Dell's Linux Compat

[Richard Hubbard]

Triple check the video card.  My first dell was a
latitude and worked flawlessly.  The one i have now
has the intel i830m.  Pretty poor due to the way it
yanks main memory to use as video ram, and the lack of
dell support for pre configuring this in the bios.

However, this is supposed to be fixed with XFree 4.3,
and is barely passible with current red hat releases,
so if you are getting a good price, then it still may
be worth it.

--- Scott Lawton <green_man at bluefrog.biz> wrote:
> I get fliers from time to time with used Dell
> computers for sale, and have been thinking off and
> on about getting one for 
> a Linux only machine. I'm thinking of a Latitude
> laptop with a P III. How is their compatability for
> sound, video, 
> modems, NICs, etc, ? 
> 
> Does anyone have firsthand experince with them ? 
> They're happy to tell you how Windows compliant they
> are because it's Pentium, but I don't know. 
> Call me non-conformist but I've always had AMD
> chips. 
> 
> -- 
> Scott
> Pegasus v 4.01
> 
> "There are 10 kinds of people in the world: 
> those who understand binary, and those who don't."
> Richard Hubbard 
> 


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