DELL 8200 Inspiron Owners over here...
 

so who are running linux on their inspirons ?

:rolleyes:

can i post here even if i'm running an inspiron 8100?

oh.... i just did.... :p

I do...but its on a 4150

SuSE 8.2 on Inspiron 8200
 

On my Inspiron 8200 I started with SuSE 7.1, and recently I have upgraded to SuSE 8.2. Compared to SuSE 7.1 the installation went really smooth.

I have chosen SuSE, because I have to maintain 4 computers, and it takes me less time when using SuSE (compared to Slackware and Red Hat). There are a couple of nice how-to's for the Inspiron 8200 on the web. (Some of them in German).

Linux runs better on my Inspiron than Windows (which was installed by Dell). Unfortunatly Dell has terminated the possibility to order computers with Red Hat as platform (perhaps Bill didn't want this???).

:D

: )) i never used suse...

but i really dont like redhat.. and running slack now..

what is it different in suse?

SuSE uses YAST (yet another setup tool) for tweaking the system. This is quite intuitive and easy to use. Of course, all hard-core geeks will say it is way better to edit the system files manually, but somehow this seems much faster.

On the inspiron, I could install SuSE 8.2 without any problems. I don't know why you don't like Red Hat, but SuSE installation, maintanance and use is quite straight-forward.

If you would like to try SuSE out, we should try to find a way you can get the iso's. I am willing to make them for you, and send them if you have access to an FTP server.

oh thanks man that is very kind of you.. I think I am fine with slack but thanks..

*cough*.. I'm "running" Gentoo 2.4 on my Inspiron 8200... um, ya?

nice man

Im running Slak 9.1 on my 4100. Works like a charm, except for the stupid framebuffer support on my Radeon 7500.

i have used a razor blade to etch off the "1" in 8100 and used a grey sharpie to put "2" in it's place so now i too am running linux on an inspiron 8200!!!!

yeah for me!!!! :p

haheheh should have just posted this thread as inspiron then :P

8500 here pimpin slack 9.1

after all slackware on 8200...

man that is sweet..

RH9 dual boot with xp on I8100, also planning to install some other dist with I8500.... just to get another flavor.... :O))

Noticed that people post even when they don't have an I8200.... :Pengy:
I have a C600 with RH9 :D

i posted my 8500 because it owns my 8200

RH8 8200 laptop...nvidia video card...finally got my java2 working on my browser....

My Laptop
 

Sorry about the title i mean my soon to be doorstop. I have a 500m sporting mandrake 9.2. I wish that someone would the the crap out of the guy that designed the 500m and made the choice of intel graphics. he was a noob.

Inspiron 8200 running Fedora

Ran Red Hat 9 before switching to Fedora, about to switch to SuSE 9.0 just for the heck of it.

Anybody running SuSE 9 like it?

I have an I8200 that started out with RH7, then 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.0, and then RH9. Now I running Fedora. Can someone tell what's the difference between RH9 & Fedora (other than the name...lol). Thinking of going back to RH9.

P4 M 1.4Ghz
32Mb Nvidia GeForce2 GO
256Mb DDR
15" SXGA+ Screen

Debian 3.0 here, everything works, suspend2ram, suspend2disk, those 6 little buttons above the keyboard, _EVERYTHING_

My friend got him an old dell laptop from ebay for xmas.. I am not sure the current OS he has on it.. I know its winblows somthing.. but maybe I will talk him into putting linux on it.. since he is not planning to do too much with it anyways.. and it would be a great learning experience...

I am. I just tried mandrake and didnt like it to much. So now im installing debian. We will see how we like that :P But as for a question. anybody know how to get their Touch Pad to work on linux. And yes im a Inspiron 8200 owner
:newbie:

Both the Internal stick mouse and the touchpad should work out of the box in debian, configuring a external USB mouse is a diffrent story though. (still not too hard)

My USB mouse works just fine with Fedora Linux..

ACPI issues on Inpiron 41500
 

:( I always had this problem, even when running Gentoo for a short time. I'm going backwards to a simple Dist. which is Mandrake 9.2. My question is does anybody know how to configure or a solution to the ACPI problem on Dell Laptops. When the laptop stay on for a few minutes it will just freeze. I now have Mandrake 9.2 installed and still the same problem please help... show me the light.

slack
 

I am running slackware on my 8200

i've run mandrake 9.2 on my latitude c540 and now i'm trying to set up to dual boot xp and mandrake 9.2 problem is when i plug in ac power or unplug ac power my laptop locks up.

