Re: Dell E5500 notebook and Debian support

[Amit Uttamchandani <amit.uttam@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:02:12 +0530 (IST)
tanushyam bhattacharjee <gettanu@yahoo.co.in> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I am going to purchase a dell E5500 notebook and Debian Linux will be used as OS.I am interested to know whether latest Debian kernel supports the wireless and graphics of this model or not.
> tanushyam
> 

Check out http://linux-wless.passys.nl/index.php for wireless support.

For graphics card:

 Intel - quite good driver support.
 ATI - open source drivers are there for 2D. 3D is almost there for
most chipsets
 Nvidia - you will have to use proprietary drivers from them.

Good luck.
Amit