The 600M bios does not support apm. This is not a suprise, as apm has been phased out by acpi, but an inconvience since acpi support in linux isn't complete, and because the dsdt in Dell's bios is corrupt.

However, S5 shutdown mode does work with the current acpi patch. Download the linux kernel 2.4.21-rc1 and patch it with the acpi patch from acpi.sourceforge.net. Configure the kernel to allow power management and ACPI, but not apm. Then when you shutdown, it will turn off.

How was the install of Madrake on the 600m? I've been eye balling Mandrake runinng KDE. Why choose Mandrake over the others?

Just don't like the RH's all gnome menu settings. And I've used Mandrake since 7.2.

The installation of Mandrake 9.1 on 600m is pretty smooth. However, since the 600m BIOS doesn't support APM, ACPI must be activated. The kernel comes with MDK 9.1 has the acpi support. Just change the lilo.conf to acpi=on (the defaulst setting is acpi=off). You can load battery, fan, processor ... modules. However, the native kernel doesn't support the ID chipset and thus leads to very poor hard drive performance (no DMA). You can download the new kernel from MDK cooker.

I installed RH9 on my 600m. Smooth as, well, silk. My CDs were bad, but installing was fine.

Only problem with Linux on a 600m (Centrino) is that there aren't Linux drivers for the wireless card - yet. Intel is supposedly working on them, but I guess we'll see.

Intel will not release the Wireless Card Drivers for Linux ever.

Someone had a problem with the Secondary hard Drive in Randall Hake 9.0? I couldn't getting working, only the CD and the Floppy

That article is from 4 months ago ! skcus letnI

I heard that Intel is considering on Creating the Drivers, but will not release the Technical Specification to the Linux Community.

How did you get your X11

How did you get your X11 configured to the monitor?  Can you send me your settings?  What adapter and such are your specifying?