I have moved to Debian as my primary distro and using squeeze (currently labelled testing, but soon to be stable) on my laptop. Unfortunely my laptop has a nvidia graphics card, and it pains me to have to enable the non-free repositories. Virtual Richard Stallman (vrms) got pissed.
On laptops, there usually is a Fn button [...]
I have a Dell Latitude D620 and a D-Port replicator and had never succeeded in getting the sound jack on the dock to work. I found a solution on Ubuntu forums: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=80193
Its quite simple. You just have to enable IEC958
Open Volume control
If you dont see the “Switches” tab:
Click Preferences and check “IEC958″
Open the Switches tab [...]