Dell shouldn't have sold the system like that, but it should work when you do a fresh install of Ubuntu. If it doesn't, then the system is only good until you r

Dell shouldn't have sold the system like that, but it should work when you do a fresh install of Ubuntu. If it doesn't, then the system is only good until you reinstall the OS, even if Dell did some post-vanilla install configuration. It didn't work after reinstalling the OS. It does with Karmic, which shows that it's not a hardware problem. I stand by my statement. But Dell is also not blameless, and my next computer was not a Dell (and won't be).