Got a Dell Latitude C640 (Pentium IV M 2.0GHz, 512MB PC2100 SODIMM, 40GB laptop HDD) around August last year via second hand sale from a company disposing these in favor of Centrino-based laptops. All work with open source drivers (no tainting):
* wifi (ships with an 802.11b Orinoco Gold Classic mini-pci controller) * modem (via ALSA driver snd-intel8x0m) * video (using radeon DRI driver shipping with X.org/ XFree86 - up to 1024x768 resolution) * sound (using snd-intel8x0) * sensors (via i8k in Linux kernel). No lm-sensors support - use i8kutils for similar functionality. I haven't tried using the s-video output and the IR port, but reports tell that it works in Linux too. I just don't have the equipment to test them. The only thing I haven't tried is to enable hardware ACPI suspend -> this would require a kernel hack that would load a custom DSDT (coded in ACPI source language) in the BIOS. Since software suspend works just great (via `echo 4 > /proc/acpi/sleep`) it's much easier and faster to reconfigure acpid to suspend when the laptop lid is shut rather than recompile (not on this laptop!). Dell's quite known for shipping buggy BIOS firmware on their laptops, so that's not much of a surprise. I haven't tried Windows on this laptop as I wiped it away the day I got to run the Debian installer via net install (I don't have a need for windows, and the extra space freed can be used to hold more movies and other collectible media I download :) . Unfortunately it was shipped to me with a broken version of the CDROM firmware so I had to install Win98 temporarily (fits within the 512MB swap partition then deleted it afterwards) to load the firmware fix. My only grip is that it only has 1 USB port, and it's USB 1.1. Although considering that it's a 3-year old model to begin with (being released in July 2002), it's somehow understandable. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
