[plug] New toy just arrived

[Richard Meyer]

On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 21:40 +0800, Craig Dyke wrote:
> Richard
> 
> I am really keen to hear how you get on as I too have just laid down 
> some dollars
> for the same machine.
> 
> I will be most interested in how you get on getting all the different 
> pieces working,
> especially sound, wifi and the video card.
> 
> Craig

I've had a touch of the dreaded lurgy the last couple of days, so I
haven't done much, but I can tell you this baby is FAST - boots XP in
about the time it takes my Athlon XP 2400+ to bring up GRUB.

Why do Dell insist on loading down a defenceless little PC with GB and
GB of crap, though. If I wanted McAfee, I would sign up for them, FFS!

I have found two posts concerning the Dell Inspiron 6400 with Linux -
here they are:
http://individual.utoronto.ca/jaelle_kitty/inspiron6400/ with Radeon GPU
http://jackyvuillemin.free.fr/dellinspiron6400.html  with Intel GPU

The interior is wonderful, but I really think the Dell designers would
be better spending their time designing "bling" for gangsters - it's
gaudy. 

I haven't even booted a "Live-CD" sorry - ;-)

> >
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Richard Meyer <meyerri at westnet.com.au>