Help m60 Network Problem Resolved but what NVIDIA Drivers are people using??? 4363 or 4496???

There is an excellent page for M60/Linux at: http://www.flarg.com/dell-m60/dell-m60.html

The prevailing wind is blowing on the 4463 driver. I have tested it on the M60 with Suse9, Fedora (yarrow), and RH9 and it works well with the XF86Config file hand tweeked. Wireless is the remaining challenge; however, wireless is not mission critical in our environment.

Hope this helps,

Message Edited by zortek on 12-30-2003 12:04 PM

The other website to check is: http://www.mikehardy.net/linux_latitude_d800/

Take time to pay attention to the wireless driver list.  The reason I say that is there is a company called "Linuxant" that allows you to use Windows drivers within Linux through some clever tricks to give you access to just about any wireless network card driver.  Although I have not tried it myself, reports are that it works great with linux and gives you access to Centrino wireless, dell truemobile 1300 and truemobile 1400 cards with RedHat and other supported Linux distributions.

Here is a quoted section from the website (remember M60 and D800 share most everything except the video card):

Mini-PCI

Works great out of the box - it shows up as a device on another PCMCIA bus.
Its possible now to load the Dell TrueMobile 1300/1400 Windows drivers using a nifty (but proprietary) loader from http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/
There is no known native driver for Dell TrueMobile 1300/1400 cards (my note: also allows intel 2100 / centrino wireless to work).


The TrueMobile 1150 works natively under Linux. The chip in this card is supported by the orinoco/hermes driver and works great. If this is interesting to you, the cards cost around $50 from Dell, but you have to be very specific if you call them. You must get the "Dell Truemobile 1150 miniPCI card" *exactly*. It was made for Latitude C640 laptops, but works in the D800 (I use it). The auxiliary antennae doesn't connect (the connector is just a little too short) but I've been using it for 4 months now as my primary network connection and its fine.

My testing and profiling of the M60 continues, I just installed RHEL 3.0 WS and grabbed the latest NVIDIA 5 series driver. Everything went some what smoothly; however, I did have to manually edit the XF86Config file to tweek out the following:

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Dell 1920x1200 M60 Display"
HorizSync 28-110
VertRefresh 43-90
Option "dpms"
Modeline "1920x1200" 162 1920 1984 2176 2480 1200 1201 1204 1250 +hsync +vsync
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA"
BoardName "QuadroFXGO 700"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1920x1200" "1600x1200" "1400x1050" "1280x1024"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1920x1200" "1600x1200" "1400x1050" "1280x1024"
EndSubSection

Option "NvAGP" "1"
Option "CursorShadow" "true"
EndSection

The new driver page points out a tad bit of info... found at:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-5328

Linux Display Driver - IA32

Version: 1.0-5328
Operating System: Linux IA32
Release Date: December 22, 2003

Release Highlights

* Supports latest GeForce FX and Quadro FX GPUs
* Added support for UBB and FSAA Stereo.
* Improved GLXPixamp support.
* Added support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0.
* Added support for GLX_SGI_swap_control.
* Reduced CPU usage when OpenGL applications are syncing to vblank.

Download - NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5328-pkg1.run
http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-5328/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5328-pkg1.run

Now its time to move on to the wireless mess ;)

Cheers,