[NTLUG:Discuss] FC4 and Dell Inspiron 8600

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 17:55 -0500, Chris Cox wrote:
> Sorry.. that's not as interesting 

???  I was talking in the context of ...

    "My Dell D600 running SUSE 9.2 (currently) with a Radeon
     RV250 based chipset suspends to disk just fine." -- Chrix
                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Your Legacy PC (LPC) and peripherals are what matter on suspend to disk,
that's why I asked.

> (doesn't change from D600 to D600)... but for completeness it's a
> Centrino P-M 1.6Ghz

Ahhh, i8x0-generation chipset market bundle with CPU.  Intel has been
good with the specs, I'll give them that.

> and the RV250 qualifies itself as a Radeon 9000 M9.  Same generation
> as the 8600... so should be roughtly comparable.

You have to be careful with the "Radeon Value" (RVxxx) because various
things change.

> Specifically it's Intel 82801 and 82855 (ICH4, etc) chipset stuff on the mb
> chipset side.

Right, that's what I was driving at.


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