Re: Fun and excitement with Dell Latitude C600
martin f. krafft <madduck@madduck.net> writes:
> Michael Dell and Bill Gates are sleeping with each other. dell's
> computers these days seem to contain components and standards which
> are close enough to e.g. ACPI to be called ACPI, but they only
> really work with windoze. surprised?
*snort* Not at all. I don't even remember what it was I was trying
to get out of it. I know I've basically never gotten acknowledgement
that my laptop *had* batteries when I've tried using ACPI.
>> (4) I'd like to be able to use both the normal serial port and the
>> IR port (the latter mostly to connect to an iPAQ also running
>> Linux). The obvious thing to do is configure the DB9 serial to
>> be COM1 and the IR to be COM2 in the BIOS, but then there seems
>> to be an interrupt conflict resulting in the machine freezing
>> if both sound and (wired) serial are used at the same time. Is
>> there any way to get this working properly?
>
> what's the sound hardware?
lspci says "Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1983S
Maestro-3i PCI Audio Accelerator (rev 10)"; I use the ALSA
snd-card-maestro3 driver with it.
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