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Dell Latitude D800
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3 43666 06-28-2005
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100% of reviewers $3,000.00 8.3
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Description: Centrino laptop with Pentium M processor at 600 MHz to 1.60 GHz, 15.4 WUXGA display at 1920x1200 native resolution. 1 GB DDR SRAM (2 DIMMs). Nvidia GeForce4 4200 Go 4X AGP graphics with 64 MB DDR video RAM. 60 GB 4200 RPM HD. 8-24-10-24X SWDVD/CDRW drive. Floppy drive (dock or USB). Integrated Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet (bcm5700). All above has complete Linux support. Unsupported hardware includes smart card reader and TrueMobile 1300 WLAN 802.11b/g Mini-PCI wireless (partial support possible, but it was easily replaced with a Truemobile 1150 from an older laptop that is well supported). Has firewire and optional Bluetooth neither of which I have tested but are believed to work. As far as I know, nobody has got all ACPI suspend/hibernate states working yet, but they are close. I have run 2.4.20-2.4.26 and 2.6.0-2.6.7 kernels. Cpufreq speedstep control is a kernel patch in 2.4 series. At this moment, kernel tree video and nic drivers are available but I have found the proprietary drivers to be much better performing.
Keywords: latitude d800 dell pentium-M pentiumM WUXGA
/sbin/lspci output: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) USB UHCI #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) USB UHCI #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) USB UHCI #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BAM/CAM PCI Bridge (rev 81)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801DBM LPC Interface Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DBM (ICH4) Ultra ATA Storage Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV28 [GeForce4 Ti 4200 Go AGP 8x] (rev a1)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5705M Gigabit Ethernet (rev 01)
02:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments: Unknown device ac47 (rev 01)
02:01.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments: Unknown device ac4a (rev 01)
02:01.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments: Unknown device 802b
02:01.3 System peripheral: Texas Instruments: Unknown device 8204
02:03.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)


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Old 01-22-2005, 11:05 PM   #1
mdj
 
Registered: Jan 2005
Posts: 26

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 9

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.8-24.10-default
Distribution: SuSE 9.2



SuSE 9.2 went on without a hitch. Installed by FTP from a SuSE mirror site. All hardware recognized, including the Intel 2100 wireless-G chip. A few of the devices needed third party drivers (including the wireless chip and the nVidia graphics chip), but the online update pulled them down seamlessly.
 
Old 02-28-2005, 10:19 AM   #2
elitecodex
 
Registered: Feb 2004
Distribution: Fedora 9
Posts: 129

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 9

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.8.1-12mdk
Distribution: Mandrake 10.1


Everything worked right out of the box except...

I am having a problems with my wireless connection. It came with the IPW2200 and recognized it as such, but it is not working as of yet.

Everything else works like a dream.
 
Old 06-28-2005, 02:27 PM   #3
SKelem
 
Registered: Jun 2005
Distribution: Fedora 13
Posts: 36

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $3,000.00 | Rating: 7

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.11.4-21.7-default
Distribution: SuSE


SuSE 9.3 installation went quickly.

Problems:
Dual monitors not working. I'm dealing with nVidia to resolve this.
Docking/undocking will freeze the screen.
The wireless 802.11a/b/g card does not work.
Haven't been able to get my Palm Zire to hot/cold sync.
 




  



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