** Description changed: Updated: Used with live cd of Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron and Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 4 Intrepid Ibex Dell Inspiron 8000 Hardware graphics adapter support ATI Mobility M4 Display corruption rendering fault some hardware info (not complete) - Dell Inspirion - PIII mobile 900\700Mhz speedstep, mmx - 20 Gigbyte HDD + Dell Inspirion 8000 + Processor: Intel PIII mobile 900\700Mhz speedstep, mmx + Bus speed: 100 Mhz + Chipset: Intel 815E + Harddrive controller: Ultra ATA 100 + Harddrive size: 20 Gigbyte + Harddrive speed: 4200 rpm + Harddrive interface: Ultra ATA 66 ATI Mobility 128 M4 AGP 4X 16 MBytes RAM graphics adapter - 256 Mbyte RAM + Memmory: 256 Mbyte SDRAM + Max capacity: 512 MByte + Joystick mouse + mousepad 3 Com 10\100 Mbyte ethernet Mini PCI MIC. RJ 45 connector # Com 56K Modem Mini PCI. RJ11 port 2 USB 1.1 ports, INTEL 82801BA\BAM USB Universal Host Controller Dockstation contat - PCMCIA slots for PCMCIA cards 2 slots + PCMCIA slots for PCMCIA cards 2 slots of witch 2 Type II or 1 Type III 1394a Firewire \ ILink mini connector ESS Maestro PCIAudio \ ESS Technology Inc. 3 Audio In\Out puts: mic, line in and headphone jacks PS2 Keyboard \ Mouse port VGA display port - TV out connector + TV out connectorz Toshiba DVD 4x rom drive Floppy 3.5 inch drive 15 inch LCD display + Maximum LCD resolution: 1400 x 1050 Seriell Com port Paralell LPT1 port Infrared port Special function keys for volume and playback Function key for using normal keys as special keys for example screen brightness suspend and bios enter commands. I expected Ubuntu to load normaly and be able to recognize the graphics adapter without any problems since this is an old adapter this should not be a problem since both new and old hardware should work with it anyway. Mobile drivers are not as common as desktop variants but today laptops are outselling desktops in most segments.I dont know what kind of experience Ubuntu would have given me on this old low spec hardware since the live cd may not have given it justice though i know that it would become e wasrte if it isn't possible to use it. It is realy loud and flaming hot but it could work as some kind of server or backup to my other computers. Sure I'am mostly interested to know that it can work rather than that i need it to work still support would be a great thing. Under the Safe Graphics mode Ubuntu seem to be able to desplay the desktop correctly though not at full size\rezolution. Rez 800x600 pixel What happened under the live cd was that the screen was corrupted with scewed desktop where it was wrongfully positioned and where it look like having a part of two desktops on one screen overlapping each other, though in reality and after investigation the screen were shopped up into three diffrent fields and then thrown around so that when the pointer moved from one field to another the pointer might appear on a diffrent part of the screen. The fields were not equaly sized there were two-three bigger ones and one-two smaller ones. The CD was working very hard all the time as well as the CPU and many times the computer seemed to freeze though this could be just the poor performance of the live cd when i ran the hardware test in Gnome to send you a report witch i decided would be easier to write by myself instead since it just didn't finish. It is very hard to get a feel for Ubuntu when things dont work or just barely works thus I want to say that improvements of the live CD is welcome. Also the loading screen of Ubuntu have a progress bar that moves back and forth this isnt realy any helpfull since you dont have any visual clues about how much is left in the loading process the same goes for when scanning hardware in the hardware test. Testing with Ubuntu 8.10 Appha 4 Intrepid Ibex: I've now tried using the computer with Intrepid Ibex and some improvement seem to have been made. For starters This is probably a combination of improvements to ATI drivers and the design of X.Org. The result is not the same for the live CD and when Ubuntu is installed through Wubi. Why this is I don't know. Crashes with Intrepid Ibex Alpha 4 under live CD wasn't able too boot all the way to GDM nor to the Ubuntu loading screen, This was displayed: Version number of Busybox and then ash and something called Initramfs and a promt to write commands. When Intrepid Ibex Alpha 4 was installed with Wubi several errors appeared during boot up if this is the result of the unstable Alpha 4 or the physical CD I don't know. Though the praphical boot up could finish I noticed screen coruption during the Ubuntu boot screen where the progress indicator was duplicated and\or half visible on other places than the right one. It (the screen) seemed to flash more than before with the Ubuntu 8.04 stable version. Though the graphics has slightly improved pointing devices has actualy worsend since Ubuntu 8.04. Under the Intrepid Ibex Alpha 4 neither the laptops keyboard pointing stick or mousepad worked neither could an USB HID compliant wired mouse from A4Tech with 2 wheels and 3 buttons I tried. The sound did not work out of box with Ubuntu 8.04 we need to test this as well though it should be filed under a new bug that can be linked to this one. Haven't tested the IR port or the docking station since I don't own one. I will continue to report findings with later versions of the Alphas and Betas during the test up to release. I suspect though that my CD\DVD drive might be damaged and might not work properly or that my CD Burner not quite burns good images of the ISO files so if anyone else can help test this bug, it wont depend only on my findings. Cheers Peter
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