Saying Dell is pro MS may be an understatment, anyway here is what you
need.
Lat Xp Cirrus Logic Video chip
Lat Xpi 75 90 120same
lat Xpi 100(dstn) 133(tft) NeoMagic (~800k)
Lat Xpi CD 133,166 (tft only) Neomagic (~1.5M)
Lat Cpi 166,200,233,233p2,266p2 (12.1 & 13.3) Neomagic (~2M)
I personaly run linux (rh4.3) on an Xpi 75 tft and it runs with no
problem (of course the machine is limited to 640-480). Nothing on the
machine is propriatary, this line was designed by John Medika formerly
from
Apple and a ton of influence was used to make these things as standard as
possible.(anyone ever notice how much a Dell resembles the old
Powerbooks?) No the Neomagic chip doesn't suck, in fact it's one of the
most incredible chips that I've ever seen do it's job. In one chip you
have video memory with a 128bit pipe to a 64k processor thet uses a
fraction of the power of a normal accelerator, with maybee half the
weight
and still smokes most desktop cards.(credit were credit is do) but alas
they are a small company that likes to protect their trade secrets lest
some of the big boys out play them. So you will have to go with
Accelerated X, though I thought that Metro X also had support and that
should come with Red Hat if you buy it from them.
Also, don't forget that laptops are diffrent from a desktop, you can
almost throw out the thought of getting IRDA, USB, DMI, the darn port
replicator, battery monitoring, power managment, ect.. to work.
Also just an extra good bit of news, there is a movment in the industry
to standrdize the options bay and some other features between diffrent
manufactures notebooks, this may not seem big now, but wait until 15
diffremt versions of LS-120 or zip drives come out later this year all
with diffrent interfaces and drivers. The more the industry can
standardize the easier it will be to get a notebook to truly run Linux.
Thanks, Dan
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On Tue, 5 May 1998, Mark N. Hattarki wrote:
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> Has anyone installed linux on a dell laptop successfully? Has anyone
> tried? I know dell is very pro MS (read pro-BS), and tehy do have a lot of
> proprietary hw. So, since I may be getting one soon, I wanna know what
> happens.
>
> j/c,
> Mark
>
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