Running slack 9.1 just fine on an inspiron 7500

i am stumped on this one. anyone running linux on a 4100?

If I had a bigger Harddrive, I would duel boot on my thinkpad.. what I am thinking about is getting an old dell laptop to run Fedora on it.. yet right now I am looking for a mac laptop to run OSX on..

Linux on Inspiron 8200
 

I'm running Red Hat 9 Linux on an Inspiron 8200. However, I use the term "running" loosely.

I bought the laptop with XP professional. I just bought a second internal hard disk on which I installed Red Hat Linux 9. However, when it boots, it just says Grub and nothing else happens. I can get in using recovery mode and that's the closest I've come to running Linux.

I figure I need a new driver for the display.

Any other suggestions?

Sounds like a boot-loader problem to me.. do a goog search for "GRUB HELP" you will find several links back to here with threads on it.. good look...

Thanks, Steve. I found the Grub manual. I'll go through it and check out the config file and stuff.

No problem, that is some of the very little help I can give...

X Resolution help on Inspiron 8200
 

Hey, figure this would be an ok place to ask this. What kind of X resolutionas have you guys gotten on your Inspiron 8200 with slackware? I installed the nvidia driver and all, but it's at like 800/600 resolution! It's killing me. I think my problem would be the Monitor setting it's using, does anyone know what monitor i should select as mine to be able to get something higher then 1024/768?

Did you come across this http://linux.dell.com/desktops.shtml ?
It is the Dell Linux laptop and Desktop forum where users share their view.
Specific to Dell Hardware and any Linux Distro

My question is why would you want to run Linux on a dell, my friends dell that he bought from ebay is crap..

*caugh caugh* ebay! *caugh*

ebays not that bad when you find someone you can trust..

running an inspiron 8500 over here with rh9, kind of.

im having a few problems with getting a dual boot to work with XP and rh9. im about as noob as it gets and was wondering what im doing wrong. The problem is that i couldn't get GRUB to find Win XP. So i then reinstalled XP which of course wrote over GRUB and now i cant boot redhat. i dont have a floppy drive so cant make boot disks and i cant figure out how to boot to RH from a CD, although i can boot from a CD and make it to the recover and/or reinstall console. my partition scheme is as follows

hda1 = win boot (planned to be GRUB)
hda2 = second extended? partition
hda5 = Win XP NTFS
hda6 = RH9
hda7 = SWAP

i was told that it is easier to install windows first then RH but when done cant get windows to boot. im willing to start over from scratch. also the more specific and dumbed down of an explanation givin the more helpful (dont be afraid to affend me i am this dumb). thanks for your help and time.

Those partitions can be tricky, I am working on resizing my NTFS partition so I can install slackware..

Re: X Resolution help on Inspiron 8200
 

well the distro shouldn't matter in this regard. did you edit you XF86Config (or XF86Config-4) file correctly? there's more than just changing the video driver to "nvidia" and having your computer go, "wammo! thanks...". did you specify default resolution and load the correct modules and choose the correct monitor if present in your post-install video setup? if your monitor isn't in there and you chose a generic monitor, did you alter the refresh in the XF86Config (or XF86Config-4) file. i'm running an inspiron 8100 with full 3d support @ 1400x1050 resolution at 24 bbp. you should have no problems getting that on your inspiron 8200.

i8200 running linux just fine
 

Greetings

I am running Mandrake 9.2, I still have the power problems. I am waiting till I am on break from school to try and fix...I need the laptop for programing class and term papers.

:study:

I am running RH9 and XP Pro Dual boot on Inspiron 8500...only issues i had was getting the nVidia driver for video and getting a cisco aironet card to work...everything else is flawless

Red Hat is just that good... too bad there won't be a RH10 :(

Re: Linux on Inspiron 8200
 

I am running a similar config on a C840, and found a solution on this forum. My general explanation is here:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=156022

Hope that helps.

got a dell insprion 2650 want to run linux Rhl9 got the cds got monitor issues not sure if i want to format my winblows xp off just yet really want to dive into linux so im tryin to install in a computer i got for free frist but got errors everytime i install it gives either wrong cd 2 or cannot mount cdrom if anyone can help it would be aperciated if i could get the damn program to run and i like it i would install it to my dell insprion 2650 oh yea does Rhl support US Robotics wireless pc card?

You should be able to find linux drivers for you PCI Card.. and also it will help you in the long run if you get rid of windows XP, since you won't keep running back, like I have been doing..