Posts Tagged “Dell D630”

Upgraded my Dell D630 to 4GB RAM

That was quick: Order placed with Crucial yesterday afternoon around 1.30pm for 2 sticks of 2GB RAM. UPS guy called this morning at 11.30am with RAM. Dell D630 laptop upgraded to 4GB RAM with the help of this tutorial. Only took about 20 minutes, although unscrewing and removing the keyboard was a bit nerve wrecking. [...]

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HOWTO: Ubuntu desktop visual effects on Dell D630

The Dell Latitude D630 comes with a number of different video cards but if you use the Intel chipset you may be frustrated when trying to activate the visual effects eye candy of Compiz: Checking either of the lower two options brings up this alert saying, “Desktop effects could not be enabled”. I didn’t bother [...]

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Ubuntu WiFi problems on the Dell D630 laptop

Wireless networking was always a bit patchy for me on my Dell Latitude D630 while running Ubuntu Gutsy version of Linux. It would work fine for ages and then freeze up suddenly, requiring a hard reboot to get things working (Apache would become unkillable, I guess because it was attached to the broken Wireless networking [...]

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Ubuntu Gutsy on the Dell Latitude D630

I previously documented my problems with Ubuntu and the DVD in the D630 but the upgrade to Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy From Feisty went almost painlessly. All the packages downloaded and installed through the nice GUI front end. I was able to work away while they downloaded and for most of the time during install too, [...]

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Ubuntu Linux on Dell D630: the DVD

Getting the DVD drive working in Ubuntu Feisty on my Dell D630 laptop was one of the tasks that eluded me until a few minutes ago when I went searching again and found the solution. At first I tried this and used the ide-generic driver. Linux recognised the drive, but as the page above says, [...]

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