Comments on: The Dell XPS m1210 — a mini review

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 07:23:47 +0000

I also am trying to upgrade from media center to xp pro and i am getting a blue screen. Anyone know what is going on and how to get past it. I have just decided to stick with Media center for now but I don’t like it. Media center seems to have some negative effect on some of my movie ripping and burning as well

By: Ubuntu Sugar Daddy

Ubuntu Sugar Daddy — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 14:00:40 +0000

Did anyone get gnome-compiz to work properly on this laptop? I tried but it freezes and the tittle bar disappears. LOL!

By: Vivek Sharma

Vivek Sharma — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 09:34:35 +0000

I recently purchased the DELL XPS1210, with the top of the line configuration. There is a definate problem with the inbuilt camera and Mike. The logitech Drivers clash with the intel sound (Sigmatel) Drivers, and the computer just goes blank after the windows logo during bootup. Maybe newer machines with Windows Vista may behave okay, but with version 9.5 of the Logitech drivers there is a problem, unless Dell or Logitech copme up with a solution. Thers even a problem with the newer 10.3-10.5 drivers, the machines remains unstable specially with Alcohol 120 and Daemon Tools. I got a replacement of my M1210 after 7 days of frustration with the Inspiron 6400 as in India they dont have the XPS 1210 without the Camera and Mike. The machine is very good but you have to disable the camera.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 07:25:59 +0000

Hey! I have the same laptop. I just purchased it a few days ago. I have had absolutely no problems with it and I’m in love. Working at a big electronics store I take alot of heat because of the rep dell has there, but I couldn’t be happier. Nice review! wouldn’t blame you for keeping it! My boyfriend tries to steal mine off me! haha ;D

- Rachel

By: VIvek

VIvek — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 22:47:14 +0000

Dude i have the same lappy and i made my friend uy one too the problem i am facing is after startup the screen just coes blank.. do u face the same problem?

By: TechFiz

TechFiz — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 23:10:33 +0000

Hi,

Try the drivers mentioned at

http://imaging.ugent.be/mr/Suse/suse-m1210.html

You will be able to play around with the cam

Regards,
Shiv

By: dmlachan

dmlachan — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 03:08:34 +0000

I have the M1210 with the built in web cam. Has anyone had or know of any issues with the built in web cam and linux?

By: NEERAJ

NEERAJ — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 22:09:38 +0000

I GOT THIS ONE BUT HAD PROBLEMS IT HANGED ON ME THEY REPLACED BUT THE SAME THING AS SOON AS I OPENED THE BOX.
I DONT HAVE OPTION TO WAIT FOR 30 DAYS TO CREDIT ME BACK AND AGAIN BUY ANOTHER.

SO I AM KEEPING THIS BUT THEY MADE ME HELP LESS BY NOT TO EXCHANGE THIS MODEL WITH ANYTHING THAT DOESNT HANG WHEN YOU OPEN THE BOX.

BUT TELLING YOU IT DID PISS ME OFF BUT THE LOOKS ARE AWESOME AND KEY BOARD JUST WAIT FOR YR FINGERS AND WHEN WE TYPE ITS LIKE SWEET CARESS.

I M IN LOVE WITH THIS BUT DELL POLICY IS BAD I HATED THAT.

PC IS COOL THOUGH.

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 15:15:50 +0000

hey i have a xps m1210 laptop and i want to upgrade from windows xp home to xp pro can some one tell me how i can do this, i have tried to do this but i keep get the blue screen message, which stops when it is going to install the operating system

By: adam

adam — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 18:17:50 +0000

wireless works fine for me with the smp kernel.

i’m having issues with suspend and hibernate, but other than that all of the hardware was functional and supported.

i got the optional nvidia graphics card, which requires the beta nvidia binary drivers (for Xgl)

the NetworkManager (wifi hotspot manager) doesn’t work out of the box, ahd to roll my own with –with-wpa-supplicant=/sbin/wpa_supplicant

got the usb camera, which works with linux uvc drivers, necessary modprobe is : usbserial vendor=0x413c product=0×8114

overall, very happy.