Hi!

Are any of you using mdk 9.2 and galeon? Im having problem using
yahoo-groups with galeon under 9.2. It works fine with all other
browsers installed(mozilla,konqueror).
Anyone got a fix?

Kind Regards,
Søren Madsen

> > > > I remember a few years back when Gnome ran on top of
Enlightenment. I
> > > > was impressed on the configuration options of E. I noticed
Gnome is
> > > > no longer using E, so I was wondering if it was still
possible to run
> > > > Gnome on top of E. I dont really like the wm that Gnome is
using
> > > > right now.
> > >
> > > I'm using E with gnome 2.4.0... for it to work properly, you
need to
> > pull
> > > the latest E 16 out of cvs and build it
> >
> > I got E 16 compiled, how do I get gnome to use enlightenment? I'm
> > having a hell of a time trying to find anything on it.
>
> in a terminal:
>
> killall metacity; englightenment &
>
> save your session and it'll use enlightenment from then on
>
> note that I get a VERY long delay when starting E for some reason
since
> a cvs pull sometime in the summer. It takes about 60 seconds for
gnome to
> decide to load everything else, but all is fine after that

  Thanks for the help. I noticed after I did that, Gnome didn't want
to load anymore. I only gave it like a minute to load, but I got it
to work right anyways. I created an .xinitrc file in the home
directory of my user account and put this in:
enlightenment &
gnome-session

When I put the above 2 lines in without the &, it continued to do the
same thing where gnome doesnt load. Once I put the & in,
enlightenment loaded fine, and gnome started up right away after
enlightenment was finished loading. See if this will work for you.

Ryan

--- In linux-dell-laptops@yahoogroups.com, "impthegrey" <impinc@t...>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
>  I'm having a problem getting my USB mouse to work properly. Right
> now, I'm plugging it into the C-Dock II (my laptop is the C610).
When
> I compiled the kernel to support USB, it didn't work. The only way
I
> could get it to work is to compile the kernel with NO USB support.
> Right now it's seeing it as imps/2. The mouse is a microsoft
optical
> intellimouse. It works, but not great, the cursor moves fine, but
it
> doesn't seem to register everytime I click. Sometimes I have to
click
> 10-20 times on things. As you can imagine this is very annoying.
>
> The other thing I'd like to know is if anyone out there has
> configured two soundcards with ALSA. I finally got the i810 to work
> last night, although the sound is a little messed up when i do
other
> things. But, I want to do some recording using ardour, so I need
the
> alsa drivers (I have a Delta 44 in the C-Dock/II), and jack as
well.
> I'm not quite sure what to put in the modules.conf file for two
> cards. Although I'm using slackware, so I'm sticking the entries
ALSA
> says to enter into rc.modules.
>
> Any help on these problems would be most appreciated.
>

  In case anyone is curious, I got these problems resolved. The USB
thing was my dumbass not reading the FAQ for this list. Actually I
had forgotten to add the device filesystem for USB, so now things are
working properly.

  As for the alsa thing, I installed the new drivers (they came out
with a new version a couple days after I originally downloaded the
drivers), then re-compiled, and now things are working right.
Although I haven't been able to try the Delta card yet, the drivers
are loaded so I'm assuming they're working properly.

Ryan

Has anyone here applied this patch? I applied the patch and re-
compiled and everything, but I don't think lowlatency is enabled. In
the HOWTO, it says to cat /proc/sys/kernel/lowlatency and if it is 1,
it is enabled. Well, mine shows 0, and when I try to do a cat 1 >
lowlatency it tells me that 1 is an invalid file, or something like
that. I tried using an editor to just stick 1 in there, and no matter
what editor I try, it doesn't save the file. Any ideas? Is there
something I can do in the boot scripts or a kernel option at boot
time to enable this?

Thanks,
Ryan

--- In linux-dell-laptops@yahoogroups.com, "impthegrey" <impinc@t...>
wrote:
> Has anyone here applied this patch? I applied the patch and re-
> compiled and everything, but I don't think lowlatency is enabled.
In
> the HOWTO, it says to cat /proc/sys/kernel/lowlatency and if it is
1,
> it is enabled. Well, mine shows 0, and when I try to do a cat 1 >
> lowlatency it tells me that 1 is an invalid file, or something like
> that. I tried using an editor to just stick 1 in there, and no
matter
> what editor I try, it doesn't save the file. Any ideas? Is there
> something I can do in the boot scripts or a kernel option at boot
> time to enable this?
>
> Thanks,
> Ryan

I'm sorry, I'm stupid. I was using cat 1 > lowlatency instead of echo
1 > lowlatency. I'm almost at the system I need though. I'm going to
be doing some recording of my band with this laptop (I used Winblows
to record us before), and I'd like it to kick some ass. Hopefully
ardour will work well.

