purpleidea
purpleidea
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working on getting dell inspiron 9400 working with linux.
specs: BR* Intel Core Duo Processor T2500 (2Ghz/667MHz FSB) BR* 17 inch UltraSharp Wide Screen UXGA Display with TrueLife (1920x1200) BR* 1GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM @ 667MHz BR* 100GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive BR* 256MB NVIDIA GeForce GO 7800 BR* 8X CD/DVD burner (DVD+/-RW) with double-layer DVD+R write capability BR* 80 WHr 9-cell Lithium Ion Battery BR* Intel PRO/Wireless 3945 802.11a/g Mini Card (although I thought it can do "b" too) BR* Dell Wireless 350 Bluetooth Internal (2.0 + Enhanced Data Rate) BR+ all that other stuff that happens to be there, like firewire, the tiny keyboard, a memory card reader i will likely almost never use, the stroke pad, and a bunch of weird "media buttons" on the front. BR+ oh actually plus the "MediaDirect" button next to the power button which boots a "special" partition to just play like "media and stuff" w/o loading the whole O/S. (but i deleted the partition so it just acts like a backup power button only with less hardware features)
if you have any ideas on making some of this stuff work properly in linux let me know 
especially the SMP support b/c i don't know all that much about making things like that work 