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Operating Systems Linux Ubuntu Driver problem with Ubuntu 10.10 Post 302497913 by Corona688 on Friday 18th of February 2011 11:07:10 AM
Old 02-18-2011
There's no "dell driver" for all dell past, present, and future, we need to know what your laptop is. Laptops have especially strange arrangements of hardware because of how cramped they are; often needing model-specific fixes and their own special drivers, not the generic ones. This is often true even in Windows.

Ubuntu has a lot of tuning to accommodate known hardware, but it doesn't know everything; Dell doesn't ship with Linux fixes the way it ships with Windows ones, they have to do it the hard way, themselves. You've lucked out with HP before but that was just luck: my HP's sound didn't work out of the box... In short: You can't expect Ubuntu to be spot-on perfect on hardware they haven't had a chance to test on.

If you can access IRC you could login to freenode and ask on the #alsa channel, I've found them especially helpful for linux sound problems. They knew settings right-off that'd take me weeks to stumble on with google.
 

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what-patch

WHAT-PATCH(1)						      General Commands Manual						     WHAT-PATCH(1)

NAME

       what-patch - detect which patch system a Debian package uses

SYNOPSIS

       what-patch [options]

DESCRIPTION

       what-patch examines the debian/rules file to determine which patch system the Debian package is using.

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OPTIONS

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SEE ALSO

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