Edgy on a Dell Latitude D820

[Matt Price]

Hi Guullermo,

well, as I recall it was pretty straightforward.  I installed dapper in
july and upgraded to edgy fairly early.  But I've since installed edgy
from scratch on the old windows partition and there were pretty well no
problems.  

The things that were hard to get working were:

-suspend/hibernate.  hibernate actually works with the stock kernel, but
not perfectly and the in-kernel hibernate code (swsusp) is slow &
doesn't tell you it's working.  so I instead use a self-compiled 2.6.18
kernel patched with suspend2 2.2.8 (see suspend2.net).  I think I have
the .deb package if you're interested.  suspend=to=ram works too, but
not always.  

then there are the things that don't seem to be compatible with
hibernation:
-hardware-accelerated graphics with nvidia.  it works fine, but breaks
hibernation.
-xen-enabled kernel.  ditto.
-sound -- if esd is running when you suspend, it sometimes doesn't work
when you wake up.,  So I disable "use sound server' somewhere in gnome
prefs. 

-sync with my palm t|x.  for that I had to use bluetooth and/or wireless
networking.  

-fonts are too small by default when using the nv x driver.  had to
fiddle with the dpi resolution in the fonts preference menu in gnome.  

can't think of any other trouble spots at the moment but if any come up
I'll be happy to coach you through them.  there were a couple of helpful
web pages I found through linux-on-laptops.  again, don't have them
handy but would be happy to help you find them if you have trouble.

if you can get suspension working with the nvidia driver please let me
know!  for me that's close to the holy grail (suspension, accelerated
graphics, and xen is the full definition thereof).  

good luck and keep us posted!

matt




On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 22:21 +0100, Guill. Moreno-Socias wrote:
>    As I am trying to install Edgy on a Dell Latitude D820 and Matt
> Price has offered his help, I start a new thread.
>    How have you managed to do it?
>    Thanks in advance,
>                                                             Guillermo
> Moreno-Socías 

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