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16Mar/080

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

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8Mar/080

Howto setup Ubuntu with davfs

Short post.. :p

Want to mount your remote files using Webdav with Ubuntu ?
Try using the davfs2 package, usefull instructions for this purpose are here

This is an ideal solution for each webdesigner, webdeveloper with cPanel or other software that supports webdav.

UPDATE
I also installed the package "fusedav" ( using: apt-get instal fusedav ) and changed the davfs config
file to not use lock and changed the kernel_fs variable to fuse

UPDATE #2
With the instructions above, I still keep having troubles writing data to the dav shares. So if the above doesn't work right for you, I suggest you try sshfs, for me that works a lot better. Instructions for the use of sshfs with ubuntu can be found here