[plug] New toy just arrived

[Craig Dyke]

You got me there ... I got the carbon fibre shell :(

Still got a few days before my turns up and I will be using SourceMage 
(Gentoo centric distro).

Will be interesting to see what gets broken.

How have you gone with Wifi and Bluetooth? (if at all)

Craig

Richard Meyer wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 20:31 +0800, Richard Meyer wrote:
>   
>> 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 - ;-)
>>     
>
> Well, I have booted the Ubuntu Breezy Live CD, and it failed pretty
> dismally - will follow up later. Things have to work, since the links
> above are pretty happy, but since my sinuses are being stretched like
> Ron Jeremy's latest flame.  (please note I had spell checkers on, but
> Linux offers no checkers for taste ....)
>
> Also I hope you didn't fall for the "colour coded kits" - I got the med
> blue one , and it's $4x worth of shiny, easily scratched coloured
> plastic shell which clips over the top of the machine - never again.
> Might as well stick with the aluminium coloured normal shell - oh well,
> one lives and learns.
>