After upgrading the BIOS to A15 for my M1330n I can no longer eject DVDs from the drive using either the software eject method in Ubuntu or the eject button on the laptop. To eject a disc I need to reboot twice. The first time around I'll get a message from the BIOS stating a device isn't working properly. I choose to continue and then reboot again after the OS loads. After the second reboot I can eject the disc while the BIOS is loading.

 

I've never had this problem before. It only started happening after installing the A15 BIOS for the M1330n using Dells Linux flash procedure. Sometimes when rebooting Ubuntu the screen will go black with some coloured vertical lines. Then it bleaches out white. This has also never happened on this system before installing A15.

 

I'm tempted to try and regress back to an earlier BIOS. But I hate flashing BIOSs. It's a totally uncertain and needlessly risky process. What I want to know is, is there a genuine fix to this problem or not? I remember some people had this issue way back.

 

I'm currently using the Canonical version of Ubuntu 9.04 on my M1330n.

http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Tech/libsmbios_dellBiosUpdate