[cochiselinux] Re: Inspiron laptop problems with Knoppix
- From: "Peter Levine" <levinep@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: cochiselinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2004 19:20:15 +0000
I have a Dell Latitude at work and I put Suse 8.1 on it. When the OS was
loading, the full screen would be used, but when I logged in, even less than
65% of the screen would be used. The video card was by Nvidia and their site
had a special driver for my Suse version as well as installation
instructions. After I installed the driver, I had full-screen Linux. Maybe
your Inspiron problem can be solved in a similar way.
From: "Prevett, Larry" <Prevettl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: cochiselinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: <cochiselinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [cochiselinux] Re: Inspiron laptop problems with Knoppix
Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 08:48:16 -0700
Hi Millie,
is there a CMOS setting that says something
like "Power off on Shutdown" or something like that?
There's several pages on Linux and Dell laptops of all models
at
http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/
Click Dell.
You might find a page with some promising information.
I saw several items about power management and X-Windows
configurations to get the full screen.
I also saw some posts about Inspirons having a faulty
bios that requires upgrading, heat problems, and
recompiling kernels.
|Dick Sears wrote:
|I have an Inspiron 8200 dual boot machine in which Ihave never had any
|shutdown problems with Red Hat 9.0,
|but the screen is only about 65% of the available screen.
|I haven't tried Knoppix on it, but have on another Dell,
|an Inspiron 5000e, and don't recall any shutdown problems.
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>Millie Galliher wrote:
>I'm having some problems running Knoppix on my
>two laptops. On the Inspiron 5100, it loads from the CD and
>the screen is a full screen. It seems to work (using the Knoppix CD and
>running it from the CD). However, when I attempt to shut down, it goes
>through the process and says it successfully shut down. However, the
>screen
>is still on. The only way I can actually shut down the computer is by
>pulling the battery out! On the Inspiron 1100, it seems to load and
>work fine; however, the Knoppix
>screen only fills about 65% of the available screen. I have not been
>able to enlarge it to fill the whole screen. Also, when I shut down,
>the screen goes through the procedure, then stops after it
>says "shutdown complete".
>However, in this situation, I CAN turn off the machine by pushing the
>off button.
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