Laptop install mini-report / FAO Laptop Team

[Lance Lassetter]

In your 'Device' section of XF86Config-4 or xorg.conf add:

Option "NvAGP" "0"

Then in /etc/hotplug/blacklist files I added two lines:

agpgart
intel_agp

..This is for Dell Inspiron 8200 model.

Also see bug 3379

On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 15:11 +0000, Gareth S Osler wrote:
> > From: Lance Lassetter <lance_tt at bellsouth.net>
> > Subject: Re: Laptop install mini-report / FAO Laptop Team
> ...
> > 
> > Disabling agp modules worked here with Dell Inspiron 8200.  If
> 
> How would I go about doing this?  (Will give it a go.)
> 
> A few other notes while I'm here.  The printer was picked up straight
> away.  The Ubuntu "sudo" scheme of things works quite nicely as well.
> The only browser plugin that I ever have problems with, RealPlayer10,
> worked first time also (using the directions on the Mozilla plugin
> pages).  Suspending the laptop leaves the screen a bright white for some
> reason (noted also on a wiki page).  I'm getting used to the gnome GUI
> scheme of things (top and bottom panels) and quite like it - the help
> pages at a glance seem okay, menus are straightforward, useful and not
> intimidating in anyway, and the usual gnome 'pastel' shades colour
> scheme and graphics plain but well done.
> 
> 
> GSO (over from Fedora Core 2)
> 
> 
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