Hi,
I just received a new Latitude C810. On my old laptop (a toshiba) I had
only linux installed. I'm wondering if I can erase Win2000 (not for
the refund, but it's the principle that counts :-)) of the Latitude
without having any problems. I have in mind two problems that could arise
- Troub
> Erik, would you perhaps explain therefore to me why almost 60% of the
> hardware in my laptop ceases to function if I run a 2.4 kernel, but work
> flawlessly with a 2.2 kernel (2.2.20 basline debian is my currently
> version).
This might be an interesting point! Me neither, I've never succeede
Configuration:
- Hardware: Dell latitude C810, with Nvidia Geforce2 Go graphics adapter
- Software: Debian testing, XFree 4.1
Symptoms:
- When running xdm and running an x-session as user _and_ serious cpu
load, X crashes (caught signal 11, exiting).
- To debug, I tried running the X server more
> Sounds like you're running out of disk space / memory for the normal user,
> while root still has his 5% reserved space to use. I had a weird problem like
> this once.
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5 3842376 1123240 2523948 31% /
e> [...]
> > filesrv:/users1536 13087056 2137216 86% /home
> >
> > Moreover, the crashes actually most often happen when I'm logged in as a
> > normal user and do a "su"-command to apt-get something for example
>
> NFS root_squash problem?
I'm not an nfs expert at all, but a qu
Hi,
I just received a new Latitude C810. On my old laptop (a toshiba) I had
only linux installed. I'm wondering if I can erase Win2000 (not for
the refund, but it's the principle that counts :-)) of the Latitude
without having any problems. I have in mind two problems that could arise
- Troubl
> Erik, would you perhaps explain therefore to me why almost 60% of the
> hardware in my laptop ceases to function if I run a 2.4 kernel, but work
> flawlessly with a 2.2 kernel (2.2.20 basline debian is my currently
> version).
This might be an interesting point! Me neither, I've never succeeded
Configuration:
- Hardware: Dell latitude C810, with Nvidia Geforce2 Go graphics adapter
- Software: Debian testing, XFree 4.1
Symptoms:
- When running xdm and running an x-session as user _and_ serious cpu
load, X crashes (caught signal 11, exiting).
- To debug, I tried running the X server more
I'm still unable to solve my problems with the Xserver on my Dell Latitude
C810 (nvidia GeForce2 Go). As I explained in my previous post, the
problem is not dependant of a particular kernel version, nor of a
particular driver version.
The Server typically crashes when the system is under "hea
> Sounds like you're running out of disk space / memory for the normal user,
> while root still has his 5% reserved space to use. I had a weird problem like
> this once.
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5 3842376 1123240 2523948 31% /
/
e> [...]
> > filesrv:/users1536 13087056 2137216 86% /home
> >
> > Moreover, the crashes actually most often happen when I'm logged in as a
> > normal user and do a "su"-command to apt-get something for example
>
> NFS root_squash problem?
I'm not an nfs expert at all, but a qui
> if you mess up with lilo, and install it in the wrong place, you could
> corrupt the system so that the win system may be unbootable. There's
> documentation in the lilo docs about this.
>
> You could either use debian or redhat to boot with, but I'd think that you'd
> want to be really careful
> i have this dell latitude C610, which runs perfectly fine with
> debian's stock kernel 2.2.20. however, i need some features from 2.4.x
> and thus went ahead to install kernel-image-2.4.17-686, which also
> boots just fine, but which freezes the computer everytime anything
> APM is done.
Do this
> I am using Linux Debian 2.4.16 with a Dell Latitude C810. I've a Xircom
First of al, don't you have a C810 with a build in 3com-NIC that you can
use (driver 3c59x)??
> XE2000 (pcmcia) installed. Everything seems to be at startup, the Xircom
> card is recognized, if I use ifconfig eth0, eve
> I tryed the flash bios update A07 on a Dell Latitude C810 and now APM is not
> working. Did somebody try the update A07 without any problem ?
Anything further then A04 sucks! (no kidding)
k
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> |> Hello,
> |> I tryed the flash bios update A07 on a Dell Latitude C810 and now APM is
> not
> |> working. Did somebody try the update A07 without any problem ?
>
> I don't know how in particular the C810 and the i8100 differ, but I
> had no problems with it.
Bios Versions for the latitude and
> |> > I don't know how in particular the C810 and the i8100 differ, but I
> |> > had no problems with it.
> |>
> |> Bios Versions for the latitude and inspiron do differ!
>
> In which matter?
I don't know. All I know is that they differ :-) (you could check this on
the dell forums if you absolut
> if you mess up with lilo, and install it in the wrong place, you could
> corrupt the system so that the win system may be unbootable. There's
> documentation in the lilo docs about this.
>
> You could either use debian or redhat to boot with, but I'd think that you'd
> want to be really careful
> i have this dell latitude C610, which runs perfectly fine with
> debian's stock kernel 2.2.20. however, i need some features from 2.4.x
> and thus went ahead to install kernel-image-2.4.17-686, which also
> boots just fine, but which freezes the computer everytime anything
> APM is done.
Do thi
> I am using Linux Debian 2.4.16 with a Dell Latitude C810. I've a Xircom
First of al, don't you have a C810 with a build in 3com-NIC that you can
use (driver 3c59x)??
> XE2000 (pcmcia) installed. Everything seems to be at startup, the Xircom
> card is recognized, if I use ifconfig eth0, ev
> I tryed the flash bios update A07 on a Dell Latitude C810 and now APM is not
> working. Did somebody try the update A07 without any problem ?
Anything further then A04 sucks! (no kidding)
k
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> |> Hello,
> |> I tryed the flash bios update A07 on a Dell Latitude C810 and now APM is not
> |> working. Did somebody try the update A07 without any problem ?
>
> I don't know how in particular the C810 and the i8100 differ, but I
> had no problems with it.
Bios Versions for the latitude and i
> |> > I don't know how in particular the C810 and the i8100 differ, but I
> |> > had no problems with it.
> |>
> |> Bios Versions for the latitude and inspiron do differ!
>
> In which matter?
I don't know. All I know is that they differ :-) (you could check this on
the dell forums if you absolu
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