On 3/9/19 11:44 PM, Xi Ruoyao wrote:
On 2019-03-09 23:14 +0000, Ken Moffat wrote:
On Sat, Mar 09, 2019 at 05:58:11PM -0500, Mark wrote:
Thanks for the reply Ken.
Well I gave up to soon. I started looking more into the Fedora live image
and saw the kernel it uses had the dell_laptop, dell_smbios and dcdbas
modules loaded.
I rebuilt my kernel with those modules and was surprised to see it fixed the
problem.
Great. The dependencies of modules on laptops are a black art.
ath9k needs no firmware so it's often used by the GNU guys building a computer
w/o non-free software code completely.
More annoying, Dell is reusing laptop design for some of its desktop computers.
In our office I've been assigned a Dell computer and ran into several issues
building LFS on it. For example, it has an "laptop display" and old desktop
environments (in Ubuntu 16.04 used as host OS) use that nonexisting "display" as
the main one!
That's disappointing. I've had some very good systems from Dell. I am
using Dell monitors now and they are very good. However I suppose they
make some cheap things that are not so good..
And recently we are assigned serveal SSDs. Then we found the ATX power source
of these Dells is really limited and has no extra power slots for additional
SATA devices...
In China we jokely say Dell is "a company only stupid man with a lot of money
will buy its product". And Lenovo is "a company only have a conscience in
America" (because the price of its product is significantly higher in China and
the difference can't be explained with taxes, transportation costs etc.) So we
often choose to buy some parts and assemble a desktop PC "From Scratch" :).
For those who know how to do that, the result is generally better. It's
easier today though. It's not like you need a soldering iron any more.
http://oldcomputers.net/heathkit-h89.html :)
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