Re: Debian on a Dell Latitude E7440

2014-07-01 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
I have an E7420 running Debian on it for work. The 7.4 ISO was plenty to get it working and I used UEFI as well with GRUB bootloader. I did have to upgrade it to testing (jessie) however to get all the devices working and get the newer XORG that would support the graphics card. I don't have it

Re: Debian on a Dell Latitude E7440

2014-07-01 Thread Craig L.
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 11:16:25PM +0200, Stanislav Bocinec wrote: > Hello Craig, > > i'm using Ubuntu 14.04LTS on E7440 (i7, 16GB Ram, SSD disk, intel GPU) > without any major issues. Only thing i experienced problem with was that > external monitor was sometimes losing signal from display port (

Re: Debian on a Dell Latitude E7440

2014-07-01 Thread Craig L.
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 12:25:21PM -0400, ken wrote: > On 03/22/2014 01:29 PM Craig L. wrote: > > I found folks > >running other distros on the E7440, so we're going with it. If I have any > >problems I will pass them along for anyone else that is interested in this. > > One of the nice things

Re: Debian on a Dell Latitude E7440

2014-06-24 Thread Stanislav Bocinec
Hello Craig, i'm using Ubuntu 14.04LTS on E7440 (i7, 16GB Ram, SSD disk, intel GPU) without any major issues. Only thing i experienced problem with was that external monitor was sometimes losing signal from display port ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1062571). I'm not sure whether i

Re: Debian on a Dell Latitude E7440

2014-06-24 Thread ken
On 03/22/2014 01:29 PM Craig L. wrote: I found folks running other distros on the E7440, so we're going with it. If I have any problems I will pass them along for anyone else that is interested in this. One of the nice things about GNU/Linux is that, if one distro works on a particular ma

Re: Debian on a Dell Latitude E7440

2014-03-22 Thread Craig L.
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 12:44:41PM -0400, Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com wrote: > On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 07:37:39 -0400 > ken wrote: > > > It's not going in the trash though. It's still good for a headless > > linux box. Long ago I buffed it up with a big HD and 2G of RAM, the > > cat5 and 8

Re: Debian on a Dell Latitude E7440

2014-03-21 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 07:37:39 -0400 ken wrote: > I'm where you are, currently using a decades-old Dell Latitude with a > couple cracks in it and a non-working screen. It's plugged into an > old CRT monitor. Although, like yours, the battery lasts maybe > fifteen minutes, it's still good for wh

Re: Debian on a Dell Latitude E7440

2014-03-21 Thread ken
On 03/20/2014 06:48 PM Craig L. wrote: On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 04:03:36PM -0400, Mike McGinn wrote: On Thursday, March 20, 2014 15:28:32 Craig L. wrote: Hello list, Sadly, my 11 year-old Toshiba laptop has become physically unusable*, and I will be receiving a new laptop at work. We are looki

Re: Debian on a Dell Latitude E7440

2014-03-20 Thread Craig L.
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 04:03:36PM -0400, Mike McGinn wrote: > > On Thursday, March 20, 2014 15:28:32 Craig L. wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > Sadly, my 11 year-old Toshiba laptop has become physically unusable*, and > > I will be receiving a new laptop at work. We are looking at the Dell E7440, >

Re: Debian on a Dell Latitude E7440

2014-03-20 Thread Mike McGinn
On Thursday, March 20, 2014 15:28:32 Craig L. wrote: > Hello list, > > Sadly, my 11 year-old Toshiba laptop has become physically unusable*, and > I will be receiving a new laptop at work. We are looking at the Dell E7440, > and my initial look tells me I will be getting something that should run

Debian on a Dell Latitude E7440

2014-03-20 Thread Craig L.
Hello list, Sadly, my 11 year-old Toshiba laptop has become physically unusable*, and I will be receiving a new laptop at work. We are looking at the Dell E7440, and my initial look tells me I will be getting something that should run a pure Debian main installation, but I figured I would ask to b