On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 16:49 +0300, Ravid Baruch Naali wrote: > > What about (in decreasing order of importance) > > * wireless networking ? > > > Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN > Mini-PCI Card > Using it anywhere around the house.
Did it work for you out of the box ? I use a broadcom based PCMCIA wireless card and I had to manually extract the firmware from the windows driver package in order to get it to work. > > * sound support ? What type of chipset is the laptop using - in the past > > I had some issues with sound under MBs with ICH8, specifically low sound > > quality and the inability to turn off the speakers when attaching > > headphones. > > > Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition > Audio Controller AFAIK new computers come with ICH8. I would love to hear some success stories from people who have ICH8 on their laptops and do not have sound problems. > Listening to music using skype. Skype ?!? > > * Multimedia keys ? the Inspiron 6400 comes with quite a few of those > > (http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=3089&review=Dell > > +Inspiron+6400) > > > Have them all never tried using them on Ubuntu Try to start the gnome shortcut manager, choose to edit some shortcut you don't care about and hit a multimedia key. If it is supported, you should see something in the shortcut column (possibly something like "0xea"). If it doesn't work then you should see nothing changed. You'd need to click on the shortcut again, to enter edit mode, after each time it detects a key. I'd also be interested if you can check how the KDE shortcut manager likes your multimedia keys. > > * SD card reader ? > > > Generic system peripheral [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 > SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter Did you try it ? I'm not interested in the specific model - just if it works. > > * S-Video output ? > > > It's integrated in the display controller, also had no experience yet That's less important - just a nice to have. -- Oded ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
