On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 09:37, Simon Sedgwick wrote: > Hi one and all, > > I'm thinking about purchasing a Dell M60 and dual booting XP Pro and > FC2. I've read a few reports of Dell laptops getting fried because the > ACPI support doesn't work properly with the 2.4 kernel; has anybody got > suspend to work with FC2 and the 2.6 kernel? I know I'll need the > Linuxant drivers to get the modem and WiFi to work. > I have an old Dell Latitude that I have been running FC2 on for awhile. So far it works well. Not sure if the results will be the same with an M60 or not. The fan appears to be controlled just fine with FC2. It starts and stops as the system heats up and cools down. Power management appears to work fine. I have not spent time to get suspend to work, looked at it briefly but have not since then. I guess the M60 comes with wireless/modem integrated. Mine uses PCMCIA cards for those services. The Xircom card for wired ethernet and modem appears to work with no problem. (still have to find a way to get the dialup to work with Brighthouse's dial up service, but the modem does dial). Have been using a D-Link DWL-G650 wireless card with the prism54 drivers. Other than the card not being listed in the Network Configuration tool it works well. > FYI, I plan to use XP only for my music composition and FC2 for > development, 3D/2D graphics and everything else. So if you know of any > other problems I'm likely to encounter with going over to Dell laptops > I'd love to know. > I picked up a second harddrive for my laptop to load FC2 on. Have not put the drive with windows 2000 on it back in the laptop since then. So far everything I want to do I can do from FC2 on the laptop. The only real problem I have is that I would like to get the display to run at a higher resolution but I think I have hit the limit for this laptop (although it seemed like I was at a higher resolution with windows 2000). -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx I used to be an agnostic, but now I'm not so sure.