Ryan

On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 02:51:42PM -0000, impthegrey wrote:
> I'm sorry, I'm stupid. I was using cat 1 > lowlatency instead of echo
> 1 > lowlatency. I'm almost at the system I need though. I'm going to
> be doing some recording of my band with this laptop (I used Winblows
> to record us before), and I'd like it to kick some ass. Hopefully
> ardour will work well.

Sorry, I missed the start of this thread, but if your running
RedHat/Fedora you should be aware of Planet CCRMA:
http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/ which give you
prepatched kernels and RPMs of apps.

There are equivalent things for debian and mandrake. I run planet ccrma +
RH9 on my dell 8100, and it works well, but its let down by the bad
internal audio card.

It generally considered good to use the O(1) sheduler patch in addition to
the lowlat lockbreak patch, and ardour (well, jack) will only run as an
ordinary user if you add the capabilities patch.

- Steve

Hi Christoph,
   thanks a lot for your reply. I have another question Nvidia
drivers --- I have dial-up and have Netzero as my ISP. Would Suse be
able to fetch the drivers from the website or I need to download them
and give some path from where it will install?

Regards
Anirban
--- In linux-dell-laptops@yahoogroups.com, mchristoph.eckert@t...
wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Am Dienstag, 2. Dezember 2003 21:41 schrieb banirban:
>
> > 1. I have 32 Mb Nvidia Geforce 2 Go. Does Suse 9.0 come
> > with correct drivers for that or I need to install them
> > from Nvidia site?
>
> due to licensing problems, SuSE is not wllowed to deliver the
> drivers directly.
>
> On my i8k, instead, I called the included online update after
> installation. The online update fetched and installed the
> NVidia drivers absolutely correct.
>
> On the other hand, XFree comes with an native driver called
> 'nv' which is good enough to drive the Notebook for normal
> office use.
>
> > 2. Is there some way I can make a bootable CD --- basically
> > what I mean is that I do not want to touch my existing
> > master boot record which boots the windows. I would chose
> > the option of booting from CD and once it boots I will
> > specify to load from the external hard drive.
>
> You can use the installation CD/DVD.
>
> On SuSE 9.0, per default the OS on the MBR will be bootet
> after the timeout.
>
> Otherwise, you can choose installation => boot installed
> system. So you do not need to touch your MBR.
>
>
>  Gruß / regards
>
>
> 			 ce
>
> ======
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>
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> http://home.t-online.de/home/mchristoph.eckert/inspiron8200/
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--- In linux-dell-laptops@yahoogroups.com, Steve Harris <steve@t...>
wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 02:51:42PM -0000, impthegrey wrote:
> > I'm sorry, I'm stupid. I was using cat 1 > lowlatency instead of
echo
> > 1 > lowlatency. I'm almost at the system I need though. I'm going
to
> > be doing some recording of my band with this laptop (I used
Winblows
> > to record us before), and I'd like it to kick some ass. Hopefully
> > ardour will work well.
>
> Sorry, I missed the start of this thread, but if your running
> RedHat/Fedora you should be aware of Planet CCRMA:
> http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/ which give you
> prepatched kernels and RPMs of apps.
>
> There are equivalent things for debian and mandrake. I run planet
ccrma +
> RH9 on my dell 8100, and it works well, but its let down by the bad
> internal audio card.
>
> It generally considered good to use the O(1) sheduler patch in
addition to
> the lowlat lockbreak patch, and ardour (well, jack) will only run
as an
> ordinary user if you add the capabilities patch.

  I'm actually running Slackware 9.1 with Dropline Gnome running on
top of Enlightenment. Thanks for the tip on the scheduler patch, i'll
put that on tonight.

Ryan

Am Mittwoch, 3. Dezember 2003 16:43 schrieb banirban:

Hi,

> thanks a lot for your reply. I have another question Nvidia
> drivers --- I have dial-up and have Netzero as my ISP.
> Would Suse be able to fetch the drivers from the website or
> I need to download them and give some path from where it
> will install?

When you install the NVidia drivers manually, additional work
will be necessary, more direct, modifying the /etc/X11/
XF86Config will be necessary.

