Dell Vostro 1000
| Hardware | PCI/USB ID | Working? |
|---|---|---|
| Ati Radeon Xpress | Yes | |
| Ethernet | Yes | |
| Wireless | Yes | |
| Audio | Yes | |
| Modem | Untested | |
| PCMCIA Slot | Untested | |
| Card Reader | Yes |
Problems
"Unknown Key Pressed"
- You may occasionally run across an error (occurring in an extremely high frequency) in your messages.log or dmesg:
atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0xee on isa0060/serio0). atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e06e <keycode>' to make it known.
- The fix for this issue is fairly simple. Power down your dell laptop, and reseat the battery.
- Another possible cause may be due to your AC adapter being unplugged from the outlet, yet attached to the back of your laptop.
- Yet another suggested fix for the problem is updating your BIOS.. but since this is an extreme measure (found on the ubuntu forums.. so take it with a grain of salt), try the first two solutions before moving on to this potentially dangerous measure.
High Temperature
After the installation you will see that the temperature is around 60°C (Too High). You can get the temperature through:
cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature
or
cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM/temperature
This is because the CPU frequency is at full usage always... so before continuing with the install process install cpufrequtils, you can see further details on Cpufrequtils
Note: Using lm_sensors 'sensors' utility, k8temp-pci-00c3 reports much more reasonable temperatures (more along the lines of what windows reports) compared to this Virtual Thermal Zone. No issues have been reported running without cpu scaling while on AC.
Xorg
Follow Xorg, Touchpad Synaptics and Extra keyboard keys.
Wireless
Follow Wireless network configuration and Broadcom wireless.
Resume not working after suspend to RAM
To workaround this issue edit the file
/boot/grub/menu.lst
and add the following to the kernel boot line:
hpet=disable