Hi ! At the moment, I'm using an ACER 734 TX 650Mhz laptop with RedHat7.0. (that's not my own laptop). I have read that DELL inspiron 8000 os a great machine !...
Not exactly a dell laptop question, but there are prolly debian users on this list that might be able to help me. I'm running debian sid on this inspiron 8000...
I've been reading the commentary here over the last 2 months about the various successes and failures of setting up the suspend-to-disk on the I8000. Most, if...
I have I8k with O/S Win2k Professional. I have total 20GB HD with a partion 19,053MB with NTFS file system, the other partition is 15MB FAT system. I want to...
Hi all, I just wanted to let folks know that I was able to get the extended GPM support for Synaptics touch pad working with kernel 2.4.5 (on an Inspiron 5000e...
Hi, I have recently installed RH 7.1 on my Inspiron 7500. Can anyone tell me how to configure XF86Free to get font antialiasing ? Thanx, Wojtek Skrzypczak...
Has anyone had any luck getting their mini-pci true mobile on line? I'm set up and running under W2K, and the WAP is configured correctly. I've got a cable...
I have a Latitude L400 running the 2.4.4. kernel and can't get xmms to not skip during playback. I've set realtime priority on xmms (running as root) and...
has anyone been able to use the aty128fb on an I8000, this should play nice with the ATI Mobility M4 no? I have append="video=aty128fb" in my lilo.conf.... and...
I purchased a I5000e nearly a year ago for the 1600x1400, which I absolutely love. I also bought a Xircom RBEM56G-100 PCMCIA ethernet/modem card. Using the...
Linux newbie question. Does it matter what order your Linux partitons are in? For example I have mine set up as follows: /boot /root /home swap Also do you...
o What do you think of the Inspiron in comparison to other notebooks? I looked at a lot of different notebooks before deciding on the Inspiron 8000. Some...
I'll start by stating I am a novice to linux - but this did not stop my boss from getting 4 Dell I8ks and telling me to make them dual boot w/ win2k and RH7,...
Hello, I am planning to buy a notebook soon to replace my desktop machine, and I do have some questions about the Dell Inspiron series: o What do you think of...
Hi List Can somebody help me with this? I have installed Mandrake8.0 and are having trouble getting the X server to work! I can at the moment only get it to...
Hi Can somebody Give me some pointers. I tried to get X working and I can't. I have the latest drivers and X. When I launch X it dies half way through and...
I have an Inspiron 8000, but I believe the Latitude docking station is similar. If that's the case, you may need to add the following line to the "Device"...
Try checking the "Module" section of the XF86Config-4 file, and comment out or remove the line that says: Load "dri" # Direct rendering infrastructure Hope...
I run Redhat 7.0 I just upgraded my machine to 512 megs and have lost some sound capabilities that worked before. The mixer works, but playback of mp3's...
Hi list, does anyone here got the Nvidia Xserver running with AGP support on an Inspiron 8000? If you don't know check the output of # cat /proc/nv/card0 or #...
I'm about to install SuSe 7.1 on a 12 gig drive and was hoping for some partitioning (number, size estimates, etc) hints before I do the install. I will be...
Even though lots is being said about s2d and partitions, I'm still confused. Suspend-to-disk needs to be the size of ram plus size of video ram plus a bit...
Hi, I've just install Red-Hat on my Inspirion 8000. It's work well but I've got problem to use Lilo or BootPart. I need to use a floppy disk to load Linux. can...
I just joined a new company, and lo and behold...I believe they are giving me a Dell I8K (not unlike the Dell I8K I just bought for myself a couple of months...
Help me!! I've installed Mandrake 8 (which I've double checked is using Kernel 2.4.3 and XFree86 4.0.3) and got a default display of around 640x480 I think. ...
Hello, I'm upgrading my Inspiron 8000's slackware-current install to 2.4.5. With the 2.2 kernel, all I had to do was turn on PnP Bios Checking in the pcmcia-cs...
I am a Linux newbie and need some help. I have RH7.1 installed on a Dell latitude C800 (duel booted with W2K). Things went along ok for a couple of days but...
I have a Inspiron 8000. The Scalation to Fullscreen in the Bootfunction not Work. The Bootlogo is in the Dimention from 640x480. The Function have work, for...
... The first modeline was indeed rejected by the X server, that was why I started playing around with the pixclock parameter. When I increased it up to 110...
