Re: [PLUG] 'Friends don't let friends use Dell'

["Jon Nelson" <quincy@linuxnotes.net>]

Chris Hedemark said:
> Also known as "Dell... the *other* four letter word."

> Red Hat installs fine, no complaints, and even seems to recognize my
> video card and monitor.
>
> XFree86 doesn't work.

Both Dells that I have use a NVIDIA card, and X didn't work for me either.
 NVIDIA has drivers for their cards at their site:

http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=linux_display_ia32_1.0-4191

If you aren't using a stock kernel you'll need to compile your own using
the NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191.src.rpm at the end of the page.  Their
instrutions to do this are in their pdf on the page.  I also have more
info that I found helpful here:

http://linuxnotes.net/wiki.pl?LapTops

Jon

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Pa. State Police, Bureau of Criminal Investigation
Computer Crimes Unit
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