[NTLUG:Discuss] FC4 and Dell Inspiron 8600
. Daniel
xdesign at hotmail.com
Mon Aug 22 13:02:06 CDT 2005
I guess I should try to make it to the next meeting and maybe I can see
what steps are being performed in suspend to disk. Largely, my problem is
video as far as I can tell anyway.
I have an ATI Radeon Mobility 9200 with 128MB RAM in my machine... I
selected that option over the stock NVidia because I foolishly assumed ATI
was better supported under Linux and X.org. I was mostly wrong as it turns
out as I have read more about success with S3/S4 modes with NVidia users
lately. Sad.
My more complete set of specs are:
768MB RAM, 128MB Radeon Mobility, 60GB HD, Firewire, USB 2.0, 1920x1200
wide aspect display, Dual layer DVD writer. (I didn't want too many
"wishes" unanswered when I bought this machine... and I paid too much money
for it....)
When's the next meeting again?
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List <discuss at ntlug.org></i><br>Subject: <i>Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] FC4
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2005 12:13:37 -0500 (CDT)</i><br>. Daniel wrote:<br> > Do we have any
users on this list using this combination? If not, how<br> > about Dell
Inspiron + Linux of any flavor?<br> ><br> > I'd like to discuss about
success, failure and roadblocks in getting<br> > Linux running well on
the Inspiron 8600. I've got mine set up in a way<br> > that's
"satisfactory" but not as perfect as I would like it to be.
That<br> > is to say, all hardware is working but suspend doesn't come
back from S3<br> > or S4 (suspend to ram or suspend to disk).<br>
><br> > Let's discuss!<br><br>I have a friend with the 8600 and I've
personally use an M60 (which is<br>effectively equivalent)... I ran SUSE
9.2 and suspend to disk worked<br>for me. And my friend I know is now up to
SUSE 9.3 on his.<br><br>In general Dells to pretty well with suspend to
disk. I could care<br>less about the other suspend modes (which I never
got to work right).<br>Suspend to disk exists primarily outside of the
"built in"<br>modes anyhow.<br><br>The Dell M70 I was using on
Sat does suspend to disk... in fact<br>I was VPN'd one day and left my
laptop on (unplugged) and it<br>shutdown (I have it configured to suspend
to disk when the battery<br>gets low) and on bootup it came right back up
.. wireless and<br>everything AND the VPN (if you were at the meeting on
Sat I<br>was talking about the security implications of that
behavior).<br><br>I often times demonstrate a suspend to disk while playing
a<br>Quicktime streaming video via Internet Exploder running under
CrossOver<br>Office and how it ALL comes back and continues right where
it<br>left off after the suspend. The Windows folks around here
say<br>they haven't seen that even under
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