On Monday August 30 2004 11:08 pm, linux@tendata.com wrote:
Hey!... I'm installing SuSE 9.1 on this machine as I type: First scary issue was that my keyboard did not function after a reboot. It could have been NVIDIA. But one major thing is you need to configure touchpad in sax "choose synaptics" , also change keyboard type to "Dell laptop" here. Resolution was way to big and you need to change this also to LCD:
Fonts looked scratchy until I did the NVIDIA update in yast, you can also update to kde 3.3 with Yast.
Sound just came on after a reboot which leads me to belive hardware detection may be a little inconsistent.
Understand that there's more "busted" specs in laptops than any other 'puter!! Dell is just as guilty of playing "games" with chipsets, etc., as any other company. IBM still "rules" IMHO. Fred -- "Running Windows on a Pentium is like getting a Porsche but only being able to drive it in reverse with the handbrake on."