XPS

General Hardware Specifications of DELL XPS M1330:

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    Status under Linux
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  Works
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  No special procedure required during installation.
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  Works
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  Can be detective automatically during install.
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  Works
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  System will remind you to install restricted driver(automatically)
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  Works
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  No special procedure required during installation
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  Works
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  No special procedure required during installation
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  N/A
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  N/A
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  Works
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  No special procedure required during installation
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  N/A
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  N/A
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  Works
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  No special procedure required during installation
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  Works
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  Can search the available wireless signals automatically after installed
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  Works
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  No special procedure required during installation
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  Works
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  No special procedure required.
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  Support but didn&#8217;t test
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  I don&#8217;t know how to get connection with my cell phone.
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  Works (Only tested SD cards)
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  No special procedure required.
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Hardware Components

Intel Core 2 Duo T7300 2.0 GHz 4MB L2 Cache 800MHz FSB

13.3 UltraSharp(TM) WXGA (1280×800) CCFL TrueLife(TM)

NVIDIA GeForceTM Go 8400M GS with 128MB dedicated DDR3 graphics memory

2GB (2×1024) 667MHz dual channel DDR2 SDRAM

160GB (5400 RPM) SATA Hard drive

No Floppy Drive

Integrated Network Card

No Modem

8X CD/DVD burner (DVD+/-RW Drive)

Intel Next-Gen Wireless-N Mini card

56Whr Lithium Ion Battery (6 cell)

High Definition Audio 2.0

Bluetooth

Internal Digital Card Reader

This laptop is operating under Kernel version 2.6.22

Yesterday was a fantastic day, because I could run Ubuntu on my laptop. I had heard about Linux when I was in primary school. I tried to get one and use it, but always couldn’t achieve it. Sometime my parents didn’t buy it for me(the Internet was not that strong in that days), or sometimes I didn’t have a computer for my own use(if I installed Linux, others couldn’t use the computer), or most of the time my laptop didn’t support Linux.

Inatalling Ubuntu 7.10 beta on DELL XPS M1330

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