Re: Testing on Inspiron 5150 (or 5160)
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 10:31:59PM -0700, H. S. wrote:
>
> Does anyone have experience with Debian on 5150? Any
> quirks or should Testing or Unstable work just after
> installation.
I'm writing this on a 5150 running testing. No big problems. I haven't
been able to get suspend/sleep to work, but I can't say I've tried too
hard either. Getting DRI acceleration working was a bit convoluted, but
with info from a few websites I managed to do it. I can provide kernel
.config files or other specific info if you are interested. This
machine is about a year old, I don't know how much the hardware has
changed in recent 5150s. Wireless card will definitely not work (except
if you use ndiswrapper, but I'd rather not go there). Another thing I
have not managed to make work is the modem, but again I haven't put much
of an effort into it.
It's kind of heavy, good if you want a semi-stationary laptop, but the
screen is big and beautiful, the keyboard has a reasonable size, and
battery life is surprisingly good for a 15" display.
Cheers
--
Ivan Fernández
ivan.fernandez@yale.edu
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