Howdy, Jordi! On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 29/04/2008, Igor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just purchased a Dell laptop with Ubuntu 7.10 preinstalled. > [snip] > > > However, I prefer the Debian package selection and frequency of > > updates (I usually run unstable). > > I bought one of the same ones. I simply wiped the hard drive and > installed Debian on it. I managed to get everything working with > Debian, except suspend and hibernate (although I don't care too much > about that), although it took some tweaking. I bet if I tweaked it > some more, I could get suspend and hibernate too, but I haven't really > bothered.
The laptop is XPS M1330. It's been configured with the hibernate/suspend, wireless networking, cpu frequency scaling, webcam, and some other features working out of the box. I haven't tried the fingerprint reader yet. I don't really want to spend time breaking and restoring these features. That's why I'd prefer not to do a clean wipe. I've already changed the apt sources list to point to Debian repositories. So far, none of the extra packages that I installed have complained. But, I have yet to do a dist-upgrade, so I don't know if that will introduce any problems (one step at a time :-). I just noticed an unfortunate circumstance, though. Dell installed a 32-bit OS on my 64-bit machine. In my opinion, that is a rather dumb thing to do. It also means that I might have to also figure out a way to migrate to a 64-bit environment. I'm not quite sure how to go about that yet. So, suggestions still welcome. Thanks in advance. Igor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
