Steven Harms: Running Ubuntu on the Dell Latitude E4310

Today I installed Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat (10.10) Amd64 on a Dell Latitude E4310. The laptop itself is very nice, brushed metal type exterior.

Functionality:

• Graphics: Integrated intel card was detected, 3d effects enabled by default, all working smooth
• Disk: Disk was detected, and worked, although the GPT partition table prohibited the installer from working. To work around this, from the live cd I ran ‘dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M count=1′ and that nuked any traces of it, allowing the installer to work as expected. I do not multiboot, so you do not want to run that if you do.
• Wireless: Intel integrated wireless was detected. External wireless switch also functions as expected.
• Ethernet: Ethernet detected with e1000e driver, works as expected
• Function keys: Media keys adjust volume, mute etc as expected

All and all, a pretty smooth install. The laptop itself was configured with an i5 processor with Vpro, which is interesting to see 4 processors appear in ‘top’ on a laptop this small.

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