Feedback on the Dell Inspiron 17R (N7110)
The Dell Inspiron 17R is listed as "certified", suggesting that this machine works well with ubuntu. In fact, it does not. It is rather horrible to work with.
First of all, the system does not boot at all using the standard 11.10 or the current 12.04 live cd/usb. All you will see is a black screen with no further information. After some investigation, there seems to be a problem with acpi (http://
Second, my mobile-broadband usb device only works when plugged into the one usb 2.0 port. Using one of the usb 3.0 ports won't work, and you will see errors when looking at dmesg. This seems to be a common unresolved problem with some usb 3.0 controllers, as others seem to have trouble with their devices as well (https:/
Another problem is the Nvidia Optimus configuration. There is no support for linux, so you cannot use the Inspiron's nvidia graphics card. There is some experimental workaround called "Bumblebee", but I had no luck getting it to work.
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