Hi All; I'm trying to instal CentOS on my new laptop but I've run into a few issues. It's a Dell Precision M6400 - I'm installing CentOS 5 (64bit) running KDE I have 3 issues: 1) I cannot get the wireless to work 2) I cannot get sound to work 3) I cannot get the full screen resolution I can go to administration --> display and under the 'Hardwae' tab I can configure the display as a generic or as a Dell 1920x1200 but no matter what I choose the 'Settings' tab only lets me choose a max of 1400x1050 I can get the wireless and sound to work in Fedora 10 but I'm not sure how to tell specifically what devices they are.. I thought I could use Fedora 10 to help debug the sound & wireless. Thanks in advance for any help ...
could you maybe give more information. dmesg for example On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Kevin Kempter <kevin at kevinkempterllc.com> wrote:> Hi All; > > I'm trying to instal CentOS on my new laptop but I've run into a few issues. > > It's a Dell Precision M6400 - I'm installing CentOS 5 (64bit) running KDE > > > I have 3 issues: > > 1) I cannot get the wireless to work > > > 2) I cannot get sound to work > > > 3) I cannot get the full screen resolution > I can go to administration --> display and under the 'Hardwae' tab I can > configure the display as a generic or as a Dell 1920x1200 but no matter what > I choose the 'Settings' tab only lets me choose a max of 1400x1050 > > > I can get the wireless and sound to work in Fedora 10 but I'm not sure how to > tell specifically what devices they are.. I thought I could use Fedora 10 to > help debug the sound & wireless. > > > Thanks in advance for any help ... > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 2:12 AM, Kevin Kempter <kevin at kevinkempterllc.com> wrote:> > I'm trying to instal CentOS on my new laptop but I've run into a few issues. > It's a Dell Precision M6400 - I'm installing CentOS 5 (64bit) running KDE >I have an old Toshiba Tecra 8100 w/P3-600 and CentOS 5.2 32 bit, so there will be extreme variances, but....> I have 3 issues: > > 1) I cannot get the wireless to work >I had trouble with this, too. I have a DLink USB wireless plugin, which may be part of the problem, but I wound up using ndiswrapper and the Window$ driver, and that seems to work as long as I can remember the right sequence of commands to execute to ensure that it is up and running. (Need to script that....)> 2) I cannot get sound to work >You might want to post some info on what kind of sound processor is in your machine. I can't help you here - my sound works fine.> 3) I cannot get the full screen resolution > I can go to administration --> display and under the 'Hardwae' tab I can > configure the display as a generic or as a Dell 1920x1200 but no matter what > I choose the 'Settings' tab only lets me choose a max of 1400x1050 >Have you gone to system->preferences->screen resolution and set that as well? I could not get any widescreen modes to work with my (home) desktop system and a new 22"WS monitor until I did that. Then they all worked. Also, check your xorg.conf file to make sure all the possible modes are there - sometimes you have to edit in the Modes line with all the resolutions your monitor can handle.> I can get the wireless and sound to work in Fedora 10 but I'm not sure how to > tell specifically what devices they are.. I thought I could use Fedora 10 to > help debug the sound & wireless. >Whole different animal - different kernel and everything else down the line. Probably not going to help much. HTH mhr
Hi all, im going crazy. I have one ATA disc with CentOS 5.2 and LVM, the LVM structure is: --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 LV Name /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 Here comes the challende, i need to clone that ATA disc to a SATA disc. The thing is, i don't longer need the LVM structure because i need so make a softraid 1 later. My plan was: 1. Boot from a live cd and rsync all content to the sata disc. 2. Partition /boot (sda1), / (sda3), and swap (sda2) (sda1 bootable) 2. Make a new initrd image without LVM 3. Install grub on /dev/sda1 3. Boot as test 4. Make a softraid 1 with the second SATA drive. The only problem now is, i cannot boot from the new SATA drive. I run into a kernel panic (Kernel not syncing). I try'd everything possible, in mtab of the sata was the LVM path, i changed it and also the grub menue the fstab and so on... How can i get of that LVM and clone it to the new SATA drive? Thanks for advice and best greetings Wolfgang
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 5:12 AM, Kevin Kempter <kevin at kevinkempterllc.com> wrote:> I'm trying to instal CentOS on my new laptop but I've run into a few issues. > It's a Dell Precision M6400 - I'm installing CentOS 5 (64bit) running KDEYou may want to try CentOS (32 bit). Suggest you try it with the CentOS Live CD, first, to see if CentOS will work OK on your Laptop. If not, suggest you use Fedora or Ubuntu or something that supports more HW. GL <snip>