No - theres weirdness in various things - like the CPU mount for a slot 1
P2... It wouldn't take a P3 even though the board and machine had been
available with one.
The PSU connector had a couple of pins swapped for a while - don't know if
they still do it.
Sometimes the auxillary power connector is totally whacked... I've seen one
board (a gateway) that had a 4 pin Berg socket (like a hard drive) but it
was
gnd 12V+ 12V+ gnd
God help anyone who put a standard power plug into that.
The laptops use odd bits too - the CDROM drive is curved, so you're less
likely to find one that fits. The PSU plug is often a wee strip or box plug
rather than the more conventional barrel plug.
They do work nicely, and given that most brand name machine makers do
something similar (compaq / HP / IBM / gateway ) its not suprising.
My issue is with crappy ACPI support, and fans that won't turn on in linux,
and lmsensors not sensing anything, etc etc
Anyone got a spare fan unit for a L400 latitude dell ?
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Bell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, 19 October 2004 2:19 p.m.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Dell was Re: Newbie
I know we were talking desktops there, but FWIW, I've had reasonable
success with two different Dell laptops, an high spec, and a low end
one. Booted with knoppix, sound worked, network straight up, and on the
internet, blah-de-blah. Couldn't give ya any technical details tho ;-)
Isn't it just the motherboard power connector that's non-standard in
those desktops?
