RTC trouble on some Dell laptops

[Kinsley Turner]

linux-desktops-bounces at dell.com wrote on 06/11/2006 09:49:48 PM:

> I have just bought a Dell XPS M1210, and was looking to dual-boot 
> some kind of Linux on it.
> I had a look at Ubuntu (my distro of choice for a desktop) and found
> this bug report which cooled of my enthusiasm quite a bit. 
> 
> 
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.17/+bug/43745

That's interesting. 

I have an XPS1210 with Gentoo Linux (64bit).
<#include boiler-plate grumble about being forced to buy windows>

The HW clock never seems to be set on shutdown, I always thought
there was something I mis-configured in the kernel, but maybe
it's a known problem.  I use the machine 4+hours a day (looong commute),
6 days a week.  Haven't had the clock-stopped issue (touch wood).

It would be a useful service for Dell to offer downloadable
kernel configs for laptops (especially), would have saved me 
alot of research into hardware model numbers and appropriate
drivers etc.  Not that it's not fun to bring the machine up
from scratch, but it's also not everyone's cup of tea.

I still can't get the Logitech web-camera working
(no support for it AFAIK), and the 64bit wireless network 
drivers are fairly dodgey (AdHoc mode shutsdown all the time,
can't connect to managed:'Any' *shrug*.  Connecting to managed:'Something'
works flawlessly - as long as it's set before (re)boot).
These problems aside, everything else is working flawlessly. 
I would imagine that if I'd gone for 32-bit linux, I'd only have 
problems with the camera.

Nice and fast though, compiles code like nothing else.

-kt







































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