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