Dell Inspiron 1525 with the Broadcom wi-fi, VGA, HDMI, S-Video, Memory card slot, 3GB RAM and no display panel. I was left this years ago and decided to plug it in, turned out it was just the screen (cable) so I removed it to allow the machine to be propped out of trampling position (cats!) but still be accessible whilst I experimented with it.Now running Linux Mint 17.3 64-bit Cinnamon edition; may change to KDE when available with LM18Set up as a file-server, media centre and very capable workstation, connected to amplifier and via S-Video to TV as secondary display (17“ Asus as primary). All works well except built-in bluetooth (which DID work with LM17.3 32-bit Cinnamon) so need to find drivers. Very responsive and rarely encounter problems; plays videos instantly and stable for weeks even with many running processes/open browser tabs etc.System basics:RAM 3GBCPU 1833MHzHDD 250GBDISPLAYSVGA Asus 17” LCDS-VIDEO Philips 32“ widescreen CRTHDMI None connectedAUDIO3.5mm via centre port to amplifier - excellent quality.LVM partition with separate / /home /swap volumes; NTFS data partition.

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I originally bought a Dell Inspiron 1525 with Ubuntu pre-installed. I replaced it with Linux Mint 13 after a few years, and all worked fine, including playing videos and music. Then recently the screen stopped working so I bought a second-hand laptop, same model, but with double the RAM and HDD. I installed Linux Mint 17.2 and it works well, except that it will not easily playback videos. Totem crashes immediately, and if run from CLI gives an error:“inteldoflushlocked failed: Input/output error”If I try to run VLC it also crashes, but from CLI it works and can play videos. But I cannot play a video from the file manager, i.e. Double-click on video file and it should play, but instead the window appears briefly then dies.

I have tried setting totem or VLC as default video player, same problem each time.Any ideas on how to get videos working?Graphics controller is “VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (primary) (rev 0c) (prog-if 00 VGA controller)”. Dell also supply an Avermedia nanoExpress TV card for the 1525.What they don't tell you and go out of their way to prevent you finding out is that thisis a crippled device that does not provide the functions the card avermedia sellsthemselves despite Dell advertising as such. The card only appears to work with MS Windows/Vista and does NOT record in mpeg-2 and there is no provision for enabling it to do so.

Installing Linux Mint On A Dell Inspiron 2200 Lately, I've read forum posts and blog comments from people who are still convinced that installing Linux involves messing around with the command line at every turn, that dependency hell when installing software will ruin your Linux experience and that wireless just doesn't work. This is a compatibility guide to running Linux with the Dell Inspiron 15 laptop. This page is just for discussing using Linux on the Dell Inspiron 15. For a general discussion about this laptop you can visit the Dell Inspiron 15 page on LapWik.

It only provides the unacceptable windows media formats.Avoid this device and avoid Dell. They can't be trusted. I certainly will never buy from them again.

I was quite successful using the Dell ISO DVD located here: on the DellLinuxWikiI now have a dual-boot, Windows Vista Ultimate/Dell Gnome Ubuntu and my final rendition is a composite of the above Dell Gnome Ubuntu ISO DVD, Ubuntu Studio ISO DVD for 9.04 and a back-processed amaroK from 2.0 to 1.4.Ubuntu Studio 9.04After using the Ubuntu Studio ISO DVD I had some audio issues show up, so I 'reused' the Dell ISO DVD, but didn't complete a re-install, justed booted up from it. The drivers apparently auto-reinstalled during the process of booting from the Dell ISO, at least for me they did.amaroK on Gnome/Ubuntu 9.04There are also issues with amaroK 2 and either Gnome or Ubuntu 9.04, for those wanting to use it for vast music libraries like I have. I also didn't like the amaroK 2 UI, and found this link:Amarok 1.4 in Jaunty (Ubuntu 9.04) for reverting back to amaroK 1.4 which works and looks better IMO.Cheers,Varenne. I also have an Inspiron 1525. I use the Xubuntu 8.10 with Linux 2.6.28.3, the latest kernel.I was really bugged by the touchpad clicking on it's own when moving the cursor, so I tried a few things (most suggestions didn't work).Happily, it is now annoyance free with MaxTapTime set to zero by running “synclient MaxTapTime=0” on startup.

I had to apt-get synclient though.There may be other settings, but this is the final step:Click the XFCE / Xubuntu menu Settings Manager Autostarted AppsClick Add, and put in the command “synclient MaxTapTime=0” (without quotes).What didn't work was messing with X. The touchpad wasn't even mentioned in “xorg.conf”.Reportedly, X isn't even used for handling the touchpad for this latest update.But hopefully this will help some people out there. Bought the laptop w/ kubuntu 7.x. At the time, 8.04 was released, so I tried to upgrade.

