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
This is a quick introduction to the Linux suspend to disc on Dell Inspiron / Latitude. This tips should work on Inspiron 3800 to 8200, and Latitude C serie. (all phoenix bios shipped w/ a Dell computer in fact)
There is two kind of suspend in APM:
suspend to disc
suspend to RAM
Suspend to RAM:
This is the easier [...]
admin March 22nd, 2004
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