Re: Wrestling with Dell Precision laptop. You too? Discuss tips experience

2011-12-07 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 02:01:34AM +, PAWAN wrote: Hi, I took a Dell precision M4600 and trying to install RHEL6. I am quite not able to do boot it at all. I need some help on how to make the boot detectable ? ...and this has what to do with debian? -- Bob Holtzman If you think you're

Re: Wrestling with Dell Precision laptop. You too? Discuss tips experience

2011-12-06 Thread PAWAN
Hi, I took a Dell precision M4600 and trying to install RHEL6. I am quite not able to do boot it at all. I need some help on how to make the boot detectable ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Wrestling with Dell Precision laptop. You too? Discuss tips experience

2011-07-18 Thread Wawrzek Niewodniczanski
On 07/17/11 20:33, Paul Johnson wrote: Here's my progress report on Debian and the Dell Precision M4600. [...] I have worked A LOT on the touchpad question. [...] Thanks for great update. I have M6510 and the same problems, so I'm going to give the patch a try. BTW I'm left handed and I

Re: Wrestling with Dell Precision laptop. You too? Discuss tips experience

2011-07-17 Thread Paul Johnson
Here's my progress report on Debian and the Dell Precision M4600. I am in a state of currently not broken usage. I still use noapic and it allows suspend and restart. I have worked A LOT on the touchpad question. There are hundreds of posts about it, too confusing. The best thing i've found is

Re: Wrestling with Dell Precision laptop. You too? Discuss tips experience

2011-06-23 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Paul Johnson pauljoh...@gmail.com wrote: I have no improvement on the touchpad config to report, but have found a way to dependably reboot the system and also to suspend and resume the system,but from RAM and disk. After upgrading to the Debian sid kernel, I

Re: Wrestling with Dell Precision laptop. You too? Discuss tips experience

2011-06-14 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 04:46:23PM +0200, Paul Johnson wrote: On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Paul Johnson pauljoh...@gmail.com wrote: Recognize ALPS Touchpad on Dell E6510 in Ubuntu https://confluence.nau.edu/confluence/display/~cmg...@nau.edu/Recognize+ALPS+Touchpad+on+Dell+E6510+in+Ubuntu

Re: Wrestling with Dell Precision laptop. You too? Discuss tips experience

2011-06-13 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Paul Johnson pauljoh...@gmail.com wrote: If you have one of these new-ish Dell laptops, maybe we can help each other. I've got a new Dell Precision M4600 laptop. 3. Wakeup from Suspend to RAM does not work. Hi, I have an update on this Dell Precision laptop.

Re: Wrestling with Dell Precision laptop. You too? Discuss tips experience

2011-06-08 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 08:00:16PM +0200, Paul Johnson wrote: If you have one of these new-ish Dell laptops, maybe we can help each other. I have a Dell Lattitude E6410. 1. Don't bother with Debian Squeeze. The newer kernel from Mine is a bit older so Squeeze works and putting the laptop

Wrestling with Dell Precision laptop. You too? Discuss tips experience

2011-06-07 Thread Paul Johnson
If you have one of these new-ish Dell laptops, maybe we can help each other. I've got a new Dell Precision M4600 laptop. In the Dell web pages, there was indication that they had RedHat running on these things, so I figured it was safe to order. Now I'm told it was a mistake in their web pages

Re: Wrestling with Dell Precision laptop. You too? Discuss tips experience

2011-06-07 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/07/11 at 01:00pm, Paul Johnson wrote: If you have one of these new-ish Dell laptops, maybe we can help each other. The newer kernel appears to be necessary to use either the wireless ( Intel Corporation Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 ) or the wire (Intel Corporation 82579LM Gigabit Network

Re: Wrestling with Dell Precision laptop. You too? Discuss tips experience

2011-06-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/07/2011 01:27 PM, William Hopkins wrote: On 06/07/11 at 01:00pm, Paul Johnson wrote: If you have one of these new-ish Dell laptops, maybe we can help each other. The newer kernel appears to be necessary to use either the wireless ( Intel Corporation Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 ) or the