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January 20th, 2011 07:00
Ubuntu 10.10 or 10.4 on Latitude E6510
Hi folks,
I bought a refurb E6510 recently and I want to install Ubuntu 10.10 (preferred) or 10.4. THere have been numerous posts online regarding the black screen during bootup and even I have experienced the same. Dell / Ubuntu doesn't seem to really bother about fixing the intel drivers nor there is any adequate information online. Ubuntu site tells the users to go and check with Dell for the free installation CD (10.04 i believe) but Dell is not ready to send one to me. (They say purchase is required,which is stupid).
Has anybody succesfully installed Ubuntu 10.10 or Fedora 14 for that matter, on E6510? (Mine is i5/Intel HD graphics). If yes, can you please list the instructions or any tricks that were used. (Hitting F6, nomodeset etc did not work so far :(
Your help is appreciated..Thanks - and Dell, please listen to users and have a good Ubuntu installation ISO online.,so that users can download,burn and install seamlessly. For such a fantastic machine, its a shame that there is no good software drivers available.
toaster53
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January 21st, 2011 17:00
Not sure what you mean by "black screen during bootup". I have had problems with a blank screen when X is started (in other words after text mode or basic VGA) with my Nvidia card. The solution was to tell Ubuntu to use a safe Graphics mode during installation. How do you do that? Depends on how you boot. I usually install from a USB stick which I have prepared using netbootin. In that case, there is a screen that tells you how to modify the boot options for Ubuntu. Here, you add the following to the boot options line:
vga=771
Then you continue to boot. This should get Ubuntu installed on the hard disk. Once it is running, see if there are any hardware drivers available which should give you a faster driver.
Post the results-for the sake of other interested people.
didadi
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January 21st, 2011 22:00
Actually, I kind of figured it out...check this:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ux/+bug/600453
This is the bug we are hitting.I installed older kernel and it works like charm..(some minor quirks),but better than having blank screen.
2.6.36-rc4 is what is needed. Hopefully community (*WE*) will straighten this out. I'll try to do some testing as required by the patches that might come up.
Cheers
anunaki
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January 25th, 2011 09:00
10.10 works very well. Remember to press Esc right away as the CD starts up, and then F6, use nomodeset. Otherwise during the install you are likely to get a blank screen.
didadi
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January 25th, 2011 11:00
Tried 10.10 and it did not work. So i'm curios to know whats going on. Also, the intel-drm upstream kernel seems to have fixed the issue.
I'll try that tonite and see if it fixes my problem. (Still need to go back and forth using Ctrl-alt-fX keys.!