[hemmerling] The Notebook "Dell Vostro 1000", with "ATI Xpress 1150" graphics card

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• Graphics card “ATI Xpress 1150”.

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• DELL - Drivers and Downloads.

• Error message #1 - when booting the notebook without the ( removable ) accumulator
  

WARNING: The AC adapter type cannot be determined. This will prevent optimal system performance. Please check AC adapter connect properly, remove AC adapter and plug-in it again, thanks.

Press Any Key to Continue
Press <f2> 2 times to enter SETUP
Press <f12> and Any Key to enter Boot Menu.

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• YouTube - Search for "Dell Vostro 1000 disassembly".

• Basics:
  • Language = English.
  • Format = Ireland ⇒ Disadvantage, clock is set to UTC for Ireland instead to UTC+1 for Germany .
  • Keyboard = German.
• Drive:
  • 2GB swap logical partition ( for a computer with 2 GB RAM! ), created at the “End” of the available space. Debian Linux suggests with “Guided partitioning” just 1 GB swapspace, in general. That's too small for a computer with very limited RAM.
  • 122 GB Ext4 primary partion.
• Install boot loader GRUB.
• “Software selection”.
  • [x] Debian desktop environment.
  • [x] GNOME.
  • [x] SSH Server.
  • [x] standard system utilities.
• Wifi is not detected .

• Dell Community "Vostro 1000 Linux wifi" - Check detected hardware:

  $sudo lspci -v
  05:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01)
  Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1395 WLAN Mini-Card
  

• Add a “non-free” component to /etc/apt/sources.list, for example:

  # Debian 12 "Bookworm"
  deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free

• This is a small update, just of the requested driver .
• Debian Wiki "bcm43xx ( Broadcom 43xx wireless devices ) - b43 and b43legacy", Dell Community "Vostro 1000 Linux wifi".
  • For devices with a BCM4312 LP-PHY chip (PCI ID 14E4:4315), install

    $ sudo apt-get update
    $ sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer

• Debian "Packages / bookworm (stable) / kernel / firmware-b43-installer" - “Package: firmware-b43-installer (1:019-8) [contrib]. firmware installer for the b43 driver”.
  • Debian "Package: b43-fwcutter (1:019-8) [contrib]".
• Deinstallation:

  $ sudo apt list --installed b43-fwcutter
  $ sudo apt remove b43-fwcutter
  $ sudo apt autoremove

• This causes a massive update, of complete GCC development tools, as the requested driver is compiled from source.
• Debian Wiki "bcm43xx ( Broadcom 43xx wireless devices )" - Drivers:
  • Debian Wiki "wl" - “Broadcom BCM4311, BCM4312, BCM4313, BCM4321, BCM4322, BCM43224, BCM43225, BCM43227, BCM43228, BCM43142, BCM4331, BCM4352, BCM4360 devices (wl)”.
    • Update the list of available packages. Install the relevant/latest linux-image, linux-headers and broadcom-sta-dkms packages:

      $ sudo apt-get update
      $ sudo apt-get install linux-image-$(uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,') linux-headers-$(uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,') broadcom-sta-dkms

• Debian Packages "Package broadcom-sta-dkms".
• Debian Packages "Package wireless-tools".
• Deinstallation:

  $ sudo apt list --installed broadcom-sta-dkms
  $ sudo apt remove broadcom-sta-dkms
  $ sudo apt remove wireless-tools
  $ sudo apt autoremove

*After successful installation of “firmware-b43-installer”. *After additiona installation of “broadcom-sta-dkms”, WiFi was not available anymore. Deinstallation both of “firmware-b43-installer”and “broadcom-sta-dkms” and new installation of “firmware-b43-installer” were unsuccessful, WiFi was not available .

• AskUbuntu "dell vostro 1000 broadcom wireless connection".
• Debian Wiki "SourcesList".
• FOSS Community "How to install firmware-b43-installer in Debian 12?".
• Google - Search for "Dell Vostro 1000 linux wifi driver".
• Linux Mint Forums "[SOLVED] Doesn't recognize Wifi on Dell Vostro 1000".
  • HowOpenSource "Install Broadcom b43 and b43-legacy wireless driver in Ubuntu 14.04 / 13.10 / 12.04".

    $ sudo apt-get update
    #To Install b43 driver
    $ sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source
    #To Install b43-legacy driver
    $ sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter

  • HowOpenSource "Install Broadcom STA wireless driver in Ubuntu 14.04 / 13.10 / 13.04 / 12.04".

    $ sudo apt-get update
    $ sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source

• Linux Wireless Wiki "b43".

• The default graphics driver for “Dell Vostro 1000” & “ATI Xpress 1150” graphics card is not ok . Most applications work fine, but not the Gnome “Settings” tool and probably some other Gnome tools too .

• Test Debian Live DVDs with other desktop environments, see Debian Wiki "DesktopEnvironment".
• Test Debian 11 Live DVD with Gnome.
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• The default drivers:

  $ /bin/lspci -nnk
  
  01:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS482/RS485 [Radeon Xpress 1100/1150] [1002:5974]
  	Subsystem: Dell RS482/RS485 [Radeon Xpress 1100/1150] [1028:022a]
  	Kernel driver in use: radeon
  	Kernel modules: radeon, amdgpu
  

• Darren Goossens - DSPACE. Reading, writing, wasting time with computers "Getting the framebuffer to work on Debian — an example".
  • “$ modprobe” isn't available with Debian 12 .
  • Framebuffer package for 386 hardware “v86d” isnt't available with Debian 12 .
• Gnome Discourse "Items Not Displaying Correctly in GNOME Apps", Gnome Gitlab "Broken text rendering on gtk4/libadwaita apps using ngl renderer on Nvidia-470" - Similar to my problem .
• OpenSuse Forums "ATI Display driver for 32 bit Linux on Dell Vostro 1000".
• Linuxquestions "[SOLVED] ATI Radeon Xpress 200 - Model 1150 Problem with Debian".
  • “$ sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-radeon”.
  • “$ xrandr”.
• StackExchange Unix & Linux "No framebuffer device: how to enable it?" - ”$ /sbin/lspci -nnk ” ⇒ “$ /bin/lspci -nnk”.

• My experience: Debian 12 as installed by default, causes the Dell Vostro 1000 to go into sleep mode after a while, but no chance to wakeup by keypress or press on the “on/off” button .

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• DELL "How To Restore or Reinstall Microsoft Windows on a Dell Computer" #.
• born2c0de’s Blog: “Use ATI Radeon Xpress 1150 Graphics on Windows 7”.
• NotebookReview: “Windows 7 on Vostro 1000” #.