Oded Arbel wrote: > On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 16:49 +0300, Ravid Baruch Naali wrote: > >>> What about (in decreasing order of importance) >>> * wireless networking ? >>> >>> >> Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN >> Mini-PCI Card >> Using it anywhere around the house. >> > > Did it work for you out of the box ? I use a broadcom based PCMCIA > wireless card and I had to manually extract the firmware from the > windows driver package in order to get it to work. > You right I forgot I had to replace some stuff, but the following link made it very easy, with only one addition I needed to remove my older bcm43xx manually: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=297092 > >>> * sound support ? What type of chipset is the laptop using - in the past >>> I had some issues with sound under MBs with ICH8, specifically low sound >>> quality and the inability to turn off the speakers when attaching >>> headphones. >>> >>> >> Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition >> Audio Controller >> > > AFAIK new computers come with ICH8. I would love to hear some success > stories from people who have ICH8 on their laptops and do not have sound > problems. > Not an expert on this devices, but it works. > >> Listening to music using skype. >> > > Skype ?!? > Yes I'm using skype, and had some calls to and from Korea, If I leave it on the desktop it tends to hang, but only the skype application and it doesn't happen when "iconizing" it. Computer never got Jammed. > >>> * Multimedia keys ? the Inspiron 6400 comes with quite a few of those >>> (http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=3089&review=Dell >>> +Inspiron+6400) >>> >>> >> Have them all never tried using them on Ubuntu >> > > Try to start the gnome shortcut manager, choose to edit some shortcut > you don't care about and hit a multimedia key. If it is supported, you > should see something in the shortcut column (possibly something like > "0xea"). If it doesn't work then you should see nothing changed. You'd > need to click on the shortcut again, to enter edit mode, after each time > it detects a key. > > I'd also be interested if you can check how the KDE shortcut manager > likes your multimedia keys. > I've only tested the KDE shortcut manager and X recognize all the multimedia keys > >>> * SD card reader ? >>> >>> >> Generic system peripheral [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 >> SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter >> > > Did you try it ? I'm not interested in the specific model - just if it > works. > I just used it to read my Cannon SD card, it got mounted like a flash, and photos are being copied as I write this lines. > >>> * S-Video output ? >>> >>> >> It's integrated in the display controller, also had no experience yet >> > > That's less important - just a nice to have. >
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