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Dell Latitude X300
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2 51610 12-04-2004
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Recommended By Average Price Average Rating
100% of reviewers $3,400.00 7.5
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Description: Pentium M 738 (1.40GHz) 12.1 XGA, NIC
1024MB, 1 Dimm, Double Data Rate Totaling 1152MB
60 GB Hard Drive, 9.5MM 4200RPM [TOSHIBA - MK6021GAS]
Floppy Drive, Internal/External D-Family
Windows XP Professional, SP2
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 ES
Internal 56K Modem [Intel Corp. 82801DB AC'97 Modem /Conexant D480 MDC V.9x]
MediaBase 8X DVD [QSI CDRW/DVD SBW242U USB Device]
40 GB 2nd Hard Drive, 9.5MM 5400RPM
LCD Panel 1024x768 Display
ACPI - Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
2 of these: Intel 82852/82855 GM/GME Graphics Controller
IDE ATA/ATAPI Controller from Intel 82801DBM Ultra ATA Storage Controller - 24CA
IEEE 1394 Bus Host Controller
IrDA Fast Infrared Port
Standard 101/102 Keyboard
HID-compliant Optical Wheel mouse
Synaptics PS/2 Port Touch Pad
Network Adapters : 1394 Net Adapter
Broadcom 570x GigaBit Integrated Controller
Dell Wireless WLAN 1350 miniPCI card
PCMCIA adapters: 2 of these: Ricoh R/RL/5C476(II)
LPT1 Printer Port
COM1 Communications Port
Sound: Intel Corp. 82801DB AC'97 Modem Controller
Keywords: Dell Latitude X300 Red Hat Enterprise 3
/sbin/lspci output: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Host Bridge (rev 02)
00:00.1 System peripheral: Intel Corp. 855GM/GME GMCH Memory I/O Control Registers (rev 02)
00:00.3 System peripheral: Intel Corp. 855GM/GME GMCH Configuration Process Registers (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB 2.0 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.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 01)
02:03.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev ac)
02:03.1 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev ac)
02:03.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C552 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 04)
02:04.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)
02:05.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5705M Gigabit Ethernet (rev 01)


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Old 11-10-2004, 12:30 PM   #1
joannmanges
 
Registered: Nov 2004
Distribution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux v3.0
Posts: 2

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $3,400.00 | Rating: 6

Kernel (uname -r): 2.4.21-20.EL
Distribution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (update 3)



I still in the process of installing other drivers for the audio, dual head video and usb. I am also trying to back up my dual boot system. Since my system has its floppy, 2nd hard disk and CDRW/DVD on the usb bus. It has caused me problems trying to get an image backup of the 1st hard drive. I also can't seem to get the Intel 852/855 GM Graphics Controller to work in dual head mode under X server. I also need to get the wireless card working. But besides that the installation went well.
 
Old 12-04-2004, 05:14 AM   #2
slack---line
 
Registered: Jul 2003
Distribution: Gentoo/Slackware10.0@AthlonXP2600, 1Gb RAM; Slackware9.1@Dell Latitude X300; Gentoo@Ultra10
Posts: 48

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

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.9
Distribution: Slackware 10.0


I initialy encountered a few problems with resizing the HD, but this was attributable to Partition Magic's 'trickery'. All problems were resolved by using the second Slackware disc which acts as a live CD and mounting linux partitions manually. Ethernet card required configuration for the network, and upgrading to 2.6.* kernel was straightforward (see details of upgrading kernel in sticky at the top of slackware forum).

The only thing I've left to configure is the wireless network card, but there are lots of people who have achieved this (see the Dell section of http://www.linux-laptop.net for links).

The only third party driver I've had to use so far has been for the wireless network card which can be obtained from http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/

*edit

I managed to configure the wireless network card. The problem was that I did not have the same wireless network card as the howto's listed at linux-laptop.net. This Latitude X300 had a broadcom wireless network card which I finally configured using the the ndiswrapper and the bcmw15 windoze driver. I had a bit of trouble getting the latest & greatest ndiswrapper version to work so dropped back a few versions to I think 0.11. I've not bothered trying the latest versions (1.2) as it works fine for the time being (although there are a few nuances that an upgrade may fix, but functionality isn't compromised).

All in all a lovely laptop, looks good (esp with fluxbox :-) and as always with slackware highly configurable, transparent (i.e. you can find all the config files/programs etc.) and pretty damn secure.

If I were to buy my own laptop I'd buy one of these (this one was kindly provided by work, hopefully they'll let me keep it after a year or so :-)
 




  



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