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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