On November 5, 2004 03:52, Angus Auld wrote: ... > > > Also, how can I get my laptop (Dell Inspiron 1150) to > > > power down automatically on shutdown. I now have to > > > manually do it with my start button. :-( > > > Besides that though, it looks good. ... > Thanks a bunch for the helpful replies! > Right now, I am using the standard kernel version that installs with > Mdk10.0, which is what system I'm using. I am going to update to the latest > kernel version this evening. > > I will implement the changes suggested, and report back on my progress. :-) > > You gotta love this list..... > > Best regards. > > -- Angus
When I had Mdk 10.0 Official on my Dell Inspiron 3800, I had quite a few little problems, including the power off problem you mentioned. Also my wireless card would only work on every 2nd boot, and suspend didn't work properly (it would hang if you left it suspended for more than 30 minutes). When I went to 10.1 Community, some things got better, but some got worse. Some were downright weird. When I tried to install with my wireless card in, it would ask me for my driver floppy (driver floppy? what is this, Win 95?), which I don't have, and couldn't put in anyway, because I can't connect my floppy drive and cd drive at the same time (lost the cable that allowed this). First time I've heard of a Linux install that required the use of a floppy. When I tried to install it later, it worked, but it trashed my system font (default kde font went to 6 point italic or something like that, and could not be switched back). Wireless drivers trashing fonts? That sounds way too much like Windoze! 10.1 Official seems to have gotten all that sorted out. Wireless, power off, suspend, all just work with the default install, no customization on my part. In fact, they seem to have incorporated hints I saw in older articles on Linux for Dell laptops (e.g. I noticed when I hit Fn-Suspend that it does a "cardctl eject", which prevents the wireless card from causing a hang during resume; I do still recommend doing Ctrl-Alt-F1 before suspending, seems to be more reliable) Of course I haven't tried my digital camera (see earlier thread on this). And I still haven't sorted out a weird display problem, but it's not unique to Mdk (shows up under Knoppix too). I'll save it for a separate thread. Long story short, I recommend going straight to 10.1 for any Dell laptops. -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights to use these opinions are granted under the GNU GPL.
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