Dell Inspiron 2650

koala · Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2002 8:35 pm Post subject: Dell Inspiron 2650

Hi,

I've just finished installing Gentoo on my shiny new Dell Inspiron 2650, and I've written a preliminary howto about it, you can read it at http://campus.uab.es/~2075931/gentooinstall.

Particularly, getting DMA on the hard drive was not immediate (2.4.19 kernel doesn't allow it) and found that OSS worked better than ALSA (!).

Anyway, I welcome any comments for improving it.

(BTW, I've heard that linux-laptops is semi-dead, not posting new submissions... any ideas?)[/url]

rphillips · Retired Dev Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 92

nicely done

biosx · n00b Joined: 23 Feb 2003 Posts: 7 Location: chicagoland

I just realized that Koala posted that a loooong time ago.

sorry about that
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janiskr · n00b Joined: 09 May 2004 Posts: 56 Location: Riga, Latvia

Woith kernel 2.6.5 (gentoo-dev-ources) I had to enable PCMCIA and only than i got netowrk to work

so maybe somebody can submit HW configuration of Inspiron 2650

I know only some basics:
GF2Go
Pentium4M1.8GHz
20GB HDD
256MB RAM (what speed?)
i don't know:
mobo
network
anything else

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