The Online-updater will do all necessary steps automatically,
and this is very convenient because it saves a lot of
(documentation reading) time.

I do not know Netzero, but if it is a normal ISP, I see no
problem. The update packages are fetched using http or ftp.


	 Gruß / regards


				 ce

======
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======

Sorry to post to this list so much, but it's been a great help so
far. I have a general question about using hdparm at bootup. I've had
a couple of people tell me that while it greatly speeds up
performance, it's also unstable. Those people had it running great
for a while, but then the drive slowly got corrupted, and ruined it
basically. Now, are the parameters that are stated in the FAQ
completely safe to use? I can't afford another drive right now, or
anytime soon. The parameters are:
append="idebus=66 ide0=dma ide1=dma devfs=mount"

Thanks,

Ryan

Hi all

After much fiddling I finally figured out how the
ncpmount command works. I've got access to the Netware
servers here now, but I've run across a problem.

I've been trying to run the command "du -hs
/mnt/fs1/VOL1/HOME/*" from my Linux machine to see how
much space each individual user directory is taking
up. It seems to go pretty quickly at first, but after
it gets about 20-30 directories in starts to slow down
a lot. At first I figured it had hit one of our
directories which contains a huge ammount of data (10+
gb), but even after getting past that operation is
incredibly slow.

I've got a WiFi connection on this laptop, and
watching the network usage on eth1 (my wireless card)
through GKrellM it seems that network usage grows and
grows as du gets further through the directory tree.
My CPU also ends up being much more utilized over what
it was at the start of running the command.

Does du buffer things somehow instead of just dumping
it to the console? What could be causing this extreme
slowdown? I've run into it every time I've tried.
Thanks for any help.

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gabriel -

Thanks for your persistence.  Actually, I have made some progress,
but
I am not sure how.  (Late nights, what can I say?)  It is possible
that my irda startup script had a problem.  I was looking thru it and
thought I had accidently deleted a newline.  Anyway, maybe it was
really missing and I put it back.  Anyway, that it is only thing I
can
remember doing except excluding irq 5 for a sopund card problem . . .
. .

So now, it is working again, irdadump is working, anyway.  Now I just
need to get gpilotd working every time.

thanks again and sorry I don't have better diag information for the
list.

J
--- In linux-dell-laptops@yahoogroups.com, Gabriel <ggali_66@s...>
wrote:
> Hi Jim,
>
> Duno if you've fixed it ...
>
> 1) has your kernel module loaded (I doubt redhat build irda support
hard into
> kernel, its probably loaded) ? try:
> lsmod | grep ir
> mine gives:
> irtty                   7392   2 (autoclean)
> irda                  112112   1 (autoclean) [irtty]
>
> 2) also check if the irattach proc is running:
> $ ps -ef | grep iratta
> root      1121     1  0 10:41 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/irattach
/dev/ttyS3
> -s
> gabriel   3437  2580  0 14:22 pts/1    00:00:00 grep iratta
>
> 3) finally check in your dmesg or /var/log/messages what you see in
irda ...
> errors ? that may also help.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Gabriel.
>
> On Monday 01 December 2003 01:00, jimmckean47401 wrote:
> > Belated thanks, Gabriel. But my file is the same except pointed to
> > ttyS1, which agrees with the bios setting -- COM2.
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > --- In linux-dell-laptops@yahoogroups.com, Gabriel <ggali_66@s...>
> >
> > wrote:
> > > Hi Jim,
> > >
> > > I would also have a look at the /etc/sysconfig/irda file, mine
> >
> > reads:
> > > IRDA=yes
> > > DEVICE=/dev/ttyS3
> > > #DONGLE=actisys+
> > > DISCOVERY=yes
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Gabriel.
> > >
> > > PS: I am on a 8200 running MDK 9.1!
> > >
> > > On Thursday 27 November 2003 01:23, jimmckean47401 wrote:
> > > > I have tried to find this particular combination on the list.

