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andrea.ferraris@gmail.com
*nix forums beginner
Joined: 12 Apr 2006
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 Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 11:53 pm Post subject:
Latitude D620 or D820 and Tecra A7-101 or M5-136
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Hi,
Does somebody have some experience with the following laptops?
Latitude D620 or D820 and Tecra A7-101 or M5-136
Thx in advance and best regards,
Andera |
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Jon Leech
*nix forums beginner
Joined: 05 May 2006
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| Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 3:09 am Post subject:
Re: Latitude D620 or D820 and Tecra A7-101 or M5-136
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andrea.ferraris@gmail.com wrote:
| Quote: | Does somebody have some experience with the following laptops?
Latitude D620 or D820 and Tecra A7-101 or M5-136
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I have a D620. Tried to install Mandriva 2006, which kernel panics
on boot, and does not recognize either the network card or video during
installation.
Next I tried Fedora Core 5. I was unable to do a hard disk install
from the resized NTFS Windows partition - for some reason FC5 only
allows installing off VFAT or ext2 partitions, unlike Mandriva which
does recognize NTFS. Fortunately there were ext2 partitions left from
the aborted Mandriva install and I moved the FC5 ISOs there.
Installation went relatively smoothly from there, although I haven't
gotten far beyond the basic post-install configuration steps yet. I have
the WXGA+ display, and it looks like it will be necessary to run
i915resolution in order for X to pick up on the 1440x900 display mode.
Jon
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Jim
*nix forums Guru
Joined: 20 Feb 2005
Posts: 609
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| Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 1:51 pm Post subject:
Re: Latitude D620 or D820 and Tecra A7-101 or M5-136
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Jon Leech wrote:
| Quote: | andrea.ferraris@gmail.com wrote:
Does somebody have some experience with the following laptops?
Latitude D620 or D820 and Tecra A7-101 or M5-136
I have a D620. Tried to install Mandriva 2006, which kernel panics
on boot, and does not recognize either the network card or video during
installation.
Next I tried Fedora Core 5. I was unable to do a hard disk install
from the resized NTFS Windows partition - for some reason FC5 only
allows installing off VFAT or ext2 partitions, unlike Mandriva which
does recognize NTFS. Fortunately there were ext2 partitions left from
the aborted Mandriva install and I moved the FC5 ISOs there.
Installation went relatively smoothly from there, although I haven't
gotten far beyond the basic post-install configuration steps yet. I have
the WXGA+ display, and it looks like it will be necessary to run
i915resolution in order for X to pick up on the 1440x900 display mode.
Jon
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I've pretty much picked SuSE as the distro of choice for laptops.
Haven't had a kernel panic yet, NVidia graphics goes in without a hitch,
and the Vaio I just finished even has the memory stick pro reader covered :)
--
When all else fails...
Use a hammer. |
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