XP/FC1 on Dell Inpiron 5150

Pierre De Boeck pierre.deboeck at skynet.be
Sun Mar 14 17:09:50 UTC 2004


Ok, thanks. I reinstall everything and then will try
to first up2date my system properly.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Matthew Saltzman
> Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 6:04 PM
> To: MSchwartz at medanalytics.com; For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: RE: XP/FC1 on Dell Inpiron 5150
> 
> 
> On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Marc Schwartz wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 08:54, Pierre De Boeck wrote:
> > > Ok Mark,
> > >
> > > I joined the file in attachement. Note that
> > > I took the one in /etc/X11 and not the one in /etc.
> > >
> > > And here are my "progress":
> > >
> > > As no setting was working, I have reinstall everything with
> > > Dell 1024*780 LCD and it was not working either.
> > >
> > > But I used the rescue mode to edit the inittab and now
> > > I can boot in level 3 with an NIC working. :-)
> > >
> > > I also used wget to download the last driver
> > > (NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run) from nvidia
> > > and executed the sh script.
> > >
> > > Then it complained about some compiler mismatch version.
> > >
> > > I joined the log file also.
> > >
> > > Anyway, thanks a lot for all your help. I already installed
> > > RH9 on our servers, configured apache, sendmail,.. and I never
> > > had such problems. But obviously our servers hardware were more
> > > common I suppose than the one found on my laptop.
> >
> >
> > Ok...There are several things that you need to do:
> > [...long list of instructions deleted...]
> 
> Or try the nvidia driver RPMS from rpm.livna.org
> (http://rpm.livna.org/livna-switcher.html).
> 
> You may still have to modify screen settings by hand, but all the other
> difficulties go away.
> 
> Do make sure your kernel is up2date, though.  The RPMs are only available
> for kernel builds 2149, 2166, and 2174.
> 
> -- 
> 		Matthew Saltzman
> 
> Clemson University Math Sciences
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