[plug] Dell 9400

[Adam Hewitt]

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From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On
Behalf Of simon
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 8:49 AM
To: plug at plug.org.au
Subject: Re: [plug] Dell 9400

Richard Meyer (meyerri at westnet.com.au) wrote:
>
> Who was the laddie who ordered the Dell Inspiron 9400 a few weeks ago?
>
> If you've got it, can we get a dose of feedback, please?
>

Quite simply, the screen is awesome :) 1920x1200 goodness.

I havent had much time to spend on it. So far Ive put Mandriva 2006 on
it plus
the binary ATI drivers to get the x1400 running. Seems to work well.

The wireless requires a kernel update so I can compile the driver for
it, and
the SMcard reader needs a kernel patch as well, but Im reading it might
cause
suspend problems. I guess Ill see.

Ill see how I go getting the wireless going first. Perhaps Ill try
kubuntu.

Oh, 1 other 'bad' thing - the video card is meant to be an x1400 with
256M
hypermemory (whatever that is), but the bios says its a 128M card. Ill
be
ringing them about that today.

<SNIP>

I think you will find that this means that you can use system memory to
use as video memory, so if you had a Windows install with the proper
drivers and software you could adjust the amount of memory to assign to
the video card.

Adam.