Re: [tlug] dell inspiron & linux

[Botond Botyanszki <tlug@example.com>]

On Tue, 04 May 2004 10:31:28 +0200
"Michael Klaus Engel" <mkengel@example.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> has someone of you positive or negative experiences with dell notebooks
> and linux ?
> 
> I was thinking to buy an
> Dell Inspiron 1150
> which has
> an Intel 852GMV Intel chipset
> and
> a
> sigmabel STAC 9750 sound card.

I have used two different inspiron models with linux in the past and did
not ran into any incompatibility that usually plagues many notebooks.
Before buying you could: 
 - check driver support for each hardware component (chipset).
 - google
 - put a knoppix CD in and test