That's exactly what happened on my i8600. Dell also basically gave most of a new laptop. In other words, they replaced my motherboard, keyboard, memory, just...
... It would be nice of you to post the link to those instructions (if they are clear and work). If the instructions are Gentoo-specific, they'll still be...
... I think he's talking about this: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml But .. I have the same laptop and couldn't quite get things working. -michael...
... Thanks for this. In case anyone is interested, here's the solution I found. The Mandrake config tools don't seem to work too well for this. Assuming the...
... You are right:) completely forgot about it, had much to do, setting up java, openoffice, and acpi to get linux to be my primary system (instead of windows,...
I have recently installed Mandrake 10.1 on Dell i2500 and m60 laptops. There are a few gotchas. In case anyone is interested, I've put a description at ...
I'm in the market for one of these two machines (they're the updated models of the 800 and the M60) and was wondering if anyone had experience with these two...
... Other than nVidia vs ATi, the M70 is going to be more robust than the 810. The precision line is designed for business and industry use, while the...
Hello, The Wall Street Journal recently had an article about a woman who made over 7000 USD as a mystery shopper, in just one month. Using the companies we...
Hi, I'm running Gentoo with a 2.6 kernel on my old Dell Inspiron 3000. It's mostly ok (except for sound but that's a lower priority issue) but for USB. I'm...
michael@...
Feb 7, 2005 7:15 pm
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... what does a tail -f /var/log/messages tell during you plug in any USB device? Best regards ce...
mchristoph.eckert@...
Feb 7, 2005 7:20 pm
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run 'dmesg' after plugging in a USB device to see what your system is saying. ... ===== I am the Lord of the Realm of Stupidity All are Welcome to My Domain ...
stay away from the xgi video cards. no support there. ... From: Ted Markowitz To: linux-dell-laptops@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 10:06 AM ...
Hi, This is slightly off topic, but I'm going to replace my three-year old Inspiron 4100 (now dual boot FC1/WinXP) with an Inspiron 700m and I thought I'd turn...
Mark Jordan
mjordan@...
Feb 8, 2005 3:28 am
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... As long as I am home, my laptop is on and plugged in. I have a 600m. It doesn't overheat, though the HDD does get pretty warm. At idle, you _shouldn't_ run...
... I've had an I8K with a Synpatics touchpad for 3.5 years, and a D600 with an Alps glidepoint for getting on to 9 months. Before I got the D600 I never...
... Why would you want to use ATI fglrx drivers? I myself own Inspiron 8200 with Radeon 9000M, it runs as a charm with XFree86-4.3.0 native radeon driver (with...
marius mikucionis
mmikucionis@...
Feb 9, 2005 9:27 am
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Hi, I have a dell inspiron 510m, trying to get the modem working under linux, I am using debian sarge, kernel 2.6.10. I am using smartlink driver...
Hi, I'm trying to get acpi cpu throttling working for my Dell Inspiron 510m with a Pentium M Centrino 1.6 Ghz cpu. I have tried a number of possibilites but...
ok, i know this has been talked about serval times, but i can't find them, so... Has anyone gotten this to work? i REALLY need to get this to work and i've...
... What do you mean by HW acceleration? I have i8200 with ATI Radeon 9000M. 3D direct acceleration works out of the box with debian unstable (`glxinfo | grep...
marius mikucionis
mmikucionis@...
Feb 11, 2005 9:59 am
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i meant hardware acceleration. i've been using the ATI drivers, i'll try the stock ones and see if that works any better. thanks for your reply^^ -Ryu ... find...
I have that machine and video card (I also run gentoo). I've gotten both the DRI and ATI drivers working at different times. I found that the ATI drivers were...
so have did you get the ATI driver to work exactly? are you using the "fglrx" module? are you using the internal or kernel agpgart? do you have DRI disabled in...