27;re in luck since there's some pretty solid
support for most of those cards out there. If, on the other hand, it's
an 802.11a card, don't count on it. There are very few projects under
way for writing drivers for 802.11a cards and I don't even know if there
are any usable drivers a
ion, my guess would be that it's an Intel board using a PRISM
chip. Have a look around this page to find out more info and which
driver to use:
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/
Good luck. :)
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me on my Inspiron 8000 for about a
year now. I'll try these new 3D drivers, but as I've never used them
before I can't tell you how to get them working right now. Give me a
couple of days though and I should be all set. :)
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ere might be one for the 8200 as well.
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y nice feel.
I've been running Debian on my Dell Inspiron 8000 for over a year now
with no problems. The i8k is extremely well supported both in the kernel
and in available software. i8kutils is absolutely invaluable, especially
when you're in a meeting or other quiet spot and you d
>
There is no really "good" Dell BIOS. You just have to find the one that
breaks the fewest number of things. :)
What's really scary is that even with all of these problems, I still
love my Inspiron. Go figure. :) Good luck getting yours to cooperate. Or
at least learning to
On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 12:57, Karsten Rothemund wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 11:38:07AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> > On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 08:01, Karsten Rothemund wrote:
> > > Hello *
> > >
> > > I have a big problem with a DELL Inspiron 8100. After n
oft. You know that all us Linux users are
unwashed Communist hippies trying to bring about the fall of corporate
America and all... ;)
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ty comes with the Twister driver for WinXP. With that I
> get a sort of weak flashing of the TV screen, but no image coming out.
Are you sure you're running at a resolution that your TV supports? I can
only use TV-out on my laptop if I have X running at 800x600 or lower. I
run at 1400x1050 by de
ly since all laptops are different in that regard, you'll
have to figure out what works for you. Good luck.
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ere? I've
been running Debian on my i8k for a year and half with no problems.
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hardware or is there some more
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me of the
PCMCIA FireWire and/or USB2 boards. I just did a quick search on
pricewatch.com and they're showing USB 2.0 only cards for $20 US, and
USB 2.0/IEEE1394 (FireWire) combo boards for $59 US.
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before
recently upgrading to 2.4.21 and everything still worked.
Coincidentally, as I've been playing with 2.6.0-test1, it's still been
working fine.
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gine that once PCMCIA support was working, the cards that
are inserted would show up in an lspci scan. If that is indeed the case,
then you should have no problem. I'm using a firewire/usb 2.0 combo PCI
board in my desktop with no problems. (Well, except that the drive
doesn't work, but as I
be happy to help clean it up. (i.e. if no one who's fluent in
English and French offers to help, just throw it at babelfish and send
me the result and I'll try my best to help. :)
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I just got done installing Sid on my Inspiron 8000 using one of the 100
or so documents I found using a google search. However, after reading
through all of them, I can't find any hints to this problem. I compiled
kernel 2.4.17 from source, making sure to include the power management
options, and i
On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 11:53, Jay Ford wrote:
> Disabling APIC by unsetting the kernel config variable CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC
> fixed that for me on my 8100. Note that this is APIC, not ACPI.
That fixed it. Thanks! :)
But now that I can suspend properly, I'm left with a new problem. When I
suspend (
On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 12:13, Jeff wrote:
> Alex Malinovich, 2002-Feb-27 06:58 -0600:
> > On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 11:53, Jay Ford wrote:
> >
> > And while I'm at it, any suggestions for getting the sound to cooperate
> > in Gnome? I've managed to get the OSS dr
On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 12:39, Luis Mendes wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am about to install Woody in my new Toshiba 1800-314 which came with
> a copy of WinXp Home Edition installed. In the past I had linux
> coexisting with different flavours of Windows (3.11, 95, 98) but never
> with XP. I am a bit worr
On 7 Mar 2002, Hubert Chan wrote:
> FWIW, I'm using GRUB to boot WinXP, and it's definitely working. GRUB
> doesn't need to read NTFS to boot WinXP. It just needs to be able to
> read the first block of the partition and do "chainloading" as they call
> it (load the first block into memory, and
I've got my Dell I8K running Sid with a 2.4.17 kernel and everything
works just fine. I only have one problem with the system. If I use Fn +
Esc to suspend, or if I close the cover, the BIOS seems to handle the
suspend. That is, none of the APM scripts get called. This causes
something of a hassle
My video card died on my desktop, so I've taken to using my laptop as a
desktop replacement for the time being. I've got all of my desktop
peripherals hooked up to the laptop without any major problems. My
monitor is hooked up and with a bit of coercing, works pretty well.
