hi all, i'm running SuSE7.1 on a Dell Inspiron 3800 which i bought a few months ago. everything has been going fine, all functionality working 'out of the...
Hi, I recieved a Dell Inspiron 8K last week and went to play a DVD on it with xine or vlc, both results in a blue screen on full screen playback. I have a 32mb...
Stuart, The requirements for Oracle9i now start at 512 Mb according to the doco. - however, I shouldn't think that would be a 'strict' requirement, your...
... (please put your answer below the quoted text and delete all uneccesary stuff like signatures and footers; thanks) Better run 'fsck -f /dev/hda5' (or...
Hello! I keep getting an error message when booting up Red Hat 7.1. During a disk check (it had previously locked up) it suddenly stops and tells me that an...
Hi, I'm trying to talk a client of mine a way to turn off all power managment on a Dell Inspiron 4000? He says he turned off everything in the bios that he...
Well I got some 256 Mb so-dimms (low-profile) for my I75 from Other World Computing - THEY DON'T WORK, although I was told that they would..... Now the...
Hi, I'm still experiencing white screen lock ups with total loss of machine control. The only way out is a hard reboot by holding the power down for about 5 ...
Well I got some 256 Mb so-dimms (low-profile) for my I75 from Other World Computing - THEY DON'T WORK, although I was told that they would..... Now the...
Can someone please post some instructions on how to get RedHat 7.1 to display in 8bit mode. Thank you. -Robb ... Please post your X config files in the group...
Hi, I just set up my frist Mandrake 8 on a Laptop. The Installation succeeded so far but I cant get X11 running (Console is ok). I do allways have mysterious...
Hi, I am running Mandrake 8 on an I8K (ATI Rage video). The system suspends just fine but when I bring it back up KDE gets totally messed up (actually I am not...
I am having some problems with a Latitude CPxJ and ATI Rage driver, and I'm hoping that someone else has run into this. I have the standard Rage Mobility...
Hi Guys, I have the i8k running WinME Win2k and RHLinux7.1 can any of the I8K owners tell me if they have noticed their screen dimming slighty after about...
... Well, it sounds like we're all experiencing the same thing then. Every now and then the drive will do it when I request a file and the heads reposition ...
That's true. I guess I should have been clearer. Anything that he cannot pass through lilo, it appears he's passing with the hdparm command in rc.local. I ...
I recently ordered an I8000 from Dell, requesting the ATI video card, because I knew it was supported out of the box by XFree86. Dell shipped me the nvidia...
Hello, i have installed everything well on my debian 2.3(the unofficial one, i have X working, sound working, kernel 2.4.5. glxinfo gives good results, but...
If the sound is kind of a click, it might be what I've been experiencing. I've had two drives replaced thus far--both 32GB IBMs. With the latest drive, I...
DW, DRI does not work on the I8000/ATI machines. In fact, the general experience has been that it locks up the machine and overdrives the LCD panel when...
Has anyone tried out the region free firmware yet on their Toshiba SD-C2502 (as seen on http://www.firmware.fr.st/)? Does it work? I am too lazy to be the...
I got a new (my second!) I8K today, and after many attempts, got Progeny Linux 1.0 all setup and running. However, I've noticed some weird mechanical noises...
Hi! I've only recently received my Inspiron 8000, and I am just getting it set up. One thing that I've noticed that is bothering me is that it emits lots of ...
My Inspiron 8000 was shipped from Dell with Windows 2000 Professional and MiniPCI 1150 already installed, so I got that working (with a D-Link DWL-1000AP)...
Mike, There is a file, `splasha0.exe' on the Dell support site. You can use it to remove the factory-installed splash screen, in which case you'll get the...
Hi all. I have just joined linux-dell-laptops list, so I don't know if this questions has been answered yet: My computer is a i8000 with ATI video card. It is...
