Re: Dell Inspiron 7500 installation
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Johan Romin <johan@debian.as> writes:
> The graphics card is based on the Mach64 driver, so that is the one to use..
> Since you haven't told us what the max. resolution of your TFT screen,is it's
> hard to give you any modelines..
Do you have the 15" LCD? This should be capabable of 1400x1050 but make sure.
I can send you my XF86Config file if necessary.
> the PCMCIA card, is easy, it works well with the xirc2ps, at least on the
> 2.2.x kernel, never tested those on a 2.4.x kernel. Maybe someone else knows
> about that one?
Works great on the 2.4 kernel. I did have some problems with the card after a
suspend but ejecting and then re-inserting the card worked to clear this up.
> For more indepth help you have to tell us more of your spec.
<snip>
This laptop runs Debian very well. I have 2.2r3 unstable running with kernel
2.4 and XFree86 4.1. Really nice :)
Kevin
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