Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?
John Birrell <[email protected]>
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On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 09:56:07AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > If you get one, go straight to Dell's support site and get the > > latest bios. I had to do that before X would work. There have been > > a few bios updates and my 1150 was shipped with an out-dated bios > > which I thought lacked attention to detail by Dell when they build > > the machines to order in Malaysia. > > Interesting. I had a similar problem with my 5150 18 months ago (see > http://www.lemis.com/grog/diary-jul2003.html#25 for details). Is this > what you saw? I think the "bad V_BIOS checksum" sounds familiar. When I went to the Dell support site, there was a bios update specifically for X on Linux. -- John Birrell _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"