[ale] vFAQ: Good distributions on Dell D610 laptops

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 09:21 -0500, John Mills wrote:
> ALErs -

> Wwhich Linux dietributions drop smoothly onto Dell D610 Inspiron laptops?
> I have noticed that my live-CD Knoppix fails to start up XFree (but
> RedHat-7.3 handles it just fine -- Go figure.). Also, it seems to have the
> AC'97 based audio - possibly modem also - that some setups seem to handle
> much better than others.

	I'm currently running Fedora Core 6 quite happily on mine.

	I haven't been able to find support for the smart card reader that's
built in (and I'm not interested in the WinModem) but everything else
seems to run just fine.  Audio almost works too well (damn web pages).

	Only thing I did notice was my old expansion bay hard drive from my old
D600 (which died recently) was really REALLY slow in the D610 (which has
an SATA main drive).  Pulling the expansion hard drive out of there and
sticking it in an external USB case sped up access to that drive by over
and order of magnitude.  Burning CD's and DVD's seems painfully slow as
well.

> I had excellent results with SuSE-9.3 on my Fry's laptop, including its 
> AC'97 modem, so my inclination would be to go with SuSE again.

> Suggestions welcome. Thanks.

>  - Mills
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