Glad to hear it! I just ordered one and hope I am equally happy. As to
an inspiron 7000 page Steve Hsieh (long time Linux user) has put one
together. It is not linked from his main page but you can get to it at
http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~steveh/inspiron/
Out of curiosity which distribution are
Are there people out there successfully using the commercial Xig Xserver
for the Inspiron 7000? Half their web page says its supported, and the
other half says it is not.If so, can you provide any details on
anything special you had to do to get it working? I will add this info
to my
Note a friend of mine had an apparently similiar experience with a port
replicator. Dell figured it out eventually, and invoiced him for both so
I would not assume you have gotten both for free.
In early December I used Dell's home page,
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On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Peter Bailey wrote:
On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Justin Scott Shriver wrote:
Well said and agreed Brian. By the way...is the Neomagic Chipset for all
neomagic cards now being supported by XF86 naturally, or is
XBF/MetroX/AccelX still a necessity to support th
Note, it sounds to me like you are trying to install Xfree. If this is
the case these files are compressed and tarred(sp?). Anyway, if that is
what you are trying to do getting the extract utility will make your life
MUCH easier. Also, if that is what you are doing read the readme file, it
Reading further it is clear that you are installing Xfree. If you are new
to this whole thing I would do the following, not because it is quick but
because it is informative.
1. Go to the Xfree web site and read the relevant man pages, you can also
get the most recent files there.
2. When you
Anyone out there have a fairly cheap ($30 or less) distribution of redhat
that includes archives of sunsite, tsx11, etc AND/OR that includes some
utilities (like the RedHat Power utilities, GNOME, that sort of stuff?)
Doug
Hmm, I am not sure what is on the disks but Linux Mall sells the
I've been hearing good thibgs about it. but what software does it
support?? The 2 main programs I use are Front Page 98 and MS Office
99.. Is it worth it??? Where can you get it???
First let me say that unless you write software or host web pages you are
unlikely to be happy about
Two quick things about the I7K.
First, Steve Hsieh maintains an excellent page dedicated to setting up
Linux on the I7k. It is especially useful for information about setting
up the X-server.
I found that the current (January) release of Xfree works on the I7K in
vga mode. So, that is an
