Dell Mini 12 W/ Ubuntu -- Question From Ron Swift

[Chuck Frain]

I'm not sure what happened but this message was caught as a bounce from the
mailing list. I just saw it and am forwarding it intact. It was originally
sent by Ron Swift

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ron Swift <rswift at swiftstaffing.com>
To: ubuntu-us-md-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:51:14 -0400
Subject: Dell Mini 12 w/Ubuntu

I purchased a Dell Mini 12 with Vista from Dell's  outlet site. I called
Dell and asked for their Ubuntu iso that they load on these units and was
told that they would not provide it. They suggested that I download the
latest ubuntu distro and install it. They also caution that if I did that I
would void my warranty since the machine was pre-installed with Vista.
After searching the Internet and seeing lots of posts where persons have
experienced problems installing 8.04, 8.10 and 9.04 alpha versions. The
suggested solution however was rather simple and it was to install Ubuntu
remix 8.04. Everything worked, wireless, bluetooth, camera and touch-pad
with no configuration. Video worked but it was suggested to upgrade Xorg
driver with the ubuntu-mobile PPA package to get full resolution 2D display.
Compix is not supported on this machine. Also, this system was extremely
slow with the remix interface so I switched to the traditional gnome
interface and it now runs great.
I thought that I would share my experience so that others could benefit.
Thanks

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Ron Swift
President
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