If
> >
> > I
> >
> > > > missed, sorry.
> > > >   I have an I8k that has been running happily with RH7.3 for
many
> > > > months.  A crashed HD convinced me to install RH9.  IRDA sync
for
> >
> > my
> >
> > > > Palm no longer works.  irdadump shows no activity.
> > > >
> > > > I have done the following:
> > > >
> > > > confirmed that it was attached to com2 in the BIOS
> > > > confirmed that IRDA kernel support is on in the default
> >
> > configuration.
> >
> > > > checked that irda-utils are installed
> > > > edited my /etc/modules.conf to include the following
> > > > -----------------------------------------------------
> > > > # infra red stuff
> > > > # IrDA over a normal serial port, or a serial port compatible
IrDA
> > > > port
> > > > alias tty-ldisc-11 irtty
> > > > # IrCOMM (for printing, PPP, Minicom etc)
> > > > alias char-major-161 ircomm-tty
> > > > # IRLAN
> > > > alias irlan0 irlan
> > > > # To be able to attach some serial dongles
> > > > # These values are hard-coded in irattach (not instance order)
> > > > alias irda-dongle-0 tekram
> > > > alias irda-dongle-1 esi
> > > > alias irda-dongle-2 actisys
> > > > alias irda-dongle-3 actisys
> > > > alias irda-dongle-4 girbil
> > > > alias irda-dongle-5 litelink
> > > > alias irda-dongle-6 airport
> > > > # To use the FIR driver. This applies only to the specific
device!
> >
> > !!
> >
> > > > #options nsc-ircc dongle_id=0x09 # NSC driver on a IBM
Thinkpad
> >
> > laptop
> >
> > > > #options nsc-ircc dongle_id=0x08 # HP Omnibook 6000
> > > > #alias irda0 nsc-ircc
> > > > #alias irda0 smc-ircc
> > > > # IrNET module...
> > > > alias char-major-10-187 irnet
> > > > -------------------------------------------
> > > > started the irda service with
> > > >
> > > > service irda start
> > > >
> > > > Can anyone suggest anything I am missing or point me to a good
> > > > working configuration under RH9 with this machine?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for any help.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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Am Mittwoch, 3. Dezember 2003 16:43 schrieb banirban:

Hi,

> thanks a lot for your reply. I have another question Nvidia
> drivers --- I have dial-up and have Netzero as my ISP.
> Would Suse be able to fetch the drivers from the website or
> I need to download them and give some path from where it
> will install?

When you install the NVidia drivers manually, additional work
will be necessary, more direct, modifying the /etc/X11/
XF86Config will be necessary.

The Online-updater will do all necessary steps automatically,
and this is very convenient because it saves a lot of
(documentation reading) time.

I do not know Netzero, but if it is a normal ISP, I see no
problem. The update packages are fetched using http or ftp.


      Gruß / regards


                        ce

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You can vote for your favorite team (and donate another can of soup) every 24 hours.

Here is an easy way to make a difference this holiday season.

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Importance: High

 

You can vote for your favorite team (and donate another can of soup) every 24 hours.

Here is an easy way to make a difference this holiday season.

Campbell's is donating a can of soup to the needy for every person that goes to their site and votes for their favorite NFL team. Go to the site and it is right there, very easy to do. It will only take a few seconds of your time to fill some empty tummies with warm soup this winter.

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I guess his spam-filter doesnt check for outgoing spam... :)

Kind Regards,
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Am Donnerstag, 4. Dezember 2003 04:40 schrieb Anirban
Bhattacharyya:

Hi,

>   thanks a lot. I have Actiontec MD56ORD V92 MDC Modem ---
> is that supported under Suse?

Sorry, do not know this modem.

> I was under the impression
> that winmodems do not work under linux.

For my modem, there has been an driver which I used until SuSE
8.2.

Unfortunately, the (binary) drivers are not longer available
for free download. I can now buy the driver but I do not need
it because of ADSL.

Otherwise, one can get a free version but this is linited to
14.4K.

But this was for my modem which is not a Actiontec.

> Another question --- sorry for troubling
> you so much ---- do I need to make any change to the
> display settings --- I have SXGA+ (1400 * 1050) or Suse
> would automatically detect the settings?

SuSE will guess 1600*1400; simply select 1400*1050 from the
popup menu; no problem. On 8.0 through 8.2 I had to do some
manual config editing, but 9.0 was very simple.

> Also I would be
> installing Suse on USB  external hard drive. Can that be an
> issue?

I do know if this will work.

First of all, your BIOS should be able to boot from USB. Check
your BIOS to figure this out.

Secondly, while booting, the kernel will unmount the USB-disk
(which is mounted RO at this time) and remount it RW. If, at
this point, the kernel doesn't have the right driver
somewhere, it will fail.

I think, it can work, but also it could fail. I cannot help
you if this will fail.


