Linux on Dell Laptops (was Re: [TriLUG] Linux on Gateway laptops)

Elliot Peele ebpeele2 at pams.ncsu.edu
Thu Jan 16 14:06:50 EST 2003


David,

I have a Latitude C810 and the modem and sound on the docking station
doesn't work. I haven't tried to get some things like the firewire
working because I don't need them right now, but they shoudl work just
fine.

Elliot

On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 09:21, David A. Cafaro wrote:
> Just curious but what little annoying things are you having with your
> dell laptop?  I'm currently running RH 8.0 on a Dell Latitude c610
> laptop with almost everything working, including the volume keys on the
> keyboard.  The only things not working are the audio out on my Dock
> (everthing else on the dock works fine), and the modem, which I just
> haven't bothered trying to yet, though it's rummored to work as well.
> 
> -David
> 
> On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 09:15, Maria C Winslow wrote:
> > He is going to pick one up on eBay, so I don't know exactly, but was going to 
> > try to get a Gateway since they were cheaper than the IBMs. I have RH 8 on a 
> > Dell laptop, with a few little annoying things. I do more on mine that he 
> > will do on his, though. 
> > 
> > Thanks for the advice!
> > Maria
> > 
> > On Wednesday 15 January 2003 9:11 pm, Roy Vestal wrote:
> > > Chris is right on the money. Check this page out.
> > >
> > > What laptops are you looking at? I've installed RHL 8.0 and 7.3 on 3
> > > different Gateways, 2 Toshiba's and one Micron. RHL 8.0 is my preference
> > > of the 2.
> > >
> > > On 15 Jan 2003, Chris Knowles wrote:
> > > > For info on getting Linux to run, check out:
> > > > http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/
> > > >
> > > > It's a good reference for figuring out if linux will run on specific
> > > > laptop hardware.
> > > >
> > > > CJK
> 
> 
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