Hardy Heron and the Dell Precision M4300 July 16th, 2008
Summary: it just works.
The full sensory experience of Linux on a Dell M4300: sound, vision and tinfoil-hat microwaves January 7th, 2008
Gutsy Gibbon on a Dell: almost everything has been fixed (edit: see Hardy Heron for absolutely everything being fixed).
DO NOT BEEP! August 29th, 2007
On both my work and home Dell laptops, the computer beeps at full volume when you change the sound settings. This has come close to shattering my eardrums on several occasions these past few days.
Bizarrely, if you open “Control Panel > System > Hardware > Device Manager”, and click on “View > Show hidden devices,” [...]
Laptop and Linux: the fixes for a Dell Precision M4300 August 28th, 2007
Getting a Dell Precision M4300 to work with a weird Feisty/Gutsy hybrid Ubuntu (edit: upgrading to Hardy Heron eventually fixed everything).
Dual-head on collision July 21st, 2006
One of the last tasks that moving to my new machine involves is to stretch the Ubuntu desktop across both of my monitors. Our sysadmin had very kindly set it up to work with the monitor card integral to the motherboard, so in principle I only had to tweak the configuration for X, the standard [...]