Comment 248 for bug 550625

Dell E4310 with BIOS version A05 failed with kernel http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.37-natty/. Boots into black screen. When I got it to boot into a non-black screen, the touchpad issue was not resolved anyway.

Separately I've been experiencing screen flickers, suspend/resume failures etc with the E4310 on 2.6.35-24-generic but found kernel 2.6.37-999.201101190911 resolves these.

For those who want to get their E4310 working reasonably well under 10.10, I found this resolves all four problems (screen flicker, suspend/resume, touchpad vertical scrolling, internal microphone):

# kernel upgrade for suspend/resume + screen flicker:

mkdir ~/kernel-upgrade; cd ~/kernel-upgrade; wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/daily/2011-01-19-natty/linux-headers-2.6.37-999-generic_2.6.37-999.201101190911_amd64.deb http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/daily/2011-01-19-natty/linux-headers-2.6.37-999_2.6.37-999.201101190911_all.deb http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/daily/2011-01-19-natty/linux-image-2.6.37-999-generic_2.6.37-999.201101190911_amd64.deb; sudo dpkg -i *.deb

sudo reboot

# install psmouse 0.2.1-all for vertical scrolling:

sudo apt-get install dkms
cd ~
wget https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/550625/+attachment/1797114/+files/psmouse-0.2-1.all.deb
sudo dpkg -i psmouse-0.2-1.all.deb
rm psmouse-0.2-1.all.deb
sudo reboot

# fix internal mic not working:

echo "options snd-hda-intel model=dell-s14" | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

HTH