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Does the Dell laptop on the front-page support Ubuntu?

Asked by A. Bram Neijt

Seeing the Dell laptop on the front-page of ubuntu.com, I bought a Dell laptop thinking it would be supported by Ubuntu.

However, using the laptop with Ubuntu has not been a pleasant experience because the touchpad is very sensitive and there is no support for it in Ubuntu[1]. This means that I can not disable the touchpad while typing or disable the click on touch behaviour. This results in me clicking on things while I'm typing.

This leads to the question: does the laptop on the ubuntu.com front-page even support Ubuntu? Because it could be that I have bought the wrong version of the same laptop, but my fear is that the laptop shown on the front-page also has an ALPS touchpad and also is not supported by Ubuntu.

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux/+bug/550625

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

What is the model?

What is the output of:

lsb_release -a

Thanks

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A. Bram Neijt (bneijt) said : 		#2

For me it's
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.10
Release: 10.10
Codename: maverick

As the bug report shows, there is no version of Ubuntu available that supports the ALPS touchpad.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

What is the model of the system?

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A. Bram Neijt (bneijt) said : 		#4

My laptop is a Dell Latitude E6510. I do not know what the exact model on the front-page of ubuntu.com is.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

http://askubuntu.com/questions/14178/how-to-disable-touchpad-on-dell-latitude-e-series-e5510-e6510

May help some

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A. Bram Neijt (bneijt) said : 		#6

Ok, I guess I can conclude that the Dell laptop on the front page of Ubuntu has the same problems as I have. I think it's false advertising because you show me a laptop for which the hardware is not supported by Ubuntu.

For me it's settled. Answer: no, the Dell laptop portrayed on the front page of Ubuntu.com does not support Ubuntu.