hi all, I have Dell inspiron 510m, I installed Linux on it after resizing the partitions. Excluding the linux partitions, following is part of partition table....
... My understanding was that the diagnostics boot from the BIOS, not a bootloader. Try using the "F12" boot menu option while your BIOS is starting. At least...
That's the same on my i86K, but I was wondering about his grub file entry. His partition table says that the de partition is /dev/hda4,right? That would be...
Dumb question but I need to ask....... I have been struggling for a week to get the wireless working on my new Inspiron 600m. I have tried EVERYTHING!!...
Hi, Youur problems could be solved without recompiling the kernel, if you donnt want to do multiple installations... please do read my post experiences with a...
Hi. I'd like to get your help about the following problem for which I don't know if it can be a problem related to the software or Hardware. I've installed a...
... I had Slack 10.1 with 2.6.10 kernel and ipw2200 1.0.6 running perfectly on my 600m. No problems. The latest version of ipw2200 seperates the ieee80211 ...
... Yes, software is a possibility, but occassionally, you may also get a variance in voltage levels that can cause all kinds of unknown symptoms. Modern...
I had the exact same problem with my Dell Inspiron 9300, I was playing music when it went off instantly (I remembered my desktop days when I didnt own a UPS ...
Hi everyone: I've installed debian sarge in my Dell Latitude D510. When configured Xfree86, I choose "vesa" as my video driver which is not very suitable I...
I also have a D510, and had the same issue. A while back, the driver was only available for Xorg and not XFree. I installed Xorg in Debian to replace XFree, so...
Howdy all! I'm kinda new to the whole linux thing and I found Mepis and it works really well except for the Video Card. I have worked with people on their...
Try going to BIOS setup (probably F12 during bootup) and changing the LCD expansion function. Set it to 'no' expansion or 'off'. Did you install linux or are...
Hi Drencsan Thank you very much for your information. It helps me a lot. I tried wireless only a week before. It seems not very hard that Intel has already...
... did you make sure these are valid, and correspond to your values for the i6000? ... i would throw out the modelines for the standard resolutions and let X ...
Hello - I am running SuSE9.2 on a Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop. I was trying to get 3D support going and in a round-about manner discovered my nVidia driver ...
Hi, I would like to setup the following configuration on my 700m laptop (60G storage). The partitions will look as follows: - 15G: Windows XP and all Windows...
Hi this looks good. I might suggest you keep a 1GB partition in FAT format as temporary storage for files to be transferred between Linux and Windows...
... I assumed the proposed 29GB partition would be FAT32. And while I'm mentioning it, something a lot of people don't know about FAT32: you aren't really...
I'd say keep swaps separate... you might have hibernate problems if you mistakenly boot the other OS on restart... just a thought... what say you linux gurus? ...
As has been mentioned, 1) keep the two swap partitions separate. Linux by default uses a complete partition that is not filesystem formatted. 2) Make your...
Hi. Thanks for your comments. I was suspecting it could be that, but I experienced the same crash again, but this time, when running on battery... And later, I...
... 3D definitely puts extra stress on a system. I had to build a small table with cooling fans in order to play any games for more than about 30 minutes on my...
This is a question/response in ignorance. Do linux and windows use the same partitiion type for swap? I think linux is 82 or 83. In other words, would they...
... Nope - Windows uses a swap file, not a swap partition. --Don -- Don Becker don.becker@... http://www.donbecker.org "Music is the cup that holds the...
