-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Shawn wrote: > I picked up an Acer TravelMate 4202 the other day with a duo core T2300 chip > in there. I've installed Kubuntu Dapper (with the 7th test disk - rc7?), and > after some initial problems seem to be running more or less fine. Except for > two points. > > First, I only have a resolution of 1024x768. Nothing more, nothing less is > available to me. Apparently this is a known issue to be resolved in the > official release of Dapper, but stems from a fault in the system BIOS (not > listing resolutions other than this). There is a reference to a fix for this > via a 915resolution patch. Anyone have any experience with this? Or other > suggestions? > > Second, the wireless card is not detected in any way, even though it is > powered up. It's an Intel a/b/g job. Any tips on getting this going? I did > find reference to a driver for ipw3945 and have downloaded the tarball, but > thought I'd check to see if anyone has experience with this before trying to > install it. (not sure if I fully understand the instructions yet either). > Any tips? > > Thanks for any suggestions. > > (Gustin, the pure Debian install was taking tooooo long, and the Dapper > install detected the broadcom card - once I had a cable plugged into it...)
I don't use Debian as a workstation anymore :) Debian does not use DMA on disks by default, which, although stable, is really slow. I have not personally used the 915 patch, but I would give it a go. If the tarball is a native driver I would use it over ndiswrapper. Is there an updated bios for the laptop? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEYTF2wRXgH3rKGfMRAjcAAKCYYOefEamk7s/nsaj53nAuWP1kxACeOAYf 1pLF4lD1rFDNKx3s+YHY+r0= =jFgj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
