Re: DELL Inspiron and Linux

From: Phil Adamson (p.adamson@sussex.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Mar 10 2000 - 13:18:24 MET


On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Brian Kurt Fujikawa wrote:

> Hi Anton
> 
> There's a very informative Linux on Dell Inspiron 7000/7500 web site:
> 
> http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~steveh/inspiron/
> 
> My personal experience: I'm running RedHat 6.1 on an Inspiron 7000.
> Everything works except for the sound - because the Maestro wavetable
> sound systems is not yet supported (there are patches at RedHat, but I'm
> not brave enough to rebuild the kernel). Also, for some reason, I needed
> to install RedHat 6.0 first and upgrade to 6.1 in order for X-Windows to
> work, but this may be my problem.

There are binary modules for the stock Red Hat kernels on Dell's website -
I don't remember the exact URL, but they have an rpm, which for some
perverse reason _contains_ a cpio archive, with the modules. 

	Phil



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