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On Monday 19 December 2005 7:04 pm, Ken Schneider wrote:
Of all of the complaints I see on this list #1 is wireless cards and #2 is graphics setup. Both of which can be blamed on the EOMs for not providing proper drivers for their hardware.
I've had both problems on my Dell Inspiron 1000 laptop but have mostly overcome them. The graphics setup problem wasn't solvable through Sax2; I finally found a post through Google that gave me the right xconfig values. The symptom was a garbled screen full of colorful vertical lines, and I still get that once in a while if something else has gone wrong. When it happens I can't make it go away, not even with Alt-Ctl-Bksp or switching to a different text console; I have to reboot. The wireless card problem I partly solved by using ndiswrapper, but I still need to remove the card when KDE is starting up or shutting down, or when booting. I think there's some kind of IRQ or port conflict. There has to be a way of removing the conflict since Windows does it, but I've had no success at it. I can't solve it with BIOS settings since this machine has only the simplest ones. Paul