Unfortunately, the defaul
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Tony Firecloud wrote:
> Well yes, I had planned on having my network connected to the internet.
> Kinda the whole idea of this was being able to use my new cable inter-
> net connection between a) the server, and then b) the two laptops, and
> for a final trick, c) my wife'
On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 18:23, Simon Wong wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 05:11, Hubert Chan wrote:
> > I don't know if it's feasible for you (in terms of memory requirements,
> > etc), but you might want to launch two X servers, one on vt7, and one on
> > vt8. Then, if you're working on something, a
On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 13:53, Gale Stafford wrote:
> Are there ways to configure the screen resolution besides editing the
> XF86Config file? KDE is starting up just fine now on my thinkpad, but
> I'm stuck at this tiny 640X480 resolution. I've set up my XF86Config
> file with DefaultDepth 16, an
On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 10:43, Andreas Fromm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> does anybody have some experience connecting a TV to the TV-Out jack on
> Laptops?
> specially with a Dell Inspiron 8000 (nVidia GeForce 2) with a Pal TV? It
> seems that the Dell has a special output jack. It has not the standard
> 4-
I just got done installing Sid on my Inspiron 8000 using one of the 100
or so documents I found using a google search. However, after reading
through all of them, I can't find any hints to this problem. I compiled
kernel 2.4.17 from source, making sure to include the power management
options, and
On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 11:53, Jay Ford wrote:
> Disabling APIC by unsetting the kernel config variable CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC
> fixed that for me on my 8100. Note that this is APIC, not ACPI.
That fixed it. Thanks! :)
But now that I can suspend properly, I'm left with a new problem. When I
suspend
On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 12:13, Jeff wrote:
> Alex Malinovich, 2002-Feb-27 06:58 -0600:
> > On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 11:53, Jay Ford wrote:
> >
> > And while I'm at it, any suggestions for getting the sound to cooperate
> > in Gnome? I've managed to get the OSS dr
On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 12:39, Luis Mendes wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am about to install Woody in my new Toshiba 1800-314 which came with
> a copy of WinXp Home Edition installed. In the past I had linux
> coexisting with different flavours of Windows (3.11, 95, 98) but never
> with XP. I am a bit wor
On 7 Mar 2002, Hubert Chan wrote:
> FWIW, I'm using GRUB to boot WinXP, and it's definitely working. GRUB
> doesn't need to read NTFS to boot WinXP. It just needs to be able to
> read the first block of the partition and do "chainloading" as they call
> it (load the first block into memory, and
I've got my Dell I8K running Sid with a 2.4.17 kernel and everything
works just fine. I only have one problem with the system. If I use Fn +
Esc to suspend, or if I close the cover, the BIOS seems to handle the
suspend. That is, none of the APM scripts get called. This causes
something of a hassle
My video card died on my desktop, so I've taken to using my laptop as a
desktop replacement for the time being. I've got all of my desktop
peripherals hooked up to the laptop without any major problems. My
monitor is hooked up and with a bit of coercing, works pretty well.
Unfortunately, the defau
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Tony Firecloud wrote:
> Well yes, I had planned on having my network connected to the internet.
