Thanks for the tip, although it unfortunately doesn’t seem to work. Plus, it seems to take away my desktop effects down with it.

to fix your brightness buttons, this helps:
Change the line in your /boot/grub/menu.lst from

# defoptions = quiet splash

into

# defoptions = quiet splash noapic

save it and run from a terminal window
sudo update-grub

Reboot, Done!
Ralfito

Anyone who says that Linux isnt user friendly should maybe think about taking lessons from my folks.

shibby:
here is my bugreport about the brightness issue. found a little but dirty workaround
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13689

Ta I’ll try this workaround soonish.
I’m not entirely sure, but I think fglrx is broken in Kubuntu 9.04

itbhp:
which plasma theme do you use? Very nice desktop settings.

That’s the Air plasma theme taken from SVN :: kdebase/runtime/desktoptheme/air

Psy:
wallpaper please

http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper_beta/details/1906/stabilis.html

netcelli:
Hey I just bought Dell studio 1555 too and installed Kubuntu 9.04. I noticed brightness usually works when adapter is plugged in.

For me it doesn’t.

Matt:
Hi, I’m planning on getting this laptop sometime in the future, and of course putting Ubuntu on it. If you had to remake the decision about getting this laptop, would you still get it? Or is there a better 15 inch laptop with a good resolution (1080p|1200p)? I (most likely) won’t be getting it until after Karmic comes out, so do you think the situation will be any better then? Thanks.

Well, if I’d be given the choice, I’d go for a HP dv series laptop. Although the resolution offered by it’s 15.4 screen is 1336×800

ethana2:
It would be interesting to know how many of your problems are KDE specific..

None Probably Ubuntu then…?

Ziv:
Thanks for this review;
Can you tell me which wireless card have you ?
And how does she works (Native , Ndiswrapper …)

04:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless WiFi Link 5100
Native (no ndiswrapper) and works fine when switched on from wicd..

Luca:
I don’t know about the first two problems, but on my Dell Inspiron you can change the Fn+F2 behaviour in the BIOS. Default was to switch on/off both bluetooth and wireless, which I changed to bluetooth only (NM-manager allows to disable the wireless card from inside Ubuntu, luckily).

I hope this helps.

Will try this out, thanks

I’ll answer all as soon as we finish up with the KDE Forum upgrade..