Oh man, where to start...
This AMILO 1536 was bought in Italy, so the keys do not match the US english keyboard. Not really a problem, but whatever...
I've had multiple operating systems on this, and it takes some tweaking to get everything running right.
Ubuntu worked like a friggin charm, I highly recommend. Too bad netflix won't work without silverlight though
I couldn't get my Windows 7 install disk to boot; kept getting "Error cannot boot from CD, code 5" or something, so I used a fresh install of Vista, and upgraded to Windows 7. I had to manually install the graphics driver (same one for Vista I believe...
ATI Technologies Inc
11/8/2006
8.31.100.2
Vista automatically had the proper resolutions.
Not to get off track here, but it looks like this laptop consists of much more modular parts than most. I saw a user (not sure what forum) upgrade the graphics card to a ATI mobility radeon 4650 or something, used the Alienware BIOS 2.07, and installed 4 Gbs RAM, he even replaced the LCD with a better model!
anywho...
I have to reboot now after installing the High Definition Audio Codecs from here:
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/Default.aspxI will bump this thread again if I was unsuccessful in getting the headphones/line in and volume knob on the left-front to work (I already know it will work)