	 Gruß / regards


				 ce

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Hi,
   I just found out my ISP does not support Linux. I got Suse 9.0
professional which I want to install on my Inspiron 8200. My laptop
has 32 mb Geforce 2 Go --- I was reading that Suse would get the
updated drivers from Nvidia and install it automatically. My question
is if Suse tries to get the updated drivers is there any other way it
can get them ---- like can I download them befrohand and specify a
path on my machine from where it can pick up?

Thanks in advance
Anirban

* banirban <banirban@...> (Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 06:55:50PM -0000)
> Hi,
>   I just found out my ISP does not support Linux. I got Suse 9.0
> professional which I want to install on my Inspiron 8200. My laptop
> has 32 mb Geforce 2 Go --- I was reading that Suse would get the
> updated drivers from Nvidia and install it automatically. My question
> is if Suse tries to get the updated drivers is there any other way it
> can get them ---- like can I download them befrohand and specify a
> path on my machine from where it can pick up?

No need for that.
(though you can simply download them from www.nvidia.com and install them
yourself). Iv'e installed quite a few dell laptops with NV8idia hardware
using suse 7.X 8./X and 9.0

8.X and 9.0 do correctly detect and configure your NVidia cards (unless you
have an M60 w/ quadro FX700, but that is becuase te NVidia driver does not
correctly support that one yet).

That your ISP does not support linux has nothing to do with it (unless your
laptop is connecting directly to your ISP with a dialup modem, in which
case your laptop has to be configured correctly, and even that can be done
with suse 9.0 for most ISPs (as long as you ahve the dial in number and
login/password details handy ;) )

Kind regards,
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Hi ,
   has anybody installed linux on an external hard drive? I have an
USB hardrive on which I am planning to install Suse 9.0 professional.
Can anyone tell me if there are any potential issues --- I am a
newbie so please help me.

Thanks in advance,
Anirban

Hi Gerhard,
   thanks a lot for your reply. The question I asked was because in my
ISP website it categorically mentioned that linux is not supported. I
have Actiontech V.92 modem. Is it supported under Suse 9.0?
   Also are there any issues I might run tinto if I try to install and
boot Suse from USB external hard drive? I am scared to mess up my
internal hard drive with XP so plan to install it on external drive?
   Does the NTFS partitioning with Suse 9.0 work well for XP?

Thanks a lot once again,
Anirban
--- In linux-dell-laptops@yahoogroups.com, Gerhard den Hollander
<gerhard@f...> wrote:
> * banirban <banirban@y...> (Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 06:55:50PM -0000)
> > Hi,
> >   I just found out my ISP does not support Linux. I got Suse 9.0
> > professional which I want to install on my Inspiron 8200. My
laptop
> > has 32 mb Geforce 2 Go --- I was reading that Suse would get the
> > updated drivers from Nvidia and install it automatically. My
question
> > is if Suse tries to get the updated drivers is there any other
way it
> > can get them ---- like can I download them befrohand and specify
a
> > path on my machine from where it can pick up?
>
> No need for that.
> (though you can simply download them from www.nvidia.com and
install them
> yourself). Iv'e installed quite a few dell laptops with NV8idia
hardware
> using suse 7.X 8./X and 9.0
>
> 8.X and 9.0 do correctly detect and configure your NVidia cards
(unless you
> have an M60 w/ quadro FX700, but that is becuase te NVidia driver
does not
> correctly support that one yet).
>
> That your ISP does not support linux has nothing to do with it
(unless your
> laptop is connecting directly to your ISP with a dialup modem, in
which
> case your laptop has to be configured correctly, and even that can
be done
> with suse 9.0 for most ISPs (as long as you ahve the dial in number
and
> login/password details handy ;) )
>
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On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 20:36:02 -0000
"banirban" <banirban@...> wrote:

> Hi Gerhard,
>   thanks a lot for your reply. The question I asked was
>   because in my
> ISP website it categorically mentioned that linux is not
> supported. I have Actiontech V.92 modem. Is it supported
> under Suse 9.0?

I think what they mean is that they won't assist you in
setting it up, nor will they assist you with connectivity
problems if it goes wrong. But hey, that's what we're here
for...  :o)

Start googling for your modem and look into sites that list
compatible/incompatible modems. I had a quick look and
apparently newer Actiontechs are borderline, so you might
have some work to do. Why not post the exact model? Someone
here might be able to assist...

>   Also are there any issues I might run tinto if I try to
>   install and
> boot Suse from USB external hard drive? I am scared to
> mess up my internal hard drive with XP so plan to install
> it on external drive?

