On October 25, 2004 15:21, Angus Auld wrote: > Greetings, I just ordered a new laptop, a Dell Inspiron 1150. > Is there anyone on the list who has experience with this model > and Mandrake Linux?? > As best as I could determine, Dell laptops are relatively Linux > compatible/friendly. > > Any feedback would be appreciated. > Dell had a great offer on the Inspiron.....free shipping, free upgrade to a > 60GB harddrive, free nylon carrying case, and......a free Kodak CX 6445 > digital camera! :-) > > Best regards. > > --Angus
I have an old Dell Inspiron 3800. Both 10.0 Official and 10.1 Community work well on it. A few glitches, most notably with a wireless pcmcia card (got it working in 10.0, but only with encryption disabled, and with some very weird glitches, like trashing of my default system font; haven't had time to try yet with 10.1). Also, I only have 64MB memory, which is not enough to run KDE on, so it thrashes badly (and I haven't had time to investigate a more memory friendly window mangler). Strangely though, MandrakeMove does not work on it. It fails during booting (I forget the exact symptoms). It's not the cd, because I can boot it fine on a Compaq Armada M700 laptop, and a Dell Dimension XPS R400 desktop. I can also boot Knoppix on the Inspiron. -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights to use these opinions are granted under the GNU GPL.
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