot the system and the sound should work.
For further information check the following Ubuntu forum thread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=577586
