Adventures in Linux-Laptop-Land
What is it about Dell and their laptops that they have to change the hardware every few months, even among the same model lines? I used to have a Dell Inspiron 600m, which worked quite well under Debian Sarge, with a decent X screen resolution (1400x1050), working sound, Ethernet and wireless, and working PCMCIA.
I recently got a new laptop, and got the next model up in the Inspiron line (630m), since the 600m was not made anymore. The 630m has proven to be *very* Linux and Free-Unix unfriendly. The video is in Intel 915GM card, with the LCD screen only able to do 1280x800 (what a strange resolution, very wide but narrow). Anyway, pretty much every distro I've tried on it needs the 915resolution hack to work at anything but 1024x768.
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