Installing on Dell D600 Latitude -
Ow Mun Heng
Ow.Mun.Heng at wdc.com
Fri Jul 23 16:54:26 UTC 2004
On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 02:48, Rafiq_Maniar at Dell.com wrote:
> According to:
> http://hardware.redhat.com/hcl/?pagename=details&hid=5510
>
> The D600 is Certified to work perfectly with Redhat Enterprise Linux 3
> (and by logical conclusion, it will also work on Fedora).
>
> What issues are you having with the video drivers?
>
> The video card is an ATI Mobile Radeon 9000, which is automatically
> detected OK during installation of Fedora Core 2 - I've just tested it
> here. X seems to work fine.
I'm running on FC2 on D600 actually.. So.. that should tell you
something. Only thing I can't make work is the modem. (used to work with
linuxant's code but not anymore)
>
> Maybe you could elaborate on your problem? Having you got a working X
> system and want to install additional drivers? i.e. like nvidia's
> proprietary drivers... I don't know if theres an ATI equivalent. Or is X
> just not starting at all? In which case, is this occuring during
> or after installation? And what version of Fedora are you using then?
>
> Thanks,
> Rafiq
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jhass at lexmark.com [mailto:jhass at lexmark.com]
> Sent: 22 July 2004 14:32
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Installing on Dell D600 Latitude -
>
>
>
> Greetings group,
>
> I was just wondering if anyone has had luck with installing the video
> drivers
> with the Dell D600 Laptop.
>
> Used to be with my ThinkPad I could trick it with some Sxx driver.
>
> Please advise if you have an easier method or a general purpose video
> driver that would work..
>
> I'm grateful for it.
>
> Cheers,
> JJ Hass
--
Ow Mun Heng
Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 on D600 1.4Ghz CPU kernel
2.6.7-2.jul1-interactive
Neuromancer 09:53:40 up 56 min, 4 users, load average: 0.52, 0.58, 0.38
More information about the fedora-list
mailing list