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Scott Guest
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Posted: Thu May 23, 2002 3:35 pm Post subject: Inspiron 8100 lockups |
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My laptop seems to freeze every one and a while.
I had a relitivly striped down version of slack 8 running on it, with a 2.4.17 kernel with the premptive patches. It ran totaly stable, and i never had a problem.
I gave gentoo a shot this weekend, and so far I love it, except for the slight freezing issue. My laptop is a 866, 128 mb of ram, 16 mb Geforce2Go. I'm using ext3 for my partition.
Anyone have any experience with a 8100 and having similar problems, or anyone have any ideas on how to fix it?
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mb Guru
Joined: 25 Apr 2002 Posts: 355 Location: Hessen | .de
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Scott Guest
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Posted: Fri May 24, 2002 3:30 pm Post subject: |
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I am running the gentoo sources, and it tends to lock up right after leaving X most of the time. I tried the linux sources, and it lockedup when I tried to emerge the nvidia drivers, so I went back to the gentoo sources. |
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YnSta n00b
Joined: 04 Jun 2002 Posts: 5
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Posted: Sun Jun 09, 2002 5:30 am Post subject: re dell i8100 |
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Hi,
try to update bios from dell support, at http://support.euro.dell.com/fr/fr/home.asp enter the sn number of your u8k.
For me it resolves lots of problems in apm, fan ... |
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geders Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 19 Jun 2002 Posts: 76 Location: Purdue
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Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2002 3:12 am Post subject: |
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I had the same problems with other distors on the 8100, except when I disabled APIC and APM (don't know which one, just disabled both, and the machine was beautiful afterwards, so never checked). |
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javacodeslave n00b
Joined: 23 Apr 2002 Posts: 7 Location: Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2002 8:49 pm Post subject: APIC / Symmetric Kernel Issues for Dell Inspiron 8100 Laptop |
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I have an Inspiron 8100 and it used to hang also...
The fix was disabling APIC and turning off symmetric multiprocessing options in the kernel.... the dell bios has some issues with these kernel options still.... |
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