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Saturday, February 10, 2007

Debian Etch, Me and a dell Inspiron 1300

So, the time had come, to switch from Ubuntu to Debian, even if one can say that itś a downgrade, I don't think so.

The Dell Laptop I have, is a Dell Inspiron 1300 that has a 1,4 ghz Pentium Celeron M CPU, 256 Mb DDR RAM, and 40 G hard drive.
It also has CDRW/DVD and some other stuff including a Broadcom 4318 Air Force One MiniPCI WiFi card.

The install was quite smooth, and went on pretty well, as I used text based install program.
The graphical install looked nice, but it wasn't able to find my toutchpad, so, back to basics.
The only thing that DOES NOT work "out of the box" is WiFi, and the windscreen. You have to install ndiswrapper and 915resolution like this:

su #switch to root
aptitude install ndiswrapper* 915resolution


One can feel that suspend and hibernate is good to have, and therefore, one must install gnome-power-manager, like this:

su #switch to root yet again
aptitude install gnome-power-manager

As I was doing some work, i noticed that if i suspend the laptop, or hibernate it, my Xorg wont start normally. I you have a solution to this, then please let me know.

Ambjörn "gholen" Thorhard

1 comments:

biginoz said...

The tutorial help you to have a computer witch work perfectly
http://wiki.debian-fr.net/materiel/portable/dell/inspiron1300