I had Mandrake 8 on my Dell Inspiron 8000 (256 ram,
GForce2 chip, DVD, etc). You'll probably have a few
gotchas:
- Nvidia drivers (obviously), search mandrakeforum.com
for Nvidia, I wrote the instructions for setting it up
(specifically for the Go chip on this laptop)
- Sound (for some reason if you use headphones while
root you get loud static each time it reads the
drive). I'm not sure if this is a reiserFS bug or
maelstrom 3 bug or what, but always use a standard
user.
- Lots of problems with full screen games (I get that
little 1/2 size window instead of full screen), and a
lot of GL stuff doesn't work without tweaking.
- Haven't yet toyed with the DVD
Aj
--- civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 July 2001 22:29, Bill Kenworthy
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am looking at a gettting Dell Inspiration 4000
> or 8000 laptop (which
> > ...). Only extras are 256M memory and cdrw. Has
> anyone installed mdk
> > 8.0 on a similar beast, and how successful. It
> will have to live with
> > win2000, at least for awhile, are there any
> gotchas (such as can mdk
> > resize ntfs to make room for itself?)
> >
> > BillK
>
>
> Mandrake cannot resize ntfs t make room for itself.
> NTFS is proprietary and
> secret, and the new version witn Win2K cannot even
> be read.
>
> The 4000 has a severe BIOS bug that prevents the use
> of kernel 2.4 with RAM >
> 192M, and it is not AFAIK tested for the 8000.
> Another block is the hardware
> location of ACPI which thwarts those who would wish
> to use the enterprise
> kernel for greater than 1024M RAM.
>
> With large amounts of memory, the Dell Laptop does
> work with
> kernel-2.2.19-10mdk (available during install), so
> there are no real barriers
> to using the notebook, but it will seem a little
> cranky to get going that
> first time.
>
> Civileme
>
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