Ubuntu on my Dell Latitude D630

Last updated $Date: 2009-08-27 13:08:51 $

Martti Kuparinen <martti.kuparinen@iki.fi>

http://www.iki.fi/kuparine/comp/d630/

Abstract

This document show some interesting details of my Dell Latitude D630. I'm happily running Ubuntu 9.04 on this nice laptop PC.

See also:

• My Ubuntu Installation
• TuxMobil
• Linux on Laptops
• Ubuntu Laptop Testing Team

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Summary

3. Computer details

4. References

1. Introduction

I have a Dell Latitude D630 laptop PC at work. I installed the 32-bit version of Ubuntu 9.04 on it and replaced the generic kernel with the server kernel. The reason for installing server instead of generic kernel is that I want to access all 4 GB of RAM (instead of 3.x GB as detected without PAE) and have a fully functional system (i.e. I got tired of all those Adobe Flash related problems on the 64-bit version). Finally I installed addition software by following my own instructions.

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install linux-server
dpkg -l | awk '{print $2}' | grep ^linux | grep generic | xargs sudo dpkg -P
sudo reboot

2. Summary

3. Computer details

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
03:01.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. Cardbus bridge (rev 21)
03:01.4 FireWire (IEEE 1394): O2 Micro, Inc. Firewire (IEEE 1394) (rev 02)
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5755M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)
0c:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02)

4. References

• Bill Giannikos guide to Ubuntu on a Dell Latitude D630
• Nathan Sheffield's guide to Ubuntu on a Dell Latitude D630