Talk:Dell Latitude D610

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Just wanted to mention that I've had bad luck with my d610 with x300 and docking station running dual head. I've killed three LCDs on two different d610s trying to run Linux (ubuntu).

Dell hasn't been particularly helpful on this.

quick link, I appreciate suggestions (I wrote it quick just so others with the same problem could find me):

http://www.science.uwaterloo.ca/~rjeschmi/d610-lcd-problem.html

[edit] headaches with ati-drivers-8.21.7-r1 / kernel 2.6.15-gentoo-r1

I had real headaches getting the x300 graphics card working with a fresh installation using the ati-drivers and the above kernel.

Finally resolved the problems by enabling Legacy Power Management API in the kernel.

Any chance of including a kernel .config (or even an archive of them for previous kernels from various users, with details of what they've enabled and why) to this page for others?

you could add kernel configs as sub-articles article_name/sub_name then link to them at the bottom or within the article -- Thrasher 06:32, 20 March 2006 (GMT)

[edit] CD-RW/DVD-ROM

It seems not to be true that you have an ATAPI device, if you see lines starting with hdX in the dmesg output. The kernel supposed my DVD-RW to be ATAPI and showed up a hdc-line, although it is not. The reason for this misleading behaviour seems to be the kernel option "generic ATA support", which is on by default. Switching this off lets the kernel detect a SATA device which the DVD-RW is.