On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 06:58, rpjday wrote: > On 19 Dec 2001, Justin Ellison wrote: > > > Go to www.whacked.net - you should be able to find it from there. > > > > On Tue, 2001-12-18 at 20:46, Charles Galpin wrote: > > > On Tue, 2001-12-18 at 18:05, Justin Ellison wrote: > > > > Adam, > > > > > > > > I have a Dell Inspiron 8100 as well, and I *highly* recommend you > > > > subscribe the the linux-dell-laptops mailing list at > > > > http://www.yahoo.com/groups/linux-dell-laptops. This is an excellent > > > > laptop, and if planned out correctly, works great with Linux. Read the > > > > FAQ, it has details about setting up a suspend to disk partition as well > > > > as your other partitions. It also goes over setting up the rest of the > > > > hardware. > > > > > > Hi Justin > > > > > > I just got an I8100 today. Where is this FAQ you speak of? I can't find > > > it on the linux-dell-laptops archive on yahoo. > > i've been running rh 7.2 on an inspiron 8100 for a couple of months now -- > love it, just love it. apparently, there's a collection of i8k user-space > utilities you can have some fun with, prebuilt rpm, at www.freshrpms.net > -- look for "i8kutils". i'm just about to see what these are all about. > > and FYI, the nvidia drivers work just fine on my ultra xga screen. if you > have any trouble with that, drop me a line.
Thanks. So far everything has gone fine. As you said, the nvidia drivers were easy to install and work great - you have to love 1600x1200 on a laptop. Sound and ethernet (both built in and wireless) work automagically as pretty much everything else did. It looks like we need to compile in a kernel module to make the i8k stuff work. I installed it and got that far. When I do my kernel burn in test, I'll mod the kernel config. First off I need to make sure it works ok under w2k - aparrantly some people are experiencing lockups due to nvidia driver problems. I've had it lock up on me twice, but it's hard to tell what happened since it was idle at the time. I am having trouble finding a css library for xine to play encrypted DVDs. I seem to be able to play unencrypted DVDs ok, but with an older (maybe .4?) version with support for encrypted DVDs I couldn't get sound to work. Anyone have a newish version of xine that works with encryptred DVDs? Under w2k I can hot swap the floppy/DVD, so I'm hoping to find a way to do this under linux too. Linux does this happily with hot-swap hard drive carriers as long as there is a drive in when you boot. Without it, linux somehow needs to be told to rescan the IDE bus and detect the device. I believe the same needs to occur here with the floppy/dvd switching. Anyone know how to do this? Oh, I had to do some manual rpm conflict resolution toget ximian gnome to install - right after a fresh 7.2 install. I dunno. otherwise very happy. charles _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
