[oclug] Linux flavours

[Dumitru Ciobanu]

You may wanna try Xandrons (Debian based). I remember a few years ago
there was a project that deployed a few hundreds Dell D600 for some
university in Nova Scotia. Sorry I don't remember the details.

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Andrew Ross <grof at rogers.com> wrote:
> Howard,
>
> Sorry, I'm not currently running openSuse myself thus I'd have to google it
> myself which negates any unique value I can offer. Perhaps someone else
> knows off the cuff, otherwise I'm sure you'll find it quickly.
>
> Andrew
>
> 2009/12/7 Howard Krakower <hk at zed.net>
>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Do you know whether this fix will work where grub loads openSUSe 11.2?
>> I can easily logon, but to shutdown, I have to go into the console
>> mode and type "shutdown now -h" to get a complete shutdown.
>>
>> Howard
>>
>> Monday, December 7, 2009, 10:47:20 AM, Andrew Ross wrote:
>>
>> > Hi Howard,
>>
>> > I had the same issue with one of my Dell machines. I suspect adding
>> > i8042.reset to your boot options will fix your keyboard issues when not
>> on
>> > A/C power.
>>
>> > e.g. if you're using grub on Ubuntu as a bootloader
>>
>> > edit /boot/grub/menu.lst
>>
>> > And change the line that looks like this:
>> > # kopt=root=UUID=c10a4641-f9b2-8b06-7127-bb1ba1fe45d4 ro
>>
>> > To be this
>> > # kopt=root=UUID=c10a4641-f9b2-8b06-7127-bb1ba1fe45d4 ro i8042.reset
>>
>> > Save, then run "update-grub" as root.
>>
>> > Then reboot. In theory, it *should* go away.
>>
>> > Andrew
>>
>> > 2009/11/10 Howard Krakower <hk at zed.net>
>>
>> >> There *has* to ba a flavour that actually works with the Dell D600
>> >> notebook, but I can't find it.
>> >>
>> >> Last year I installed Ubuntu (Hardy Heron) and it ran OK. Then the
>> >> upgrades came out - Ibex and Jackalope - with Ibex getting somewhat
>> >> flakey and Jackalope totally freezing the system. So I tried Fedora,
>> >> but it wouldn't even load the install CD.
>> >>
>> >> To check to see if this was a hardware issue (after all the D600 is
>> >> about 5 years old), I reinstalled Windoze. The system worked fine, so
>> >> I knew that the issue was not hardware.
>> >>
>> >> So I installed openSUSE 11.1. Initially it ran well, but after doing
>> >> an update the logon screen wouldn't accept input from the keyboard (as
>> >> in typing in the password) if the system was running on battery; it
>> >> worked only if the system was plugged into 110 volts.
>> >>
>> >> Because of the ease of getting the wireless network to work (Ubuntu
>> >> was horror story) I opted to totally reinstall openSUSE 11.1 -
>> >> everything worked just fine both on battery power and AC. Then there
>> >> were a number of security updates, which I installed and the system has
>> >> reverted to only allowing a logon when on AC power. The other downside
>> >> is that getting the multimedia player to play .wmv .avi and .flv
>> >> formats still hasn't been solved (these all worked fine in Ubuntu).
>> >>
>> >> Does anyone know of a flavour of linux that will work with a Dell D600
>> >> notebook (uses a Broadcom BCM4318 wireless NIC)?
>> >>
>> >> Howard
>> >>
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Dumitru Ciobanu
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