SUSE on a Dell Inspirion 1100
This past weekend I tried to install SUSE 9.0 onto my Dell Inspiron 1100. The notebook is a very nice little unit that accompanies me almost everywhere I go. It contains a 2.2 GHz Celeron processor, 256MB of RAM, and a 30Gig hard drive. It also has integrated graphics and sound. This is where the problems begin.
At some point in time, Dell decided to “fix” the BIOS for these computers. As a result, it is very difficult to install Linux onto my laptop. The reason is that XFree is unable to tell the computer how much ram to use for graphics. This results in very poor graphics performance.
However, the open source community has created a fix for this. I have been successful in installing this patch in Red Hat 9, but not on SUSE 9. So for now, my notebook runs only Windows XP. Another weekend, another attempt, hopefully with better results next time.
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