One thing you have to be careful about is the Inspiron 5000*E* series. As Intel is discontinuing cpu-on-a-card deal, they had to get a newer model of Inspirons out that uses the newer cpu format. I can't speak for any other models, but Inspiron 5000E(vs just 5000) changed how they implement apm. I don't think anyone in linux community knows for sure how they changed it, but it basically breaks parts of apm. The author of apm supposedly knows about this already, but I haven't heard anything else besides that he knows about it. The machine can still suspend and wake up, but any attempts to get the battery level will cause a kernel OOPS. And since you need to start apmd to have the machine suspend, the laptop will always have one kernel OOPS under its belt by the time it finishes booting. Otherwise, 7.2 works fine on it. On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, SIR admin wrote: > i have a inspiron 5000 running that MS windows98 jive. you think my dvd > player will work if i install 7.2 ? that'd be a call for change indeed. > > matthew > > [snip] > > Can't speak to 7.2 yet but 7.1 runs very well on my Inspiron 7000. There > was a bug in the pcmcia that will give you problems if you run 2 nics (I > used it as a firewall while I was building another box to protect my > network). Other than that, its a rock solid combination. Dell uses the > maestro 2 sound card in the laptops. Its marginal for sound quality but > it works just fine now that the kernel has a maestro-2 driver. > supermount works without a hitch and so do all the other aspects of the > pcmcia - just plug n play. > > [snip] > > > John Kim Linux System Engineer @ ASL - visit us at www.aslab.com
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