Archive for the tag 'd400'

Suspend to disc with Dell Latitude D400 on Linux

I now have a Dell Latitude D400 for 1 month. This little (really small) computer is pretty nice to use, but it right now, it’s really hard to have suspend working on this kind of stuff. The main reason: it only support ACPI (no APM), and ACPI isn’t well supported by the Linux kernel.
I have [...]

admin October 24th, 2004

Installing Debian on a Dell Latitude D400

Contents

Introduction

Latitude D400

Base Installation
Finishing the install
X / Sound / PCMCIA / ACPI

XFree
Sound
PCMCIA
ACPI

About

Introduction
At my work, some people have bought some D400 laptop to use Linux.
During the installation, we run into various issues. This short
document try to explain, how we managed to have a working Debian
on this.
For various reasons, we want to use a debian and this [...]

admin February 28th, 2004