> Kinda the whole idea of this was being able to use my new cable inter-
> net connection between a) the server, and then b) the two laptops, and
> for a final trick, c) my wife
On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 18:23, Simon Wong wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 05:11, Hubert Chan wrote:
> > I don't know if it's feasible for you (in terms of memory requirements,
> > etc), but you might want to launch two X servers, one on vt7, and one on
> > vt8. Then, if you're working on something,
27;re in luck since there's some pretty solid
support for most of those cards out there. If, on the other hand, it's
an 802.11a card, don't count on it. There are very few projects under
way for writing drivers for 802.11a cards and I don't even know if there
are any usable drivers a
ion, my guess would be that it's an Intel board using a PRISM
chip. Have a look around this page to find out more info and which
driver to use:
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/
Good luck. :)
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me on my Inspiron 8000 for about a
year now. I'll try these new 3D drivers, but as I've never used them
before I can't tell you how to get them working right now. Give me a
couple of days though and I should be all set. :)
--
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Support Free Software, delete your Window
ere might be one for the 8200 as well.
When you reply, make sure that your reply goes to the list as well so
that people can hopefully benefit from this in the future when searching
the mailing list archives. I read the list regularly, so you don't need
to CC me when replying.
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y nice feel.
I've been running Debian on my Dell Inspiron 8000 for over a year now
with no problems. The i8k is extremely well supported both in the kernel
and in available software. i8kutils is absolutely invaluable, especially
when you're in a meeting or other quiet spot and you d
>
There is no really "good" Dell BIOS. You just have to find the one that
breaks the fewest number of things. :)
What's really scary is that even with all of these problems, I still
love my Inspiron. Go figure. :) Good luck getting yours to cooperate. Or
at least learning to
On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 12:57, Karsten Rothemund wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 11:38:07AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> > On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 08:01, Karsten Rothemund wrote:
> > > Hello *
> > >
> > > I have a big problem with a DELL Inspiron 8100. After n
w that all us Linux users are
unwashed Communist hippies trying to bring about the fall of corporate
America and all... ;)
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ere? I've
been running Debian on my i8k for a year and half with no problems.
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hardware or is there some more
configuration that can be done to speed things up?
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me of the
PCMCIA FireWire and/or USB2 boards. I just did a quick search on
pricewatch.com and they're showing USB 2.0 only cards for $20 US, and
USB 2.0/IEEE1394 (FireWire) combo boards for $59 US.
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before
recently upgrading to 2.4.21 and everything still worked.
Coincidentally, as I've been playing with 2.6.0-test1, it's still been
working fine.
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gine that once PCMCIA support was working, the cards that
are inserted would show up in an lspci scan. If that is indeed the case,
then you should have no problem. I'm using a firewire/usb 2.0 combo PCI
board in my desktop with no problems. (Well, except that the drive
doesn't work, but as I
be happy to help clean it up. (i.e. if no one who's fluent in
English and French offers to help, just throw it at babelfish and send
me the result and I'll try my best to help. :)
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ust
shut off because it wasn't needed. It will come back on again if it gets
hot. It won't hurt anything.
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ripts including WEP keys, etc. If you set the "auto" flag
for that particular device, it should automatically start up, configure
itself, and connect at bootup.
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7;t ever recall having
a problem like this. And I believe (though I'm not sure) that two
years ago Sid was using XFree < 4.2.
I don't know if that's really any help at all, but that's just my
results. Best of luck. :)
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nd am used to WindowMaker. Was thinking of playing with Gnome
> for a bit.)
Gnome using metacity for a wm
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might not be readily available otherwise.
I'd strongly suggest building the drivers from CVS as the last official
release was in August and development is actually very rapid on the
drivers. Good luck.
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support all around. Unfortunately, I'm not sure which
Dell laptops nowadays are similar enough to benefit from all the I8K
support out there. I'd imagine that the newer ones in the Inspiron line
would get decent support, but I'd suggest you wait for someone with
experience with a newer
install and you know exactly
what hardware you have and what modules you'll need, you can try the
expert install.
Either way, good luck and I hope you'll come to enjoy Debian as much as
pretty much everyone else here. :) Once you realize that dependency hell
is something that happens to O
gt; It's really annoying. Does someone have a solution for this ? I googled
> around, but didn't found anything relevant ...
Well, this isn't exactly a solution for the problem, but at least it'll
let you do something about it. If you hit Fn + F7 you'll switch between
a
to the internet to fetch the rest of
the packages.
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/i386/beta4/sarge-i386-netinst.iso
If you need any more help, feel free to ask.
