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 [...]
Tags: d400, dell, linux
admin February 28th, 2004
Installing Alsa (as a lot of linux kernel module) on Debian (w/ debian package) can be a real pain. But this one is really simple:
- apt-get install alsa-base
- apt-get install alsa-source
Take care that alsa-base ask you which sound card you have. This is needed for building the init-script.
Next:
cd /usr/src/
tar xvfj alsa-driver.tar.bz2
cd modules/alsa-driver
./configure
make
make install
/etc/init.d/alsa start
Take [...]
Tags: alsa, linux
admin January 21st, 2004
Pam_USB is a pam_module that allow you to log in w/ a usb-key (or a cdrom/ floppy .. any removable device w/ a serial number or a free space to hold DSA keys.)
This is pretty kool since, this kind of stuff can be usefull. I think about:
security of course ( using Additional directive )
or usefull [...]
Tags: linux, security, sysadmin
admin December 19th, 2003
I still have the Ipaq at home. and i have done several things w/. The only trouble is that the ROM is quite full so I can’t install new stuff on .
As you can see here. The ipaq runs Xipaq and a rxvt.
I pretty like the sshd running on iPaq. It really make it damn [...]
Tags: ipaq, linux
admin November 15th, 2003