Dell Inspiron 6400 / 1505 Feisty install advice

[O. Sinclair]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 04/05/07, O. Sinclair <o.sinclair at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Have just done a clean sweep and installed my Dell Inspiron 6400 (also
>> model 1505 elsewhere) with Kubuntu 7.04 Feisty and just to tell those
>> who might be considering DO  NOT TRY without having access to this wiki;
>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=257684
>>
>> since X will not start after installation, that took me 3 reinstalls to
>> figure out. In Dapper & Edgy X would start with vesa drivers and though
>> not looking good would work until ATI drivers could be installed. No
>> such luck in Feisty for unknown reasons.
>>
>> But once all is installed and configured I really like Feisty, had good
>> experience on some desktops no-brand as well.
>>
>> Sinclair
> 
> Would you mind publishing more details about your script? I'm running
> Fedora Core 6 on my E1505 with the X1400, and I cannot enable 3D. What
> is your magic?
> 
I have not tried enabling 3D actually, I am happy with KDE as it is. But 
in the links supplied you will find plentiful discussions about getting 
Beryl to run mainly in Ubuntu but also Kubuntu and hopefully you can 
find something there.

good luck,
Sinclair