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On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 12:09:01PM -0400, Shaun T. Erickson wrote:
> Alex Malinovich wrote:
--snip--
> I downloaded and burned it. I was very impressed by the installer and
> got through to the first reboot just fine. It even appeared to (I think)
> recognize the network card. Ho
On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 01:05:40PM -0400, Shaun T. Erickson wrote:
> Alex Malinovich wrote:
>
> >Try doing a ifdown eth0, followed by an ifup eth0. Assuming that you
> >have a DHCP server active on the network, you should see it request
> >and receive an IP. If there'
rt of
scripts that automatically get run when PCMCIA detects a device
perhaps? (This sounds more like a hotplug thing, but I'm not sure just
where the hotplug/PCMCIA distinction lies.)
Good luck. :)
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; in /etc/rcS.d before running what's in rc2.d? What's the exact boot
> process for the system?
Found in /etc/rcS.d/README:
"The scripts in this directory are executed once when booting the system,
even when booting directly into single user mode."
There's more det
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 01:35:13AM +0300, Mugurel Tudor wrote:
> On Du, 2004-05-23 at 18:37, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> > Well, this isn't exactly a solution for the problem, but at least it'll
> > let you do something about it. If you hit Fn + F7 you'll switch
ripts including WEP keys, etc. If you set the "auto" flag
for that particular device, it should automatically start up, configure
itself, and connect at bootup.
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7;t ever recall having
a problem like this. And I believe (though I'm not sure) that two
years ago Sid was using XFree < 4.2.
I don't know if that's really any help at all, but that's just my
results. Best of luck. :)
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nd am used to WindowMaker. Was thinking of playing with Gnome
> for a bit.)
Gnome using metacity for a wm
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sig
might not be readily available otherwise.
I'd strongly suggest building the drivers from CVS as the last official
release was in August and development is actually very rapid on the
drivers. Good luck.
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Enc
support all around. Unfortunately, I'm not sure which
Dell laptops nowadays are similar enough to benefit from all the I8K
support out there. I'd imagine that the newer ones in the Inspiron line
would get decent support, but I'd suggest you wait for someone with
experience with a newer
install and you know exactly
what hardware you have and what modules you'll need, you can try the
expert install.
Either way, good luck and I hope you'll come to enjoy Debian as much as
pretty much everyone else here. :) Once you realize that dependency hell
is something that happens to O
gt; It's really annoying. Does someone have a solution for this ? I googled
> around, but didn't found anything relevant ...
Well, this isn't exactly a solution for the problem, but at least it'll
let you do something about it. If you hit Fn + F7 you'll switch between
a
to the internet to fetch the rest of
the packages.
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/i386/beta4/sarge-i386-netinst.iso
If you need any more help, feel free to ask.
p.s. I'm subscribed to debian-laptop, so no need to CC me on replies.
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On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 12:09:01PM -0400, Shaun T. Erickson wrote:
> Alex Malinovich wrote:
--snip--
> I downloaded and burned it. I was very impressed by the installer and
> got through to the first reboot just fine. It even appeared to (I think)
> recognize the network card. Ho
On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 01:05:40PM -0400, Shaun T. Erickson wrote:
> Alex Malinovich wrote:
>
> >Try doing a ifdown eth0, followed by an ifup eth0. Assuming that you
> >have a DHCP server active on the network, you should see it request
> >and receive an IP. If there'
rt of
scripts that automatically get run when PCMCIA detects a device
perhaps? (This sounds more like a hotplug thing, but I'm not sure just
where the hotplug/PCMCIA distinction lies.)
Good luck. :)
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; in /etc/rcS.d before running what's in rc2.d? What's the exact boot
> process for the system?
Found in /etc/rcS.d/README:
"The scripts in this directory are executed once when booting the system,
even when booting directly into single user mode."
There's more det
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 01:35:13AM +0300, Mugurel Tudor wrote:
> On Du, 2004-05-23 at 18:37, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> > Well, this isn't exactly a solution for the problem, but at least it'll
> > let you do something about it. If you hit Fn + F7 you'll switch
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