... From: Bill O'Kane [mailto:wrokane@...] Sent: Friday, June 30, 2000 4:05 AM To: linux-dell-laptops@egroups.com Subject: [linux-dell-laptops] Inspirion...
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Charly Baker
cbaker@...
Jul 2, 2000 10:46 am
vga= is a kernel option that sets the video card's graphics mode for text. vga=ask causes the kernel to display the valid options for your video card. For...
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voelker@...
Jul 3, 2000 4:35 am
Hi folks, check out Steve Hsieh's webpage: http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~steveh/inspiron/xserver.html where he describes in detail how to get X running on a...
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stuart blake tener
stuart@...
Jul 3, 2000 6:14 am
Klaus: Far be it from me to aptly point out the obvious, but.....if you check the file section here for the linux-dell-laptops group, you'll find drivers for...
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stuart blake tener
stuart@...
Jul 3, 2000 6:16 am
Does anyone know the manufactuerer or chipset maker for the win-modem in the 7500? Thanks, Stuart Beverly Hills, CA...
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LenaMaria "Corpset" O...
ellem@...
Jul 3, 2000 2:25 pm
Except for the sound, it worked perfectly. No trouble with X or anything. Just wanted you to know :) // lenamaria olausson [lenamaria.olausson] [+46(0)70 818...
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Jiri Dvorak
dvorak@...
Jul 3, 2000 4:53 pm
did you get apm and suspend-resume working? if yes, what did the trick? I was just about to start compiling a new kernel to see if I can get suspend-resume...
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dkim@...
Jul 4, 2000 4:10 am
I have an Inspiron 7500 with the ATI Rage Mobility card. I have just installed RedHat 6.2 and am having the hardest time configuring the X windows. I did some...
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Bill O'Kane
wrokane@...
Jul 4, 2000 1:15 pm
... Hello I have been having the same problems with the I5000 and the ATI Mobility and Mandrake 7.0-2 and 7.1. I get a great display on both the monitor and...
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george
gg@...
Jul 4, 2000 3:59 pm
Hi there, I got my hands on a hitachi lcd projector. Although it seems to be working allright for resolutions up to 1024x768 under windows, I can't get it...
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toraware@...
Jul 4, 2000 5:56 pm
b"h I tried loading my Latitude CPi D300XT with Suse 6.4 because this distribution is supposed to have the most drivers and from the install it should be...
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Michel Berkelaar
michel@...
Jul 4, 2000 6:47 pm
Boot from floppy (you made a rescue floppy, right?), then run fsck manually on the root partition of the hard drive (something like "fsck -y /dev/hda1", be...
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Jean Huveneers
jeanhuveneers@...
Jul 4, 2000 9:52 pm
... Hi, I had similar problems with the ATI Mobility on my Inspiron 3800 with Caldera OpenLinux 2.3. The only good working solution I found was downloading the...
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Andrew Sharp
andy@...
Jul 5, 2000 5:09 pm
Did you try hitting the <FN><CRT/LCD> key combo a few times? That's what works for me. Wait patiently for 5-10 seconds after each one to see if it starts...
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Mark Wormgoor
riddles@...
Jul 5, 2000 6:55 pm
Hi, ... First of all, connect it before booting. Second of all, make sure the monitor is not set to just LCD in the BIOS, but to both. Next, when you've...
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Ryan Marsh
ryan@...
Jul 5, 2000 8:19 pm
XFree86 is supposed to have support for the MACH64 cards now, namely the ATI Rage mobility. Has anyone gotten it to work on their laptop? I had a hell of a...
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andreag287@...
Jul 6, 2000 2:20 am
I have Linux Mandrake 7 and I had it on my DELL Inspiron 7500 with an ATI RAGE Mobility Pro 8MB graphics display adapter in it. I worked great, but I took it...
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stuart blake tener
stuart@...
Jul 6, 2000 3:01 am
Ryan: It absolutely amazes me how people on this list refuse to check our own file download area. Posted there are all the files necessary to make the ATI...
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sjohni@...
Jul 6, 2000 3:54 am
Whoa Stuart! I think if you look at Ryan Marsh's message, it concerns XFree86 4.0 not 3.6.x. The files you have in the download area are concerning the older...
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Scott Nash
ksnash@...
Jul 6, 2000 12:32 pm
I tried those files and all I got was a blank screen. I tried all of the fixes to get X to work for Dell Inspiron 5000 with the SXGA+ and nothing would work....
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Ed Moynihan
edmoynihan@...
Jul 6, 2000 2:06 pm
Hi all, I am intending to buy a Dell Inspiron 5000 notebook. The system will come with Windows 98 by default and my wife will use that OS. However, I intend...
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sjohni@...
Jul 6, 2000 2:26 pm
Ed: The modem, if it is internal most certainly is a winmodem. You can try the lucent winmodem driver at www.linmodems.org. I've had mixed success with it. ...
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Art Delano
adelano@...
Jul 6, 2000 2:35 pm
... I've got an Inspiron 3800 and have successfully installed Red Hat 6.2, Mandrake 7.0, and Corel linuxes (and there's a copy of Caldera waiting for me to...
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jfleet@...
Jul 6, 2000 2:45 pm
I am using RH 6.1 which I installed on a Dell CPi.After modifing the XF86config file. I was able to get the monitor to come up with the laptop docked but the...
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Charly Baker
cbaker@...
Jul 6, 2000 2:57 pm
This is almost exactly the system I just bought, but I didn't get an internal modem, and I loaded up the memory. Internal modems are often WIN modems, so why...
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Tim O'Brien
tjobrien@...
Jul 6, 2000 4:27 pm
I have an old Dell laptop (Latitude XP4100D) that's running Linux (Debian 2.1) though X isn't working. Does anyone have an XF86Config for this beast? It's a...
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Ed Moynihan
edmoynihan@...
Jul 6, 2000 6:02 pm
Thanks for the all the advice. I have decided that I will not be taking the standard option of the internal modem that Dell provides. Instead, I will take the...
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toraware@...
Jul 6, 2000 7:39 pm
B"H Dear Michel, Thanks for responding. It seems that the PCMCIA card in my laptop goes unrecognized with Suse 6.4. I tried a "minimal" configuration and...
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craspe
craspe@...
Jul 7, 2000 12:53 am
here is a config that works for my XPi 90. This solved the scrambled screen for me. good luck Chris...
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Arkaitz
ma9aba@...
Jul 9, 2000 5:17 pm
Hi all, I'd like to inform you that OSS (www.opensound.com) has released a commercial sound driver for Maestro 3 based sound cards. I have a Dell Inspiron...