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Dell Dimension 9200
Submitted by Anonymous on 2006-11-22 11:57:09 This product has a rating of 3 out of 5 running under Fedora Core Comments: I have got a few issues with my Fedora Core 6 installation, which I probably could have avoided - but did not out of pure ignorence. May this help others: 1/ BIOS disk setting: When BIOS disk setting is on autodetect, on FC6 with the standard 585 or 686 kernel, I get a "ATA4: SRST failed" error when booting. The kernel is trying to access the high SATA ports, but fail. This means that I have to wait for 30 seconds and then cannot view my second (home-installed) hard drive. The issue is solved by reverting back to factory setting (RAID BIOS), but then I had to re-install the whole system. I could view the partition, but not boot. Reinstalling grub was not enough. 2/ Graphic driver: My Dimension 9200 shipped with an ATI Radeon X1300, which is not known by the open source Radeon driver. With the vesa driver I cannot get my monitor to 1600x1200 / 85Hz. I can only with the ATI proprietary frglx driver - but then the current driver fails if I start X without turning off my monitor... It's OK if I turn it off, and then back on! 3/ /proc/mtrr: I had to use the fix_mtrr trick (http://www.rage3d.com/board/showpost.php?p=1333981360&postcount=18 for instance) to get graphic acceleration working. Else /proc/mtrr was reporting much more memory than what I had. 4/ alsa_mixer: For some reason, I get some error messages from the alsa_mixer library, but it does not **seem** to have much of an impact - yet to be investigated. All else is fine, so far. The Ethernet card and card readers where recognized automatically (with FC6, as opposed to my older Knoppix disk). Sound was OK, when I found how to change the default 0% setting. Good luck! Yannick |