XP will mess up your internal drive alright! ;o)

Seriously, I have dual-booted Linux on the same and
different hard drives as Windows for years now, and I have
more confidence in Linux (grub) than the Windows NT
bootloader. If the thought of mixing the two scares you, why
not grab a copy of Norton Ghost and image your XP
partitions? A quick restore plus 'fdisk \mbr' will put you
right back where you started.

Sean

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 19:40:45 -0800 (PST)
Anirban Bhattacharyya <banirban@...> wrote:

> Hi Mchristoph,
>   thanks a lot. I have Actiontec MD56ORD V92 MDC Modem ---
>   is that supported under Suse?

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~sudhakar/linux/linux-dell.html

Looks like you're in luck!

Sean

Hi Sean,
   thanks a lot for your very helpful infos. The website is very
useful. Also I will definitely post in this site when I run into any
difficulties while installing/booting with linux.

Thanks once again,
Anirban
--- In linux-dell-laptops@yahoogroups.com, Sean Gibbins <sean@f...>
wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 19:40:45 -0800 (PST)
> Anirban Bhattacharyya <banirban@y...> wrote:
>
> > Hi Mchristoph,
> >   thanks a lot. I have Actiontec MD56ORD V92 MDC Modem ---
> >   is that supported under Suse?
>
> http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~sudhakar/linux/linux-dell.html
>
> Looks like you're in luck!
>
> Sean

On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 07:26, banirban wrote: Hi ,
   has anybody installed linux on an external hard drive? I have an
USB hardrive on which I am planning to install Suse 9.0 professional.
Can anyone tell me if there are any potential issues --- I am a
newbie so please help me.

Thanks in advance,
Anirban


Hi Anirban
I've never tried this before, but there are ways of booting it.
Essentially it is the same process as booting from a USB key, for which
instructions are available on google. You would need to have a custom
kernel built so that the USB and SCSI modules are inside the kernel (NOT
as modules). This will allow the kernel to recognise and mount the disk
as the root directory.
Alternatively, you could use a ready-made distro and customize it. Eg
Damnsmalllinux.org or knoppix.net. I would suggest having a look at:
http://rz-obrian.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de/knoppix-usb/
Regards
Damien

I've heard that a few people have the WUXGA display working with the
ATI Mobility 9000, but I can't get the resolutioin above 1600x1200.
Could some people that do have it working post their config files or
something?  I'm running Debian and I'm trying to get everything setup.
  Any help would be appreciated.  Thank you.

I've been shopping for a new hard disk for my Inspiron 7500.

Question 1:
The "universal" drives sold on many sites are described as 2.5 inches
*long*. The hard disk accessable by unscrewing two screws on the bottom
of my machine is 2.5 inches *wide* and 4 inches long (or 4.25 including
the connector).

Is this going to work? Does the shorter case just sit in the tray with
room to spare? Are the dimensions turned around?

Question 2:
The Dell support line told me the BIOS on my I7500 can only handle hard
disks up to 30GB. I asked about a BIOS upgrade. He said they sell them
but it wouldn't help with the hard drive max size. I'm afraid he just
wants to sell me a new machine.

Can anyone confirm or debunk the claim that the I7500 has a max hard
disk capacity of 30GB?

Any help appreciated.
David

On 4 Dec 2003, at 23:35, David Vergin wrote:

> I've been shopping for a new hard disk for my Inspiron 7500.
>
> Question 1:
> The "universal" drives sold on many sites are described as 2.5 inches
> *long*. The hard disk accessable by unscrewing two screws on the bottom
> of my machine is 2.5 inches *wide* and 4 inches long (or 4.25 including
> the connector).
>
> Is this going to work? Does the shorter case just sit in the tray with
> room to spare? Are the dimensions turned around?

Sounds like the dimensions are turned around. The dimension with the
pins at one end should be the longest, as you say.

I believe all "universal" laptop drives have the same length and width.
The height can vary, 9mm or 12.5mm or thereabouts. Just make sure if
you opt for the 12.5mm size that it'll fit.

> Question 2:
> The Dell support line told me the BIOS on my I7500 can only handle hard
> disks up to 30GB. I asked about a BIOS upgrade. He said they sell them
> but it wouldn't help with the hard drive max size. I'm afraid he just
> wants to sell me a new machine.
>
> Can anyone confirm or debunk the claim that the I7500 has a max hard
> disk capacity of 30GB?

Haven't a clue, sorry...

Peter