Totaaly fail, and computer would not boot. (guess one shouldn't blame Dell for that)Since I'm a (proud?) SuSE user for 10+ years now, I tried 10.3 w/o luck: the LAN card was not working, so I had to wait (w/ Kubuntu 7 installed) for a month or so.Now SuSE 11.0 runs smoothly: no problems installing anything. After 2 months, with all updates and so on, everything's fine. Or is it?I do have a problem w/ suspend to disk (it seems suspend to RAM does not work at all):- there's 50% chance of not having keyboard on resume (workaround: keep pressing CapsL or other key while waking-up. Another workaround: the mouse still works, try to create another X session, then on the login screen switch back)- upon restore (wake up from resume to disk), wireless network does not start (this time no workaround: all you can do is click on KnetworkManager and keep clicking on the wireless network which shows, but you cannot connect to. Sometimes, editing the current wireless network setting -but do not change anything- helps).

Fedora 8 + Inspiron 1525Only slight problems, which I think are now under control (Fedora 8, kernel 2.6.24).Wireless with iwl3945 worked out off the box.Sound playback worked right away, sound recording required some fumbling with a config file, Google was my friend (it's a couple weeks ago, forgot the details, sorry!).Hibernating worked immediately, suspending caused little problems, which are now solved. Problem first: upon resuming, the screen was all garbled. This could be helped by going to a virtual terminal (ctrl-alt-f1, say), then back to X (ctrl-alt-f7).

However, ctrl-alt-fn (1=1.6) blanked the screen, the virtual terminals don't work. Or so it seems, anyway: When I key in username, password, and a command (say top), then go back to the graphics screen and run “ps -ae” in a terminal, then I see that my program there is running. More dramatic: rebooting from the invisible virtual terminal (/sbin/reboot) actually worked!I then played around with the quirks given invbestaterestore works (I'll post it there, as well, so it might go into a new hal-info release).

I have a new Dell Inspiron 7559 laptop running Windows 10 which requires an external DVD drive. I have tried to install Ubuntu versions 12.02, 14.04, and 15.10 with no luck. When I try to boot from the disk image in UEFI mode the process comes to a halt midway through. If I try to boot using the legacy mode, then the installer does not find the Windows OS. Since I want a dual boot system, I exit from the process here. Also, the installer does not find the Wi-Fi link.

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Does anyone know the source of this problem? I theorize that It could be that Ubuntu is not Windows 10 savvy, or that the installer cannot use the internal hardware as this is a very new design. I am having the same issue with the exact same model.

Dell Inspirion 15 7559 with 6th gen intel i7, nvidia geforce gtx 960m.Will post if successful.(Be sure to read everything below this line.)EDIT: Got it workingSo the problem is with the new processor architecture not being fully supported by this version. (6th gen Intel requores Linux 4.3.) Here is anew article explaining why and how to fix it in a less concise way:Here's what you do:.when grub shows up, press 'e'. There should be a line starting with linux, add the word nomodeset to the end of this line. This is a kernel parameter, google it if you want to learn more.You will have to repeat step 1. When the installation completes and the system reboots.Choose option 1 or option 2.OPTION 1:.

Do the system updates and activate drivers for the NVIDIA 960.OPTION 2. Make it permanant, use default drivers:. modify /etc/defaults/grub so that GRUBCMDLINELINUXDEFAULT includes nomodeset:GRUBCMDLINELINUXDEFAULT='quiet splash nomodeset'. run $ sudo update-grub in the command promptEDIT: fix update-grub commandEDIT: Addendum: After installing updates and activating the 3rd party drivers for nvidia, I was able to remove nomodeset from the boot parameters, so making nomodeset permanent is probably unwanted ^^.Final Edit: I now have the installation working perfectly. In addition to the steps I listed above, you also need to disable secure boot in the BIOS.

If you do not disable secure boot, Windows will override the bootloader and prevent ubuntu from installing.I ran into an issue where I had installed Ubuntu, could see the partition, but it wouldn't boot after I had started Windows 10 once. After turning off secure boot, I ran boot-repair from a usb running ubuntu, which fixed the boot loader and WIndows hasn't overriden it again. I can also use linux without having it plugged in, which was an issue in the past installation, probably related to secure boot. (NOTE: There is an option at the top level of the UEFI menu to turn secure boot off and revert to legacy bios, do not choose this option.

There is another menu where you can configure these independently of each other.). My Dell is an Inspiron 7559. I have tried Ubuntu 12.02, 14.04, and 15.10. If I try booting off the disk in default mode, then the install ultimately stops dead.

If I try booting in legacy mode, then it doesn't see the Wi-Fi card, or Windows. Recently, I disabled hibernation and fast boot in Windows 10 and then tried using the standard UEFI/Secure Boot. The disk started to be read, but then stopped as before. I believe that the BIOS has an option for 'Intel Smart Response'. Does anyone know if that could be the problem?–Oct 31 '15 at 12:51.