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Dell Inspiron 510m
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1 3504 09-18-2005
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Recommended By Average Price Average Rating
100% of reviewers None indicated 8.0
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Description: Intel Pentium M 735 (1.70GHz, 2MB, 400MHz)
15" SXGA (1400x1050)
1GB DDR-SDRAM, 333MHz
Dell Wireless 1350 802.11b/g mini PCI card
60GB HD, 5.400 r/min
8x DVD /-RW

Distribution installed: Fedora Core 3 (works great)

* No Wireless card driver (BCM 4306 chip)
Reported to work by some with NDISwrapper, didn't work for me
/sbin/lspci output: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:00.1 System peripheral: Intel Corp. 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:00.3 System peripheral: Intel Corp. 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (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) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 81)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE 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)
01:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI4510 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 02)
01:01.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCI4510 IEEE-1394 Controller
01:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)
01:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB PRO/100 VE (MOB) Ethernet Controller (rev 81)


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Old 09-18-2005, 04:52 PM   #1
JamieBrown
 
Registered: Jan 2005
Distribution: Gentoo, Mandriva, RHES, Debian
Posts: 61
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 8

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.11-6mdk-i686-up-4GB
Distribution: Mandriva 2005 LE



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Installation was very very easy. Mandriva recognised the graphics card, sound card, network card etc, and used the full 1280x1024 resolution in KDE without needing any configuration. The only installation problems came with the wireless networking card - took a bit of fiddling with IPW to get it to work.

Post installation problems have been few and far between but a bit irritating. Mplayer and Xine seem to have problems with fullscreen display (which doesn't happen in other distro's I've tried). If you click on fullscreen you end up having to restart your PC as your screen just goes funny and doesn't come back. Occassionally the sound card doesn't initialise correctly on startup and I have to restart to get it to work again (although this is very occassional).

Other than that - an excellent distro for a very good laptop.
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