Re: [debian-knoppix] Dell Inspiron 8200 owners wanted for KNOPPIX testing
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 06:52:09PM +0100, Guenter Gabler wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 11:16:54AM +0100, Klaus Knopper wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Does anyone of you own a Dell Inspiron 8200 and could please try to
> > boot one of the December versions of Knoppix on that?
> >
> > The newer Dell notebooks have a critical hardware bug that freezes the
> > entire machine when accessing an IO address area (0x810...0x81f) within
> > the PCMCIA range, that's why you had to boot with "knoppix nopcmcia"
> > in earlier releases. This area is now excluded, so if you could send a
> > test report about if it works now without this option, that would be
> > nice!
> >
> > Please try a recent December 2002 version.
>
> My 8200 boot now without problems. :-)
Thanks for your quick answer. I feel much better now, because tomorrow there
will be a new pressed edition of 5000 pieces; good to know they now work
fine on the Dell Notebooks, too. :-)
Regards
-Klaus Knopper
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