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I used my laptop computer to do this install. It is an HP DV6 1268nr with a 2.2 GHz AMD Turion ZM-82 Dual Core processor, 4 GB of DDR2 RAM, an ATI Radeon HD 4650 graphics card and a 320 GB hard disk. I will be network installing Ubuntu Karmic (9.10) to half of this hard disk. I have done an install to this particular machine before and I know for a fact that there will be issues with the sound card and with the video card. For the card I will need to download a file from ATI that will install the proprietary drivers to the machine and for the sound I don't exactly remember what I needed to do to fix it.

1. Boot the machine and select to boot from the integrated network card.
2. Choose the Linux Distribution to be installed (For me Karmic (9.10) Text Install)
3. Choose language (English)
4. Choose Locale (United States)
5. Choose 'No' to detecting keyboard layout
   • Choose 'USA' for both resulting dialogs about the keyboard
6. Once the network is configured for DHCP enter a Hostname
7. Choose 'Enter manually' for the mirror country
8. Type 'mirror' then hit enter twice
9. Choose time zone
10. Set up the partitions of the hard disk that was to be installed
11. After the partition formatting is complete enter the username and password for the user account
12. Select the packages to install
    • Ubuntu Desktop
13. Install the GRUB Boot Loader
14. Reboot

1. Downloaded the Proprietary drivers for the video card on the system from ATI's website
2. Change mirror/ubuntu to mirror.rit.edu/ubuntu in /etc/apt/sources.list and run apt-get update and aptitude update
3. Add the line 'options snd-hda-intel model=dell-m4-3 enable_msi=1' to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
4. Run this script to upgrade ALSA from version 1.0.20 to 1.0.22
5. Reboot

Now when you reboot sound should play from the speakers.