Sampo,
I appreciate your reply.
Sampo Savolainen wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 12:17 -0700, Ken Dawson wrote:
>> Thanks for this. How do you like your D820 under Linux? I'm especially
>> interested in how well the graphics, wireless LAN, and ACPI support
>> work. Oh, and the audio.
>
> I've got intel graphics. Works great after 915resolution is installed
> (it's needed for the bios hack to access teh 1920x1200 video mode)
>
> The dell is sold with the intel 3945d chip or the "dell
> wireless" (broadcom something). Needless to say, i got it with the intel
> chip. Works great.
>
> ACPI? I've never had to worry about that. Fans etc. work well. I'm not
> sure if it's related with ACPI but an interesting tidbit: if the PSU
> cord is connected poorly long enough, the bios decides it can't be sure
> it's getting enough power and forces the cpu frequency scaling to set
> the max scaling freq to min freq. So the cpu gets stuck at the lowest
> speed. This can be fixed by removing the PSU cord for a while,
> re-inserting it. (you might need to fiddle
> with /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu[01]/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq
> afterwards)
I ask because I have a system using an ASUS M2N32-SLI (AMD 64bit)
motherboard, and it will not even consider booting unless I specify
-acpi=off to the kernel. I wouldn't want to voluntarily encounter this
condition again.
>
> Audio? A few hacks needed.
> 1) You need to set the Capture element in the mixer to record,
> otherwise the driver will not return any samples when recording.
> 2) At least with my current alsa version (1.0.13rc2) needs
> position_fix=1 as a parameter for the snd-hda-intel driver
>
> After those fixes it works well. haven't tried spdif though as I have no
> dock. I use an RME multiface + pcmcia card for real work and it works
> just great. I havent' attempted extreme latencies as I have no need for
> such.
>
> All in all? Very little hassle for a very new machine. It's extremely
> fast, relatively quiet, good battery life, the screen is wonderful
> albeit not very bright.
>
> I'm happy with it.
>
>
> Sampo
>
> PS. One hint. If you decide to get one: call them and ask for an offer,
> don't get it at list price!
This I don't understand. Last time I bought a Dell laptop, it was
purely through the web-page, and totally cut-and-dried. How do you go
about haggling with them? I've never found their phone talent to be (1)
easily reached or (2) really engaged when I did reach them, sales or
support.
/ken
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