Re: Dell & Debian ?
Hi James,
I have a Dell Inspiron 8500 which i bought back in March last year. It's
been running Debian sid since the day it was delivered and has been
working well. X runs fine (I have an NVidia video card which works with
their binary driver fine), as does sound, disk, usb1/2, pcmcia, etc.
This particular machine has a 15.4" wide screen display on it, maximum
resolution of 1920x1200. X works fine with this :)
A few months ago I had suspend to disk working fine when suspending from
the console, suspending from X had a restart issue - but I'm looking
into that again soon with a 2.6 kernel rather than the 2.4 patched one I
had back then.
Hope that helps, feel free to ask any questions if you want more info.
Cheers,
Marcus
On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 06:43, James wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm looking to get a new portable, and my employer pushes Dell on us.
> Any particular models that have a good track record with Debian?
> Know video chipsets that work or do not work well? Weird screen sizes?
> Battery power management success/failures?
>
> Weird MS style corrupted bios issues? Anyone successfully running
> linuxbios on a dell? www.linuxbios.org
> Anyone successfully running linuxbios on any portable?
>
>
> James
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