[PLUG] Will Debian Install on a Dell 4100? - Red Hat is being too irritating

[Lynn Yuan]

Here is what someone else did for their Dell 8100
notebook.  I gather it should be somewaht similar for
the Dell 4100.

You need the updated drivers from Nvidia
(http://www.nvidia.com). Down load the latest drivers,
both the NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-2313.i386.rpm and 
NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-2313.rh72up.i386.rpm, and then
install them, the kernel one first. 

You also need a working XF86Config-4 file. Go to the
bottom of the page at
http://home.olemiss.edu/~tschumpr/i8100.html
and grab the one for your resolution there and then
copy it to the appropriate place. 

Also goto the path
http://www.linux-laptop.net/dell.html for more
information on configuring Linux on you Inspiron 8100.
Linux works great on it. 



--- Robert <RobertsLinuxPosts at CorralCreek.com> wrote:
> Actually I haven't had anything run right on the
> Dell other than Windows 
> 2000.  Thanks for letting me know it's not me!
> 
> I am running Red Hat on an Alienware something or
> other, on which I 
> recently replaced the defective motherboard with
> another more recent FIC 
> AD11.  I thought this was the difficult computer so
> never even tried Debian 
> on it. I will correct that soon...
> 
> Robert
> 
> 
> 
> Kyle Accardi wrote:
> 
> > Robert wrote:
> > 
> >> I'm not happy with the poor Red Hat service, more
> security fixes needed
> >> than Windows, and that they want another $60 a
> year to download all these
> >> past my 30 day registration.  I have been trying
> all day to download from
> >> Red Hat but they put you on their schedule for
> hours and then don't start
> >> the download.  up2date (and the -u too version)
> just produces error 404
> >> (which probably means they want my Visa number
> via command line).  It
> >> makes me think Bill Gates has an eeeevil brother
> running Red Hat and
> >> Microsoft should be renamed White Hat for
> creating a free Windows Update
> >> that actually works most of the time. Rant over.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > They are particularily slammed by the zlib issue. 
> All distros are in the
> > same boat.  You can update any distro w/o $ if you
> use ftp mirrors.  Don't
> > pay for updates, they are free.
> > 
> > 
> >> Now I want to try again, but want to know if
> anyone has successfully
> >> installed it on a Dell 4100, PIII 1000Mhz, 512MB
> Ram, Dell (OEM Brand?)
> >> nVidia GForce2GTS 32MB DDR.
> > 
> > I've had bad luck w/nVidia on Dell.  Those cards
> *are* oem'd for Dell and
> > are like nothing else on Earth.  If you got RH and
> X working on this
> > machine, you're way ahead.
> > 
> > --
> > Kyle Accardi
> 
> 
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